The Bearings, Vol 12, No 26
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
At his own Melbourne carnival, Zimmerman loses two one-mile scratch races in a single day—first to New Zealander Pither in a driving finish, then to Victorian Walker by six inches—even though the champion insists he was in the best of health and form.
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Pither steals a march on Zimmerman fifty yards from the line in the invitation mile, while Walker clings to Zimmerman's wheel and out-sprints him by six inches in the international mile, with Zimmerman acknowledging Pither's performance was a fine one.
- p. 2
L.A.W. Racing Board chairman Gideon complains bitterly to a Bearings reporter that Class A men have caused him more trouble than all professionals combined, and concedes he has lost thirty pounds since taking the chairmanship—and that he has found widespread crookedness among the supposedly pure amateurs.
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Seventeen-year-old W.W. Harkins of Sydney wins the Sydney Wheel Race and its $500 prize from the 240-yard mark in what proves to be his first major win, while Zimmerman declines to contest the Austral Wheel Race at Melbourne despite being entered.
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The $1,000 Austral Wheel Race at Melbourne is won by A.B. Crisp of Tasmania, only twenty years old and cycling barely eighteen months, from the 255-yard mark, further evidence that Australian racing is producing a new generation of world-class talent.
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In a wide-ranging interview, Gideon sketches a possible shorter and more logical 1896 national circuit route through California, Texas, the South, Louisville, Springfield, and back west again, potentially cutting 3,000 miles from the previous year's total.
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A Wellington cycling club twenty-mile road championship is run over rough roads into a gale, won in the good time of 1:03:52 on a 28-pound machine, while Pither's victory over Zimmerman raises his profile and secures him a prestigious agency employment.