The Bearings, Vol 6, No 12
Articles in this issue
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Reflection on the widening distinction between record-breaking talent and winning talent, noting that the clock-beater is sometimes jeered when he cannot beat his rivals on the track.
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Satirical exchange between Wheeling and London editor Swindley, whose prose is so tortured that the rival paper translates it simply as 'the cycling world wags.'
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Note that one fifth of St. Louis's water supply goes to street sprinkling, and wheelmen should be appointed as inspectors to curb the waste.
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Report that Tom Eck declared at the Evansville meet smoker that he had participated in his last fake — the crowd stood back to let him keep the pole, and the column hopes he will.
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Update on Chief Consul Perkins, who it seems did not want to amend the color line after all but wanted a convention to attack the Executive Committee — and has since dropped the effort.
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Observation that the fakir professional could not join the proposed cash-prize syndicate even if he wanted to, because its rules would conflict with his particular ideas of business.
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Wry note on the estimate that Zimmerman's amateur winnings exceed thirty-five thousand dollars in nominal prize value, described as without parallel in the history of amateur sports.
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Satirical note on the use of 'weakness of intellect' as a plea to release an English cycle thief, and the implied epidemic of such weakness in Chicago given its bicycle theft rate.