The Bearings, Vol 8, No 12
Articles in this issue
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Johnson, Zimmerman, Windle, Tyler, and their large pacing teams are preparing simultaneous record assaults at Springfield, Hartford, Minneapolis, and Nashville, with Johnson's team planning a revolutionary motorised wind-shield device on a horse-paced track at Nashville aimed at beating 1:50 for the mile.
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Zimmerman's Hartford record bid will use an elaborate procession of a single, two tandems, a triplet, and a Winton quadruplet, with each pacer pulling away after a quarter-mile to leave the champion for a killing finish under the management of his old New York Athletic Club trainer W.B. Troy.
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Theodore Kirchner of the North Side Cycling Club wins the North Side's 12-mile handicap road race and the $250 piano prize, finishing a full furlong ahead of second place with his hands in his pockets on the last quarter, while E.W. Roth of the Milwaukee Wheelmen takes first time prize in 36:37.
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Walter Sanger says the Springfield Bicycle Club plans to send a racing team to Europe in 1894, though he himself has declined to go, arguing there are no fast men across the water and that seven Americans could finish ahead of all foreign riders.
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A.W. Harris sets a new English mile record of 2:04 1/5 at Herne Hill paced by a couple of tandem pairs, with the three-quarter-mile split of 1:32 1/5 itself an English record, and observers expect 2:02 possible in warmer weather.