The Bearings, Vol 8, No 13
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
J.S. Johnson lowers the one-third-mile flying-start record to 37 1/5 seconds at Minneapolis behind the E.C. Stearns "Yellow Fellow" quadruplet, beating his pacers to the tape by two feet, and then sets a new standing one-third-mile record of 39 3/5 two days later.
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Tom Eck sends Johnson and his quadruplet and triplet pacing teams to the kite-shaped track at Independence, Iowa, for an assault on Johnson's own horse-paced mile record of 1:56 3/5, with confidence the record will fall to 1:51 or better.
- p. 2
Zimmerman arrives at Hartford's Charter Oak track with W.B. Troy and pacemakers including Wheeler, the Bankers, and Bald, aiming for all records up to the hour, having already done a half-mile in 57 2/5 in practice without fully extending himself.
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Harry Tyler at Springfield lowers his standing three-quarter-mile record to 1:28 1/2 and finishes the standing mile in 2:01 1/5, though a slow last quarter paced by Windle prevents him from breaking 2:00.
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The Massachusetts LAW election campaign heats up when the Boston Globe questions why the editor of Bicycling World editorially promoted Dean and McCausland but ignored Perkins and Howard, prompting the World to hastily publish an editorial mentioning the latter two candidates.