The Bearings, Vol 8, No 4
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
Walter Sanger is expelled from the Telegram Cycle Club for breaking his promise to ride at the club's meet after the club spent $1,300 sending him to England, and is reportedly preparing to take a $100-per-month salary from an eastern wheel firm.
- p. 1
The Telegram-Mercury joint meet is blighted by Sanger's no-show, an inadequate cinder track with little banking, and Milwaukee local riders who interfered with scratch men; Windle wins the international mile, Tyler the two-mile lap race, and George Taylor takes the half-mile open.
- p. 2
Johnson sets a new three-mile world record and rides a mile in 2:15 on the second day of the Minneapolis international meet, though he is beaten by Taylor in the five-mile; Zimmerman fails to appear, reportedly infatuated with a fair maid at Ripon.
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G.E. Osmond lowers the two-mile English record to 4:24 2/5 at London on August 17, also beating Windle's world record of 4:28 3/5, while a younger brother of F.J. Osmond continues the family tradition of record-breaking.
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J.W. Schofield, the English crack who was refused a licence by the NCU, arrives in New York and announces he will ride for the NCA rather than returning to England.