The Bearings, Vol 9, No 16
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
Training reports from Hampden Park show the Spalding team (Titus, Wells, Budd) and Overman team (Graves, Arnold) posting quarter miles near 29 seconds, while Sanger rides five or six miles daily at a three-minute pace looking fit and strong.
- p. 1
F.J. Titus accepts a one-mile rematch challenge from Bermudian champion W. Outerbridge, set for the Greenwich Wheelmen meet at Manhattan Field on June 23 with a $150 diamond as prize; Outerbridge claims his February loss to Titus was a fluke because he was tired from five earlier races.
- p. 1
Bert Harding of St. Louis rides solo 45 miles to DeSoto in 3:33:00, lowering the previous road record by 24 minutes despite terrible fresh-metal road surfaces and freshly sprinkled city streets at the start.
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Zimmerman, Banker, and Wheeler are treated as celebrities in Paris, photographed at every turn and mobbed by crowds; at Zimmerman's first French race appearance the fans shout his name so loudly he is pushed onto the track to shake hands with the spectators before the consolation race.
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F.J. Osmond misses winning permanent ownership of the Brixton silver challenge cup by a yard and a half, finishing third in the ten-mile race at Herne Hill behind Gibbons Brooks and Ben Fisher before 6,000 spectators — Meintjes had won the cup when Osmond was in America the previous year.