The Bearings, Vol 9, No 19

Articles in this issue

• 'Twas Good Racing

  At the Troy Bicycle Club meet on a muddy Rensselaer Park track, Sanger wins both Class B half-mile dashes and Johnson takes third in the mile handicap from scratch, with Kennedy, Bald, Titus, Tyler, Coleman, and Murphy all competing in a full day of team-managed racing before 3,000 spectators.

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• California Racing Gossip

  The Rambler team working at the Stockton half-mile track sets new California records at nearly every distance: Zeigler rides a standing mile in 2:13.5, Foster a flying mile in 2:09.75, Wells covers 22 miles in an hour, while Oscar Osen of San Jose rides 641 miles from San Francisco to San Diego in 3 days 19 hours.

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• Won by a Youngster

  Seventeen-year-old Horace Rumsey wins the Forest Park Road Race in St. Louis from an 8:30 handicap, while William Van Wagoner of Syracuse takes the time prize with a new course record of 53:47, watched by an estimated 10,000 spectators lining three and a half miles of the course.

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