The Bearings, Vol 9, No 26
Articles in this issue
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At the Pittsburgh Athletic Club's new quarter-mile track at East Liberty, Taxis beats Bliss by six inches in a thrilling mile open sprint after Bliss swings wide and lets him through, while Sanger refuses to ride after nearly being thrown at a dangerous banking defect, and eight Class A men fall in the half-mile handicap.
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Fred Titus lowers his own New York state quarter-mile track record to 2:07 at Pittsburgh, paced by Callahan, Murphy, and Taxis, while Arthur Banker sets a Pennsylvania quarter-mile state record at 31 seconds and wins four Class A events on the day.
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In Paris, Zimmerman from scratch wins both the 1,000-metre handicap and the mile handicap easily at the velodrome before an enormous crowd, and during the final tandem race the spectators invade the track to give him another ovation.
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Titus wins a sensational three-mile lap race at Cleveland in gathering darkness and a fierce thunderstorm, racing through lightning and heavy rain as the weather turns the final laps into a dramatic contest of nerve as well as speed.
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Walter Sanger attempts a quiet evening walk in Newark, Ohio, but is so persistently followed by a mob of a hundred children passing and repassing him from all directions that he retreats to his hotel to escape — such is fame.