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Title: The Wheel and cycling trade review
Year: 1888 (1880s)
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Subjects: Cycling Bicycles Cyclists
Publisher: New York : Wheel and Cycling Trade Review
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s time was 44:15, and hewas one and a half lap in advance. Hemade it a half better when the twenty-sev-enth mile had been bulletined. His time thenwas 59:05 4-5. At fifty miles Miller got under the record,covering that distance in 1:54:25. The fastpace was continued and the hundred-milerecord next went by the board, the time be-ing 4:07:01. While Miller and Waller werehaving it nip and tuck behind the tandems.Shock and Gimm plugged along at a 2:40gait, while the rest took it easier. After fin-ishing 100 miles, Miller droped out for a restand Waller took the lead. When Miller re-mounted the other contestants were farahead. Then the race settled down to oneof the six-day order, Gimm got in the leadat the sixth hour and maintained it to theend. At 7 oclock in the morning Gimm had madeover 224 miles, and had been riding steadily,with the exception of a minute. In the fourteenth hour he had ridden 309miles, and in the sixty minutes rode twenty-one miles. In the fifteenth hour he rode twen-
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The only unsatisfactory night was on the oc-casion of the opening, Monday. No recordswere broken, and 4,000 spectators went awaydisappointed. On the following night therewas one improvement. F. H. Wilson startedthe ball rolling in the twenty-five-mile race,and then the scythe-bearer was kept in a con-tinual state of worriment, until Louis Gimmfinished in the twenty-four-hour race,, afterknocking all American records into splinter-eens, and succeeding in getting himself intoprime condition for an ambulance ride. The feature of the opening night was a ten-mile race, paced by tandems. Tracy Holmeslooked like a sure winner at five miles, whenhis machine broke, and before he was againseated the other contestants had gained a lap.Jay Eaton dropped out at six miles, and at thefinish De Cardy and Becker were the only onesleft to fight it out, the former winning by asmall margin. Tandems set such a lively pace in the twenty-five-mile amateur race on Tuesday night thatbut few of the fourteen st

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