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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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amount of crimethat grew out of the bicycle trade; at leastone-third of the business of the court wasmade up by persons who were led astray insome way by the bicycle. While the half-witted ones employer deter-mined to follow the pace set him by thejudge, said he realized this fact very forcibly.He could sit at his front window and countdozens of persons riding merrily past whoowed him grocery bills. Habit is a chattel mortgage on every ridersindividuality. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS? If the proposed large exhibition building,to be known as Fenway Garden, is con-structed in Boston, that city will have a per-manent indoor cycle track eight or ten lapsto the mile and thirty feet wide. It is pro-posed to secure funds for the construction ofthe building by the public sale of shares at$10 each. The structure will be adapted forall sorts of amusements, and is calculated tocost about $250,000. As planned, the cycletrack will be constructed on the second floorsurrounding a skating rink. 1*97 45
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THE ANNUAL RELAY.Awaiting the Old Man. 46 January TOM TALKS SOME. Says He Is Going to Pay Up in a Short Time-Other Trivial Matters Discussed. Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 26.—Tom Eckarrived in this city from New York this weekand says that for the present the Michael-Linton match is off. He states that the factthat Plummer insists on paced races, whichwill entail an expense of several thousanddollars, is the chief obstacle in arranging thematch. He claims that Linton already hasplenty of trained pacers, while he would haveto spend time and money to secure a crewand get them in shape. Then, he says, it wasafterwards practically settled to run a seriesof unpaced races, but after he left for homehe received word that Plummer declined toconsider a match while he was under suspen-sion. In Chicago Eck called on Gerlach andwas informed that Michael must not ride un-der his management while under suspension,and that put a damper on Eck. When interviewed, the silver-haired trainersaid: When I ca

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