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Identifier: outing29newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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Rhode Island track is faster andbetter adapted for a fast team perform-ance than Fleetwood Park, and if thelightness of a skeleton wagon, weigh-ing about 60 pounds, or half the weightof a road wagon, and the differenceof the weight of the drivers are con-sidered, the performance appears to bein favor of the amateur. If the samerules are applied to Mr. Rileys greatmile, the result is on the same line.These two amateurs are not isolated city the ironed slave of the street-car companies. Chicago, Philadelphia,Cleveland, Buffalo and other cities havetheir magnificent boulevards and ave-nues specially devoted to the pleasuresof riding and driving. New York hasnone. There are many other fine teamsthat have attained a high reputationwhich the limits of this article preventan extended mention of, and to speakof briefly would be an injustice ; but ina future article we shall return to thesubject, which is important from thefact that it forms one of the leadingamusements of the American people.
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