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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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Wehrenberg; Washington Wheel-men—J. W. Davison, G. A. Murray, C. A.Nixon, J. A. Murray and G. H. Stonebridge. The race was close and exciting. Murrayand Davison alternated in the lead from thestart to finish. The men finished as follows:G. A. Murray, first; J. W. Davison, second;G. C. Wheeler, third; E. H. Ernst, fourth; C.A. Fulle, fifth; C. A. Nixon, sixth. The race was decided by points, and as boththe Harlem and Washington Clubs scoredforty-nine points each, it will necessitate therace being run over. The winners time was 45m.56s. The prizes consisted of two silver cups.The tie between the Washington and HarlemClubs will be run off next month. The Quaker City Wheelmen have decided toagain hold the twenty-five mile road race overLancaster Pike in connection with their racemeet on August 26. This race was droppedlast year, but there has been so much inquiryand road racers were so much disappointedlast year that the committee in charge hasbeen compelled to add it to the programme.
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McScorcher—1 dislike to ride with the handle barawavuD like ajay, but J r lean ride eighteen miles an hour now and my friends, the coppers,never say a word. iv Supplement to The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review. (June 30, ST. LOUIS ALL RIGHT. RETAILING IN A SORRY STATE, WHOLE-SALING SATISFACTORY. Peoria, III., June 22, 1893.With the thermometer a hundred in theshade and still rising, one could hardly expectto find cycling holding the pace, and especiallyin this city, which had already experiencedseveral trade convulsions at the close of lastseason, when Kirk wood, Miller & Co. shut upshop with a good stock on hand, and laterwhen the Peoria Music Co. became weary ofcommercial life and resolved to go on a strike.With the stock of wheels of these two housesthrown on the market, a general slashing ofprices was the natural consequence. It wouldmake some of the high grade manufacturersblush if they knew at what price their wares arebeing advertised in the Peoria papers. Undersuch condit

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