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• Henry C. Smith
  ...he weighs 150. His work in the first relay of [[:Category:1894 annual 100-mile relay race|the great race on the 8th]] shows what he can do, and he will be [[NEARING A MILE A MINUTE. - The San Francisco Examiner - February 11, 1895]]
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• OUR CYCLE CHAMPIONS. - The Fastest Riders in the State. - San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr 1893
  ...teen seconds slow in a mile in comparison with the specially prepared half-mile tracks of the East. There are many fast riders in California, and some embr ...could ride on the Eastern tracks is a matter of conjecture, but 2:12 for a mile should not stop him.
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• A Long Bicycle Trip. - Santa Cruz Surf, 27 May 1890
  The bicyclists San Francisco will take a 100-mile ride from San Francisco to [[Hollister]] next Sunday. [[E. N. Radke|Ed. N.
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• Oscar Osen
  ...to reel off many a mile this day. Weather fine, cool, calm. I paced him a mile or so and put him onto a wrinkle in the road to Santa Maria." When it is taken into consideration that the three days, twenty-two hours and twenty-five minutes includes three good nights' sleep and nearly fifteen stops for meal
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• L. W. Fox
  ...nfortunate and won nothing, not even getting credit for breaking the three-mile record, which I lowered 37-1/2 seconds, for the judges lost count of the la ...f by defeating the Coast champion, [[Walter Foster]], and lowering the two mile record. At this meet Mr. [[Otto Ziegler, Jr.|Zeigler]] treated me to the pr
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• Grant Bell
  The twenty-five-mile road race of the Acme Club of Oakland was run yesterday over the San Leandr ...ear, when it was lowered by Walter Foster. Bell has a record of 2:42 for a mile, 8:01 for three miles, which was made at Quincy, Il., on a solid tire Star
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• CYCLING NEWS UP TO DATE. - California Champions Who Start To-Day for Denver. - The San Francisco Examiner, 28 Jul 1894
  ...onicle, 31 May 1891|won first place and time prize in this the twenty-five mile road race of the California Associated Cycling Clubs on the San Leandro tri ...]], when Foster bested him. Ziegler has repeatedly broken the five and ten mile-road record in road races, and at Stockton when he was sent for records he
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• THE CYCLING WORLD - OLD TIME RACING MEN. - San Francisco Chronicle, Sat, Jul 8, 1893
  ...he competed. At one time [[he held the world's record for one-quarter of a mile of 37 3-5 seconds, made on a horse track at San Jose]], and [[held the twen ...ce for nine miles at a terrific gait, and was only passed during the ninth mile by [[Charles E. Adcock]]. Since that time Mr. Finkler has not raced much, b
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• CHAT ABOUT THE CYCLE - Grant Bell Wins the Road Race of the Acme Club. - Preparations for the Thanksgiving Day - Events at San Jose - Close of the League Campaign. - The San Francisco Call, 14 Nov 1892
  The twenty-five-mile road race of the [[Acme Wheelmen|Acme Club of Oakland]] was run yesterday o ...h, open; two mile safety handicap; one hundred yard salety slow race; five-mile safety scratch.
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• CYCLING UP TO DATE. - Farewell Banquet Tendered Wilbur J. Edwards at San Jose. - The San Francisco Examiner, 27 Jun 1894
  [[G. A. Nissen]] of the [[B. C. W.]] rode a mile yesterday in 2:23 on the [[Reliance track at Alameda]]. He was paced by [[C .... The Riverside man got the half mile and mile open, Class B, and the five mile handicap.
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• Clarence Leslie Davis
  ...Jose, he broke the coast record for the half mile in his heat of the half-mile handicap, but had the bad luck to fall in the final. ...on Day races of the Garden City Cyclers, the same year, Davis won the five-mile championship of San Jose and the mlle handicap.
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• W. W. Haralson
  ...hird quarter while on the lead, but his injuries were slight. In the three mile national championship there were four entries, S. F. Booth Jr. and F. D. El Arrangements are about completed for the twenty-five mile road race. There will be entries from San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento an
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• The Wheelmen. - San Francisco Chronicle, 01 Jun 1891
  At the twenty-five mile road race of the [[Alameda Bicycle Club]], held on the [[San Leandro triang [[W. W. Needham|Needham]], who won the last twenty-five-mile race of the [[Bay City Wheelmen]], did not enter, though he was there as an
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• TO OLYMPUS ON WHEELS. - Annual Feast and Games of the O. C. Cyclers at Escalles. - San Francisco Chronicle, 14 May 1898
  ...[[George Thorn|Thorn]], the Garden City man on [[:Category:1898 annual 100-mile relay race|the third relay]], who made the charge, depended upon [[Squires] ...ngthy [[crackajack]] from Southern California, [[:Category:1898 annual 100-mile relay race|who rode the last relay for the Bay City Wheelmen]], is getting
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• Capital City Wheelmen
  ...an Jose, Al Rivett won the one-mile novice and came in second in the three-mile handicap. On Thanksgiving day, the same year, Rivett won a road race on the ...in which the record was lowered from 1:18 2-5 to 1:15 1-5, and won the one-mile ordinary, lowering the record from 1:22 1/2 to 1:18 1-5, for which he recei
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• RECORDS IN DANGER. - The Big Wheelmen's Meet To-Day. - San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Apr 1894
  ...de, would result in marring the event. It is predicted by experts that the mile-handicap race, which is on to-day's card, will be one of the most exciting ...able shape, it will be a matter of wonderment if the quarter, mile and two-mile records are not reduced, and reduced very materially at that. The racers ar
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• Henry Martin
  ...ds compliment him. Every Sunday Mr. Martin goes to Oakland and takes a ten-mile spin. As soon as Deputy Collector Jerome has recovered from the effects of [[THE WHEELMEN. - San Jose Road Club's Five-Mile Road Race To-Morrow. - HE IS AN ENTHUSIAST. - Henry Martin Now Rides a Bike
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• Oakland Ramblers
  Arrangements are about completed for the twenty-five mile road race. There will be entries from San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento an [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67866173/a-bicycle-road-race-will-be-held-under/ A bicycle road race will be held under the auspices of
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• EVENTS AMONG THE LOCAL WHEELMEN. - San Francisco Chronicle, September 14, 1895
  ...G. HURLEY]] OF THE [[Alameda Cyclers|ALAMEDA CYCLERS]], HOLDER OF THE FIVE-MILE COAST ROAD RECORD - TIME, 11:35.<BR><nowiki>[Photo by Bushnell]</nowiki></d ...prolific of much comment, owing to the decision of the referee in the one-mile scratch class B race, and the end is not yet. [[W. F. Foster|Foster]], who
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• CYCLING NEWS UP TO DATE - The San Francisco Examiner. October 07, 1894
  ===== Another Castleman-McAleer Twenty-Five Mile Race - South California Gossip - Tomorrow's Events - Wheelmen In Politics - ...of September 26th, at which there were 6,000 spectators. Taxis made a half mile in 1:05 3-5, and some others made fast time, too, though most of the riders
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