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• Theodore C. Dodge
  [[Frank Waller sets the 25-mile record, rides from Oakland to top of Mount Hamilton and back - June, 1891]]
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• THE WHEELMEN. San Francisco Call, Volume 78, Number 15, 15 June 1895
  ...of a mile, scratch, class A; two-thirds of a mile, handicap, class A; one mile, handicap, class A. ...the same competitors, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13047382/ he won a mile handicap from sixty-five yards in 2:11 3-5]. As the season progresses he wi
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• THE WHEELMEN. - J. E. Edwards Wants the World's Five-Mile Road Record. - The San Francisco Call, 18 May 1895
  === J. E. Edwards Wants the World's Five-Mile Road Record. === ===== San Jose Road Club - Five-mile roadrace. =====
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• J. F. Hancock
  The Pacific Road Club's 10-mile handicap road race took place yesterday around the San Leandro triangle bef ...ing. It will be better in a month or so. Plenty of walks up three and four mile hills. We used drags with success down all the long grades. The roads for t
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• Three-lap track at the Midwinter Fair
  ...engineers. The track for pedestrians will be three and a half laps to the mile. It will have a cinder surface and [[Three-lap track at the Midwinter Fair|
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• Charles S. Wells
  ...race won by Wilbur Edwards. He also finished second to Edwards in the five-mile race. Great things are expected from Wells this year, as his improvement la ..." Osen|OSEN]] - [[Charles S. Wells|WELLS]]<br/>[[CYCLING - The Twenty-five Mile Road Race Will Be Run Next Sunday. - Elwell track Mechanics' Pavilion tourn
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• BAY CITY WHEELMEN, Well-Known Athletes Who Travel Around on Wheels. - The San Francisco Examiner, Oct 14, 1888
  One-quarter of a mile, 37 2-5 seconds, [[F. R. Cook]]. <br/> One mile, 2:48 1/2, [[F. D. Elwell]]. <br/>
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• BUZZING WHEELS. - The Alameda Bicycle and Athletic Club Meet. - The San Francisco Call, 31 May 1893
  ...ar the extra weight will wear the gold medal given to him as winner of the mile novice race, Otto is young yet, but evidently he is a coming man. ...crippled, so he could scarcely stand, he lowered the coast record for one mile. He is the pluckiest rider who ever mounted a safety, and had he not disreg
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• Liberty Cycling Club Ladies' Annex
  ...eo, on the 18th to the park with the ladies' annex, and on the 25th a five-mile roadrace over the San Mateo course, the entries for which close Tuesday eve [[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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• THE WHEELMEN. - The San Francisco Call, 28 Sep 1895
  ...ults of so many of them should materially aid the handicapper of [[the ten-mile event of the California Associated Cycling Clubs which will be held October ...ney derived from this source will be expended on prizes for the annual ten-mile road race to be held October 13, and therefore the theater party should be
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• The Wheelmen - The San Francisco Call, 25 May 1895
  The [[California Cycling Club]] will hold the third of a series of one mile handicap Club races at [[Bay City Wheelmen track at Central Park|Central Pa ...San Mateo to witness [[J. E. Edwards']] attempt to lower the world's five-mile road record.
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• The Wheelmen. - The San Francisco Call, 20 Jul 1895
  ...htaway stretch of road from San Mateo to San Carlos when competing in five-mile races]], and there will be four run off there to-morrow, by the [[Eintracht ...e road races on August 2, 16 and 30. Also a half-mile handicap and quarter-mile dash at [[Oakland Trotting Park]] Friday evening, July 26. A racing team of
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• Oriental Cycling Club
  ...though only two in number, were very interesting. In the first run of one mile for safeties only there were nine entries. G. Alcayaga and P. Brown of the The second race was a half-mile dash for an ordinary and two safeties. J. Liebert, D. Marshall and T. C. Do
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• Oakland Bicycle Club
  ...s, the wheelmen headed toward Alameda, where, on arriving, they halted for twenty-five minutes, and thence proceeded to the [[Neptune Gardens]], where lunch had b ...d at the corner of Fourteenth and Center streets, and has five laps to the mile]]. The [[Oakland wheelmen]] intend cutting down the record considerably, an
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• Robert R. Russ
  ...bia League Wheelmen]] a few days ago, was full of incidents. The four "100 mile per day runners of the wheel" were [[W. B. Wegener]], [[M. D. Garratt]], [[ The quarter-mile on high wheels, though naturally not much a matter of speed, was highly int
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• CHAT ABOUT THE CYCLE. - A Brief Sketch of the Garden City Cyclers. - Frank Waller Makes a New World's Record. - The Coming Century Run - Straight Spokes. - The San Francisco Call, Jun 13, 1892
  ...], who returned from Monterey just in time to accompany Waller on his last mile. ...e the united forces will move on to [[Hollister]], the terminus of the 100-mile run. The return will be made by train. The roads from this city to San Jose
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• Oak Leaf Wheelmen
  ...some promising wheelmen in the club. C. C. Moore once made a quarter of a mile on a heavy track in less than forty seconds. The same wheelman once rode fr ...e the fastest in the state and here D. L. Burke broke the quarter and half mile records with apparent ease. Riverside and Los Angeles came along a little l
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• THE WHEELMEN. - The San Francisco Call, 09 Nov 1895
  ...in another column. Among the events to be decided to-day will be the five-mile National championship. This may be competed in by both [[class A]] and [[cl The record of 1:02:20 for twenty-five miles on the road in competition, made by Calvin T. Paxson of the Parkside
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• Frank Henry Kerrigan
  ...In December 1909, Kerrigan and his friends in the Olympic Club ran a four mile course capped by a mid-winter swim in the Pacific Ocean. He also belonged t
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• Robert Assheton Smyth
  Next month the annual twenty-five mile road race of the California Associated Cycling Clubs is to be held, and alr
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