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• California Cycle Racing Circuit Confederation
  ...g against the [[cracks]] of Southern California in the "[[California Cycle Racing Circuit Confederation]]". In that word "confederation" I see the pet scheme ...d June 12]], and [[Fresno June 15]], thus making a full month's circuit of racing, ten meetings in all, with intermediate days for resting. Last Wednesday th
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• David Marshall
  [[David McT. Marshall]], the well-known ex-racing man of the [[Bay City Wheelmen]], was married last Thursday at high noon to
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• HIS RACING CAREER - Walter Foster Gets Favorable Mention. - Alameda Daily Argus, 19 Oct 1895
  === HIS RACING CAREER === "The man of the year in California cycling racing has unquestionably been [[Walter F. Foster]] of the [[Olympic Club Wheelmen
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• W. H. Gibbons
  There were a few people who might have been this W. H. Gibbons, racing bicycles in 1884. The person mentioned in newspaper articles only raced for
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• THE WHEELMEN. - Election of Officers of the Ariel Bicycle Club. - Oakland Tribune, 01 Feb 1888
  An [[California Team Interclub Road Racing Association|interclub road race association]] has been formed, which the [[ [[Category:California Team Interclub Road Racing Association]]
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• The Bicycle - The San Francisco Examiner, 29 Nov 1886
  ...on the road leading to San Leandro, on the day of the race. but as all the racing men took the train that number does not represent all the wheelmen who were [[Category:racing]]
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• Edward Carl Bald
  ...did not have much success on the circuit, but be learned a lot about track racing. At Buffalo, though, he won the city championship. ...A few weeks ago he decided with his trainer, [[Asa Windle]], who is an old racing man, to come here for the Midwinter races. But in common with the other fas
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• Otto Ziegler, Jr.
  So far as the racing was concerned the surprise of the day to the uninitiated was the fast ridin ...hat there is big money in bicycle racing, while as a fact only three other racing men -Zimmerman, Sanger and Johnson - have received as big a salary as Ziegl
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• Archie Reid
  ...ss A men will be strengthened by the appearance of [[Archie Reid]], an old racing member of the Bay Citys recently returned from Scotland. ...of the Bay City Wheelmen has announced his intention of retiring from the racing path on account of business interfering with training.
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• Everett S. Dowdle
  ...via San Jose. His record held for years. At about the height of 'ordinary' racing Bert Lund, unattached, entered the races held at the Oakland Trotting Park ...early-day Oakland athlete famous for his boxing, sprinting and velocipede racing ability in the early '90s.
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• Henry Carl Finkler
  ...San+Francisco+Bicycle+Club San Francisco Bicycle Club]. He first commenced racing in 1882-83, and during those years won all the prominent races. One of his [[THE CYCLING WORLD - OLD TIME RACING MEN. - San Francisco Chronicle, Sat, Jul 8, 1893]]<br />
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• Sacramento New Pavilion indoor track
  ...ation by turning out in thousands at each event. That is an indoor bicycle racing tournament. ...e track and after the State Fair, and to allow the Capital City Wheelmen's racing team the use of the itrack during the winter months; also, to permit the Ca
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• E. S. Battles
  ...ighs 135 pounds in riding condition, and is only 18 years of age. He began racing in 1892 in the road races of the Pacific Road Club, being more or less succ
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• Colin C. Harbottle
  C. C. Harbottle is also one of the newer riders, having begun racing on July 1, 1893, at the annual championship meet of the [http://omeka.tplcs ...- Champion Ziegler's Teammates, Harbottle and Coulter, and Their Record as Racing Men. - The Czar of Russia as a Cycler. - The San Francisco Examiner, 12 Jan
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• Louis A. Lamory
  ...via San Jose. His record held for years. At about the height of 'ordinary' racing Bert Lund, unattached, entered the races held at the Oakland Trotting Park
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• WHEELMEN'S INTERESTS - The San Francisco Call, 19 Jun 1895
  ==== The Garden City Cyclers Have Lost Two of Their Best Racing Men. ==== ...rom the [[Garden City Cyclers]], as thereby the club loses two of its best racing men. Davis and Jones are now employed here, and have stated their probable
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• The Wheelmen. - San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Nov 1889
  W. W. Taxis, the crack racing man, who had such phenomenal luck on the path this season, has competed in ...o participated in the Omaha tournament, but the chairman of the [[National Racing Board]] of [[League of American Wheelmen|American Wheelmen]] decides that t
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• Alameda Scorchers
  ...lameda Scorchers]] are in doubt as to what uniform to adopt. Why not try a racing jersey and a single-barreled eyeglass? This together with Captain Haslett's ...akland, and vicinity recently organized the California Team Interclub Road Racing Association. The clubs in the association are the Ariel Club of Oakland, th
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• A LOS ANGELES WHEELMAN. - Fox Will Represent Southern California at the Fair Races. - The San Francisco Examiner, 28 Apr 1894
  ...Whom Great Things Are Expected - Howard Raymond, Chairman of the National Racing Board, and Local Representative R. A. Smyth - Classification of Wheelmen. = ...VISION]]. [[Howard E. Raymond|HOWARD E. RAYMOND]], CHAIRMAN [[Racing Board|RACING BOARD]], [[L. A. W.]]<br/>WELL KNOWN OFFICIALS OF THE [[L. A. W.|LEAGUE OF
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• The Wheel. - San Francisco Examiner, 21 Mar 1887
  Now that the [[Olympic Club]] is dabbling in bicycle racing it should provide a [[home trainer]] for its members. ...as commenced practice in the Boston gymnasium, preparing for next season's racing.
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