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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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• The Wheelmen. - San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Apr 1891
  ...s to be twenty-five miles, will be over the same course as the twenty-five-mile race of the [[Bay City Wheelmen]] - that is, the [[San Leandro triangle]].
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• San Leandro triangle
  ...nd [[J. Blinn]], of the Highland Club, were in this section making a fifty-mile road [[run]]. The course is from [[San Leandro]], up the [[Hayward road]], ...CISCO, Feb. 24, 1893. — The first great race of the year — the twenty-five mile road race of the [[California Associated Cycling Clubs]] — was [[San Fran
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• Otto Ziegler, Jr.
  ...umb|center|[[The Wheel in California|OTTO ZIEGLER, DIVISION CHAMPION. Half Mile, 1:08 1-5.]]]] ...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.
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• Wheeling. - The San Francisco Examiner, 29 Apr 1889
  ...l]] has entered the one mile handicap, and apparently intends to place the mile record where it will be difficult for the Los Angeles riders to reach on Ma One-mile novice - [[Henry C. Smith|Henry Smith]], [[G. C. W.]].; [[Joseph Anthony De
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• A CYCLING RECORD BROKEN. - The San Francisco Examiner - 03 Jun 1895
  After the first mile the pacing was more even, and in the last half of the distance the record-b ...of track records where there are some twenty-five distinct records for one mile, and about the same number for every distance from fifty yards upward.
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• Casey Castleman
  ...]], [[Frank J. Waller|Waller]] and [[Walter F. Foster|Foster]]. In a three mile race at Riverside, Castleman gave Burke a hot argument, and beat Waller out .... The Riverside man got the half mile and mile open, Class B, and the five mile handicap.
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• AMONG THE WHEELMEN - J. E. Edwards - San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Apr 1895
  ...w [[Eddie Bald]] lower the world's record for two miles on one day and the mile record the next. ...g|thumb|center|500px|[[J. E. Edwards|J. E. EDWARDS]], WHO LOWERED THE FIVE-MILE COAST RECORD - TIME 13:10]]
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• Walter F. Foster
  ...t 2.48.47 PM.png|thumb|center|[[The Wheel in California|WALTER FOSTER. One Mile, 2:26 4-5.]]]] ...ifornia Associated Cycling Clubs' annual twenty-five-mile race|twenty-five-mile road race over the San Leandro triangle]] yesterday morning. There were nin
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• The Wheelmen. - San Francisco Chronicle, 09 Jun 1890
  The much talked-of [[1890 annual century run of the L. A. W.|100-mile ride of the California Division, League of American Wheelmen]], took place This 100-mile run is the most successful ever promoted in America, the nearest approach t
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• THE WHEELMEN. San Francisco Call, 14 August 1897
  ==== Kraft Will Try for the Twenty-Mile Record To-morrow — Acme Road Pace. ==== The twenty-mile coast record that Kraft is particularly after is now held by [[E. A. Bozio]
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