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• OAKLAND'S BIKES BUZZ. - Oakland Tribune - March 14, 1904
  ...able club runs taken by the [[Oakland Wheelmen]] came off yesterday. Fully twenty-five members of this popular organization visited [[Haywards]], [[San Leandro]] ...l be held on the following Sunday, March 27, at Haywards. It will be a ten mile race around the [[Haywards triangle]].
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• THE WHEELMEN. - San Jose Road Club's Five-Mile Road Race To-Morrow. - HE IS AN ENTHUSIAST. - Henry Martin Now Rides a Bike for Pleasure. - San Francisco Call, 3 August 1895
  ==== San Jose Road Club's Five-Mile Road Race To-Morrow. ==== [[San Jose Road Club]] — Five-mile road race.
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• William M. Meeker
  ...he affair. He raced a little in 1885, his best performance being in a five-mile race at Benicia, when he beat [[W. G. Davis]] from scratch, allowing the la
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• The Wheel. - San Francisco Chronicle, 23 May 1887
  ...e State championships have yet to be approved by the racing board. The two-mile national has not yet been assigned to this division, but it has been asked One-mile maiden - [[Fred Hood]], [[J. Henderson]], [[B. H. Patrick]], [[Charles B. W
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• FROM FRISCO TO SAN DIEGO - Oscar Osen of San Jose Does It Inside of Four Days - The San Francisco Examiner, 26 May 1894
  ...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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• Charles B. Wheaton
  ...of Alameda surprised his many friends by making a great record in the one mile handicap at Stockton. ...d undoubtedly have the advantage of Plummer, but for any distance over one mile Plummer would have as great, if not a greater advantage over him. Both men
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• THE WHEELMEN. - The San Francisco Call, 06 Jul 1895
  ...t the game again, and showed he had not lost his speed, by winning the one-mile handicap class A quite handily. The accident in which [[Frank M. Byrne|Byrn The [[Acme Club Wheelmen]] will hold [[a ten-mile road race over the Fruitvale-Haywards course on July 28]]. This will be a b
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• AMONG THE WHEELMEN - J. B. Carey Rides the First Century. - The Question of Race Meet Dates. - San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Jan 1895
  The [[Acme Wheelmen]] announce a [[five-mile handicap club race to be held on February 5th]], providing the roads dry up The Garden City Cyclers intend bolding [[a twenty-five-mile race on May day between San Jose and Gilroy]]. The course is a straight one
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• To the Summit of Mount Diablo by Wheel. - Wheel. - San Francisco Chronicle, 08 Apr 1889
  [[Frank E. Richardson|Richardson]] will enter the five-mile race. [[Wheelmen]] have for some time been anxious to see what he can do. What's the matter with [[Clarence Howard]] for the mile novice?
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• A LOS ANGELES WHEELMAN. - Fox Will Represent Southern California at the Fair Races. - The San Francisco Examiner, 28 Apr 1894
  ...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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• Frank J. Waller
  At the twenty-five mile road race of the Alameda Bicycle Club, held on the San Leandro triangle on [[Frank Waller sets the 25-mile record, rides from Oakland to top of Mount Hamilton and back - June, 1891]
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• Lincoln G. Hodgkins
  [[Frank Waller sets the 25-mile record, rides from Oakland to top of Mount Hamilton and back - June, 1891]]
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• Columbia Square Wheelmen
  ...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]], [[
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• BICYCLE EXCURSION. - Sonoma Democrat, 14 July 1894
  ...oints of interest. Pacific Grove is more modern. The celebrated [[eighteen-mile drive]] is a splendid road. The beach at Pacific Grove is but a small spot
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• John W. Leavitt
  ...[Leavitt & Bill trophy]] that was awarded to the winning team of the [[100-mile relay race from San Francisco to Oakland]] for many years.
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• CYCLERS IN TRAINING - San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May 1895
  ...the [[Olympic Club Wheelmen|Olympic Club]], will try for the world's five-mile record tomorrow over the course from San Mateo to San Carlos. Everything wi The [[California Cycling Club]] will hold its third trial for the mile handicap club races to-morrow at 9:30 A. M. at the Central Park irack. So f
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• THAT TWENTY FOUR HOUR RECORD - Bearings, The Cycling Authority of America, June 24, 1892
  ...ry of Waller's Wonderful Ride in California - Also Broke the Three Hundred Mile Record - Dieted on Doughnuts - Was the Timing Reliable ==== [[Grant Bell]], five-mile state champion, paced for the first eight miles. Waller applied himself dil
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• George Loring Cunningham
  ...s://www.newspapers.com/clip/69259760/golden-gate-race-course-aka-bay/ half-mile track] with the intention of trying a brush, but owing to its heavy conditi ...of Twenty-fifth and Folsom streets], was the scene of the contest, and the mile race was [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13360072/r_searle_wins_first_outd
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• THE CYCLING WORLD. - San Francisco Bicycle Club annexed by Olympic Cycling Annex - San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jul 1893
  ...ck where the international races are to be held. The track (one-third of a mile) I must say was some what of a disappointment to me. The turns are fairly w ...rifle, second prize, gentleman's traveling bag; third prize, sweater. One-mile handicap, first prize, order for business suit; second prize, silk umbrella
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• Al Col
  ...W. G. Davis, scratch: J. E. Hickenbotham. twenty-five yards; C. W. Hammer, twenty-five yards; T. W. Gilmour, fifty yards; W. T. Durant, seventy yards; [[Al Col]], His long, sinewy form was a familiar sight on the old quarter-mile cycle track which the Garden City Wheelmen constructed years ago on South F
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