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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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• THE WHEELMEN. - San Francisco Call, 27 July 1895
  There will be a big road race over [[the ten-mile course from Fruitvale to Haywards]] to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock betwee The [[Crescent Athletic Club Wheelmen]] of Berkeley will hold a one mile track race for club members at the [[Oakland Trotting Park]] on Sunday, Aug
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• AMONG THE WHEELMEN - San Francisco Chronicle 15 Jun 1895
  ===== Foster to Try for a World's Twenty-five-Mile Record - Many Country Trips Contemplated. ===== ...ssociated Cycling Clubs|Associated Cycling Club]]'s annual [[:Category:100-mile relay race from San Francisco to Oakland|relay]] course and a schedule shou
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• THE WHEELMEN. - The San Francisco Call - August 29, 1896
  ...ub there will put up a good-sized purse for the event. The [[Stockton half-mile track]] is being watered and rolled daily and will be a fast course on the ...tember 13. There will be a five-mile handicap, starting at 11 A. M., and a mile handicap, starting at 2:30 P. M. Entries should be sent to [[Frank M. Byrne
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• THE WHEELMEN. - The San Francisco Call, 04 May 1895
  ...lunch will be ready on their arrival. On May 12 the club will hold a five-mile road race from San Mateo to San Carlos, in which [[Frank Byrne]] will endea ...s' [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90021903/five-mile-record-broken/ five-mile record of 13 min. 10 sec., made two weeks ago from San Mateo to San Carlos]
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• Clint R. Coulter
  "Then I went in for the State record, and rode a standing start unpaced mile in 2:19, which became the world's record for a four-lap track at that time. ...pen events and two handicaps, and I also got the Iowa State record for the mile in competition, the time being 2:18.
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• CHAT ABOUT THE CYCLE. - Growth of the Alameda Bicycle and Athletic Club. - Century Run of the Orientals - A New Club. - End of the Thousand-Mile Relay Race. - The San Francisco Call, May 23, 1892
  ==== Century Run of the Orientals - A New Club. - End of the Thousand-Mile Relay Race. ==== ...n Francisco Chronicle, 05 Jul 1890|On July 4, 1890, Jesse Ives won the one-mile safety championship of the Pacific Coast at the race meet at San Jose.]]
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• AMONG THE WHEELMEN - San Francisco Chronicle, 08 Sep 1894
  ...]'s [[scorch]] of the [[California Cycling Club]] last Sunday over the ten-mile straightaway saw eight entries, and of these three men rode it in thirty mi ...race meet on September 10th, and is expected to make a good showing in the mile race.
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• City's Businessmen as Wheelmen - San Jose Mercury-news, Volume LXXIV, Number 73, 13 March 1908
  ...ingle newspaper was sold for $1, four men making up a pool by contributing twenty-five cents each. Without long delay the Hancocks started at 10:30 o'clock, climbed a five-mile hill, slid down another, pedaled a steeper six miles, crossed the State lin
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• The Wheel. - San Francisco Chronicle, 09 Jul 1888
  The division racing board has accepted the two-mile record of 6:10 4-5, made by [[F. D. Elwell]] at Oakland on 9th June last. S ...re lowered, and it was shown that we have a number of men able to ride the mile under three minutes.
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• THE WHEELMEN. - The San Francisco Call, 27 Apr 1895
  ...ause, though others have made better time in speed trials, his record of a mile in competition at 2:04 stands as the greatest performance ever made on a wh ...mile ever ridden on a bicycle. and the coast record for the half mile and mile."
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