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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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• Charles W. Hammer
  ...k of Tamalpais, an achievement they may well be proud of, as the last half mile (where the others left their wheels) is covered with brush and loose rocks. ...25 Aug 1890, Mon, Page 7 - WHEELMEN’S WHIRLS - Entries for the Twenty-five-mile Race. Trip to Tamalpais.]]
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• George A. Faulkner
  ...elmen, George A. Faulkner holds the Pacific Coast record for a twenty-five-mile road race.
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• Highland Park Wheelmen
  ...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]], ...sting bicycle race occurred on Washington's Birthday, the event being a 50-mile road race from Gilroy to Menlo Park. Teams from the Bay City Club, of San F
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• Edward Chapman
  A Napa Wheelman Goes a Half Mile. ...e in the Admission Day race at San Jose, made a try against Ziegler's half-mile record. He pedaled behind a sulky for a wind brake and made the half in one
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• Santa Rosa Wheelmen
  ...ent in Sonoma County, with two exceptions - a one-mile handicap and a half-mile handicap, class A, to be participated in only by members of the Bay City, R One mile, first prize, suit of clothes; second, silver wine goblet; third, gold slee
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• ECHOES OF THE RELAY RACE. - The Victorious Garden Citys and Their Speedy Men. - MIDWINTER FAIR TRACK. - San Francisco Examiner, 14 Apr 1894
  ...e the champions of the Coast at all distances. [[:Category:1894 annual 100-mile relay race|The winning team]] was made up of men who proved to be equally a The quarter-mile track on the grounds of the late [[Alameda Athletic and Bicycle Club]] has
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• WITH THE WHEELMEN. - San Francisco Chronicle - 05 Jan 1895, Sat - Page 12
  Next month [[the annual twenty-five mile road race of the California Associated Cycling Clubs]] is to be held, and a ...ident that his club will make a good showing in the coming [[:Category:100-mile relay race from San Francisco to Oakland|relay]] race.
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• NEW BICYCLE RECORD. - San Francisco Chronicle, 06 Aug 1894
  ====== Incidents of the Exciting Ten-Mile Race From Alameda to Haywards. ====== The [[Olympic Club Wheelmen]]'s [[race::ten-mile handicap road race]] took place yesterday morning over the straightaway cou
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• NEARING A MILE A MINUTE. - The San Francisco Examiner - February 11, 1895
  === NEARING A MILE A MINUTE. === Everybody is asking how a bicycle can be ridden a mile on an ordinary road in close to a minute and half or 1:34 1-5. It is indeed
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• WHEELMEN'S ROAD RACES - San Francisco Call - August 19, 1895
  ==== Olympic and Imperial Clubs' Five-Mile Events at San Mateo. ==== ...past three months, but none have proved such drawing cards as the two five-mile events run off yesterday after-noon by the [[Olympic Club Wheelmen]] and th
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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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