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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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• 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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