. The bicycling world . nk Thompson, in company with anumber of other Nashua wheelmen, rode to Lowell recently in ofiehour and fifteen minutes, including all unavoidable delays conse-quent upon a party riding together; here the party broke up andMcMaster and Thompson continued on to Boston, where theyarrived after a few hours ride from Nashua. After visiting CoreyHill, Chestnut Hill Reservoirand otherwheeling resorts, they startedor-cheir wheels for the return trip at 2 : 30 P. M., McMaster reach-ing home at 6:30; he completed a 100-mile run on the trottingtrack. Thompson rode 89 miles during
. The bicycling world . nk Thompson, in company with anumber of other Nashua wheelmen, rode to Lowell recently in ofiehour and fifteen minutes, including all unavoidable delays conse-quent upon a party riding together; here the party broke up andMcMaster and Thompson continued on to Boston, where theyarrived after a few hours ride from Nashua. After visiting CoreyHill, Chestnut Hill Reservoirand otherwheeling resorts, they startedor-cheir wheels for the return trip at 2 : 30 P. M., McMaster reach-ing home at 6:30; he completed a 100-mile run on the trottingtrack. Thompson rode 89 miles during the day and made but twodismounts from Boston to Lowell; McMaster made but one andonlv one from Lowell to Nashua; his time from Pawtucket bridgeto Nashua, over very sandy roads, after having already ridden al-most continually for 75 miles,was ih. 20m. Last autumn EdwardBailey of Maiden, a comparative stranger to the road, made the runfrom the Worcester railroad track here in the Middlesex street depotin Lowel in ih. A CARD. Editor Bicycling World:—It is with regret that we notice an adver-tisement going the rounds of the cycling papers, casting a slur uponforeign machines and ideas, and while we believe every fair mindedcyclist can see something good in every make of machine, whetherforeign or American, we think it is not courteous to try to build upones business at the expense of another. In this case there seems to be an opportunity for the applicationof the golden rule. We believe in living, and letting others respectfully yours, Stoddard, Lovering & Co. June 27, 1887. WHITTAKER REPLIES TO RHODES CHALLENGE. Editor Bicycling World: My principals do not make racing wheels,but I will accommodate Rhodes if he will use a regular light road-ster or a specially made wheel, if he chooses, only it must weigh asmuch as my wheel, which will be a light champion out of engagements will prevent my running before the latter part ofAugust or the first of September,
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