The Wheel and cycling trade review . s time was 44:15, and hewas one and a half lap in advance. Hemade it a half better when the twenty-sev-enth mile had been bulletined. His time thenwas 59:05 4-5. At fifty miles Miller got under the record,covering that distance in 1:54:25. The fastpace was continued and the hundred-milerecord next went by the board, the time be-ing 4:07:01. While Miller and Waller werehaving it nip and tuck behind the and Gimm plugged along at a 2:40gait, while the rest took it easier. After fin-ishing 100 miles, Miller droped out for a restand Waller took the
The Wheel and cycling trade review . s time was 44:15, and hewas one and a half lap in advance. Hemade it a half better when the twenty-sev-enth mile had been bulletined. His time thenwas 59:05 4-5. At fifty miles Miller got under the record,covering that distance in 1:54:25. The fastpace was continued and the hundred-milerecord next went by the board, the time be-ing 4:07:01. While Miller and Waller werehaving it nip and tuck behind the and Gimm plugged along at a 2:40gait, while the rest took it easier. After fin-ishing 100 miles, Miller droped out for a restand Waller took the lead. When Miller re-mounted the other contestants were farahead. Then the race settled down to oneof the six-day order, Gimm got in the leadat the sixth hour and maintained it to theend. At 7 oclock in the morning Gimm had madeover 224 miles, and had been riding steadily,with the exception of a minute. In the fourteenth hour he had ridden 309miles, and in the sixty minutes rode twenty-one miles. In the fifteenth hour he rode twen-. The only unsatisfactory night was on the oc-casion of the opening, Monday. No recordswere broken, and 4,000 spectators went awaydisappointed. On the following night therewas one improvement. F. H. Wilson startedthe ball rolling in the twenty-five-mile race,and then the scythe-bearer was kept in a con-tinual state of worriment, until Louis Gimmfinished in the twenty-four-hour race,, afterknocking all American records into splinter-eens, and succeeding in getting himself intoprime condition for an ambulance ride. The feature of the opening night was a ten-mile race, paced by tandems. Tracy Holmeslooked like a sure winner at five miles, whenhis machine broke, and before he was againseated the other contestants had gained a Eaton dropped out at six miles, and at thefinish De Cardy and Becker were the only onesleft to fight it out, the former winning by asmall margin. Tandems set such a lively pace in the twenty-five-mile amateur race on Tuesday
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