. The bicycling world . s on the cinder path (5 1-3 laps) for thelo-mile Scotch championship, and Temple and Woodside—theformer through carelessness—were beaten by a foot by Young forfirst place, three other Scotchmen being run off the track before fivemiles were covered—Time, Track 31 yards short of themile. Temple was not satisfied, so he met and defeated Young by adozen yards in a 10 mile race on Thursday last, and yours, truly,won the handicap (three miles from the 200 yard mark.) Wood-side scratch W. Dey on 200 yard mark also. Saturday was our fourth and final performance, and 6000
. The bicycling world . s on the cinder path (5 1-3 laps) for thelo-mile Scotch championship, and Temple and Woodside—theformer through carelessness—were beaten by a foot by Young forfirst place, three other Scotchmen being run off the track before fivemiles were covered—Time, Track 31 yards short of themile. Temple was not satisfied, so he met and defeated Young by adozen yards in a 10 mile race on Thursday last, and yours, truly,won the handicap (three miles from the 200 yard mark.) Wood-side scratch W. Dey on 200 yard mark also. Saturday was our fourth and final performance, and 6000 Scotch-men, with a small sprinkling of ladies, saw the Americans defeatand rout the Scotch all along the line. Woodside defeated Lums-den (Englishs defeater) in a 20 mile race in i hour 3 minutes 24seconds. Temple won the 5 mile open scratch race in beautifulstyle, with yours, truly, third, Dey second. 2Y May, 1887, THE BICYCLING WORLD 73 THE • tUDGE * HUMBEQ * TJINDEM. The King af aU Tandems. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. FAST, LIGHT AND EASY RUNNING. Stoddard, Loverixig & Co. 152 Congress Street, - BOSTON, IHASS. 74 THE BICYCLING WORLD 27 May, 1887. ^We are Well Satisfied >^ That our Bearing is the Easiest Running on the market by all odds. That ^well kno^A^n St. Louis \vheelman, Harry Gordon, remarked theother day, That he took a run vv^ith a couple of friends, Vv^ho v/eremounted on ne^v 87 Light Roadsters, and, coming to a hill, the LIGHT CHfljnPIOFS SUPERIOR DOflSTING QUALITIES v/ere at once apparent, as he ran right avv^ay from his friends. But theywere not satisfied, and insisted on trying it again ^vith the same result. IT IS ONE THING TO TALK, and quite another thing to TALKFACTS, DONT YOU KNOW^. The lattter tv^o have a pretty effectual ^A^ay of talking for themselves. By the v^ay, if you v/ant a Catalogue, let us kno^v, and we will mailyou one. W^e are also mailing OUR SPECIAL CATALOGUE OF TESTI-MONIAL, parts, sundries, etc., on receipt of one cent stamps. Gormully &
Size: 1400px × 1785px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookpublisherbostonsn, bookyear1