The Wheel and cycling trade review . n condition for indoorracing. At Memphis, last week, in a returnmatch with Cooper, he was beaten half alength by the Detroit rider. The time was2:131-5. BROKEN AT THE BREEZE. At the Point Breeze track, Philadelphia, onTuesday, Hill and Gardiner cut the three,four and five-mile unpaced tandem times were as follows: 1 mile, 2:13; 2miles, 4:30; 3 miles, 6:49 2-5; 4 miles, 9:10 3-5;5 miles, 11:27 3-5. The previous best for fivemiles was 11:39. TAKING CONTRACTS. In addition to the match with Morin onNovember 22, Tom Butler has signed to rideagainst
The Wheel and cycling trade review . n condition for indoorracing. At Memphis, last week, in a returnmatch with Cooper, he was beaten half alength by the Detroit rider. The time was2:131-5. BROKEN AT THE BREEZE. At the Point Breeze track, Philadelphia, onTuesday, Hill and Gardiner cut the three,four and five-mile unpaced tandem times were as follows: 1 mile, 2:13; 2miles, 4:30; 3 miles, 6:49 2-5; 4 miles, 9:10 3-5;5 miles, 11:27 3-5. The previous best for fivemiles was 11:39. TAKING CONTRACTS. In addition to the match with Morin onNovember 22, Tom Butler has signed to rideagainst Jaap Eden on December 6, and, withhis brother Nat, will tackle the French tan-demites, Huret and Buchner, cm pecember13, .. TRIUMPHANT HICKORY. One of the strikingly new features at thelast Chicago cycle show was the Old Hick-ory bicycle, the product of the Tonk Manu-facturing Company, piano stool makers inthat city. The wheels, frames and all, wereof wood, and it is strictly within the boundsof truth to say that they were the best. looking wheels of the kind that had beenseen. They were the subjects of much cavil,of course, but for all of that the Tonkpeople tell THE WHEEL that the Old Hick-ory met with sufficient demand and gavesuch satisfaction that they mean to largelyincrease the output and to add several models
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