The Wheel and cycling trade review (1893) (14578289939)

Identifier: wheelcyclingtrad11241newy (find matches)
Title: The Wheel and cycling trade review
Year: 1888 (1880s)
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Subjects: Cycling Bicycles Cyclists
Publisher: New York : Wheel and Cycling Trade Review
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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Connolly, C.M. Murphy, H. R. Steensen, G. C. Smith,Hoyland Smith, Hess, Campbell, Titus andZimmerman. The field swept round andround, doing mile a now in 3m. then in 2m. 35s.as the whim seized now this man, then thatone. Various men took up the pace. Atone time,for several laps, Titus, the Riverside crack,swept around lap after lap, swinging thefield after him in comet fashion. At one stageof the game, Zimmerman jumped away andv eled off a mile in 2m. 31 3-5S. The Skeeterwent at a merry bat; so merry, in fact, thatTitus and W. F. Murphy died away and quit.Throughout the entire race it was the samekaleidoscopic and whirling play and change ofplace and pace. But at the half from home Zimmie wasleading on the inside and keeping a sharp look-out. The crowd warmed up, Hoyland Smithand Charles Murphy prominent. But thefaster they went the faster Zimmie went.Then came the bell, whereat Zimmie rushedaway and was never in trouble, despite CharlMurphys frantic effort to draw up to him.10 2-5S.
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franticThe last half was im The Other Events In the novice event, Mosher was booked towin, but R. Macdonald, of the RichmondCounty Wheelmen, brother to George RaleighMacdonald, came through in the final and wonin 2m. 45 4-5S., with Keeseman, Brooklyn CityWheelmen, second, and Raine, K. C. W.,third. The mile scratch was a gift to Charl Murphy,2m. 32s. George C. Smith seeming unable todo anything with the K. C. W. man, much tothe disappointment of the Riverside howlers,who were all primed and cocked to carryRiverside around the track. The 2.40 brought out a field of frisky two-year-olds, but the friskiest of the lot wasPaul Grosch, who won the final in takingstyle, outclassing all the others. Titus wasthe only man who could get anyway near him.In one heat Doctor Frank Brown came home awinner, showing a glimpse of his old powers. The mile handicap was at the mercy of W.F. Murphy, 65 yards. But W. F. did not getthrough in the final. He catches his fieldhandily, but men of lower class than