BICYCLE CHAMPIONSHIP.
TBe dne-Hnn-red-Mile Race Won by
Neilson,
!t_-100-niile,bicycle race.for the champion. _hip of America was run on the Clarksville Jelfe road. :There were sixteen entries, six of whom failed to" make a s tet. The ten men who started Jat 9.15 were : Rhodes of Boston: Whittakerof Chicago; Croker of Newton, Mass.; Frazer of ..mithville, N. J.; Brooks .'ofeßlo'ssbury, Pa. ; Neilson of .Boston j McCurdy'of Lynn ; Hollingsworth pf Rushvill'e. Ind.;;4_hinger, of Omaha and _li_n»er'of Detr.it7;The last named rode a tricycle, and entered to break the 100----mile vecord;:: Crocker took; the lead, with MeGurdy-and" Whittaker close behind. Pode3 and Brooks brought up the rear. The first lap of.seventeen ;miles was made byNepon'inVphe hour and live minutes. Mso_' finished _i_t,-at 4.05,' making 100 r miles iasix .hours and forty- seven minutes. Rhodes'fra. second, Crocker third, at 4.08, Sfldflollingsiroi'tli and 'Whittaker fourth -andfiffch,;cQ_iing in neck and neck, at 4.09. Widttaker- broke down in • the last 200 feet,' ': v';: ■.
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Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 54, 2 July 1887, Page 7
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