FIFTY-MILE RECORD.
A. W. Pillow, of the Christchurch Club, has beaten his own fifty mile record. At 8 a.m. yeste-davhe started for Doyleston, where he arrived at 10.7 a.m., having been 2h 7m on the journey. This, in the face of a sou-wester, was good work/ After a three minutes" delay in getting his card signed, he mennted his picycle and travelled hor- V _ rattling.pace. The sou-wester was behi..."i him; it bowled him along splendidly, and enabled h;ir> to accomplish the return trip in lh :«~iui. He thus arrived at the Carlton; at 11.43 a.m., three hours and forty-three minutes j after he started, or fourteen minutes i (j.iicker than on the occasion of his previous record.
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Press, Volume XLIV, Issue 6853, 10 September 1887, Page 5
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