PARSONS' CYCLING RECORDS.

Press, Volume XLVIL, Issue 7711, 17 November 1890, Page 2

PARSONS' CYCLING RECORDS.

Scarcely has the cycling world got cK"the wonderful performances or Jsa**» Edwards, Mecredy, Lloyd, and opera when we are startled by another serlei ® records having been put up, tho nams « the rider who has thfa timo succeeaeara this matter being H. Parsons, of thsrsciei

poiycecnmc. - _. At the beginning ot tbe «■•«»„* Parsons was almost an u«knows' twttj and lb was not until the third week » September that he came to be regarded f a ,r acorcher"byriding the extrasrtM? distance of 22 miles 6:20 yards in aa f>** knocking ottt all previous best times wMB six th twenty-two mile.., and beatiflg w» world's record for "any'type «'?**-?*£ (previously held by R. A. Lloyd) •*»*»* yards. Not content with ««*_?.*? exceptional run of luck he st»ttt**g attempt to make a clean .sweep'fcs safety times up to fifty miles, P«»8£ ton's best riders turned out to a**i" j* plucky rider in his arduous task, n-®" who rended greatest service being W* £ Jones,B.Le%h- P. Day. W.Price..a| Scales, A. C. 7 \wards, W. H. Maenlrtf.} H. Pearce, C. »V. Schafer, P. C. WUsop. f 3, Howard. E, J. Whibley, C. A. Mole, W. G. Brooks, and J. P. Wattg* A slight breeze was blowing at tm st"BP» but being well sheltered by v.«- P»o»*gj he covered 21 miles 690 yards in the V* hour, aud got among the records ««* miles, beina then just over a minute tm& the previous best made in the fifty a** Championship. After this records feu «*"" autumn leaves, all fche old times oww easUy demolished, th« forty rag previously held by Mecredy being red**" by 3mln 40 3-sth sees, while the W! suffered more severely, there ,b***** tt * margin of nearly 4Anilu. Not being qiW* satisfied h© continued to plod .alow until be bad established a w set of record* up to sixty s*«®| when he appeared to have b» enough and retired. The distance *!**■ in one hour was 21 miles 69J yards, fa X" hour* 41mile* 1180 yards, ia tbre&hjg 63 miles 1235 yards. The time was mm by G. Pembroke Coleman, the ofljgg timekeeper of N.O.U. it was also ehaewj by several other gentlemen. Wdffi above performances Parsons hour ne-g the world's records from six to.*'S miles. The previous best Ma-teari*-* for the latter distance was 3 boars &w* x Saw" made by F. R. Fry at ttoGrg Falaee on 27th July 1883. the V**»*£&L £cord being held by W. P. Knapp. *hg time was 3 hours iSmln Maeo; it will tJJ be seen that Parson's feat Is »l*« no '"*S! one, putting all others completely in «** shade.