THE BICYCLE CHAMPIONSHIP.

Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 148, 6 November 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE BICYCLE CHAMPIONSHIP.

At the Congress of German Bicyclists at Berlin recently the chief feature of interest was a race for che championship of Europe. It was won by an Englishman, Mr. E. Hale, of the Gainsborough Bicycle Club, who did the distance, 10,000 metres, in 19min 3sec. Herr Pundt, of the Berlin Germania Club, who on the previous day won the championship of Germany, took 19min 30sec to do the same distance 1 . In Monday's race Mr. Hale at,once took the lead aud kept it ; but" he was very hard pressed by Davids, a Hanoverian. The sympathies of the spectators, of course, were all with Davids, and there was immense cheering as he spurted on before Hale during the latter half of the last lap, but the Englishman making a great effort again shot past his rival just at the finish, and thus saved the athletic honour of his country, to the bitter mortification of the Germans. This mortification was afterwards dispelled by the fact that in an extra bicycle race of 2000 metres for foreigners, Mr. Hale was beaten by a young Dutchman, M. Kiderlen, from Delft, who also won the tricycle championship of Europe.