THE BLACK CHAMPION.

Feilding Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 158, 6 January 1903, Page 2

THE BLACK CHAMPION.

Major Taylor in Australia. Major Taylor, the world's cycling champion, who has been imported to Sydney at a record fee, is attracting great attention on the training track. The Sydney Daily Telegraph say* that the cardinal feature of his work is the persistence with which h& carries out his various methods and the thoroughness of all of his preparations. He had not been established! half a day in the bicycle room at the Cricket Ground when huge wooden, uprights clasped the wall, and something quite new in the way of a natty American punching-ball apparatus hung out on alight bracket. Taylor is an enthusiastic ball puncher^ and the lightness of his touch arjd the quickness of his movements have delighted those who have seeij him. This exercise is splendid for t'ae chest andjungs, and the success^ sprinter must have a big deep chest with lungs m first-class ordr,r. Like most real champions, he does not suffer in the least from swelled head, and the riders on the training track find him quite ready and willing to take his share of the pace. But on the path he went pacing about with a bunch of handicap men. He rode them all off the track,, but to the surprise of the Australians he interrupted his work threes times to be rubbed down. Yesterday afternoon the champion was ou# again after the cricket match wa* over, and about a thousand people: stayed back for a glimpse of the of the famous rider. As he mounted! and pedalled slowly round Major Taylox was given a welcome cheer hy the crowd. He sits neatly on his wheel, which is fitted with wide* spread handles, and when sprinting; crouches forward with his shoulders: pushed well back to expand hischest. He is not so upright as Dont Walker, but looks comfortable and capable of great speed. No rider has ever given the impression of being so thoroughly in earnest as Major, Taylor, and those of the local experts who thought that our riders might, beat him have now changed their opinions. One of the oldest racmgmen in Australia, and one oi the soundest judges, said : «He wail win;, he means to win, and is going about' it the right way. Why, I've learnt lots from him already. I admit thai; he may possibly be beaten by Don Walker, who ;s one of the best sprinters in the world, before he gets thoroughly wound up, but Taylor will certainly win, and when once he begins to win no. man in Australia will ever again beat him." This prediction is already being verified*

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