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...machine, and another to suggestions for learners. Advice about riding and racing, and information in regard to the laws and courtesies of the road, take up the next chapters. A list of thirty-nine routes, most of them in the vicinity of Boston, is given, and tables of the fastest time on record for all distances. Chapter eleven contains a model constitution for a bicycle club, and an excellent index ends the book. We have no doubt that this work will have a large sale...
...disappointed in her trials, and that her 'Varsity next Easter will not be the crew that she would like to enter in an international regatta. "We hardly expect the crew," says the Gazette, "to be quite so good as that of last spring, which was one of the fastest on record; but, as they all have good style to start with, they ought to get well together; and they are fairly, though not exceptionally, strong." All this is very significant, as is the intelligence that Cambridge is in the same box, having "only two of last year's crew...
...four trial heats were run in 48 3/4 sec., 50 1/4 sec., 50 3/1 sec., and 51 1/2 sec., while the final was won in 47 3/4 sec. This is on an eighth of a mile track, and a cold windy day, while the fastest professional time in the world is 48 1/4 sec., the fastest English amateur time 50 2/5 sec., and the fastest American amateur time 52 1/5 sec. This latter was made July 4, 1878, on the best track in America, warm day, no wind, and in a race between the fastest two men we have...
...matters stand, their only avowed object is to beat us, and then send their crew abroad if they think fit. If they will agree to send out their men if they should win in a race with us, a race would not be a bad thing, as then the fastest crew would be sent out, which is, or should be, the main object...
Fast Walking. - On September 14, at the sports of the Scottish-American Athletic Club, F. H. Armstrong in a 3-mile handicap, walking from scratch, covered the distance in 21 min. 17 sec., the fastest record in the world. The best English record is 21 min. 36 sec. by Venn, and the best American hitherto was 22 min. and 9 1/3 sec. by Armstrong. The track used was nine laps to the mile, and with very short corners. At the same meeting, out of five heats in a 75-yard handicap there were three dead-heats, - a silent compliment...