Record speed on motor pace bikes and future marks
The article notes rapid increases in motor size and pacing records. Champlion on Charles River Park twice broke the mile record, first 1 minute 3 seconds then 56 seconds, claiming 64 mph briefly. He predicts 50 seconds for a mile and plans to push toward two miles in one minute.
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Robert Walthour
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YMCA Education Classes Expand To Industrial Focus
The Young Men's Christian Associations plan new educational classes this month, following last year’s 30 600 students almost twice Harvard Yale Columbia and Cornell enrollments. The shift targets men in industrial pursuits while keeping commercial courses, with Boston set to open an auto school for interested men.
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Knowlton Plans 1000 Mile Bicycle Run To Break Record
At 4 o clock this morning Miss Sadie Knowlton begins a 1000 mile run aiming to beat the record held by Miss Margaret Gast of New York whose diamond century time is just over 99 hours. Paced to Providence and back by James McWilliams, she will ride the Providence course by day and Framingham by night. The attempt follows a prior setback from rain and heavy tires at 650 miles.
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Margaret Gast
New York
Miss Knowlton
Providence
James McWilliams
Waller
Framingham
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