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i Mimn • HkMlA !}. i -'‘^fL'tvi*?.... r. ’.i. ..-. » ;* T rlt; ••*.‘r7-a‘MSfrh”Junton, former one hour champion otvthe world. i• .A Bordeaux rider intends ewayinutile attempt to ride backward 93 miles in fotir hours.Dlok Howell, the old high wheel English professional, is managing a bo* tel at Coney Island.Charles W. Miller, the six day chain pion, is training faithfully for the 100* miles tmpaced record at Bellair, Fla.“Mother” Webb, the trainer of Tom. Cooper, is negotiating for four match V races for his protege with the crack rid* ere of Europe.Arthur Zimmerman is in Florida, training for coining work. He has ar-*. ranged for a tour of Mexico this season, racing at different places.It will interest the racing sharps to-learn that Manager Dave Shafer regards .* Fred Titus as a promising candidate fot middle distance track work.Tom Eck was unsuccessful in securing the services of Jimmy Michael’s broth* er, who is only 1? years of age, but who-is looked upon as a coming rider.Those who have witnessed his riding stato that Jimmy Michael makes a better bicycle rider than jockey, bufcJimmy-is new to the jockey business nt present. •Lostm, tbo Swiss champion, who will race this season in this country, expects • to carry back with him sufficient money with which to get mnrried and Bottle-down.When training, the French riders eat an ordinury table d’hote dinner, with wine and coffee, and smoke an occasional cigarette. They receive very little massage treatraout, and theu only after a ride.Harry Elkes, the wonderful little-rider who was seeu in the last six day race in New York, would like to ride “Majah” Taylor, the colored cyclist, a . 4 88 mile mutch race with pacemakers for-$500 a side.Somebody with a head for figures baalt; calculated that a rider traveling 200-miles at a racing gait, on a machine* geared to 72, rider and machine weighing 140 pounds, would expend 6,000,-000 pounds of energy or about 200v horsepower. sBicycle Hiding and (lie 81*© of the Feet* •“Bicycles interfere with the shoe' business in more ways than one,” explained a well known rider of the silent-steed. “It is proved beyond all doubt that riding a wheel will in one sensotx cause the foot to grow 1 to J % inches * larger. Hundreds of bicycle riders have ascertained this. With men it does not . mako any difference, for, except in. very rare cases, men do not care apt much for the size of their feet as they do for comfort. With the ladieB, however, it is quite another thing. .Theywear hie.vnln shnns fnr ridinir. hnfc find*.
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The Saturday Pharos
Logansport, Indiana, US
Sat, May 14, 1898
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