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TAYLOR'S RECORDThe Colored Cycling Wonder Reels Off a Mile in the Great Time of 1.32NOT AN IDEAL DAYThe Weather Was Too Cold and the% ** . ■'* ‘ v.i / i ,* i ‘.u*y* * * -'it.’ ■ * . 7i ■ -.3 V'j. 1«;.* f JMajor Rode Against theIs i WindThat Major Taylor will keep his word andring the one mile world's record down to 1.30vas proven conclusively yesterday afternoon vben the colored wonder in the face of a itrong breeze rode a mile in 1.32. The timenade breaks all previous world’s records and owers the figures established by Edw'ard Tay-lore, the French Champion, at Willow Groveast July. . ».*That Major Taylor is the most remarkable rider of the age was shown when later he made l new world s record for the half mile andhen in a second attempt clipped a sixth of a econd from his own newly established record.It could not be called an ideal day for record riding. It was so cold in fact, that ice hadformed on the outer edges of the track, and vhile the officials shivered, the pacemakers cere huddled together in a small dressing room, nigging the stoves.j It looked like a fruUlesa ask to try record-riding, but Taylor had his uind made up and that settled It. ^ _ .At half-past 3 o’clock he was sent off be-liud one of his quints with the Crooks team burnishing the pace. The first third was made in less than record. It was a Per*tctdck up to the Sager team and then came the rrealest piece of work on the part of a record-breaker ever seen. The Callahan team which picked up at the two-thirds received wrong orders from some one on the second team anajumped too soon. I .The Major dropped the Sager team and made in independent run aleng the pole ten yards tothe leading team which had already gone into its stride. Down the back stretch the men all yelled, the one hundred spectators yelled and ManagerXard went daffy in the centre with his tnega-hone. On the stretch nothing was lost and tne time was 1.32, the former record being 1.32*5-0.v French Taylore. _ ...The colored boy did not leave the track whiletils pacemakers were being gotten ready for tjalf. The Crooks team started with him, toeDallaban team failed in the pickup and tne,Drooks team went the entire half, bringing nimhrough in .45 4-5. the former official record byAlndle on a mile track, being .48. Taylor waslot satisfied and in ten minutes went again, thisime with the Callahan team out in front to nullhe Sager team the first quarter, Taylor beinglack of the latter team.In the stretch the Callahan team swungvrong Tavlor shot from back of the Sagerearn to save a fall, then went up a*a n severaleujfths and the half was finished In disorder in3~fltTavlor finished the three most wonderful rides vithbut being tuckered and would have gonenore. but could not as his pace was done out 'roni the hard work in the cold, which made their ungs raw. He will now try to place the mile be-na* 1 so Tavlor rode his chalnlcss wheel.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Sun, Nov 13, 1898
Page 11
Full Page
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Baldboris W.
USA 21 Jan 2019
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