Word: bike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Putting its skis and snowshoes away until next winter, the Outing Club yesterday announced its program of spring activities on bicycle, canoe, and Shank's Mare. Beginning with bike and canoe trips this weekend, the schedule culminates in a cross-country bike race to Northampton on Memorial...
...Plymouth, N. H., Stowe, Vt., and Putney School, southern Vermont. Here both the beginner, who longs for the graceful swells of a golf course, and the experienced-but-not-ski-team-material-individual, could find plenty of amusement and exercise. During the spring, canoe trips--water facilities are excellent--bike trips, wiener roasts, barndancing, and even year round projects could be sponsored...
Cracking records is nothing new to Ab Jenkins. Son of a Welsh master mechanic who went to the U. S. to supervise the construction of a Kansas steel mill (and settled in Utah because his wife had joined the Mormon Church), young Ab-christened David Abbott-was a bike racer in the early days of the Century, later raced motorcycles on half-mile dirt tracks. In 1921, when he was a successful building contractor, he won his first auto race-on a $250 bet that he could drive his Nash from Blackfoot, Idaho to Salt Lake City and back...