Word: bikes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wheeling his bike over a 29-mile course in the fast time of one hour and 15 minutes, Al Schmidt '43 won the Outing Club race to Wheaton College yesterday. In a field of 11, eight men pedalled the whole course along the Newburyport Turupike and Route 140 to be welcomed by a score of beautiful girls...
...Pike Bike. In Colorado Springs, George Butler satisfied an urge: he pushed a bicycle 14,109 feet up Pike's Peak, rode it down...
Pedalling furiously, and panting desperately, John Potter '45 puffed across the finish line first to win the annual Harvard-Wellesley bicycle race yesterday morning in 36 minutes flat. He was greeted by approximately 30 cheering maidens of the institution on Lake Waban, and was presented with a bike travelling kit for his pains...
...Walter G. Kendall, 86-year-old veteran of bike marathon, who loaned the club the ancient bikes, will start the race at Dunster House at 4 o'clock tomorrow. Appropriately dressed girls will follow the pedallers in Maxwells, Franklins, Liberties and other horseless carriages dating from the turn of the century...
...Funsters' Bike Club has been in training for weeks in preparation for the exhaustive 90-mile bike race to Smith. The training has consisted of a thorough study of the road map to Northampton, so that no cyclist will lose his way and his energy on a blind road. The second phase of the intensive training begins soon and consists of lining up six Smith girls who will be expected to provide six free meals to each contestant. Just before the race the Funsters will fill themselves with beer so that none will be tempted to touch the evil liquor...