Word: riders
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...principal amendment proposed is in regard to that clause relating to bicycling. The rules of the L. A. W., under whose sanction the Intercollegiate Bicycle Meeting is held, state that a rider shall not be allowed to have his expenses paid by any club or college. The A. A. U. is endeavoring to arrange a plan whereby college cyclers shall be permitted to ride in all races and have their expenses paid by the college which they represent. They will endeavor to get the same treatment for cyclers as is now afforded the track men in general. The committee will...
...Dacy, Wood and Burdett will ride in the five mile, and Richards and Hurt will start in the mile race. There will be only one man from each college in a heat. Columbia and Pennsylvania are generally considered to have the strongest teams, but in Gary, Dartmouth has a rider who should win any event he enters, if he is not tired. The order of the races is: 2 p. m.- Half-mile heats, five mile race, quarter-mile heats, one mile race (heats if necessary), one mile tandem (heats if necessary), half-mile final, one mile final...
...good road rider is better for this machine than one who makes a specialty of short distance riding, and, as many men went into the road races held here last fall, Harvard will probably have much good material...
...teams will consist of three men and a pacemaker from each college. The bicycle squad will train in the Gymnasium every afternoon until the roads are in good condition and just as soon as the track on Holmes Field is ready the preliminary track practice will begin. Every rider in college is urged to give his name to Captain Woods as soon as possible and there is little doubt that if every man who rides or is in any way interested in cycling, will turn out and try for the team that with the advantage of training on a suitable...
...tandem is put in to help to establish a good record for the course and not to benefit any one rider...