Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1895 — FAIRMON IS FIRST. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FAIRMON IS FIRST.

Officially Declared Winner of the Chicago Road Race. Homer Fairmon, of the Chicago Cycling Club, was declared the winner of the road race from Chicago to Evanston and return, a distance of about twenty miles. Edwin Fry, who came in ahead of him,

was disqualified, the judges having decided he had not covered the full course. Fairmon’s time was 54:36. George Emerson, of the Englewood wheelmen, won second and the time prize, his time being 52:14. Reports say the race was woefully mismanaged. Frederick M. Richt, of the Brooklyn Bicycle Club, won the annual 25-mile road race over the Irving-Milburn course in New Jersey. The finish of this great Memorial Day event centered down to a sprint between him and the Paterson man, Standever, and Richt won hnndr somely In 1:14:30.

HOMER FAIRMON, THE WINNER.