Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1898 — MAKES NEW CYCLE RECORD. [ARTICLE]

MAKES NEW CYCLE RECORD.

Bun Francisco Wheelman Covers Fifty Miles in 2:13t29. > E. O. Kragness of San Francisco has created three American cycling records. He lowered the fifty-mile standard course from 2:32:59 to 2:13:29, which figure aleo lowers the American straightaway course mark of 2:15. The last ten miles he covered in 22:15, lowering the American standard course record of 24:14, held by L. N. Walleston of Newburyport, Mass., who held the fifty-mile mark.