Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-06
THE WHEEL IN ENGLAND.
Recent lowering of tho Records for
r,;cvcles. Tandcms and Tricycles.

r.;cNcIes Tandcm5 ana lricycieS'
rro5.l tie London Fed.
Racing men now conoede that the track
tho Recreation Grounds, Long Eaton,
ts the fastest in the kingdom for wheel
ING hence it comes that Percy Furni-
roI1 Of the Berretta Cycling Club, and
coorca Gatehouse. OF the Cambridge
University Bicycle Club, having deter
mined to 90 upon record-oreaking mis-
eion sought this ground as the best
odanted to their requirements, and on
tTresdav. Sept. "a, FurniVall,
~. having on the pre-
S aims day beaten Speechly's record
~, TWO and two-fifths seconds, succeeded
~ riding one mile IN 2m. 30s. For two
raars those who have been best aDle 10
i,'Io,o nave regarded Furnlvall as irwin
ycihIe in bicycle races up to ten miles. In
LONG distances he does not take part, nor
dops he ever overtaX his strength Dy COM
netting in several races on the same Gay
matters in which he shows discretion
- forhearance not possessed by every
~nnth of is or 10. and which others might
!oIIow with advantage. That Furnivall
bos bever been beaten on his merits Is still
n'iT oninion, When Specify defeated
him at the last spring meeting or the
Snrrey Bicycle Club at the oval. when
y W AlIard out-spurted him IN the i've
niles tricycle. championship at Glasgow
on July 8, and when ne succumoe0 10 u
u Waraham in a two-mlles race on Aug.
i4at Lincoln, there were reasons tor his
dafoat bevond the shallow excuses ad-
Vanced on behalf of beaten man. In
each of these Furnivall was either out or
training or unWell'
Scarcely less. If at all, inferior in merit
are the remarkable performances OF
Gatehouse on the tricycle., who, on the
same day and track at Long Eaton, &C
comnlis6ed the feat of riding the mile In
DIM II . So. or in faster time than the cele-
hrated Cortis occupied over his best mile
on a bicycle. Two days later Gatehouse
performed a still greater feat by riding
his tricvcle in som. 10 3-6s., securing
every record from two miles to twenty.
This is far and away superior TO anything
previously done. Not until the mile
championship race OF 1880, at the Crystai
Palace was mile ever covered on a tr1-
cycle within three minutes, and now, lit
tie more than q year later, this rate OF
TRAVELLING has been maintained over
twenty miles, with the result that 1t ike
wise surpRsses another memorable per-
Torrance of COrtis', when he accom-
plished the unprecedented feat of riding
twenty miles within the hour on bi-
cycle in 1882.
the records that have been broken and
rebroken recently on various kinds OF
machines; but it is worthy Of note that
j. +. Fenlon has eclipsed the last remain
ing bicycle records standing in the name
of Il. l.. Cortis, VIZ, those from twenty
one to twenty-five miles inclusive, and
that he has covered the twenty-five miles
in 1h. 14m 3Ss., or within the even time
of three minutes per mile. Not unde-
serving OF notice is the riding of A. z.
Engleheart, who, on Aug. 6, on the new
track a Coventry. rode geared-up safe
ty bicycle, driven by the front wheel, four
miles in lin. 12s.. and five miles in lam.
70 5s., the ordinary bicycle record for the
latter beng I'm. 1Ss. The most recentrec-
ord that has gone down is that at 30 miles,
which has stood since 1882 10 the credit
of the Hon. Iron Keith-Falconer as 2b.
Ann. So lbs. This was surpassed on Sat
urday last by G. Potter, in a ffty-mile
club race of the Surrey Bicycle Club, at
the Surbiton Recreation Grounds. when
2h. Aim. 40 35s. was made. Potter also
lowering all the records from twenty
eight miles to fifty miles inclusive By
this performance the name of another
bicyclist of the past, scarcely less famous
than that OF COrtis, Is, with his, lost to
the present record book in the same
mouth, and thus is broken another link
that conne cts us with the past.