The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-13
THE MAJOR.
Taylor at Home on
a Visit.
HIS NEW GEAR.
He Says the Sager is the
Secret Of His Success.

e path. Major Taylor, who pushed mis-
e Sager gear to a faster mile than was
ever travelled before after bicycle pace,
n is spending a few days with his family
e in Worcester. The stocky little fellow
r is as hard at work as he was during
l the summer season last year, when he
j was piling UP points and winning race
after race, which easily entitled him to
L the title of champion Of America at the
y spirits
+ He is travelling for the Sager gear
- manufacturers, with whom he is under
d contract both summer and winter, in
f summer smashing all existing records
e and In winter pushing the gear in an.
{ other way. His success in pushing the
scar TO beat all existing records is
. known to everybody who follows the
= racing news Of the board track; his
,, success in pushing the gear in the com
mercial sense is no less, as all sales
] records have been broken since Taylor
L went the speediest mile a rider ever
I pedsled, He says orders for the gear
are SO far ahead Of the ability of the
4 manufacturers to turn them out that
every salesman except himself has
: been called in.
Taylor will start training this season
at Indianapolis. as he did last year. He
viii be under the care of r. w. Filing
ham of Brooklyn who looked out for
T. him last year and got him into shape TO
: discount the efforts of the best riders
u he world ever produced. He will ride
. under the auspices Of the /. A. W. the
coming season.
% TaylOr's great work at Woodside
track in Philadelphia in November pre-
diets great things for him the coming
summer. He says the mile record fly
=. ing start will be reduced to I'm. 25s.
= this year and he is inclined to the opin-
. ion that he viii do it on his Sager gear.
9 He broke the worlds record for the
. mile twice the same day, Nov. l.. The
= record when he started was held by
g his namesake Edward Taylor, the
= French rider, whose mark was I'm.
n 30 3-5s. On Nov. u. Taylor equalled that
r time. Three days later he made I'm. 22s.
4 fiat in his first attempt, and little
later in the same afternoon he made
: I'm. 81 Ass, which today stands as the
- best time ever made behind bicycle
. pace, the only kind that is allowed in
- the making of bicycle records.
n When the fast mile was mentioned to
a Taylor, he smilingly compared it to the
a first flying start mile record which is
v 3n. ASS, made on July 4, 1873, at Brock
ton, by William p. Pitman
When asked concerning his plans for
the coming season, Taylor said he in
tended to break every record from the
quarter mile to the hour record. and
t. thinks he will be able TO do so on the
Sager gear that he rides. He says the
Sag ger gear is responsible for his eXcep-
= tiOnal work and that he could not do the
3 same time on any other kind of wheel
IA fr.h no .lf}a
# when he broke the record We're far from
d favorable, so Taylor thinks he will sure
:, " succeed in dropping the marx for the
s mile TO I'm. 25s. if he can get pace fast
g enough TO carry him around.
S Speaking of the time he made last
year. he said: There are dozen men
3 Who could have ridden the distance ss
n fast as the time I made. but they could
s not have done it under the circum-
N stances. ] had three suits OF under
e clothes on and a sweater over them and
ar had 10 wear q cap pulled down over my
n ears, il was 50 cold. They might go out
6 under favorable conditions and equal
.e the time But mind you. after all these
k fellows get through / can 60 out and
IN lower every record they can put down
le can do il on the S4ger gear but ] dc
~ not think 7 can do il on anything else
10 To show you the difference, I never
rode above los gear until I rode the
Sager. Now / ride 114. That shows the
! gear IS faster than anything else"
He said the time he has made show!
the Sager gear is partly responsible
He is confident he could not have made
the same marks on anything else than
the Sager gear. He had with him tn,
. gears, which he explained to The So.
= man. and showed why there is goo,
: foundation for his statements. Tn
pins which form part Of the gear ar
G covered by a roller which turns slight