Sporting and Athletic Records

120 CYCLING—TRICYCLE STANDING MILE (UNPAGED) Time Machine Riders Place Date { T. Lander | Ballard j Crystal Palace I Oct. 1896 L. J. Edwards I TEN MILES { Graham \ Dixon" | " 29 Sept. 1896 Clark 1 TRICYCLE World's Records (i) BY DISTANCE * Flying Start Distance Time Rider Nationality Place Date Kilometres H. M. s. *1 1 i; 1 /® Kuhling (P.) French Seine, Paris nSept. 1895 [1094 yards] it 1 25 Antony (P.) ,, Bordeaux 30 Oct. 1894 2 2 ig^/s Kuhling(P.) „ „ 5 Sept. 1895 3 4 ii4 /5 4 u 5 7 1 s /s t Antony covered 1094 yards in 85 seconds; the British Record (i.e. World's Amateur Record) for the '/s mile is im. 7 1 /«s., or 880 yards in 6j l li s.It is practi­ cally certain that Antony must have done the '/a mile in less than 67'^. u 4 Kilometres =: z'/i m les all but about 25 yards ; the British record {i.e. World's Amateur Record) for 2 miles is 4m. 4i , /»s. ) and for 3 miles 7111. 2 , /6S. by R. P. Clark, leaving 2ni. 21s. for the third mile. It is clear that Clark could not have done the first half of this mile in 55s., which would have been necessary tp tie kyhlino's record,