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Wiley Captures
Motor-Paced Race
New York Times, June 9, 1915
Syracuse Messenger Boy Two
Laps Ahead at Finish of 30-Mile Event
George E. Wiley, the Syracuse messenger boy, former American motor-pace
follower last night won the thirty-mile motor-paced professional race,
which featured a high-class program of cycling events before a big
crowd at the Sheepshead Bay Velodrome.
From start to finish the clever cyclist from up State made the pace for
Norman Hansen of Denmark and Bobby Walthour of Atlanta, Ga., the
favorite Dixie flier. Wiley won by two laps, while Walthour was a full
lap behind Hansen at the finish. The Syracuse boy covered the thirty
miles in the good time of 44:05 2-5.
Jimmy Moran, the old Chelsea (Mass.) rider was put out of the running
early in the race with a punctured tire. At one stage Wiley was three
laps to the good, but on the twelfth mile he lost his pacemaker, and
before he picked him up again Walthour and Hansen had made up the
deficit. It was not for long, however, for at the fifteenth mile the
up-Stater was again in front and riding like the wind. Walthour was in
difficulty several times, and it was plainly evident that the man who
was once the world's greatest pace follower was not in condition.
At five miles Wiley was leading, with Walthour second and Hansen third.
The leader's time was 7:33. On the tenth mile Wiley was still showing
the way, with Hansen the runner-up, in 14:42. The Syracuse man returned
to his fast clip in the next five miles passing the fifteenth mile mark
in 21:18.
Walthour regained second place at twenty miles, with Wiley leading
still in 29:18. His figures for twenty-five miles were 36:23 as against
Champion Clarence Carmen’s 36:06 on Saturday.
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