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by Conrad Kerber


  Peugeot 303

  Philadelphia 76, 101-104, 116, 127, 128, 129, 148, 150, 152, 236, 287, 341

  Philadelphia Press 104

  Pickaninny 116, 197, 330

  Pickford, Mary 89, 332

  Pierce-Arrow bicycles 183, 184

  Pisceone, Dan 48, 49

  Pope Manufacturing Company 57, 58

  Port Phillip Hotel 270, 290

  Portland, Maine 105, 106

  Portland Evening Express 105, 106

  Poulain, Gabriel 304, 305, 311, 313, 314

  Powers, Pat 76, 80, 131

  Prayer 49, 148, 203, 231, 250, 310

  Prejudice 24, 30, 37, 64, 97, 112, 114, 154, 169, 263, 283, 292, 300, 326

  President McKinley 58, 89, 138, 247, 249

  Providence 48, 100, 118

  Pullman Race 102

  Queens Park 158, 159, 162, 164

  Racism xi, 30, 78, 79, 100, 122, 131, 136, 166, 177, 197, 242, 257, 258, 264, 265, 283, 326, 237

  Reading, Pennsylvania 100

  Rebels 141, 143, 154

  Referee 95, 221, 263, 282, 285

  Retirement 276, 279, 280, 320, 326, 333

  Rigby Park Fairgrounds 105, 106

  Ritchie, Andrew 326, 344

  RMS Ventura 264, 265

  Robinson, Jackie xi, 31, 78

  Rockefeller, John D. 11, 58, 70, 276

  Rome 254, 310, 328

  Roosevelt, Teddy 58, 92, 119, 190, 202, 236, 240

  Roubaix 216, 219-221

  Russell, Lillian 49, 89

  Ruth, Babe 89, 333

  Rutt, Walter 306, 311

  Sabbath 122, 145, 200, 208, 210, 267, 310

  Sager, Harry 148, 152, 167, 178

  Salvator 21, 55, 150

  San Francisco 72-76, 83, 264, 296, 297, 324

  Sanger, Walter 42, 65, 102

  Savannah, Georgia 121, 124-126, 156

  Scrapbooks 201, 309, 340, 342, 345, 346

  Scribe Hotel 211

  Secret Service 58, 163

  See-saw Cycling Club 34

  Segregation 25, 34, 70, 335

  Shafer, Dave 138

  Sickness 182, 322

  Sister’s illness 28, 171, 199

  Six-day race 46, 47, 72, 76, 83, 87, 89, 90, 94, 95, 97, 98, 100, 152, 190, 192, 204, 224, 281, 302, 327, 331, 332, 335

  Smith, Harry Worcester 323, 341

  S.S. Sonoma 280, 293,

  South Brooklyn Wheelmen 79

  South Wabash Avenue 335

  Southard’s 4, 7, 8, 14, 25, 30, 37, 73, 78, 96, 185

  Sporting Globe 312

  St. Cloud Hotel 249

  St. Louis 35, 75, 115, 141, 144, 146, 154, 162, 204

  Stearns Company 97, 152, 154, 340

  Sterling, Dorothy 30

  Stevens, Orlando 143, 173

  Stewart, Henry 159

  Stinson, Will 51

  Sullivan, James 74, 140, 189

  Summer Nights Amusements 262

  Sunday racing 122, 123, 142, 145, 148, 172, 197-203, 208, 224, 243, 253, 263

  Superstition 20, 79, 215, 229

  Sydney, Australia 264-270, 279-283, 291-295, 300-303

  Sydney Cricket Grounds 266, 283

  Syracuse 145, 154, 248, 249, 346

  Taylor, Gertrude 171, 199

  Taylor, Gilbert 3, 4, 39, 186, 187, 189, 202

  Taylor, Rev. Louis 178

  Taylor, Saphronia 4, 9, 34, 39, 100, 121, 203

  Taylor, Sydney 295

  Taylore, Edward 149

  Telegram Race 62

  Threats xi, 5, 21, 31, 33, 104, 107, 109, 111, 115, 124-129, 140, 177, 183, 187, 190, 227, 229, 243, 247, 257, 259, 284, 289, 310, 317

  Tioga Track 128, 129

  Toulouse–Lautrec, Henri de 209, 242

  Track racing 15, 16, 32, 37, 38, 47, 55, 65, 77, 84, 121, 185, 216, b, 283, 290, 331, 336, 340, 343

  Trade shows 59, 62, 152

  Trenton House Hotel 141, 142

  Triple Crown xii, 197, 198, 202, 213, 221, 229, 240

  Troy, Willis 120

  US Championship 199

  Vailsburg 188, 258, 259, 319, 331

  Vanderbilt, William K. 10, 11, 80, 84-86, 228, 243, 248, 249

  Vaudeville 200-202

  Velodromes xi, 17, 20, 65, 104, 111, 120, 121, 129, 138, 189, 196, 198, 204, 214, 216, 222, 227, 235, 242, 247, 259, 336, 343

  Verviers 220, 221

  Voight, Fred 258

  Walker, Ben 60

  Walker, Don 267-270, 282, 287, 295, 296

  Walthour, Charles 50, 51

  Washington, Booker T. 202

  Washington Post 51, 96, 113, 146, 343

  Watts, Colonel 31

  Wells, Ida 30

  Wheelmen Park 124

  White Cappers 30, 125

  Wild Bill Cody 84

  Wilder, Edward 61, 80

  Williams, Bull 282

  Willits, Bert 18

  Windle, Willie 10, 24, 25, 63, 173

  Windsor Hotel 158, 159

  Wisconsin 114, 154, 205

  Woodside Park 127, 148, 149

  Worcester Cycle Company 58, 60, 116

  Worcester Polytechnic 320

  Worcester Telegram 62, 177, 204, p, 280, 297, 306, 322, 325, 346

  World Championship 22, 74, 75, 132, 150, 153, 157-189, 194-205, 218, 231, 239, 254, 264, 267, 282, 290, 294, 301, 305, 315, 337

  World records 25, 50, 55, 60, 137, 149-152, 169, 223, 264, 273, 306

  Wright, Wilbur 169

  Yates House Hotel 248

  YMCA 30, 61, 186, 335, 337

  Young, Cy xi, 21

  Zig-Zag Cycling Club 18, 23-25

  Zimmerman, Arthur A. xii, 18-25, 35, 43, 51-55, 64, 69, 80, 83, 95, 117, 120, 123, 131-133, 138, 139, 141, 152, 183, 185,196-200, 209, 210-212, 215, 218, 220-223, 228, 237, 247, 262, 275, 295, 302, 320, 333, 334, 340-343

  In the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century, bicyclists, called wheelmen at the time, fought against horsemen for equal rights to roads.

  Arthur Zimmerman on the left, his trainer, Joseph McDermott in the center, and Zimmerman’s father, T. A. Zimmerman, on the right (photo retouched).

  A portrait of Louis D. “Birdie” Munger.

  In the early days of bike track racing, before effective helmets, riders endured many hardships, including crippling injuries or even death. Pictured above is a battered and bruised rider named Alphonse Goosens, shortly after being patched up by his trainer.

  Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1898 (from the collections of the Worcester Historical Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts).

  Munger faced fierce competition in the bicycle manufacturing business, primarily from Colonel Albert Pope, New England’s larg­est employer. Above, Teddy Roosevelt rides in a Pope automobile, flanked by secret servicemen on Pope bicycles (credit: The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut).

  A portrait of William A. Brady.

  Fans file into the second of four buildings named collectively Madison Square Garden. This one, built during the Gilded Age, right before the economic depression of the 1890s, was undoubtedly the grandest.

  Undated photo of a velodrome (credit: from the collection of the Indiana State Museum Historical Sites).

  An artist’s rendering of Taylor’s dramatic night races under colored incandescent lights.

  In the lonely world in which he lived and raced, Taylor sought strength from the soothing words of the Bible and the tenacity of William Brady (photo from The Cycle Age and Trade Review, July 21, 1898).

  Claiming their social lives would be adversely affected, many of Taylor’s rivals avoided man-to-man match races against him (photo from Bearings, July 29, 1897).

  Despite racism from fellow countrymen, Taylor stands proudly wrapped in a red, white, and blue sash (photo from Taylor’s autobiography).

  A Major Taylor accordion fan (photo from Taylor’s autobiography).

  Taylor met Daisy Victoria Morris sometime around 1900, thrill­ing society writers around the world (photos from the c
ollection of the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites). In one of his letters to her, Taylor wrote:

  … sweetheart, when a man is married and has a good wife as I have, and a nice baby girl, he will take a good deal, and stand for many things that he would not, were he not married… . I stand for many things now that I never thought I could put up with, and for which I never would stand up before I married.

  Taylor stands next to French writer and race promoter Victor Breyer in 1901.

  Shortly after the remarkable 1900 racing season, Taylor stands outside a velodrome locker room (photo from Taylor’s autobiography).

  Photographed here by the French newspaper La Vie au Grand Air, Taylor became the most widely followed person in Europe (photo from Taylor’s autobiography).

  Cold and shivering, Taylor walks onto the Parc des Princes track ahead of French Triple Crown winner Edmond Jacquelin. Their match race would be remembered more than a quarter century later (from La Vie Illustrée, May 24, 1901).

  Taylor’s appearances in France generated enormous profits for track officials, allowing them to substantially upgrade the Parc des Princes track, shown above, and later secure the Olympics held there.

  After snapping a photo of him with his Kodak Brownie camera, Taylor extends his hand to Jacquelin (credit: Jules Beau collection, Bibliotheque Nationale Paris).

  Shortly before leaving Europe, Taylor accepts another award (credit: Jules Beau collection Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris).

  When Taylor returned to America he faced intense hardships, and fierce competition from men like Frank Kramer, pictured above (credit: Bibliotheque Nationale de France).

  Daisy and Major pictured together during their 1903 honeymoon in Australia (from the collection of the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites).

  A packed house at the racetrack in Sydney, Australia. According to race promoter Hugh McIntosh, when Taylor raced, gates of 50,000 to 60,000 were commonplace.

  Taylor’s archenemies, Floyd MacFarland and Iver Lawson, surface in Australia in 1904 (photo from The Referee, December 30, 1903).

  During his hiatus from bike racing, Taylor often drove his Renault along Worcester’s tree-lined roads (from the collection of the Indiana State Museum and Historical Sites).

  Taylor and Jacquelin in a match race in 1908 (credit: Bibliotheque Nationale de France).

  Daisy, Major, and their daughter Sydney pictured around 1907–08 (from the collection of the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites).

  Before a packed house in New Jersey, Taylor competes in the 1917 Old Timers’ Race (photo from Taylor’s autobiography).

  After taking ill, Taylor looks away from a cameraman sometime around 1926 (from the Worcester Telegram, December 18, 1926).

  In the last known photo ever taken of him, a thin Taylor reads a book, which is probably the Bible (from the Chicago Defender, July 2, 1932).

 

 

 


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