1891 Young

Betty Lou Young Our First Century: The Los Angeles Athletic Club 1880-1980,  LAAC Press: Los Angeles, California 1979, 176 pp., 1891

     "The most famous of the early cycling contests was the Annual Santa Monica Road Race, sponsored by the Los Angeles Wheelmen, who were now affiliated with the LAAC. The first race was held on July 4, 1891, on a course that began in front of the Club and ran by way of Pico Boulevard to the Hotel Arcadia in Santa Monica-a distance of seventeen miles. A gold medal with the Club insignia and other trophies were donated by the Tufts-Lyons Arms Company . . .

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     "When [the bicylists started] the judges dashed for the train. The cyclists reached Santa Monica first, led by W.A. Tufts in 1:15:14. . . . Miss Marguerite Lloyd . . . was unofficially timed for 16 miles at 2:06."

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