Cyclists at the 1912 Summer Olympics - Leonard Meredith, Freddie Grubb, Charlie Davey, William Hammond, Ragnar Malm, Axel Persson, Carl Schutte (Paperback)

Chapters: Leonard Meredith, Freddie Grubb, Charlie Davey, William Hammond, Ragnar Malm, Axel Persson, Carl Schutte, Rudolph Lewis, Albert Krushel, Alvin Loftes, Walter Martin, Erik Friborg, Algot Lonn, Charles Moss, Juho Jaakonaho, Josef Hellensteiner, Adolf Kofler, Antti Raita, Johan Kankkonen, Hjalmar Vare, John Wilson, Olaf Meyland-Smith, Vilho Tilkanen, Godtfred Olsen, Robert Rammer, David Stevenson, Robert Thompson, Johannes Reinwaldt, Oswald Rathmann, Charles Hansen, Georg Warsow, Rudolf Kramer, Rudolf Baier, Franz Lemnitz, John Miller. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 86. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Leonard "Leon" Lewis Meredith (2 February, 1882 27 January, 1930) was a British track and road racing cyclist who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics, in the 1912 Summer Olympics, and in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He won seven world championships and set up one of Britain's largest cycle-parts companies and ran a roller-skating rink and ballroom. Meredith was born in St Pancras, London. Sources give his name at birth as Lewis Leon Meredith. However, reports in the cycling press refer to him as Leon Lewis Meredith, and friends called him Jack. He was a mild-looking, bespectacled man who parted his hair in the centre. Cycling said: There was something Clark Kent, the children's comic-book hero, in the make-up of Edwardian cyclist Meredith. Like Clark Kent he presented a mild, shy, bespectacled image off the bike, but once on the bike he became Superman, beating all and sundry in a devastating manner. He was born in central London. He became interested in cycling in 1901 and made his first long ride, from London to Brighton, 80km on badly surfaced roads. On the way he met riders from Paddington Cycling Club, neighbours in the region of London where he lived, and agreed to rid...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1082237