Teddy Hale

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Edward Hale (1896)

Edward "Teddy" Hale (born May 30, 1864 , † 1911 ) was a British cyclist . In 1896 he won the solo six-day race at Madison Square Garden in New York .

Teddy Hale to the age of 16 years on the unicycle started in cycling and early 1880s Captain of Gainsborough Cycling Club have become. His first success was covering the London - Brighton (approx. 54 miles) route in three hours and 35 minutes, a classic route on which up until then riders and teams of horses competed against each other and on which numerous different races have taken place since then. In 1885 he set a record over 100 miles on a Kangaroo bicycle with six hours and 59 minutes and won a race over ten kilometers called the “European Championship” the following year. At the second London six-day race (for individual drivers) in 1892, he finished third.

In 1896, Hale started the solo six-day race in New York's Madison Square Garden , won with 1910 miles and eight laps in front of 30 competitors and drove 300 miles more than the previous record. He was 32 years old at the time, 1.79 tall, and weighed 73 kilograms. For his victory in front of 12,000 enthusiastic spectators, he received $ 5,000 . He drove the last few miles with two small flags between his teeth, one British and one American . About his condition after the end of the race, after which he allegedly continued to drive ten laps in a disoriented state, it was said: “He looked like a ghost. His face was like the white face of a corpse and he stared in front of himself, his eyes terribly fixed [...] His mind was no longer there on the track, he had lost all signs of life and self possession. " ("He looked like a ghost. His face was as white as the face of a corpse, and he stared straight ahead, with a terribly fixed look. [...] His mind was no longer on track, he had all the signs of life and lost self-control. ”) He himself said:“ I won, but I gave 10 years of my life for a few thousand dollars. ”The following year he was third again in New York.

Hale was passed off as Irish but was most likely from London . He was considered Irish because he was part of a team from the British company Simpson Chain , as well as Tom Linton , John Dunlop Lumsden and Charley Chapple. Linton was Welsh , Lumsden was Scottish , Chapple was English, and probably Hale was " promoted " Irish for promotional purposes .

In February 1899, Hale was arrested in San Francisco for failing to pay his coaches fees but being released after promising to pay off his debts. From July 30th of that year he tried to set a record in which he drove 100 miles on English roads every day for a year - except on Sundays and largely unnoticed by the public . He attempted this record in service and on a bike for the Acatène company , which produced bikes without chains. On July 31, 1900, he had covered 32,496 miles, setting the first mark for this type of endurance record. Subsequently, Hale, who is one of the co-founders of the League of American Wheelmen , ended his cycling career . He died in 1911 at the age of 47, leaving behind a wife and five children.

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c 19C Male Riders. In: sixday.org.uk. April 23, 1901, accessed December 7, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Start Lists and Race Results - Six Day Racing Canada. In: 6dayracing.ca. Retrieved December 9, 2015 .
  4. ↑ America's Grand Tour and its Irish winner. In: Cyclismas. April 25, 2012, accessed December 9, 2015 .
  5. ^ Renate Franz: Fredy Budzinski. Cycling journalist, collector and chronicler . Cologne 2007. ISBN 978-3-939390-43-5 . P. 34
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  7. ^ Adolph Schulze, Adolph: "The cycling sport in 1909". In: Sport-Album der Rad-Welt. Year 8/1909, p. 3
  8. ↑ Teddy Hale Arrested. In: San Francisco Call . February 24, 1899. Retrieved December 9, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Hale, teddy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hale, Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1864
DATE OF DEATH 1911