Worth middle

Worth middle

To person
Full name	Worthington Longfellow Middle
Nickname	Deacon
Date of birth	January 10, 1884
date of death	March 2, 1940
nation	United States
discipline	Track cycling
Societies)
	Davenport Cycling Club
Most important successes
Six days race 1913 : Des Moines (with Gordon Walker) 1915 : Des Moines (with Jack Blatz )

Worthington Longfellow Mitten (born January 10, 1884 in Davenport , † March 2, 1940 ibid) was an American cyclist and bicycle maker.

Worth Mitten was one of the first generation of six-day riders. In total, he started at 25 of these competitions in North America , of which he won two in Des Moines : 1913 with Gordon Walker and 1915 with Jack Blatz . In 1912 he took part in the six-day race in Melbourne with Iver Lawson , the duo finished second. In May 1914, shortly before the outbreak of the First World War , he traveled to Europe, where he, among other things in Berlin compete in races and at the Track World Championships in Copenhagen in pacemaker race would start. However, the professional race at the World Cup did not take place because the war had started a few days earlier. Mitten was a professional racing driver from 1908 to 1919.

Mitten, who was very small, opened a bicycle production facility in his hometown of Davenport and built bicycles for racing drivers, for example for his protégé, Olympian Victor Hopkins . The distinguishing feature of its wheels was a typical red-brown paint job. He also produced his own tires. He was the founder of the Davenport Cycling Club .

Web links

• Worth in the middle of the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Worth in the middle of the Find a Grave database . Retrieved August 3, 2015.
2. ^ Doug's Quad Cities Collectibles. dougsqccollectibles.com, November 6, 2007, accessed February 7, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Worth Mitten. Classic Cycle, accessed February 7, 2014 .