Show I MOTORCYCLE RECORDS IN 1912 11 Tho The Tho fastest official traveled by bya I a motorcycle during durInS the year of or 1912 was 36 Ci 5 4 seconds This was vas at tho rate of or miles an hour and was ridden b by Ray Semour Seymour Soy Sey mour at Los Angeles Ans Cal Cat CatIa May Ia 17 Ii 1912 On tho the same sarno day a t and In the same samo test Seymour flashed flushed on around tho the track mile after mile until ho he had hung up now new official records up to and including twenty miles He Ic rode the twenty miles In 1 1252 5 4 A few days later on May Ia 21 I he broke tho existing records from twenty to thirty miles mUes riding ridin tho the thirty miles in 2021 I G. These wore tho the only new professional professional protes- protes records s made during durin HI 1912 1012 1 al although although although al- al though h there were man many attempts in which tho the record was not adopted as official for tor various reasons announced by hy the tho competition committee of the tho Federation of or American Motorcyclists Jake Do De Rosier nosier tho thin old motorcycle war horse still holds hoMs the official professional records made during 1911 and 1910 1110 from thirty five to a a. hundred hundred hun hun- dr dred miles mUcH De Dc Hosier's Hosler's time for miles Is i t 2 2 3 In the amateur field Lon Claflin hung hunS up UI up upa a a. i. i new flOW series of oC official records records records rec rec- rec- rec from front one mile to seventeen miles for 1912 His first mile mUe was ma made a In 38 5 5 2 seconds two seconds two seconds a slower than Seymour's Seymours Soy Sey mours mour's professional time This record record rec rec- or ord was vas also made at Los Angeles Ca Cal on the same day that Seymour cleaned the tho slate up to twenty miles mlles miles May 17 Claflin's time for tor tho the seventeen miles was 11 1124 f 3 Don Johns John's amateur records for tor torel el eighteen nineteen and twenty miles ma made o at Los Angeles April 4 4 1911 still sUll stand His Ills time for tor twenty miles mUes was was' ty 14 1423 3 3 ft Fred Huyck's Hucks amateur records s from front J g twenty one miles to seventy sC miles j made at Springfield Mass rass September G 6 1909 have not he been en bettered Ills Ilia t time me for tor seventy miles was fiB 58 IS 2 R. R Stubbs holds the amateur records for eighty ht five eighty ninety and miles mUes Ho He went ninety five ninety ninety- five live miles in I 1 5 0 03 5 1 at Birmingham ham Ala In C. C Gustafson made a n. record of ot miles in 4 at Springfield Mass t October 1 1 1909 On the following da day C. C Spencer hung huns up records s from to 1000 miles at Springfield His time for 1000 miles mUes was as 2 Following aro arc the F. F A. A M. M national championships for COL 1912 these championshIps championships championships cham cham- being competed for each year ear T vo T F. F A. A M. M r. r championship championship- Won Von b by Don Johns Chicago June 2 4 1912 Time 2 01 One-hour One F. F A. A M. M championship championship- Won by J. J U. U Constant Detroit Juno 23 3 1912 Distance GG miles Five miles F. F A. A I. A. M. M professional l i championship Won Von Won b by Ray Seymour Columbu Columbus July 19 10 1912 Time j 90 2 t- t 2 Ten lon miles F. F A. A M. M professional proCessional championship Won championship Won on b by bEddie Eddie I Hasha f Columbus ColUmbu 0 O July 19 Time Time Sr 6 2 Fifteen miles F. F A. A M M. professional championship Won championship Won b by l Eddie die Hasha Columbus 0 O. July 20 Time 10 1033 4 4 Ten-mile Ten 1 F. F A. A M. M r. r amateur championship cham cham- Von Won h by J. J U. U Constant Colum Columbus Co Co- Co- Co lum lumbus 0 O. Jul July 20 O. O 11 Time me 1 C. Five milo F. F A. A M. M amateur championship cham cham- Won on Won b by Dan Clark Colum Colum- bus 0 O. July 20 20 1912 Time 28 One-mile One F. F A. A M. M amateur cham- cham Won Von Won h by J. J U. U Constant Co Co- lumbus 0 O. July 20 O 1912 Time Timo 40 1 |