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Show RECORDS OF PAST YEAR At Star Motor Race of Year 97.82 Miles an Hour Clip Was Made New York. Jan. IS -The year 1912 has gone down as the biggest In the annals of motorcycling. During the twelve months 4:: new records weir mad In amateur and professional contests One hundred miles an hour on a two-wheeled motor, the dream and ambition of riders and munuia.-turers munuia.-turers alike for over a dead, itlll remains unrealised, but has been closel) approached. The professional scale ol records ra Dg B from one mile to one hund I id miles n it h fortj Interim diate distances dis-tances Ot these twentj six, or more than half, have In, mi bettered ilnr.i. 1012, Including every mark trom one to thirty miles. Every one of the new marks for these distances Is credited to Ray Seymour and were made on the L03 Angeles stadium on May 14 and May 17. in the scale of amateur record; the distances include from oik- mile to one thousand miles, with 49 luterme- Uiatc distances. As a number 01 th fl are about the century distance seldom sel-dom covered by tho "aimon purcs, ' their work of lowering seventeen marks speaks well of their work, lu-oidentally, lu-oidentally, all the new marks lor amateurs am-ateurs are from one mile to seven teen, and are credited to Lon Claflln who made them at the Los Angeles stadium. Assaults on "Father Time." The Los Angeles stadium opened on February 11, 1912, which was the Signal Sig-nal lor the repeated assaults on "Father "Fa-ther Time '' On that day "Midget ESd die" Hasha, who was killed at the Newark track later in the Beason brought the flrsl round or applause When he lowered the records for Oil to lour miles He chopped 1 8-6 sec- I onds from ibe one mile mark, then held b Jake' de Rosier, setting the new mark at 0:39 3-,. but it only stood ' until Mav 18 when Seymour In another anoth-er ;il ia I put 11 at the pres. al ma 1 1 of 0:36 4-5 The Btai Bpeed show of the yeai came on Mav 17. when itay Seymour, a California n of national reputation, opened up his gasoline artillery, and for twenty-one miles kept the scorers bus.i writing new records Thi- . 1 the birthday of the present cue mile record, 0:30 4-5. or a 97.82 miles an boui Clip, the lastest official lime e iY made by motorcycle Before S J mour's engine hnd cooled Claflln, the amateur of Salt Lake City, obtained from the officials permission to go against the amateur records and sue I ceeded in establishing new figures ui to and including seventeen miles In the championships Hasha, before his death, was tho National profee Bional, and John U. Constant of Brooklyn holds the National amateni crown. Hasha won the five and tell mile professional rares oi the F M . and C onstant won the one mile, ten mile- and one hour amateur events of the F. A. M. No World's Motor Records. No motorcycle records are recog nized outside of the country In whli h thej are made, owing to the absence of an international agreement between be-tween the motorcycle governing bod lea of the different nations There fore, there Is no such thing as a! worlds motorcycle record, and all Claims to that effect are erroneous However, American records with few! exceptions are (aster than those made elsewhere and most deserving Of beinu recognized as SO-ealled "world's records " |