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Show U. S. BIKE TEAM WILL PEDAL IN LONG GRIND AT ANTWERP By IK IE sNMiER I While nine haa been said about' America a t-llng team which Is to' compete in the ' Mymplcs this country i has -elected some high claaa pedallsts. I Almost as grueling a the famous marathon, trw 17 5 kilometer cyclOi road race wiik be watched with great1 interest abroad, where the game haa! always flourished. Judging from the "lymplc tryoute' i our hoys should give a good account of j themselves, although foreign countries have generally led in this branch of! athletics. SEASONED t tTT Our best Long distance rider, as re-. 'vested from the trials. Is J B. Free-1 rrWn of the Jga l.r.uia CycUhtg cluh ye J covered the distance 108.7 4 miles. In ' 'hours. 24 mlnutea and 50 seconds. oer the Long Island couree Freeman isj SO eara old and haa been riding hikes ever since he was II. His runner up Is August Nogara of ! Washington. D. C. ho was clocked! ! about three minutes later for the impli dist.inl. H In an employe of, the podoffli e depirtment and took up bif ling for recreation and got thel racing bug Nogara Is 24 years old. The leading road and track perf or-! mer of the middle weat la Ernest, Kockler. Ha Is 2 8 and a seasoned vet-leran vet-leran on the pedals Kin il Ills Johnn tlo of Newark. N. J.. Is the' strlppllng of the team. He is only 11 1 ,and weighs but 122 Otto Is tougher then wire. and onl laughs aa he I wheels off the miles. Robert G rasing, of New York and. 'Carl Stockholm of Chicago complete1 i the sextet of distance riders. Fr.-.i r.iylor. Anthon I otterwcieh and William Beck arc the track racers' of the a'juad. KIM PROGRAM Four of the five events in ihe "Mymplcs "Mym-plcs will le on the track. They are the I0"u rtietera sprint the 2000 meters , tnndtm, the Si kilometers and the 40o" meter team pursuit race tone team for each nation I. The track at Antwerp has an excellent excel-lent aurface for speeding. The enMre I road course for the 176 kilometer race! ; will be specially treated with a coat i of cinders three feet In width. The tcrtm Is being trained by Joe Fogler. who will make the trip with i the hikers. ' 1 1 j |