Rare 1881 Inter University Bicycle Races Two Mile 1st Prize ...

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Rare 1881 Inter University Bicycle Races Two Mile 1st Prize won by G D Day. St Johns Cambridge. George Dennis Day 1860 - 1948 St Ives Penny Farthing Cycling Medallion . Local Interest
In 1881, as a young man of twenty, George Dennis Day rode a Penny Farthing
bicycle twelve miles from St Ives in Huntingdonshire to Cambridge, where he
represented Cambridge in the Oxford and Cambridge Inter University Bicycle
Races. He won the 2-mile race and then rode home again!