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In the gray dawn of Thursday April 10, three intrepid Harvard cyclers A. T. Gray '30, J. S. Ames '32, and K. G. Pender '30, mounted bicycles in front of the Mt. Aubura Street dormitories, faced a battery of press cameras, and whirled off bound for New York. On Friday, after an actual riding time of something more than 24 hours, the three riders pedalled into New York, winning, money for their backers in Cambridge, and giving evidence that they at least had not utterly resigned themselves to the gasoline age. A fourth rider at the start, mounted on a tandem bicycle, together with a couple of pairs of false whiskers, was missing at the finish.
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