Nat Butler
 Nat Butler in 1910 | ||||||||||
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January 6, 1870 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada | |||||||||
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May 24, 1943 (aged 73) Revere, Massachusetts, United States | |||||||||
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| Sport | Cycling | |||||||||
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Nat Butler (January 6, 1870 – May 24, 1943) was an American pioneer professional cyclist. On track he won a bronze medal in the motor-paced racing at the 1909 World Championships. On the road he won the Luiscott Race in 1893 and finished second in the New York six-day race in 1903. His brothers Tom and Frank were also competitive cyclists.[1]
Butler was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in a family of a craftsman and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He won his first race, the Luiscott Race, in 1893 and received as prize two diamonds and a horse with carriage.[2] He then turned professional, and competed in motor-paced racing at the 1899 World Championships, together with brother Tom. Tom finished second and Nat placed fourth.
Butler finished second in the New York six-day race in 1903, and after 1905 competed in Europe. He retired around 1910[1] and in 1913 took over the velodrome "Revere Cycletrack" near his hometown of Cambridge.[3] In later years, he became an established landscape painter.[4]
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- 1 2 Nat Butler. cyclingarchives.com
- ↑ Rad-Welt. Sport-Album. Ein radsportliches Jahrbuch. 5. Jg., 1906, ZDB-ID 749618-7, pp. 53–54.
- ↑ Allan E. Foulds (2005) Boston's Ballparks & Arenas. University Press of New England, Lebanon NH, ISBN 1-58465-409-0, p. 188.
- ↑ Peter Joffre Nye (2006) The Six-Day Bicycle Races. Van der Plas Publishing, San Francisco CA, ISBN 1-892495-49-X, p. 38.