「1896年ニューヨーク・サイクル・ショー」についての史的考察

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On January 1896 'The New York Cycle Show' was held and "The New York Times" gave many accounts of it. This paper is based on the analysis of the news and is intended to clarify its style or characteristics, moreover its social background. 'The New York Cycle Show' was an event for the purpose of not showing games or interesting day's play of bicycles but selling them. Therefore it had a commercialistic aspect. Not a partial charge among classes was to be seen, though it could have been found in every events. Each class stood on a par and became the masses in this events, that is, holding 'The New York Cycle Show' was the birth of a typical show for the middle class. As a precedent show event concerned with sport and based on the modern commercialism, 'The New York Cycle Show' was a remarkable one in sport history.