National Butler

Career

Butler was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in a family of a craftsman and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He then turned professional, and competed in motor-paced racing at the 1899 World Championships, together with brother Tom. Tom finished second and National placed fourth.

Butler finished second in the New York six-day race in 1903, and after 1905 competed in Europe.

He retired around 1910 and in 1913 took over the velodrome "Revere Cycletrack" near his hometown of Cambridge. In later years, he became an established landscape painter.

Achievements

• 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. He won his first race, the Luiscott Race, in 1893 and received as prize two diamonds and a horse with carriage.