Word: binda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clowning Belgian Gerard Debaets & daring little Alfred Letourner: $5,000, first prize in Manhattan's 54th International Six-Day Bicycle Race; with 1,054 points to 392 for Hill & Binda, 227 for Sheehan & Croley. On hand was the biggest crowd in U. S. cycling history, mostly to cheer for red-headed Torchy Peden, just back from Europe, and his French-Canadian partner, Jules Audy. They weakened at the finish. Grinning and reckless, red-shirted Debaets won seven of the last ten sprints to clinch first prize...
...Race. Old Reggie MacNamara, a champion twelve years ago and still strong though no longer fast, was entered; so was big, blond, popular Charles Winter; Gaetano Belloni's wild mane of crinkly hair pushed out above his handlebars. The crowds, always emphatically Italian in Manhattan, cheered Linari & Binda, billed as an imported road team, but they yelled loudest for their favorites, Franco Georgetti and Paul Brocardo. When the last hour began, Brocardo & Georgetti were riding desperately to keep a one-lap lead over two young Belgians, Adolph Charlier and Roger De Nef. Strong, ambitious, daring, Charlier & De Nef were...