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...teams tied in mileage, the pedaling became furious. Vopel went sprawling at the end of the fourth sprint, gamely remounted in seven minutes. Then he and Kilian put on the pressure. Throwing aside all caution, they zipped around the saucer, matching every effort of Letourner and his new partner Brocardo. Their daring won them 14 of the 27 final sprints, added 72 points to their total every time. Though tied in mileage (2,477 miles and seven laps) with two other pairs, Newcomers Vopel & Kilian had amassed 1,400 points, highest total since 1921, became the first German team ever...
...Square Garden, the huge, awkward bucket of roses which tradition requires the winner of a six-day bicycle race to carry around the track on his handlebars, went to the French-Belgian team of Letourner & Debaets. winners of four such contests in the last two months. Second were Schoen & Brocardo, third Georgetti & Hill...
...Franco Georgetti and Torchy Peden, his big, red-headed teammate, were booed for loafing. Jolly Belgian Gerard Debaets and Bobby Thomas, a member of the U. S. bicycle team in the 1932 Olympic Games, stayed with the leaders until the sixth day when the Italian-French team of Paul Brocardo and Marcel Guimbretiere moved out in front. Daring, fast, both fine sprinters, Brocardo and Guimbretiere went into the last hour of continuous sprinting three full laps ahead. Debaets and Thomas made up one lap but that was the best that they could hope to do. First to ride around...
...Marcel Guimbretiere and Alfred Latourner: Manhattan's semi-annual six-day bicycle race, tieing in total laps with Linari and Brocardo, but winning by a margin of 334 points scored in sprints...
...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 in every jam, always dangerous, took three times as many points for sprints as anyone else...