Word: crossley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three teams had circled the track 24,997 times and the winners had to be decided on points awarded for the sprints-races within a race-that punctuate the six-day marathon in series of ten, five times each day. Winners were blond Jimmy Walthour and slick-haired Al Crossley, who had lapped the field in the last hour, held a point lead piled up earlier by winning the sprint that ended the race. While the crowd of 16,000 screamed themselves hoarse, Walthour & Crossley pedaled around the track once more, each balancing on his handlebars an enormous basket...
Bobby Walthour Sr., Songwriter Harry Dacre dedicated Daisy Bell ("A Bicycle Built for Two") at the time of their elope ment. Al Crossley is a stocky Bostonian chiefly famed as a sprinter. Walthour & Crossley finished second in last December's Manhattan six-day race, warmed up for last week's triumph by winning a race in Copenhagen last month. Hailed now as the most dangerous rivals to the German team of Heinz Vopel and Gustav Kilian, who recently passed a cycle of nine six-day races without losing one, Walthour & Crossley this week sail for a bicycle tour...
...Crossley Poll (sample groups of voters polled by interview): Roosevelt 37 States, 406 electoral votes. Landon 10 States, 122 electoral votes (Wyoming...
...Both Gallup and Crossley polls, however, listed some 14 States as too close for accurate prediction...
...Crossley poll: Roosevelt 36 states (408 electoral votes); Landon 11 states (115 electoral votes)-West Virginia, 8 votes...