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...first day, Jerry Rodman's front wheel collapsed when he was pedaling at 25 miles an hour. On the second, the crowd watched a dentist line up his tools beside the track, extract a wisdom tooth from Heinz Vopel. On the third, sturdy-legged Franco Georgetti, trying to make a comeback before his retirement, withdrew from the event when he was 19 laps behind...
...riders withdrew from fatigue. By the third night wild jams, blown tires and careless pickups had accounted for 17 spills, numerous cuts, twisted ankles, bruised legs. Not a spoke through the arm but an ordinary stomachache forced Debaets out next day. Pleading the same ailment, popular Italian Franco Georgetti, reputedly the highest-paid performer in the game, withdrew. The triple smash of Dempsey, Kilian and Rodman was a nerve-tingler, but the fifth night brought a prize misadventure. Gottfried Hurtgen, who had replaced Debaets as Alfred Letourner's partner, tangled with Bobby Echevaria, jacknifed to the boards amid...
...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...
...Lands, were wildly applauded by the crowd. As the race went on team after team dropped out; only nine of the 15 starters finished. The lead changed hands so frequently that even the five judges, trying to keep track of everyone at once, often wondered who was ahead. 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...
Most celebrated of McNamara's confreres is Franco Georgetti, a small knock-kneed Italian who finished a sulky last in last week's race, but failed to butt his head against a wall for losing as he did once. Obviously heir to Iron McNamara, Georgetti was once pierced by an eight-inch splinter which he sent to his father to be exhibited. He earns $28,000 per year, has a barber shave him every day of the race, frequently dines on rice, lobster and beer with Tenor Beniamino Gigli of the Metropolitan Opera Company...