Word: mcnamara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italianate crowd were for McNamara and Lands, who finished sixth. Wearing a white No. 1 on his black sweater, McNamara said he might retire in three years...
...Reggie McNamara, "Iron Man" of the sport, the Six-Day Bicycle Race in Manhattan last week was his tooth. A friendly, mild-mannered man with a deep scar in his right cheek, McNamara is the son of a New South Wales sheep-rancher. He and his 13 brothers and sisters all learned to ride on the same bicycle. Reggie alone took the sport seriously. He shot kangaroos, sold their skins for money to enter local races, arrived in the U. S. in 1913. By 1920 he was the greatest rider in the world, with records, most of them still unbroken...
...McNamara fared well at the start. Out in front on the second day he and his partner, Dave 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...
...Darrow has attained prominence as a criminal lawyer in several notable cases of which the first was the McNamara case in California. After his victory in the Loeb-Leopold trial he was called to defend in the spectacular Scopes case in 1925. This was the case in which a Tennessee school teacher was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan for teaching the theory of evolution to his innocent pupils in violation of a state law. Darrow took the defense with Arthur Garfield Hayes and Dudley Field Malone and by carrying the case to the Tennessee Supreme Court, managed to get Scopes...
...purse. Peden sped on to Cleveland to begin another grind three days later. For the whole meet, 1,064 laps were stolen, a new U. S. record. The victory of Peden & Letourner was less surprising than the complete collapse of the aging "iron man," Reginald James McNamara. Nobody expected McNamara, at 46, to win, but likewise no one expected him to do so miserably. Rusty, battered, wearing 47 scars, McNamara and his blond partner, Charles Winter, had tied for the lead briefly in the early stages. At the end they barely kept their wheels turning, finished last, 18 laps behind...