Word: peden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard lineup: g., Merrill (Capt.); r.f., Deakin; lf., Doughty; rh., Rousmaniere; ch., Scully; lh., Fernald; ro., Halstead, Gilder; rl., d' Antremont, Pourtales, Howe, Johnson, Mendel; c., Mendel, Howe; lf., White, Ogle, Peden; lo., Page...
...debut by bumping soundly, crashing heavily. Undiscouraged, they duplicated their stunt a few minutes later (see cut), this time bringing down Cecil Yates with them. Helped to their cots, where they were thoroughly lubricated and bandaged, they soon joined the chase again. Vopel, still reckless, next collided with Torchy Peden. Over them tumbled Testa, Grimm, Wissel and Carpus. Led to their cubbyholes to be patched, they resembled plucked fowl, with splinters projecting from legs and back sides. Next day the crowd watched a greater number of even more spectacular spills. Six riders withdrew from fatigue. By the third night wild...
...official took pencil & paper, certified that Frank Bartell, 33, Czech-born six-day racer, had covered a measured mile at 80.5 m. p. h. Pleased at beating the world's record of 76 m. p. h. set by Canada's big, red-headed William ("Torchy") Peden, Czech Bartell waggled his Vandyke, swore he would make 100 the next time...
...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 Guimbretiere moved...
...around, around with the eight other teams, the four leaders eyed each other like fighting cocks. Suddenly at the end of one sprint "Torchy" Feden shot ahead of the pack and was 50 yd. in the lead before the chase began. Crafty little Letourner was ready for him as Peden came scooting around to shove him to a flying start. Crouched low over the handlebars, their fundaments raised high, Debaets & Hill pedaled madly. Eleven times they zipped around the bowl, the red-shirted team pulling farther and farther ahead until finally Peden caught up with Hill from behind...