Word: peden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final hours of the 55th International Six-Day Bicycle Race in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week it was necessary to watch only two of the ten teams whirling around the pine-board saucer. They were the red-jerseyed team of Peden & Letourner, and the red-white-&blue clad Hill & Debaets...
Tied for first place, each team had gained the same number of laps over the rest of the pack. William John ("Torchy'') Peden, 27, a rangy Canadian with a flaming mop above his scarlet jersey, was the tallest, heaviest (216 lb.) rider in the race. Since starting in 1928 he had entered 37 six-day races, won 17. Alfred Letourner, teamed with Peden this autumn for the first time, is an excitable little Frenchman who wolfs six thick mutton chops at a swoop. His oldtime partner was now his opponent: Belgian Gerard Debaets, a clown who enlivens dull...
...daring little Alfred Letourner: $5,000, first prize in Manhattan's 54th International Six-Day Bicycle Race; with 1,054 points to 392 for Hill & Binda, 227 for Sheehan & Croley. On hand was the biggest crowd in U. S. cycling history, mostly to cheer for red-headed Torchy Peden, just back from Europe, and his French-Canadian partner, Jules Audy. They weakened at the finish. Grinning and reckless, red-shirted Debaets won seven of the last ten sprints to clinch first prize...
...Fred Spencer of Plainfield, N. J. and William ("Torchy") Peden of Vancouver. B. C.: one of the closest six-day bicycle races on record; by 14 points (for sprinting) from the teams of Norman Hill & William Grimm. Three other teams were in the tie for distance covered, 2,482 mi. and 9 laps. Month ago Peden and Jules Audy of Montreal who started the Manhattan race with Peden but was forced out by injuries after a fall, won a six-day race, in Chicago...
Thomas J. Peden (master in chancery...