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...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...