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...cars, others limping with chafed feet or with the bunions from which the troupe derived its title, jogged through Manhat- tan to Madison Square Garden where, after 20 miles on a board track, they finished a transcontinental (3,422.3 mile) marathon. C. C. ("Cash and Carry") Pyle and his associate W. H. ("Easy") Pickens con- gratulated Winner Andrew Payne of Claremore, Okla., promised to pay him $25,000, promised John Salo of Passaic, N. J., $10,000 for finishing second, 15 hours behind Payne, promised Phillip Granville...
...Joliet, Ill., sheriffs attached for debt the $25,000 automobile bungalow of C. C. ("Cash and Carry") Pyle, promoter of the run a little, walk a little, transcontinental marathon...
Mile after mile over rutted alkali, on concrete, and through the brown ooze at the side of macadam, plodded the marathoners of Mr. C. C. ("Cash and Carry") Pyle who has offered $25,000 to the runner making the best time from California to New York. All along the route runners dropped out and went home. Three quit at Chandler, Okla., 1,543 miles from the start. They said they didn't believe Pyle had $25,000. When Oklahoma City gave $5,000 to Pyle, Ralph Scott, onetime manager of Red Grange, attached it. The Chamber of Commerce then...
...Missouri, having plodded steadily onward ever since the fourth of March. It is hardly to be supposed that the reading public, long-suffering as it is, could have stomached a daily blurb as to the progress of the caravan. This, too, is as the A B C to Mr. Pyle. But only wait until the final sprint breaks loose somewhere in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, and the handful of hardy soles left cuts loose. Then will come the deluge, Syndicated throughout the length and breadth of the land will be feature stories on the great race. They will...
...takes the courage of one's convictions to undertake such a project as this one. It takes a not inconsiderable assurance to let slip the goading of the public's interest until the last thousand miles. But gigantic indeed is the mentality of Mr. Pyle, and better than most others does he know not only what the public wants but in what doses it can stand...