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...Although his pushmobile racer suffered tour smashed wheels and he was badly bruised in a first-heat crackup, eleven-year-old Joe Lunn of Thomasville, Ga. effected repairs, got bandaged up, and pressed on to win the 15th running of the All American Soap Box Derby at Akron, Ohio. Time for the 9754-ft. course...
Italy's Joe DiMaggio is a lean (5 ft. 11 in., 156 Ibs.), hawk-nosed bicycle racer named Fausto Coppi. In 1949 Coppi won bicycling's two biggest races, the Tour de France and the Giro d'ltalia, and was acclaimed "the greatest rider of all time." But the 1950 season was one disaster after another, including a.broken collarbone and a cracked pelvis suffered in bike crashes. Last year Fausto tried a comeback. He suffered, instead, a tremendous setback when he saw his younger brother, Serse, killed in a spill...
...racer at 16, burly (6 ft. 3 in., 245 Ibs.) Troy Ruttman is also the youngest (22) driver ever to win. He first hit Indianapolis three years ago, fibbed about his age (then 19) in order to qualify, and finished twelfth. A year later, he was 15th; last year he was 23rd. He had only one regret last week: the fire lost nearly two minutes, "and if it hadn't been for this I think I could have averaged 130 m.p.h...
Future Plan. Spear, a hulking (6 ft. 2 in., 240 Ibs.) racer, has only been at it for two years. This was his first important victory. Credit, he confesses, should go to Mechanic Alfred Momo, 56, a Ferrari specialist and former Italian air-force man. His winning 4.1-liter Ferrari (Model America) is essentially just as it came from the factory: $12,000 worth of Italian handiwork with an aluminum body and a triple-carburetor, twelve-cylinder engine (220 h.p.), capable of driving the car 140 m.p.h. Spear and Momo made only two alterations: an anti-sway bar was installed...
...those who take their cycling seriously there will be more than fun and frolic at Wellesley. Grand Prize is a sleek new Dawes racer. Generator light sets and other prizes will also be awarded by the Bicycle Exchange...