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During a "hot jam," Frenchman Emile Ignat, who was being relieved by his partner, Frenchman Emile Diot, gave Diot such an enthusiastic starting push that Diot's wheel wobbled and Ignat ran into it, spilling them both. It was the six-day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, around an O-shaped pine-board track, with 15 teams of two men each dressed in bright jerseys, pedaling in relays on bicycles that cost $100, weigh 19 Ib. After 146 hours, three teams had circled the track 24,997 times and the winners had to be decided...
...arms went up. His head went back. His mouth uttered "unknown tongues" until he dropped unconscious, "slain of the Lord'' to rise later "baptized of the Holy Ghost." More than 100 holy rollers underwent this violent religious experience during Church of God's six-day convention...
...members at $2 each-a year ago, to replace his Walkathons which he said were beginning to grow vulgar. By last winter he had selected a group of teams who competed successively in Chicago (TIME, Feb. 3), Miami. Louisville, Detroit for one month each. With rules patterned after six-day bicycle races, except that both members of the teams are allowed to leave the track between 4 a. m. and 8 p. m. daily, Roller Derby racing made its New York debut last week. Scene was the famed old Hippodrome, which has housed everything from Grand Opera to a circus...
Among the awards made during the six-day ceremony, one went to Publisher Ogden Mills Reid of the New York Herald Tribune, who gratefully accepted a citation for his paper's "typography and makeup ... distinction . . . high selectivity of material for intelligent readers who desire urbane writing and unusual treatment . . . for consistently maintaining departments of nationally recognized superiority conducted by commentators of extraordinary discernment...
...Flutist William Kincaid and Marcel Tabuteau, first oboist, make a woodwind pair outstanding when the Philadelphians undertake Debussy. Flutist Kincaid trains vigorously each summer at Lake Sebago, Me. Leon Frengut, a viola player, takes his recreation at the racetracks. Samuel Lifschey, leader of the viola section, has been a six-day bicycle racer, a dentist, a pharmacist, an engineer. Yarnspinner of the Orchestra is Trombonist Eddie Gerhard. Bill Greenberg, a viola player, proved himself a practical musician when he thought of the paper dickeys which the Philadelphians now wear instead of uncomfortable stiff shirts. Schima Kaufman values his typewriter next...