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...boarded a train in New Jersey en route to Japan where he expected to open a six-day bicycle race track. Reginald ("Iron Man") McNamara was arrested on his wife's charge of desertion...
...motorcycle officers dropped out at 85. Auburn and bicyclist shot over the finish line at 90 m. p. h., were doing 100 m. p. h. before they slowed down. An A. A. A. official took pencil & paper, certified that Frank Bartell, 33, Czech-born six-day racer, had covered a measured mile at 80.5 m. p. h. Pleased at beating the world's record of 76 m. p. h. set by Canada's big, red-headed William ("Torchy") Peden, Czech Bartell waggled his Vandyke, swore he would make 100 the next time...
...After six days of cruising around the sharply inclined pine track in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, the huge, awkward bucket of roses which tradition requires the winner of a six-day bicycle race to carry around the track on his handlebars, went to the French-Belgian team of Letourner & Debaets. winners of four such contests in the last two months. Second were Schoen & Brocardo, third Georgetti & Hill...
...schoolboys know or care who won Manhattan's last six-day bicycle race. Nine out of ten French schoolboys know who won the Tour de France last year and care very much who wins this year. And many a French sport lover in the provinces may see the Tour de France cyclists without undue effort because the race, starting and ending in Paris, is a four-week 2,600-mile, clockwise grind around the mountains and seacoasts that fringe the country. One day last week 60 grim-faced entrants, jockey caps pulled low and rumps raised high, whizzed north...
...Grez-sur Loing. France. In 1897 a member of an audience shot at him for his satirical use of the Norwegian national anthem in the incidental music to Gunnar Heiberg's Folkaraadet. In 1929 Sir Thomas Beecham gave him England's long delayed recognition with a six-day Delius festival...