Word: walthour
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, Jimmy Walthour Jr., amateur bicycle champion of the U. S., signed a professional contract in which there was a clause forbidding him to marry for six years. He is not to be confused with his cousin Bobby Walthour Jr., professional rider, who is married...
...first lap, presented a jumbled cinema of anxiety, hope, fear, ferocity and desperate determination. Two to a team, they relieved one another periodically. There was Reggie McNamara, staunch veteran of uncountable races, pedaling warily, knowing that the road was a long one. Experienced Eddie Madden and Bobby Walthour, too. let the young up-and-comers snatch the first kudos. There were Dutchmen, Frenchmen, Italians, Poles, Irishmen and Jews, with names like Lacquehay, Georgetti, Goosens, Stockelynch, Keller, Kockler, Golle, Meithe, Bello, Wambst...
...sprint, a jam or a tumble. Georgetti, the Italian, blew out a tire, catapulted to the track. "He is dead," an individual in a plaid suit asserted solemnly. Georgetti was already riding on. Four riders went down on a corner. One did not get up. It was Bobby Walthour. He had broken his collarbone...
Moons sank, suns rose. After six days, the winners: Reggie McNamara, Australian "iron man," and Pete Van Kempen, of Holland; 2,368 mi., 5 laps, 1,057 points for sprinting. Second place: Bobby Walthour Jr., of Georgia, and Franco Georgetti, of Italy. Third: Marcel Buysse and Alphonse Goosens, of Belgium...