Word: walthour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After 146 hours, three teams had circled the track 24,997 times and the winners had to be decided on points awarded for the sprints-races within a race-that punctuate the six-day marathon in series of ten, five times each day. Winners were blond Jimmy Walthour and slick-haired Al Crossley, who had lapped the field in the last hour, held a point lead piled up earlier by winning the sprint that ended the race. While the crowd of 16,000 screamed themselves hoarse, Walthour & Crossley pedaled around the track once more, each balancing on his handlebars...
...proof of the longview value of a six-day rider's lot is the fact that in the professionsons often follow in their fathers' wheel-marks. Jimmy Walthour and his Cousin Bobby are sons of turn-of-the-Century bicycle racers...
...Bobby Walthour Sr., Songwriter Harry Dacre dedicated Daisy Bell ("A Bicycle Built for Two") at the time of their elope ment. Al Crossley is a stocky Bostonian chiefly famed as a sprinter. Walthour & Crossley finished second in last December's Manhattan six-day race, warmed up for last week's triumph by winning a race in Copenhagen last month. Hailed now as the most dangerous rivals to the German team of Heinz Vopel and Gustav Kilian, who recently passed a cycle of nine six-day races without losing one, Walthour & Crossley this week sail for a bicycle tour...