TORONTO RIDER'S TEAM LEADS
IN OTTAWA GRIND |
Ottawa, Sept 28 --The team of Albert Heaton, Toronto; Bobby Walthour, Woodridge, N.Y. and Roy McDonald, Ottawa, still held the lead at 8 p.m. today in Ottawa's first six-day bicycle race.
The trio waqs leading by one lap over the Flynn-Gruber-Robichaud combination, but was one point behind, with 83.
The Gachon brothers and Willisky team dropped to fourth place, because of a loss of three sprint points to the Saetta-Ricci-Belanger combination.
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| STANDINGS | Miles | Laps | Pts |
| McDonald-Walthour-Heaton | 388 | 2 | 83 |
| Flynn-Gruber-Robichaud | 388 | 1 | 86 |
| Saetta-Ricci-Belanger | 388 | 0 | 32 |
| Gachon-Gachon-Willisky | 388 | 0 | 49 |
| Hurley-Trepanier-Bedard | 387 | 9 | 86 |
| Vallee-Pelletier-Grimm | 387 | 9 | 30 |
| Lands-Hunt-Picard | 387 | 9 | 31 |
| LEAD UNCHANGED IN OTTAWA RACE |
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Ottawa, Oct. 1 --Roy McDonald of Ottawa and his partners, Bobby Walthour, Woodbridge, N.Y., and Albert Heaton, Toronto, were still pacing the field in Ottawa's six-day bicycle race after ninety-two hours of riding. They were two laps ahead of Max Hurley, Ray Bedard and Henri Trepanier, who held second place, one lap up on the Dave Lands-Rus Hunt-Paul Picard unit. With 1,706 miles and 8 laps behind them, the leaders had a margin at 194 points over their closest rivals to this department, Jake Gruber, Guy Ricci and Tommy Flynn. A difference of seven laps separated these two teams. The Hurley-Trepanier-Bedard combination, in second place, had 340 points and the leaders 571 points. |
| STANDINGS | Miles | Laps | Pts |
| McDonald-Walthour-Heaton | 1706 | 8 | 571 |
| Hurley-Trepanier-Bedard | 1706 | 6 | 340 |
| Lands-Hunt-Picard | 1706 | 5 | 283 |
| Gachon-Gachon-Willisky | 1706 | 3 | 345 |
| Flynn-Gruber-Ricci | 1706 | 1 | 377 |
| Vallee-Pelletier-Belanger | 1705 | 8 | 283 |
ONTARIO-NEW YORK TEAM
WINS OTTAWA- BIKE GRIND |
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Ottawa, Oct. 4. - The Ontarlo-New York team of Bobby Walthour, Roy McDonald and Albert Heaton today carried off honours in Ottawa's first six-day bicyle race, finishing at midnight on Saturday after riding 2972 miles and 4 laps. They were three laps ahead of their nearest rivals.
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| FINAL STANDINGS | Miles | Laps | Pts |
| McDonald-Walthour-Heaton | 2972 | 4 | 1,782 |
| Hurley-Trepanier-Bedard | 2972 | 1 | 1,094 |
| Flynn-Gruber-Ricci | 2972 | 0 | 1,203 |
| Lands-Hunt-Picard | 2972 | 0 | 886 |
| Gachon-Gachon-Willisky | 2972 | 0 | 885 |
| Vallee-Pelletier-Belanger | 2971 | 6 | 539 |
| CHARLIE WINTER IN NEW ROLE |
Once-Famous Rider Here to Construct Track
for Local Bike Race
Toronto, Oct 11 -- Last February six-day bicycle racing lost one of its most colourful and capable riders when burly Charlie Winter, New York peddle pusher, decided to quit the competitive end of the sport to assist George Harvey in promotion of races in the United States and in Canada. Winter (the man, not the season) is in the city now with Harvey, completing plans for the race which will begin at Mutual Street Arena one minute after next Sunday midnight. He's in charge of track construction.
Charlie Winter's colour, his flair for showmanship, made him a popular figure in the leading bike racing cities the continent over. It was he who stooged for clowns, entertained the crowds during a lull in proceedings and by kindness toward young spectators at the races became a prime favourite. The last time he was here was when Willie Spenser promoted. Winter, paired with Jimmy Walthour Jr., the hard riding, gritty little Bronx, New Yorker, to take the local race. That was the last of the dizzy grinds to nowhere until the present.
Thirteen teams will make up the set-up for this race, and no less than four local riders will make a showing. They are Reggie Fielding, Al Heaton, Lew Elder and Ted Harper. Elder has decided to forsake his original plan of retiring. The world's champion German team of Gustav Killian and Heinz Vopel will be here along with the Peden brother team, Torchy and Doug; Jules Audy, Henri LePage, Cocky O'Brien, Al Crossly and Jimmy Walthour Jr.
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| CONTRUCT BIKE RING THURSDAY |
Promoter Figures He'll Spend $12,000
in Toronto for Race
Toronto, Oct 12 -- On Thursday of this week, immediately after Wednesday night's amateur boxing show, a gang of fifty carpenters will take charge of Mutual Street Arena and begin construction of the track over which will spin the leading bike riders of the world at Toronto's annual race which starts next Sunday midnight.
Charlie Winter, once one of the leading riders of the sport, is now in charge of the track construction. He built his first track last February in St. Louis.
Promoter George Harvey estimated that before the bike troupe leaves here he will have expended $12,000 in the city in salaries to the riders, buying foodstuffs for the large retinue, lumber, employment of local carpenters, rink rental, advertising, hotels, trains, etc. It's a big project, one of these six-day races, but Toronto rates as one of the best cities where the daring young men on bicycles show.
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| PAIR PEDENS AS BIKE ENTRY |
Torchy and Doug Will Ride Together
in Forthcoming Toronto Race
Toronto, Oct 13 -- Announcement was made last night by Promoter George Harvey that eleven different nationalities will be represented in the six-day bike race, which starts at Mutual Street Arena next Sunday midnight.
Possibly twelve teams will start in the dizzy whirl to nowhere, but there will be Canadian, English, Irish, American, German, Italian, Spanish, Swiss, Polish, French and Jewish riders ready to line up at the starting line.
The promoter has not completed his line-up of teams yet, but was able to say that Torchy and Doug Peden, the cycling Vancouverites, would carry the colours of the Canadian team, and Lew Elder and Ted Harper, the latter not long from the amateur ranks where he held many championships, will be known as the all-Toronto team.
With the news that the Pedens will ride as a team many local fans will regret the breaking up of the Jules Audy-Torchy Peden duo, which rode together here so often, and were so deservedly popular. The tiny blonde from Montreal and his husky, flaming-haired partner were a combination that appealed to the crowd immensely, but Harvey says that the brother team is a big favourite wherever they show. Doug Peden is a comparative novice in comparison with his older brother, but as an amateur he was one of the most outstanding riders Canada has produced. He also starred in basketball before turning professional for bike racing.
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| Don't Mention Feathers to Max Hurley |
Toronto, Oct 14 -- Many athletes have their pet superstitions, but Max Hurley, a Toronto entrant in the six-day bicycle race which will start at the Mutual Street Arena next monday, has a most remarkable aversion.
Hurley, it seems, was frightened by a hen when a very small child and has retained an inherent fear of feathered creatures ever since. One time he was a passenger in a motor car with several other bicyclists, one of whom had bought a crate of chickens. The new owner opened the crate to make sure that its inhabitants hadn't been smothered. Hurley protested and when the others, realizing the situation, pushed a hen in his direction, he jumped out of the car and sped down the road.
That was the tip-off to the other bike riders. Some time later, during the progress of a six-day race, one of them rode out on the track with a hen in his mitt and edged alongside Hurley. The result was so instantaneous that Max won the subsequent sprint without hesitation.
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| BICYCLE RIDER FRACTURES ARM |
Max Hurley Falls From Horse and Will Miss
Local Race - Teams Announced
Toronto, Oct 15 -- Max Hurley, plucky little Toronto boy, will stick to his six-day bike racing from now on. Slated to start in Toronto's ninth annual six-day race at Mutual Street Arena Sunday midnight. Hurley was in training and then forsook his bike for a horse during the afternoon. He tumbled while riding through High Park and suffered a broken arm, so he'll just be a spectator at the international whirl to nowhere.
Promoter George Harvey announced his line-up of teams yesterday, and it's one of the best-balanced fields that any local race has had. Thirteen duos, comprising representatives of eleven different nations, make up the full compliment of riders.
The track at the arena is near completion -- will be finished by this afternoon, track manager Charlie Winter said yesterday. Seventy-five carpenters and labourers have been working night and day on its construction. Judging by the line-up of teams it's going to be a wide open race. Favourites will probably be the American team of Al Crossley and Jules Audy, and Henri LePage and Jimmy Walthour of the Canadian-American team. Four Toronto boys, Reggie Fielding, Lew Elder, Ted Harper and Albert Heation make their bow before a hometown crowd in this race. Following is the line-up of teams:
Al Crossley and Jules Andy -- American team
Albert Heaton and Heinz Vopel-- Canadian-German team
Henri LePage and Jimmy Walthour -- Canadian-American team
Torchy and Doug Peden -- Canadian team
Harold McNauwens and Henry Cocky O'Brien -- Irish team
Gustav Kilian and Jackle Sheehan -- German-Irish team
Felix LeFenetre and Cliff Bullivant -- French-American team
Reggie Fielding and Tommy Flynn -- English team
Tom Saetta and Ramigio Saavedra -- Italian-Spanish team
Jakie Gruber and George Shipman -- Jewish team
Freddie Zach and Henry Stamota -- Swiss-Polish team
Lew Elder and Ted Harper -- All-Toronto team
Freddie Spenser and Paul Croley -- American team
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| TWELVE TEAMS IN SIX-DAY RACE |
Crossley-Audy and Walthour-Gadou Duos
Favoured to Win Grind
Toronto, Oct 18 -- Twelve teams, representing eleven nations, begin the long grind to nowhere at 12:01 a.m. today as Toronto's ninth International Six-Day Bike Race got underway. The race will end at midnight next Saturday.
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