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Bike Race
Program is a Great Success
Meet at Exhibition Produces Keen Riding – McLeod Stars
Toronto Star, August 28, 1933
The bicycle boys put on a great show in front of the grandstand at the
Exhibition Saturday afternoon. Amateurs and professionals vied with one
another to set up a great card of ankling events. A tall rangy Toronto
youngster, Bob McLeod, put on a great show in the simon-pure section,
winning all three races carded.
McLeod started his racing career this season as a contestant in the
telegraph boys’ section and from then on this ankler, who appears
destined for higher company, has just about cleaned up everything in
sight. He started the ball rolling Saturday by winning the half mile,
came back shortly afterwards to triumph easily in the mile and then
made a show of the field in the two-mile to earn for himself three
Canadian championships in one afternoon.
The finals for the amateur races:
One mile novice:
1. Ray MacMahon, Toronto
2. Tom Ford Jr., Scarborough,
3. D. Hodgins, Toronto. Time 2:37
Half mile:
1. Bob McLeod, Toronto
2. Harold Fielding, Toronto,
3. George Turner, Ottawa. Time: 1:10.
One mile:
1. Bob McLeod, Toronto
2. J. McDonald, Toronto
3. Harold Fielding, Toronto.
Two miles:
1. Bob McLeod, Toronto
2. George Crompton,
Toronto
3. R. Hunt, Toronto. Time: 4:48
Note: George Crompton was
also a Toronto telegraph messenger. He and McLeod would both go on to
represent Canada in the 1936 Olympics.
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