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Six Riders Named for Olympic Trip
Two Telegraph
Bike Messengers Named to Team
Toronto Star, June 29, 1936
Financial support is all that is needed to enable Canada via the
Canadian Wheelmen’s Association to send the strongest squad of amateur
bike riders to Germany ever to represent the country in Olympic games.
Selection committee met yesterday to select the team after the big
three-day meet at the exhibition and found it a tough job.
The committee was unanimous in its opinion that there were six riders
all so well matched that they merited a trip to Germany where they
looked like probable point winners.
Right now the C.W.A. has enough money for two riders with plenty of
assurance that they would be able to pay to finance another pair.
Granted a certain amount of help from supporters of the bike game, they
are confident of looking after two more. The riders were named in order
of merit. They are:
1. Lionel Coleman, Maple Leaf Cycle Club, Hamilton, 2. Bob McLeod,
Maple Leaf Wheelmen, Toronto, 3. George Crompton, Maple Leaf Wheelmen,
Toronto 4. Doug Peace, Maple Leaf Wheelmen, 5. George Turner, Ottawa,
6. Rusty Peden, Maple Leaf Wheelmen, Toronto.
Coleman, just 18 was the hero of the meet with great driving wins in
the five-mile, one-half and one-quarter-mile Canadian title races.
McLeod, tall, dark telegraph messenger and British Empire games
champion, dazzled the crowd with a thrilling victory in the 1,000 metre
Olympic trial scratch race. He also placed in the first three of the
one-third and one-mile Canadian title races and was second in the time
trials.
Crompton, also a telegraph messenger, set a new Canadian record in the
1,000-metre time trials with a time of 1:16 4-5. His winning effort
bested the former mark held by McLeod of 1:18 1-5. McLeod also smashed
his former mark. Crompton was also prominent in the one-quarter and
five-mile championships and placed second in the marathon shortened to
47 miles from 62 because of darkness.
Peace, 17 years old and all-round Canadian champion last year won the
one-third mile title race in 1:49 3-5. He holds the 25-mile Canadian
title and also the Dominion record for the one-quarter mile sprint.
Turner was the winner of the marathon which brought together 55 of
Canada’s greatest riders. His time was two hours six minutes and six
seconds. He also grabbed second place in the one-half mile championship
affair.
Peden, originally from Victoria, BC and here for two years, took the
grueling one-mile Canadian title in the closest finish of the meet.
McLeod was but a few inches behind. Peden is a cousin of Torchy, the
Canada’s greatest professional rider and Doug and Ernie who failed to
live up to expectations in the meet.
The marathon, replete with spills, brought the first serious injury of
the meet when young Morris Robinson of Vancouver suffered a broken
collarbone.
Norah Young won the girls half-mile final with Ruth Brown second and
Marg Ward third.
The Olympic team will be managed and coached by W.J. Deacon chairman of
the racing board.
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