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Boys “Bear” Bob
McLeod in Triumph on Shoulders
Then Place Empire Games
Hero in Flag Draped Chair for Trip
to Office
Seized at Train
Toronto Star, August 25, 1934
Robert McLeod, the 21 year-old Toronto messenger who pedaled
his way to fame at the British Empire Games [the Commonwealth Games] in
England, returned in triumph today and seated on a flag draped chair,
carried
on the shoulders of admiring messenger boys from Union station to the
Canadian
National Telegraph office on Bay St.
Seized out of the crowd of 50 returning athletes, McLeod was
mobbed by cheering admirers who showered him with streamers and
gaily-colored
confetti as he came through the exit doors at the station. Shouting
“good old
Bob,” messenger boys hoisted him to their shoulders and carried him to
Front
St. where a chair draped with a Union Jack was ready to receive him.
Photographers swarmed around and insisted that the hero’s
parents Mr. and Mrs. Norman McLeod, his brother and sister get into the
picture. This done, the little procession of triumph started up Bay St.
cheering lustily at every few steps. Honking cars added to the carnival
spirit
and every traffic policeman caught the mood smiling broadly and not
asking
whether the marchers had a parade permit.
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