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Show Plucky Cyclist Finally Forced Out of Big Race CLEVELAND, Jan. 25 (P Its original orig-inal field reduced by Injuries from 14 tesms to ten, Cleveland's first six-dsy six-dsy bicycle rsce spprosched its final hours today with the veteran Reggie McNamara and Norman Hill holding the lead they took early in the grind. The race ends tomorrow night The colorful William ( Torch y) Peden, who raced by airplane and ship from Berlin in six daya to arrive ar-rive in time to compete, was forced out of the race last night after he disregarded dis-regarded doctors' advice tor 20 hours by continuing to ride. His partner, Jules Audy, was paired late in the evening with Jack Sheehan, whose partner, Waldorf McClay, retired voluntarily, vol-untarily, due to a bad cold. "After he abandoned the race, Peden quickly decided to desert the scene as well, snd left at 4:30 a. m. today for his home at Victoria, B. C. He promised race physicians he would undergo there sn X-rsy examination to determine if the bad gash he received re-ceived on his head in a spill late Monday Mon-day night might have caused concussion. concus-sion. He also suffered bad bruises on his body from being thrown against tha fence at the top of the track, and then catapulted to the bottom while he was traveline at an MhmiiaH An mile-an-hour speed. |