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With Pick and Shovel
Toronto Star, August 13, 1934
By Lou Marsh
While the win scored by young Bob McLeod, the Toronto messenger boy in
the ten-mile British Empire cycling championship race, is being put
down as a surprise morsel, some of the real critics of bike racing form
and class were not particularly surprised.
If there is a shrewder judge of bike racers than Willie Spencer, the
six-day bike man, I would like to be introduced. Spencer has all along
maintained that McLeod was one of the greatest amateur riders ever
developed in this city and that’s taking a lot of important territory
in a town that developed outstanding bike riders like Harley Davidson,
Angus McLeod, Marshall Wells, Walt Andrews, Herb MacDonald, Doc Norton
and the Spencer boys just to mention a few which come to mind readily.
Last year at the C.N.E., the Canadian racing championships were held
and McLeod won no less than five titles the same day. He had to stop at
five, as there were not any more up for decision.
Bill Spencer has been figuring on McLeod for his six-day professional
circuit, letting the kid ripen so to speak. He may turn pro this fall.
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