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PARIS. July 29.—for the 29th annual tour de France, world’s longest end most gruelling bicycle road race, today went to Belgium.
PARIS, July 18 (AP).—Nicolas Frantz of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg today won the annual longest bicycle road race of the world, covering 4,000 miles, which started June 19.
The race is called “tour de France,” and skirts the entire frontier and coast boundaries of the country.
By Crosby S. Noyes, Foreign Correspondent of The Star
PARlS.—After a number of years of more or less serious spectating, we have finally discovered what we consider the ideal spectator sport.
The Tour de France rates, we are given to believe, as a national sporting event in France almost in the same way as the World Series rates in the United States. But there’s one great difference between the great annual bicycle classic and most other national sports.
