Ray, Let me have your address and I will send you a great nit comb for Christmas so you can have a good pick. THE OFFICIAL TOUR DE FRANCE CENTENNIAL 1903-2003 Book. Pp.96 Says quite clearly Stage 9 Yellow Jersey Fontan. The publisher is Weidenfield & Nicolson, The Orion Publishing Group, Wellington House, 125 Strand, London WC2R 0RB. Just in case you want to get in touch to get them to correct the book or put in an addendum. Great to know we have a reader on the list give a bell they might be looking for readers if you have got a card. Mind you it better be an LTS or A&C.O.P not you Mickey mouse card down in the "Sticks" of Sussex. How can you live with that rag they call the Argus? Private Eye should have taken the Mick out of that for all its literals instead of the Guardian. Did you know the the General Strike was started by printers on the Daily Mail they had just been on a club run and were having a bite to eat in the canteen just before going onto their shift, when they unanimously decided to have an impromptu emergency Chapel Meeting over the Miners plight. As a result they put the button in on the Mail and the rest of Fleet Street followed. This forced the hand of the T.U.C. and the whole lot walked out. Printers, Unions and Cyclist's! Same time as Victor Fontan was a Pro. Remeber the 70's and 80's Tours when the French Printers went on strike and littered the route with newspapers. Best wishes and I enjoy your postings. Joe King P.M.M.T.S
On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:00:35 +0000, greenjersey@ntlworld.com said:
> Joe King writes He wore Yellow in the 1929 Tour on Stage 9 Tuesday 9th
> July 363km. Bayonne to Luchon.
> I don't think that is correct. He took the yellow jersey on that stage
> but wore it the next stage Luchon-Perpignan.
> In 1929 he was aged 37 and was described as "le veteran bearnais"
> ray green, brighton, england
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