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Charles C. "Charlie" Pyle (March 26, 1882 – February 3, 1939), sometimes called "Cash and Carry Pyle," was a Champaign–Urbana, Illinois theater owner, sports agent, and sports entreprenuer best known for his representation of American football star Red Grange and French tennis player Suzanne Lenglen.
Jan 30, 2010 · C.C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race: The True Story of the 1928 Coast-to-Coast Run Across America. There are ultrarunners, and then there are ULTRArunners. At the entry level are runners like me, who run the occasional 50 miler with hopes of maybe completing a 100 mile race one day.
Jan 22, 2018 · When notorious sports agent and promoter C.C. Pyle offered a $25,000 prize for a foot race from Los Angeles to New York, 199 runners from all over the world took their marks and half a million spectators flocked to the starting line.
Books. C.C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race: The True Story of the 1928 Coast-to-Coast Run Across America. Among the runners of C. C. Pyle's First Annual International Transcontinental Foot Race were...
This changed in 1926 when Charles C. (“Cash and Carry”) Pyle, a successful sports promoter in the United States, offered Suzanne Lenglen $50,000 to go on a professional tour of America playing Mary K. Browne, who had been U.S. singles champion from 1912 to 1914. He also signed four male….
C.C. Pyle's amazing foot race : the true story of the 1928 coast-to-coast run across America. Authors: Geoffrey Williams, Robertson Dean (Narrator) Summary: Among the runners of C.C. Pyle's First Annual International Transcontinental Foot Race were an assortment of underdogs, including twenty-year-old Oklahoman and part Cherokee Andy Payne, who ...
Profile of C.C. Pyle, who invented the bunion derby and lursd Red Grange and Suzanne Lenglen into professionalism. He promoted his first sporting event at the age of sixteen.
