Facts: - death place: stroudsburg , pennsylvania - death date: 21 june 1924 - children: 2 - birth date: 7 june 1893 - name: eugene -lrb- gene -rrb- walker - image: gene_walker . jpg - birth place: birmingham , alabama - occupation: motorcyclist Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of gene walker .
gene walker -lrb- june 7 , 1893 -- june 21 , 1924 -rrb- was a motorcycle flat track racer who was one of the first riders from the southern united states to become nationally known , winning 19 championships in a 10 year career that ended with his death at the peak of his success .in 1910 , walker obtained his first motorcycle , an excelsior .at 17 he worked as a postal delivery person in birmingham using an indian motorcycle for delivering mail .walker entered his first motorcycle race at the 1912 alabama state fair and won the five-mile final .in the same year he left his job at the post office to go to work for a birmingham indian dealer named bob stubbs .in 1914 walker turned professional and worked in the testing room at the indian headquarters in springfield , massachusetts .walker won 19 national championships in his 10 years of professional racing before he died in 1924 .on june 7 , while practicing alone on a track in stroudsburg , pennsylvania , walker crashed .he died in rosenkrans hospital in east stroudsburg , pennsylvania , on june 21 .walker was inducted to the motorcycle hall of fame in 1998 .