MOTOR-CYCLING.
THE TOURIST TROPHY RACES.
STANLEY WOODS' DOUBLE WIN
(Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, June 16
Stanley Woods, who won the Junior Tourist Trophy, to-day won the senior race for machines of 500 c.c. maximum engine capacity. Woods won the same double honours last year. He rode a Norton motor-cycle. Twenty-nine riders contested in the race, which was over a mountain course of a, distance of 264 miles. The foreign competitors were outclassed. Woods led throughout and finished in 3hr 15min 35sec, averaging 81.04 miles an hour.
Simpson, on a Norton, was second, averaging 80.41 miles -an hour. Hunt, on a Norton, was third, with an average of 79.49 miles an hour; The lan record was broken three times and is now held by Woods whose speed for a single circuit represented 82.7 miles an hour.
Moses (New Zealand) retired in the first lap.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 210, 17 June 1933, Page 6
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