COLONIAL CYCLISTS AT BIRMINGHAM.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 210, 10 September 1897, Page 2

COLONIAL CYCLISTS AT BIRMINGHAM.

-«-* —-— The Australian amateur cyelistr"Ben." Goodson and "Wally" Ken oth put in an appearance at N.C.1.. hampionships decided on the new emei-t track at the famous Asto ,ower Grounds, Birmingham, on faatrdav, but neither managed to can*.*. ft a championship pot (writes on.ondon correspondent). In the Mile Amateur race, Reiv umaged to get second the 6th hea o Mcßourke, of St. Georges Hoe* ,ital, after a wretched crawl for hree laps and a half, being beaten a ■heel in the sprint home. The time or their heat was 4min 5 4-sth sec. oodson furnished a surprise m th_ th heat by knocking out Barratt, o. Newport, "The pair loafed for 5-6tlu-f the journey, but in the last fur :mg Goodson piled on the pace, am •i spite of a very "determined effoV* »y Barratt, beat the Welshman by t ,'ouple of yards in the—er—some.hat slow time of 3min 30sec. Ben. owever, did not survive the secom: :>und, in which he contested the 3iv t ;at with T. Summersgill, Leeds C.C.t rid F. C. Chapman, Bristol wheelers 'he trio gave a very finished exposi ion in the art of loafing until withn a hundred yards of the winning lost. Then Summersgill jumped .head and just managed to reacl iome a long yard ahead of Goodso?----ind Chapman, who dead-heated for eeond (barren) honours. The timi jf this particular heat was 4min _*. :-sth sec, but in the final Summersill beat Mr Bourke and Appleby b. i yard in smin 52 2-sth sec! He rock_ he last lap in 27 3-sth sec, so you ca; magine the pace at which the comsetitors travelled the first three parts _f the journey. Goodson and Kerr likewise got uj ii the Five Miles Amateur Championhip. The former took part in the irst heat but was beaten by 20 yard:. ;v E. J. Callaghan, of the Poly. CO.. >i 17min 30 2-sth sec, after what a sickened reporter termed a "cruel rawl." Still Ben. qualified to compete in the final, an achievement Vally could not claim, since in the :nd heat he only managed to gobird to Ainsworth, of the Irish C.C.. Mid P. W. Brown, of the "Poly." The ■Referee" man called the heat .» 'wretched exhibition," though the ime occupied was 17min 25 l-sth sec -nearly 5 seconds faster than thai yon by Callaghan. In the final Miodson could make no show when he pace was piled on for the las; hip. Ainsworth won by a length, iom Robinson, of Lincoln, and Bur* ■ ind,of Catford,inl7min 47sec,the last ■'[) being ridden in 2Ssec. The Brith amateur record for this distant*! . 9min 49 2-oth sec, and the standrd time 12 minutes. The Antipodean professional element was represented at the meetinp •y C. 11. Jones, of Christchurch, N.Z.. ho competed in the Quarter Mil* rofessional Championship (the holclf, J. Green, is now in Australia) rid in the Mile. He, however, only imaged to get placed in his heat ir. he sprint, and in the mile just faild to qualify for the final, though lie heat in which he competed oeupied 3min 31 3-oth sec.