CYCLING.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 147, 22 June 1901, Page 4 (Supplement)

CYCLING.

In spite of rebuffs from the City Council the Cycle Koads League are still agitating for road refornv and they have once more approached tn» Council on the subject. Seeing- that they have public opinion at their baclt the League are likely to carry th« Yt may be of interest to those of my readers who are parents to know that it has recently been ruled in England that a parent is not responsible for thj damage his .son may do to a lured machine

The Cyclists' Despatch Rae.tt at th«f recent military gymkhana was art amusing: affair, Serg-t. Geo. Henning seemed to have the race at his mercy, but he got mised up with his machine at the last hurdle and lost. The world's championships are to be held on the 7th, 11th and 14th July, the venue this year being BerA despatch from Paris dated 19th includes the following: — Thd match between Grogna and Major Taylor yesterday at Verviers marked an important date in the European career of Taylor. On this exceedingly rough track, the difficult riding- of which is familiar to Grogna, and oa which the little Belgian had nevaf bee|n defeated, the black champion won where Jaquelin, Toinmaselli, ana Meyers were defeated. There is no longer any doubt as to the exceptional sprinting qualities of the American crack. He has in him the ability to make him the new Zimmerman for whom we have waited. Just like Zimmerman it is probabls that he will now go from triumph to triumph. From Germany to Belgium, from Belgium to France, from France to England he will go and everywhere demonstrate his supremacy.

An earlier despatch, referring to a former race says;— Fully 4500 spectators assembled at the Friedenau track yesterday to witness Taylor's second * race in Europe, and the one which the critics called the decisive one—the one which would prove to Europe if the Major were really the gTeat rider so much heralded or simply a first-class man able to. win like> any other one. His triumph was complete and should he be defeated a halfdozen times hereafter it will not change the result nor the opinion gained by spectators or sport follow ers that Taylor is another Zimmer* man for the European public.