CYCLING.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 38, 13 February 1904, Page 4 (Supplement)

CYCLING.

The three months' disqualification r e . cently imposed upon Chalmers has, on appeal, been reduced to one month. This reduction of the sentence vfUl enable Chalmers to compete in New Zealand at the Easter meetings. The New Zealand League Council hai decided to go into the matter of send* ing J. Arnst to compete in the Bordeaux to Paris race next May, several i councillors being of opinion that the necessary funds can be raised. Jlr As« quith said that any French cycle firm that was made aware of Arnst's pasS performances would provide him gratis with machines and the best pacing. At a special general meeting of the League of Xew Zealand Wheelmen, held on January 2S, the amateur rule per? mitting bicycles to be accepted as. tro« phies was deleted, and a new rulewaa adopted, by -which an amateur must* after selecting his trophy, have it en» graved- by the secretary of the body; promoting the meeting, and under no. circumstances is the competitor to receive it unless it is so engraved. The rules were further amended to provide ■ that in future no amateur rider could compete in the cash section until twelve months from the date of his last ap« pearanee on the track as an amateur; and that any amateur who, without per* mission, should wilfully break his sta« tvs, must stand down, for at leasf eighteen months.