CYCLING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 225, 20 September 1913, Page 16

CYCLING.

The officials of the New South Wales Cyclists' Union are happy. The reason is that they have found a road rider fit to represent Ausltralia at the Olympic Games of 1916 at the first attempt. The governing body of amateur cycling for i the State held its first Olympic test TeIcerttly over a course from Goulbum to Aehfleld, a distance of 130 miles, and E. W. Pedersen put up a phenomenal performance. He won from scratch, and rode the distance —the last 50 miles of it over terribly .rough roads—in 6h. 24min. 3usec, thus averaging just over 20 miles an hour. Pedersen's time is only smin. outside the professional record. No previous winner of the race —prior to that event they, were all for (professionals—finished • as fresh as Pedersen. The Cyclists' Union officials are delighted at having found a likely Olympic representative so early. There are races over the same course in 1914 and 1915, but Pedereen, who is only 20 years of age, and has been racing a couple of seasons, is likely to stall further improve, and he looks a certainty for the trip to Germany, providing everything goes well with him. Tlie amateur road riders of Europe and America cannot app-_ai_- jthe time Pedersen iestablished recently, that Australia seems to already have a representative likely to moire than hold bis own with

the cream of the -world's road ridens in the 150 miles road race, which figures on the Olympic programme.