T.T. RACE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 143, 19 June 1931, Page 7

T.T. RACE.

ROAD SPEEDSTERS, Motor Cycle World Championship At Isle of Man. 80 M.P.H. EXPECTED, (British Official Wireless.) (Received 11.30 a.m.)' RUGBY, Juno 13. The motor cycle speed championship of the world will be contested to-morrow in the Isle of Man, and the world's best riders from Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Aiistria, Italy, Switzerland, and elsewhere are challenging Britain's supremacy. In this senior race the winners of the two Tourist Trophy races already held participate, and are expected to lap a speed of about 80 miles per hour, involving a mountain descent in which. 110 miles an hour may be reached. Tyrell Smith finished second to G. Walker and Mellors third in the lightweight Tourist Trophy race. The foreign machines seemed outclassed. The Italian crack rider Ghersi came in sixth, but he was riding- a British cycle. The little engines, with their piston diameter no bigger than a wine-glass, stood the race with astonishing efficiency. TENNIS IN BRITAIN. FRENCH WOMEN DEFEATED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 11 a.m.) RUGBY, June 18. . In • a women's international tennis match at Eastbourne yesterday Britain defeated Franc© by winning all six matches. In the second day's play of the women's international lawn tennis match against France at Eastbourne Britain again won all the singles and doubles matches. During the two-days encounter Britain won by 12 matches to love. WIMBLEDON "SEEDING. ,, THE FAVOURED LADIES. ; . .: /LONDON, June 18. . This is the first-time since full seeding has been in operation at Wimbledon in the men's singles that two Englishmen have been among the select eight. In the women's singles the seeded players are Miss Nuthall, Miss Muflford and Mrs. Whittingstall (Britain), Fraulein Aussem and Fraulein Krahwinkel (Germany), Madame Mathieu (France), Miss Jacobs (America), and Senorita de Alvarez (Spain). BILLIARDS IN MELBOURNE. LINDRUM V. NEWMAN. (Received 11 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. In the billiards match, Newman v. Lindrum, the scores are:—Newman (receives 7000), 9741, including breaks of 356 and 231; Lindrum, 4190, including breaks of 630 and 734..