MOTOR CYCLE NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 57, 8 March 1932, Page 14

MOTOR CYCLE NOTES.

CAMP AT MURIWAI.

SUNDAY'S SPORTS MEETING.

CHAMPIONSHIPS DECIDED,

According to reports, the camp at Muriwai Beach on Saturday night wae a fairly good modern imitation of the now-vanished settlement that was ruled over by the late Don Buck. No one got much sleep and one weary rider of the previous day, who at dawn was sitting on the sandhills hoping that the noise, like the off-shore wind, would die down with, sunrise, said that the camp resembled his impression, gained from recent cable news, of those parts of China about Chapei. Some of the commotion was caused by a big dog. Its owner tied it to a tent peg and when the dog went for a walk, the tent followed it. Accompanied by the tent, the dog made a tour of inspection, dipping into all the tuck boxes and upsetting other tents by way of diversion.

Despite the excursions and alarums that had upset the night, Sunday's racing *vvas fast and keen. The riders, indeed, stood up to the day's sport better than their machines, which, too, frequently failed at critical moments. , Lindesay Goes Fast. Although he was slow in the flying half mile, taking 225, L. Sowerby walked away from L. McLaren on an A.J.S., avd W. :White, who, like Sowerby, was mounted on a Velocette. Sowerby's best lap was done in 1.40. The only other starter, A. McLaren, pulled out after covering 10 miles. Of the thirteen starters in the Skeates Cup, only five finished. Lindesay did the beet lap of the race, hie time being 1.37. From a poor start, he came right through the field to the first place, closely followed by Goldberg, who took second place from Marrett in the last lap. One of the cleverest displays or riding seen throughout the day was Forder's cornering. Early in the race, the brake rod of his machine broke and at each turn he had to get his machine round while still travelling at a great pace.

Again in the McLaren Cup, Lindesay put up the best lap time, 1.33, after losing a lot of time at the start, but he coulcl not overhaul Dale, one of the visiting riders who put up a very good showing throughout, the day. ' As in the Skeates Cup, few survived the distance, only six finishing out of a field of 14.

The times over the flying half mile were particularly good. F. Lindesay on a Kudge and J. Dale on a Norton, both did the distance in 19s, with Ben Bray only one-fifth of a (second behind them. All nine riders finished inside of 22 seconds. Accident to West. The only casualty was A. West, a visitor from Rotorua, who won the twolap motor cycle race on Saturday. In the Skcates Cup event, West had a

nasty fall, damaging his machine and losing a lot of the skin off hie face. One of the visitors,- T. Snow, from Rotorua, had a Norton T.T. _ replica model, on which he did the flying half mile in 20 2-se. In the earlier races, it was not going too well, hut after it had 'been tuned up by Alf Mattson it showed its power. Unlucky. This is Albie Lemon's unlucky year. At Marton last month, riding J. White's Sunbeam in the New Zealand middleweight. championship, he burned out a plug After gaining a lead of half a lap from the rest of the field and at the last Masterton meeting, in the North Island middle-weight championship, the same thing happened when he was leading from Mangham, who eventually won. In°the next race Lemon started off scratch and caught the field in two laps, but on the home stretch his chain broke and jammed in the wheel. "And so," says Albie, "I'm turning the game in."