LATE BUT LUCKY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 90, 16 April 1940, Page 13

LATE BUT LUCKY.

MANUKAU CYCLIST. JUNIOR WINS THE SENIOR RACE HERK IN FORM FOR LYNNDALE Close on two hundred racing cyclists competed in the events provided byahe six amateur clubs which conducted road races last Saturday, when overhead conditions were line, although an adverse wind was in evidence. Arriving too late for the junior race. W. J'., I'razor. of the Manukau Club, was given 4m ntait in the 20 miles senior event, and by good pacing with G. l'urdom, ankling a small GSin gear, R. G. Whitley and A. R. Wainoci, made much leeway in the first two lain,. A lap later he and l'urdom left the other two and at the en 1 of the seventh lap i raster wan in the lead on his own. He won by 15s from the diminutive but fan t-finishing J. O. Riddcll. 2Vam. !• raster will be a senior on August 1 and thus unable to compete in the 15)40 junior championship run under unpaced conditions. Kiddell rode his best race to date and his hard chase after Krazer considerably helped him li> make fastest time in 54>.2."». which was one second better than Frank Tredrea ami I>. McCratli could manage. Two oldtimers in J. Stewart and W. \V. Gallagher were third and fourth Both arc great stayers. A strong scratch group of seven juniors lined up and finished in their 15 miler, which was monopolised by S. Lloyd, X. I. Kokolich and .1. Fletcher, all off ifjiu. But for their team work Mills, fastest junior. Smith and Wood, who left the other scratch" riders, I'linkenberg, Linton. Aulick and Goodwill, almost a minute behind, would liavn gone through the Held. For his first ride It. Itattray shaped well, but the distance was a bit too much for a beginner, although lie was seventV. Rides Twenty Miles To Work. For the third successive week R. Herk of the Lynndale Club was fastest, am! until some of the club's many now recruits gain the necessary experience Herk will remain the star junior. Winner It. Meredith mastered the strenuous circuit well, for the club possesses one of the hardest of the local circuits.

Hiding almost twenty miles a day to and from work during the past summer has helped U. Hill to develop useful stamina, and the sixteen miles senior enabled him to secure a first and fastest. Hill has been fairly consistent for the past three season, and was one of the original members of the Surrey Club, which was absorbed by the Lynndale Club in 1!I38. Hughes. Clark and Hawkc rmle from scratch, but there appeared to be a lack of combination. Hughes was first to finish, but was almost two minutes slower than Hill; while J. Clark was unable to hold Hughes whose time was bettered by It. E. Clark, a junior last season. Hughes, however, was having his first ride and naturally can show to better advantage once iu regulu* training. White Going Strong. The Northern Club promises To have another record road season judging from Its events last Saturday. All the older riders were out and several recruits. J. Macdermott. solidly built brother of the club secretary, secured a popular win. while B. O. Brown was another long marker who has evidently been training during the summer. J. White, scratch, fastest, appears as if h* will make his last few weeks as a junior successful ones. Both he ami llarland will be seniors before the August junior championship, which should give Stan. Brown (North Shore! his big opportunity, Tor Brown will be 18 yeans of age three days after the title

Over forty riders have sampled the route named by the Auckland Centre for its first big inter-club event, and 15 have punctured on the notoriously rough metalled section up. Don Bucks Hill. As it ls the centre's policy to entertain suggestions from the riders representatives the course may be changed to one over the HobsonvilleWhenuapai roads, making a 30 mikv event instead of 25 miles. Those who have been over the cours*, only three miles of which is unsealed, consider it ideal for the June senior event, which will be the provincial unpaced championship event. The last unpaccM title road race held by the Centre over the harbour course in September, 1930 was Force cllas - Cochrane, now In the Air Kirker a Shore Record. On Saturday the North Shore seniors raced over the Wairoa Road-Kirkcnhrad course of 12 miles, Ross Moore winning off the 3 minute mark. He beat his A. Kostanach. in the sprint home. Thev were closely followed by Bert Harvev In •third place. W. Kirker, from scratch, broke tlie record for the course in the fast time of 33.1!!). The junior race was run over the Birkenhead course of 10 miles, and resulted in a win for the scratch man, s. Brown, in the fast time of 27.45. G. Wolf, off the 3mlnute mark, linislicd second in 31.9. D. Smith, who is riding consistently this season, was third off the 4-minutc mark. This week a combined race will be held over live laps of the lake course for ihe Young Cup.