CYCLING NOTES.
—♦- " Weekly Press and Referee." [By Velox.] The executive of the Pioneer Bicycle Club are to ha congratulated on the capital meeting they brought off on Boxing Day. The gathering was a great success, and conspicuous for the capital riding of the new member, J. W. Jones, who should do well *.n tiie near future, our pop dar visitor '• Wally •• Kerr, ami C. H. Jonas. I hope I shall have the privilege of being present at many such a gathering' as that I " assisted " at on December 26th. The New South Wales representative, W. Kerr, gave us a great exhibition of his powers at the Australasian Championship Meeting, and I feel confident that had not Crow's machine been shitted by the wind in the Twenty-live Miles event on to the visitor's wheel and brought him down, Kerr would have won the event. As it was he remounted and made an effort to catch the leaders, but the grit he got in his eye from the spill almost blinded him for the time and lie had to abandon the race, which was won by that plucky Napier rider, Petersen. C. H. Jones, as usual, was also to the fore, and he rode a great race with Kerr in the Ten Mile event, which he just won on the post. Jones was much distressed in the Twentyfive Mile event, and he fell exhausted in his fourth mile. He was, I am glad to say, soon all right again. A. J. Thome had a rcgidar field day at the Dunsandel Sports on New Year's Day, winning the One Mile (120 yds) in 2min 35scc, the Two Miles (240 yds) insmin 36sec, the Three Miles (180 yds) in Bmm 32sec, and the Five Miles (270 yds) in 15min 54sec. S. Cleaver (70yds) annexed the Half Mile in lmin 12 2-sth sec, and R. C. Ledez, the Mile Consolation. John S. Johnston did some remarkable riding at Fountain Ferry track, Louisville, Ky., on November 7th. He made atrial against Otto Zeigler's standing start, paced, one mile record, lmin 50 2-sth sec, and, although he rode one third of the distance unpaced, sueceded in tieing it. Not satisfied with this grand performance, he tried again after a rest of only twenty minutes, and finished in lmin 50 l-sth sec.
CYCLING NOTES.
Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9315, 16 January 1896, Page 3
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