CYCLING.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17019, 16 December 1920, Page 3

CYCLING.

.—_—6 ■ JTAR&HLAXD-iIAIKEirAU CLUB. Tlio I>rby racs for boys nr.dc-r 18, in connexion with the !Marshhmd-Mairohail Cin'.i, vas hcU on Tuesday evening. Tiio course vva.i from the jMaii'V'hiiu Hall and -twice round tlio Mairehau block, a. distsneo ol about nino miics. The. race proved the most interesting, yet Jreld this seicion. About 20 started, and the r:tco reault&d:---H. MoK.enziMasmin), time 27min lOsoc. 1: J. P.iosnan (Slmin), |inko 27min llscc, 2; C. Bell .(ajmiiO. time 27min 27sco, 2. D. "Wel&h.-from-.scratch., secured .. tastiest il-.lin« -th« distance in 2-Cmin. 13sec. Hill. a. boy oi 11 yeara of ag*-, with t start, ixxlf- a eplendid :acp. Ka was ciias-ht n. fcv.- chains from .tho finish, but secured' fourth place, -tind wos n.ward«d a EDecial prize gicen by Mr H. W. Peryman. 'Tlio club ia holdinjr another race over a 12-milo cciurpe, starting, from Marshland School. Mr A. Bonia has offered «, bpecinl prize to the rider «r-ho breaks, ur.pticcd, tlie record of 12iuiii 14see, jnade by C. G. in 190-1, from Marshland School to CJraddock's comar and back: Tho. sum of £3 Zi lias been Riven by the club to the North Canterbury'. Centre- for the Is'c-.v Zealand lload , Championaliiy in April. j DOYLESTON AND, ELLESMERE CLUBS. : A bicycle voncl race, promoted by tho Doyleston- and KlivErnero. .Athletic Cln):.«, -Jreiv eleven entriea, bi.it ovrisvr. to showery woather only five men started." The distance vra."» about eleven mil-c?. The 'reeulit mie-—J. Melson, 3min. .1; K. D»v.*on, tor, C; H. D. Jones, Jmin, .1. Da-wson v:on a ltit-dal ~or fastest time, and C. Tod was the fastest unplaced ridef.