MOTOR-CYCLING.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20510, 1 April 1932, Page 6

MOTOR-CYCLING.

PIONEER SPORTS CLUB. FIXTURES. April l)th—All Nations Motor - Race Greeting and 'Boar Hunt, New Brighton Trotting -grounds.: : April lGth—Motor-cycle hill climbs. May 7th-Bth—Annual reliability trial. • NOTES. Intending competitors will do well,to remember that entries-.for,, the. track' meeting to be heldijy the Pioneer Sports Club on the New Brighton Trotting grounds to-morrow week close at 9.30 this evening. The programme consists of six open handicap events over distances of three, four, and five miles, and as the meeting is in aid of the Mayor's Distress Fund there should be a big entry. The first race is timed to start at 2.15 p.m., and . after the speed events have been held there will be a live boar hunt, the animal having been presented by Mr Jos. Taylor. Mr George Henderson has ,becn appointed master of the hunt. Harry Mangham, who won the New Zealand Open Championship at .the Pioneer Sports Club meeting recently, added to his laurels last Monday by winning the Hawlce's. Bay Middleweight Championship, run at Napier, in ?min 2 l-ssec. The track was hot in the best condition for speeding; owing it? intermittent rain making it somewhat greasy. This accounted' for several spills, not one of which, however, was serious. The New Zealand Opsn Lightweight Championship, for which the standard distance as set out in the rules is eight miles, was run over a distance of nine miles, and won by D. K. Collison, of Palmerston North, in 12min 52 l-.jgee. The previous" holder was Ben Bray, of Auckland, who last year won the* title in 7min 52 2-osec. Percy Coleman, who competed at the meeting, failed to run int.* a place. Reg llanby also competed, scoring a first and a second.11. Toßey and Alf Mattson, who-will represent the Dominion in the T.T. races on the Isle of Man in June, with Blacklock and Kilmister, left for the Old Country last week. Although at the annual conference of delegates to the New Zealand AutoCycle Association held ii. August last, permission was granted the Sports Mo-tor-Cycle Club, Auckland, to hold the 1000 miles New Zealand reliability trial en dates to be arranged, nothing has since been heard from the Auckland | Club on the subject. The Christchureh Corsair Motor Club hold an enjoyable sports gathering at Stewart's-Gully last, week-end, when members of the Alhambra Football Club | (Dunodin) were present. The following were the results of the vatious eventsAcceleration test (350 c.e.): B. Horne- | man 1, G. Bayliss 2. Open class: L Harrington 1, C. G. Frost 2. Football locking: R. Inkster ], R. Burling 2 Musical papers: M. Mooly and Mis.s ?i m . 1 , » ,; G - Bayliss u,l<l MiM »«8i soli Balloon bursting: B. Horneman 1, Ji. Inkster 2. Cinderella race: C •"an and partner 2. Whacking the Mmlr' y \, A, :tWc!I nml Mis ' Kirkness 1. M. McClirrg and Miss Wallis 2. Serrw"i° p aC M G> Brycnton and Miss crew 1, B. Horneman ai.d Miss Nuttall -. Dunng tho afternoon a women's ! Soccer ma ch was played betwoen the A team M.ss B. team (Miss Bowman) The A t,am won by two pn.s to „,L Tho Soccer match played between he., married men of Alham- | bra and Corsair Clubs was vvun by Al-

hatubra by two goals to nil. A motor, football match between teams Yepresenting the Alhambra and Corsair Clubs (live a-side) resulted in a. draw, 3-all. The Christchureh Corsair Motor Club's next run will be held on April 17th. " An outstanding example of a. young woman competing with great success on even terms with male experts is provided by Miss Marjoriei Cottle, of Wallasey, England. Miss Cottle is engaged as a competition driver of motor-cycles by the U.S.A. Company and during the past ten years has entered with outstanding success in every motor-cycle trial of importance in-England and on the- Continent. Miss Cottle has just leaped into the cable news again by winning the Calthorpe Trophy -and' FirstClass award in, the English Colmore Cup motor-cycle trial against 102 male competitors. The course to be covered was both snow and ice-bound and although quite a number of the leading riders lost their way, Marjorie plugged on and won her way through to victory once again. Miss Cottle likes the game and competes purely for love of the