MOTOR-CYCLING.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20907, 14 July 1933, Page 16

MOTOR-CYCLING.

PIONEER SPORTS CLUB. FIXTURES. July 15—Annual meeting of motor section. July 27—Monthly meeting of motor committee. July 29—Annual general meeting of the club. August 3—Smoke social, and presentation of prizes. The annual general meeting of the motor section of the Pioneer Sports Club will be held at the club rooms at 8 o'clock to-morrow evening. The report to be presented to the meeting, says that the club's year has been a most active one. The committee urges members to give their continued encouragement and support to the social activities of the club. Tribute is paid to the continued vigilance, and well directed efforts of the South Island Motor Union in all matters pertaining to the welfare of motorists.

The annual general meeting of the New Zealand Auto Cycle Union will be held at Auckland on August 7.

TOURIST TROPHY RACE. MISHAP TO S. L. MOSES. (fsou cur own correspondent.) LONDON, June 9. S. L. Moses, the New Ztealand representative in the Tourist Trophy race in the Isle of Man, met with an accident last Saturday. Rain-sodden roads and rolling banks of thick fog greeted the 41 competitors at daybreak for the practices. The conditions improved slightly from the second lap, but were far from perfect for high speed. The New Zealand representative, who has shown splendid form, crashed into railings at Leppel Gate on the mountain section while attempting to negotiate a corner about three miles from the finish, and received grazes on an arm. He rode to the grandstand, and after examination, was sent to hospital for dressing. A motor-cyclist, who was not taking part in the trial, but followed the competitors, fell while descending the hill into Kettlewell, and broke a leg.

Both as regards low operating costs and efficiency, the motor-cycle is better for police patrol work than the car, declared the sheriff of Milwaukee (United States) recently. He has found that motor-cycles are 11 times cheaper to operate, and intends to use them to replace all his cars for day work.

In the hour a motor-cycle—Lacey's Norton—has covered more than 110 miles, while a motor-cycle-paced pedal cycle has covered 76 miles 504 yards, in the same time. Over a mile, a horse has run at nearly 39 miles an hour, and man unaided has run the same distance at just slightly more than 14 miles an hour, walked it at more than 9 miles an hour, and swum it at nearly three miles an hour.