MOTOR-CYCLE RACE IN ISLE OF MAN

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20956, 9 September 1933, Page 13

MOTOR-CYCLE RACE IN ISLE OF MAN

RECORD BROKEN (taiTISD OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) RUGBY, September 7. The Isle of Man Senior Amateur Grand Prix motor-cycle race was won at the fastest speed ever reached in an amateur race by H. L. Daniell, on a Norton machine, at an average speed of 7G.98 miles an hour. J. Swanston was second at 75.9 miles an hour, and J. Muir, 75.11 miles an hour, was third. They also rode Nortons. The race was contested over a mountain course of 22fc> miles.

Although on his own admission not a voter in the forthcoming Lyttelton election, one man who attended the meeting of Mr F. W. Freeman, Coalition candidate for Lyttelton, at Linwood Avenue School last night, interjected and interrupted almost continuously. In the last four minutes of Mr Freeman's address there were 78 interjections, and the one man referred to made 30 of them. Throughout most of the meeting the interruptions m;ist have averaged one every 10 seconds. Sometimes there were two and three at a time.