CYCLING Combined Clubs’ Weekly Meeting At English Park

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28446, 28 November 1957, Page 7

CYCLING Combined Clubs’ Weekly Meeting At English Park

Two riders, D. Lyes and T. Way, crashed in the back straight at the Combined Cycling Clubs’ weekly meeting at English Park last evening. Before the start of the meeting. T. Shepherd, who last year was only a novice rider, rode for one hour paced by a motor-cycle. Conditions were quite good for this ride, and in the hour Shepherd covered 32 miles 160 yards, which was a great effort for a young rider.

In the final of the cash threelap event, J. Wildermoth and K. Giles, riding from the back mark, made up their handicap very quickly. At the bell, R. Lucas led

out, and on entering the straight. Giles and Wildermoth challenged strongly to hit the front, with Giles winning from Wildermoth by inches. P. Doyle • took the lead from Giles at the start of the 500 metre sprint. Doyle kept well up to the top of the banking, but Giles made a brilliant jump to lead by three lengths at the 220-yard mark. Doyle failed to catch Giles by half a wheel. Amateur The final of the amateur one mile and a half handicap was a thrilling event, with R. Fowler riding brilliantly. With four laps to go, he and B. A’Court were 90 yards behind the field, but with one lap and a half' to go he was nearly up. Going down the back straight in the last lap Fowler started to move round the field, but left his run a little late, and just failed to catch the fastmoving G. Shepherd and M. Parker, and had to be content with third place. A new style of racing was seen in the four-lap Italian team pursuit event. Each team comprised four riders and started on opposite sides of the track, and at the end of each lap the leading rider dropped off and for the last lap one rider of each team was left on the track. At the end of the first lap the A team had a 15yard lead, but at the end of the second lap the lead was reduced to eight yards. G. Shepherd then gave the B team a great lift by putting it five yards ahead, but in the last lap J. Blance overshadowed G. Painter of the B team, and won by 15 yards, having gained 20 yards in the last lap. Results : Cash Events One Lap Repechage Handicap.— First heat: K. Giles 1, P. Doyle 2. Time, 31.9 sec. Second heat: G. Miller 1, B. Woodgate 2. Time. 33sec. Third heat: D. Swanston 1, K. Brown 2. Time, 32.1 sec. Final: Swanston 1, B. Woodgate 2, Miller 3. One Lap Novice Handicap.—G. Le Bretton (scr) 1, M. Wildermoth (15yds) 2, R. Harrison (scr) 3. Time, 33sec.

Three Lap Handicap.—First heat: J. Wildermoth (scr) 1, N. Smith (120yds) 2, G. Miller (80yds) 3, K. Giles (scr) 4. Time, Imin 33sec. Second heat: R. Lucas (40yds) 1, D. Swanston (60yds) 2, R i . Martlew (55yds) 3, K. Brown (60yds) 4. Time, Imin 27.25ec. Final: Giles 1, Wildermoth 2, Swanston 3. Time, Imin 33.8 sec.

500 Metre Sprint.—K. Giles beat P. Doyle. Time, 13.2 sec. J. Wildermoth beat R Lucas. Time, 14.6 sec. Two Lap Novice Handicap.—H. Moore (70yds) 1, R. Harrison (scr) 2, G. Le Bretton (scr) 3. Four Lap Handicap.—First heat: N Woodgate (180yds) 1. N. Smith (180 yds) 2, G. Miller (130yds) 3, P. Doyle (40yds) 4. Time, 2min s.Bsec. Second heat: K. Brown (90yds) 1, J. Newlands (60yds) 2, D. Swanston (90vds) 3, B. Woodgate (60yds) 4. Time, 2min 3.4 sec. Final: Newlands 1, N. Woodgate 2. Brown 3. Time, 2mih 6.2 sec.

Twelve Lap Points Race.—J. Wildermoth, 16 points. 1; J. Williams, 13 points, 2; D. Swanston, 9 points, 3

Amateur Events Half Mile Repechage Handicap.— First heat: T Barnden 1, G. Wallace 2. Time, 34.65ec. Second heat: D. Lyes 1, T. Way 2. Time, Sl.Osec. Third heat: T. Weir 1, J. Beere 2. Time, 33.25ec. Fourth heat: G. Shepherd 1, T. Kenny 2. Time. 31.4 sec. Fifth heat: J. Blance 1. BKitchen 2. Time, 30sec. Final: G. Shepherd (50yds) 1, T. Weir (60yds) 2, D. Lyes (85yds) 3. Time. 57.25ec.

Half Mile Mairehau Novice Handicap.—First heat: K. Prebble (syds) 1, D. Moir (15yds) 2, K. Dwyer (syds) 3. Time, 62.65ec. Second heat: J. Swanston (15yds) 1, B. Cliff (syds) 2, W. Hensley (45yds) 3. Time, 63sec. Final: Prebble 1, Cliff 2, Swanston 3. Time, Imin 4.6 sec. One and a Half Mile Open Handicap.—First heat: M. Parker (140yds) 1, D. Lyes (200yds) 2, N. Binnie (220yds) 3. T. Way (220yds) 4, G. Painter (50yds) 5, P. Burgess (250 yds) 6. Time, 3min 15sec. Second heat: G. Shepherd (115yds) 1. J. Bland (110yds) 2, J. Beere (130yds) 3, K. Jeffery (140yds) 4, T. Kenny (70yds) 5. B. A’Court (65yds) 6. R. Fowler (25yds) 7. Time, 3min 12sec.

Final: Shepherd 1, Parker 2, Fowler 3. Time, 3min 17sec. Four Lap Italian Pursuit Teams Race.—B. Cook, K. Jeffery, B. A’Court, J. Blance beat N. dinnie, T. Weir, G. Shepherd, and G. Painter. Three-quarter Mile Mairehau Novice Handicap.—First heat: L. Hibberd (145yds) 1, K. Dwyer (10yds) 2, B. Cliff (10yds) 3, W. Hensley (65yds) 4. Time, Imin 38sec. Second heat: J. Swanston (25yds) 1, K. Prebble (10yds) 2, L. Manners (85yds) 3, G. Chinneiy (65yds) 4. Time, Imin 38sec. Final: Swanston 1, Dwyer 2, Prebble 3. Time, Imin 36.25ec. Two Mile Points Race.—M. Parker and T. Weir (equal) 1. B. Cook 3. Time, 4min 13sec. A Grade Devil-take-the-hindmost. Kitchen 3. Time, 6min 34.8 sec.

HORNBY 10-MILE RACE

Twelve competitors took part In the Hornby Cycling Club’s 10 mile out ancf home race held recently. There was a cold head wind on the outward section of the race and times were slow. Most of the cyclists were able to travel at 30 miles an hour with the tail wind on the return journey, however. At the half-way mark, N. Woodgate Olimin), G. Miller and N. Smith (2%min) led from A. Ayres (2|min), D Hewer (P,' 2 min). R. Woodgate and R. Lucas (Imin), by 30 seconds. K. Brown and B. woodgate (%min) and J. Wildermoth (scr) were 45 seconds further back. The pace was fast all the return journey and Lucas and R. Woodgate soon caught the leaders. The backmarkers also gained ground. At the finish R. Lucas won by five lengths from R. Woodgate and D. Hewer was third six lengths further back. J. Wildermoth finished well to take the fastest time and he covered the last five miles in 9min 48sec. Lucas was competing for the first time since Injuring his arm five months ago.

Results were:— ; Ten Mile Out and Home Event.— R. Lucas, 25min 33 3-ssec, 1; R. Woodgate, 25min 34 l-ssec, 2; D. Hewer, 26min 4 4-ssec, 3: N. Woodgate. 28min 13 3-ssec, 4. Fastest time: J. Wildermoth, 25min 3 l-ssec.

ROAD TEAM FOR EMPIRE GAMES

Five Nominations By Selectors (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, Nov. 27. The New Zealand four-man team for the 120-mile road cycling event at the 1958 Empire Games in Cardiff will be selected from five nominations presented to the council of the New Zealand Amateur Cycling Association in Wellington. The five riders nominated by the selectors (Messrs W. Pidwell and H. R. Dutton) are: W. D. H. Dalton, R. D. Johnstone, K. C. Gant, R. J. Peoples (all of Auckland) and L. D. Payne (West Coast, North Island).

The final team to be approved by the New Zealand Olympic and British Empire Games Association will be selected in midMarch of next year—the same time as the track team.