CYCLING COMBINED CLUBS’ MEETING AT ENGLISH PARK

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29383, 9 December 1960, Page 18

CYCLING COMBINED CLUBS’ MEETING AT ENGLISH PARK

The Combined Cycling Clubs held their weekly meeting at English Park last evening. In spite of the doubtful weather there was quite a good attendance. P. Clemence rode well in his heat of the quarter mile novice handicap. From an almost impossible position he weaved his way through the field to gain the decision by inches. In the final he was caught in a pocket and could only manage to gain fourth place. In the one mile group handicap he rode well to be up with the field at the end of the first lap. In the last lap he rode away from the field to win as he liked. The final of the amateur A grade three-quarter mile handicap was close with five riders spread across the track. In a blanket finish T. Cameron gained the decision from B Hazeldine by inches, with D. Wood only inches away in third place. A puncture caused an accident in the final of the six-lap cash handicap. P. Cook and N. Woodgate fell. Cook was uninjured but his cycle was a tangled mass. Woodgate did not fare so well and suffered abrasions. Results were:— Cash Events Two-lap Handicap.—R. Harrison (40yds) 1. B. Froggett (30yds) 2, K. Brown (scr) 3. Time, 57.0. Flying Quarter-mile (to beat 30.8 sec). —P. Cook. Time, 28.8. Six-lap Handicap.—R. Harrison (100 yds) 1, J. Williams (120yds) 2, B. Froggett (70yds) 3. Time, 3:13. One-lap Sprint.—K. Brown beat R. Harrison. Time, 15.0. Eight-lap Handicap.—K. Brown (40 yds) 1, R. Harrison (115yds) 2. B. Froggett (90yds) 3. Time, 4:22. Five-mile Scratch.—K. Btown 1, W. Woodgate 2. R. Harrison 3. Time, 11:33. Novice.—K. Campion 1, B. McClelland 2. P. Skilling 3. Time, 65.0. Amateur Events Three-quarter Mile B Grade Handicap.—First heat: L. Manners (40 yds) 1, P. Pohio (80yds) 2, T. Rondel (60yds) 3. K. Jones (10yds) 4. G. Austin (60yds) 5. M. McLachlan (60 yds) 6. Time, 1:33. Second heat: M. Taylor (50yds) 1, R. Bush (50yds) 2, C. Fitzgerald (25yds) 3, T. Gray (90 yds) 4, B. Mugford (75yds) 5, D. Daly (75yds) 6. Time: 1:34. Fipal: Fitzgerald 1. Taylor 2. Jones 3. Time, 1:37.6. Three-quarter Mile A Grade Group Handicap.—First heat: D. Wood (60 yds) 1, W. Hensley (60yds) 2. B.

Hazeldine (10yds) 3, R. Fowler (10 yds) 4. Time. 1:33. Second heat : T. Cameron (10yds) 1, T. Weir (30 yds) 2. C. Hibberd (80yds) 3. D. Huria (80yds) 4. Time, 1:34. Final: Cameron 1, Hazeldine 2. Wood 3. Time, 1:29.4. Flying Quarter-mile. —D. Wood, Time, 27.8. One-lap Three-up Sprint.—C. Fitzgerald beat L. Manners and D. Huria. Time. 14.0. One Mile B Grade Group Handicap.—First heat: M. Taylor (55yds) 1. C. Fitzgerald (15yds) 2. G. Austin (85yds) 3, L. Manners (15yds) 4, Mt McLachlan 5. K. Jones 6. Time, 2:9.4. Second heat: W. Thorpe (15yds) 1. J. Clemence (15yds) 2. R. Pohio (85yds) 3. R. Bush (55yds > 4, T. Gray (130yds) 5, B. Mugford (85yds) 6. Time. 2.10. Final: Taylor* 1, Thorpe 2, Bush 3. Time, 2:9. One Mile A Grade Scratch.—T. Cameron 1. R. Fowler 2, B. HazeMinq 3. Time, 2:8. Three-mie B Grade Hidden Points Scratch.—W. Thorpe (12 points) 1, M. Taylor (8 points) 2. L. Manners (6 points) 3. Time 7:1.4. Three-mile A Grade Hidden Points Scratch.—R. Fowler (15 points) 1. T'. Weir (11 points) 2. D. Wood (8 points) 3. Time 6.54.4. Novice Events.—First heat: P. Clemence (scr) 1, M. Anderson (55yds) 2. D. Lester (50yds) 3. Time. 31.0. Second heat: D. Pockson (50yds) 1. T. Findlay (45yds) 2. M,, Litolff (60yds) 3. Time, 30.0. Final; Pockson 1. Anderson 2. Lester 3. Time, 30.4. Half-mile B Grade Handicap.—R. Black (scr) 1, G. Blackburn (15vds) 2, D. Pockson (25yds) 3. Time, 67.8. One Mile A Grade Group.—P. Clemence (50yds) 1, W. Browning (100yds) 2. M. Christian (100yds) 3 4 Time, 2:12.2. Former aircrew members of No. 6 (Maritime) Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force will hold a reunion in Auckland next January. No. 6* Squadron was formed in Fiji in 1943 as an air-sea rescue unit, and disbanded in 1946. Equipped with Catalina flying boats, the squadron played a prominent part in the rescue of hundreds of Allied pilots who bailed out over the Pacific during operations against the Japanese. (P.A.)