Plans For Team In Southland Tour

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31140, 17 August 1966, Page 21

Plans For Team In Southland Tour

Some of the Canterbury competitors taking part in the Dulux three-day cycling tour of Southland, will compete as a team.

This will be the first Canterbury team to be sponsored in a tour and will probably include four riders. The team will be known as the Black Tulip team and will be sponsored by Mr C. W. van Heusden, the vice-president of the Avon club. It is named after Mr van Heusden’s establishment, the Black Tulip R House, near Motukarara. No effort is being spared to make the Canterbury onslaught on the tour a success. Specially engaged as coachmechanic is W. W. Thorpe, one of Canterbury’s most consistent road riders in the last four or five years. Thorpe, the Papanui club

captain, is one of New Zealand’s leading racing-cycle mechanics and coaches the top track riders, J. H. Cleary and W. G. Kendall. Both riders have also won Canterbury senior titles on the road. The composition of the team will not be settled for some time yet but T. J. Tabak, an Empire Games representative and last year’s winner of the Southland tour, is a fairly likely member. Another who must stand a good chance is the new national representative, J. S. Danielson, one of Canterbury’s best and most experienced tour riders.