Cycling Selectors Cause Surprise

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31168, 19 September 1966, Page 20

Cycling Selectors Cause Surprise

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND. The Auckland cycling selectors caused a minor surprise when they made the former Auckland representative, M. Phillips, only a reserve for* their team to compete in the national road championships at Napier on September 30 and October 1.

Earlier this year Phillips represented Auckland in the Air New Zealand Grand Prix final at Dannevirke and was one of the best performed Aucklanders in the race. In the Auckland 100-mile championship on Sunday he rode very strongly and was placed eighth in the finishing sprint. N. Scott and C. Skurr, who finished behind Phillips, are in the squad. The team is:— Senior?: K. Goldsworthy. R. D. Thomson, R. D. Johnstone. N. Robinson, C. Hibbard. G. King. M. W. Grace. D. M. Grace, N. 1. Scott C. Scurr. Reserve: M. Phillips. Juniors: B. Beeston. A. Bourke, K. Saunders. P. Nicholson, H. Weller, B. Biddie. D. McMahon. R. Driver, M. Roberts. W. Kerr. Reserve: R. Burl. Schoolboys: S. Butler. J. Harrison, J. Biddle. A. Bowden. Reserve: W. Churton.

In Auckland championship events, Goldsworthy, Beeston and Butler won the senior, junior and schoolboys’ titles, respectively. The West Coast-North Island teams to compete in the national championships also were announced yesterday. They are: Senior: B. Bate, D. Stowell,

A. Ganderton, P. Cox. R. Atkinson. P. Hansen, J. Eager, I. Grey. I. Garrard, G. Spurdie. Junior: J. Dean, M. Vertongen, D. Bell. D. Brown, N. Rowlands, T. Lovell, S. Watts, R. Cbeatley, D. Cowley, I. Monaghan. Schoolboys: L. Mildenhall. M. Holswich, H. Hermond. G. Lovell. On Saturday, Dean won the centre 50-mile junior race for the third successive year.

The other centre title winners were Bate (senior) and Mildenhall (schoolboys).