N.Z. Riders May Race In British Tour

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31984, 10 May 1969, Page 15

N.Z. Riders May Race In British Tour

(N.Z. Press Association)

WELLINGTON.

The cyclists, J. A. Dean and B. R. Beeston, who represented New Zealand at the Mexico Olympic Games, may be included in a composite team competing in the two-week Tour of Britain, starting on May 24.

Mr A. Haslett, a New Zealand Amateur Cycling Association spokesman, said yesterday that the organiser <rf the race, Mr Maurice Cumberworth, had written that he had yet to select the team from Australians, Norwegians and the two New Zealanders.

Other teams competing in , the' tour include Russia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Switzerland, the Netherlands and a number of British entries. New Zealand was last repre- , sented in the event when D. R. Thomson rode in a composite team in 1967. BAN ON AEROFOILS? The possible banning of aerofoils on racing cars will L be discussed at a meeting in , Paris of the International Atuomobile Federation’s sports commission on June 30. > A federation spokesman Mid that a final ruling on r aerofoils, or wings, following t crashes in the Spanish Grand . Prix last Sunday, is likely to be made. The purpose of the aerofoil is to keep a car on the ground at high speeds, but they have been showing a tendency to disintegrate or come adrift.— Reuter, Paris. TENNIS TOURISTS

A team of 30 boys left Christchurch Airport yesterday afternoon, under the guidance of the professional tennis coach, Mr N. H. Hoskin, of Oamaru, to compete in the New South Wales under-age and schoolboy tournaments. Ten parents accompanied the boys on the 17-day trip.

. Mr Hoskin has previously taken twp teams to Melbourne from Invercargill, winning 17 Victorian titles on his first trip and nine on the second. He named three 14-year-

olds in the present team— Michael Parrish, Craig Workman and Wayne Stechman, all of Timaru—as strong prospects. YACHTING AWARD At the annual prize-giving of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron last evening, the Cook Bicentenary was marked by the presentation of the Captain Cook Trophy. It was won for the first time by C. B. Bouzaid, in ; Rainbow 11. Awarded every ' two years, the trophy is for' the Southern Hemisphere ( One-ton championship.— ■ N.Z.P.A., Auckland. SHOOTING TEAM The South Island rifle team to shoot against the North Island at Invercargill on May ■ 31, announced yesterday, is: R. E. Taylor (captain), D. Wild, R. L. Mitchell, W. Sterritt, W. Drayton, J. Finlay, J. A. Neale (Christchurch); K. Smith, K. Kingsbury 1 (Timaru); Mrs H. Gallatly, A. i M. Peattie (Geraldine); R. H. Ball (Central Otago).; G. < Evans (Nelson); R. Moore, J.' Fleming, Miss G. Maw (Ashburton); F. D. McKie (North Canterbury); R. Kyles, Mrs M.

Kyles (North Otago); J. N. Overton (Central Southland).