Road cycling season opens
The Olympic Games nominee, B. G. Stockwell, was a convincing winner on the opening day of road cycling on Saturday. The major aggressor throughout the A grade race at Fapanul, Stockwell eventually broke away with C. J. Tabak and easily beat him in the sprint home. Meanwhile, in the Avon club’s A grade handicap race, a middlemarker, D. 3. Savage, won a sprint finish while K. F. C. Radburne took fastest time. The consistent A. A. Bouterey won the B grade race, while A. J. Howison was fastest, from L. Bishop. Papanul held four graded scratch races, and K. J. J. Grogan repeated last year’s performance in leading home the B grade field. It was his first competitive appearance since an illness in August. J. F. Delore, not surprisingly, won the C grade race, although it was expected R. D. Mann would feature more prominently at the finish. New riders filled all the placlngs in the D grade race—like all the others, over 15 miles—with M. L. Tulett a comfortable winner. Results: PAPANUI A grade.—B. G. Stockwell 1, C. J. Tabak 2, P. D. Brydon 3, J. Schriek 4, J. R. Campbell 5, H. R. Bush 6. Time, 36:14. B grade.—K. 3. 3. Grogan 1, G. V. Neale 2, L R. Steele 3, G. B. Ireland 4, I. E. Stace 5, G. 3. Dunean 6. Time, 37:31. C grad*.—J. F. Delore 1, G. V. Ravenwood 2, D. R. Johnson 3, R. D. Mann 4, P. A. Wereta 5, L. Benschop 6. Time, 38:0. D grade.—M. L. Tulett 1, G. M. Strahl 2, C. Ogston 3. J. A. Butt 4, T. P. Tolhurst 5, F. Knoppert 6. Time, 39:36.
AVON A grade 20 mile.—D, J. Savage (Smin) 1, G. R. Sword (4min)2, G. P. Sword (4mln) 3, P. A. Jeeson (4mln) 4, L. Manners (Srnin) 5, A. A. Paviell (2mln) 6. Fastest time: K. F. C. Radburnd (scr.), 46:26, 1; G. R. Sword, 47:11, 2. B grade 20-mllo.—A. A. BouS(7mln) I, R. Kennedy 2, A. J. Howison (act.) 3, hop (2min) 4, R. M. Fowler (4min) 5. Fastest time: Howison, 48:24, 1; I Bishop, 50:28, 2. Novice live miles.—K. W. Reid (2mln) 1, B. J. Baldwin (2mln) 2, S. J. Craig (2mln) 3. Fastest time: L. A. Sword (Scr.). 14:43, 1; D. J. Taylor (scr.), 14:44, 2.
Pollution.—New Zealand Scoured Wools, Ltd, was fined $lOO in the Milton Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of casting waste from its wool-scouring plant into the Tokomairiro River in contravention of the Fresh Water Fisheries Regulations, 1951.—(P,A.)
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32893, 17 April 1972, Page 16
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