Cycling Records Broken.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 4, 30 September 1907, Page 5

Cycling Records Broken.

, BIG ROAD RACE. SCRATCH MAN. BEATS ARNST'f FIGURES. TACK FIEND AT LARGE. By Telegraph—Association—Copyright. (Received .September 28, 8.33 p.ni. Melbourne, September 28. The Warrnamboo] to Melbourne roa iace resulted as follows: — Dobie, ..Victoria (42min.) ... 1 Oaks, Victoria (SOmiii.) . 2 '■ Wiliis, Victoria (GOmin.) ... 3 Two hiindrod and thirty rider; started, this number constituting vorld's record. Dobio won by nboi;' :i quarter of a milo. Tho riding conditions for tho raci .vere unfavourable. The roads weiv ■doppy owing to rain, .nevertheless, iome splendid work was done.

Dobio, the winner, left Warrnant•Sool at 6.18' in tho morning, niu: rnoclicd Melhourno at 1.57 p.m. Oaks was next to finish, about i; r.'.ar'ter of a mile behind; then cann Vvillis, Oaks's timo was 8 hours 24min 17scc., Willis's timo 8 hours 7min. 425c0., • Larcoinb, who was at scratch, nwil ihc fastest timo,'7 hours 40inin. lOsee. lowering J. Arnst's record by ovci t.hreo minutes. Lareonib finishec Afteontli. Tho aeoor.d fastest timo was put up by Birch, a New Zoalander who, riding ■ from tho 24 minutes' mark, completed the course in 7 hours 433min. WINNER A GIANT. SCRATCH,MAN'S BAD LUCK. (Received September 29, 4.55 p.m.; Melbourne, September 29.

Dobio is 6ft. 2in. in height, and weighs 13st-. , Oaks lias only one arm. Larcomb, who rodo unpaced from Colac, had the misfortune to puncturi his tire near Geelong. This caused him a delay of ten minutes. A passin; cyclist lent him a wheel. It is roportod- that th etack fiend was again in evidehco, causing disaster to some riders. ' MELBO URNE-S YDNE Y • FIGURE? LOWERED.. (Received Septembor 28, 8.33 p.m.) Sydney, Soptember 28. A cyclist named Silvana journoyed from Melbourne to Sydney in 73 hours 37min., lowering the previous record by 1 hour 34min.