CYCLING ROAD RACE.
BATIIURST-SYDNEY. WON BY'A NEW SOUTH WALES MAN. A HEAD WIND. 31 TKLBGRAm —PUESS ASSOCIATION—con RIGHT.) (Rec. ; August 15, 7.45 p.m.) Sydney, August 15. The Road Race resulted M under:— A. A. Turner (Cbulburhj N.8.W.), 48mln. .... ... ... ' ... ... 1 R. B. Patterson (Victoria), 42mfn. ... 2 A. 'j.' Hyslop (Coulburn, N.S.W.), 52mln. ... ... '... ... ... 3 The weather was fine and the roads were in, good cbndition, but tho cyclists had to contend against a strong head wind all tho way. Tliree hundred people assembled at Battiurst, where the first man left at 7 o'clock in tho morning, and ten thousand witnessed tho finish at Ashfield. There were 98 starters. - Tiirner, who had 48 minutes 1 start, covered the distance,"-1331 miles, in Bhours4minutes; Patterson, with 42 minutes 1 start,' taking 8 hours 14 minutes 53 seconds; Hyslop, with 52 minutes 1: start, .8 hours 24 minutes 41 seconds. T. Larcombo, the scratch man, who finished ninth, put up the fastest time, 7 hours 53 minutes 40 seconds. Keefe (Tasmania), with 20 minutes' start, was ' second fastest, his time being 7 hours 57 i minutes. J. T. Summers (New Zealand), with 25 minutes' start, finished in the ruck. Larc'ombe led at Penrith. Turner got in front before reaching Parramatta.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 278, 17 August 1908, Page 7
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