CYCLIST RETURNS FROM AMERICA
RACED WITH FAIR SUCCESS. Dominion Special Service. Auckland, October 10. W. Mackie, holder of the quarter-mile Australian and’ three miles New Zealand cycling titles, who left Christchurch recently to try his fortune in America, returned by the Aorangi lost evening. Mackie raced in New York. Newark, Boston, Hartford, and Providence, with, as he stated, fair success. Ho won the three miles New England championship, was third in the five miles, and third in the three miles. Tho New Zealander also won the half-mile championship off the 15 yards' mark in 55sec. “We raced on board tracks over there, with high banks, and six laps to tho mile. They raced six or seven nights a week, end the attendance is from 15,000 to 25,000 nightly. A ' real top-notch cyclist can make money over there, but you have to bo either an Italian or an American. New Zealanders and Australians are hot known, and it is very hard for them to get engagements.” Mackie said that H. Horder, tho Australian, who comrjeted in Auckland a couple of seasons ago. won the American sprint championship in a series of twenty-four races.
Mackie, who has kept himself fit, intends to race nt Christchurch again nt the beginning of next month.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 15, 12 October 1927, Page 16
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