MOTOR-CYCLE RACE
Isle of Man Lightweights LONG MOUNTAIN COURSE (Rec. June 18, 5.5 p.m. I Official Wireless Rugby, June 17. The International Tourist Trophy race in the Isle of Man for light-weight motorcycles. with engines under 250 c.c., was won by Graham Walker on a Rudge machine, at an average speed of 68.98 miles an hour, over fl difficult 260-mile mountain were 41 starters. Tyrell Smith, also on a Rudge, finished secondhand Mellors. on a New Imperial, was third, the foreign —aehines seemed to be outclassed. The Italian crack rider. Ghersi, came in sixth, but was riding a British New Imperial cycle. The little engines, each with a piston diameter no bigger than a wine-glass, stood up to the race with astonishing efficiency.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 225, 19 June 1931, Page 9
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