Cycling.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 120, 17 November 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)

Cycling.

[By Dagonet.]

The Wairarapa Club is .-to h& congratulated on its programme for the meeting at Masterton on Boxing Day. The Wellington centre has granted the club permission to run the Three Mile VVellington Provincial Championship, and a gold medal will be presented by the club to the winner of the race. The Carterton. correspondent of the New Zealand Wheelman, has the following:—"The Carterton Club is wrath at the action of the Wellington centre in refusing the permit for Boxing Day. The club was not informed of the meeting to decide the permit; therefore had co delegate present. The Secretary wrote a stiff letter to the centre Secretary,asking for an explanation, and an apology was received." This is incorrect and misleading. No apology has been sent from the Secretary of the Wellington Centre to any club, for the simple reason that no apology has been necessary. It is not the duty ot a Centre Secretary to inform clubs of the date of meetings. Each club has its delegates on the committee, and it is their business to keep' their respective clubs posted if information is required. Carterton was treated with the utmost courtesy by the Wellington Centre. On the date fixed ior nearing the club's protest, no delegate from Carterton was present, Mr. Hornsby, who was to have attended, being unable to come to Wellington on account of the Show. To give the club every chance, the Centre Committee called a. special meeting on the following week to consider its protest. So that the Wellington Centre Committee, instead of having done an injury to the Carterton Club, lias been more than good to it. The Secretary of the New Zealand League of Wheelmen has received a cable from the Victorian League, stating that the recent trouble between that body and the Melbourne Bicycle Club has been settled. The Carterton correspondent of the New Zealand Wheelman, writing of the Cafterton track, .says that on Show Day visitors were digging to find it! And this is the trade the Carterton Cycling Clifb wants to hold a meeting on on Boxing Day! Mr. Hornsby, M.H.R., Carterton Club's delegate on the Wellington Centre (N.Z.L.W.), informed the committee last week that the track had been overhauled and put into first-class condition ; and it would be interesting to know which of these stories ia correct. The newly-formed cycling club at Karangahake (Auckland), which has 28 members, has 31 Vice-Presidents. My Sydney correspondent sends me the following :— Australia will be visited this year by quite a number of the best cyclists of America and Europe, and Megson, Gordon, Walne, and Co., will require to pedal their hardest and best if they wish to retain in Australia the rich prizes to be competed for later on. By the Mbana four of America's best known racing men arrived in Sydney.- Their names are: W. B. Vaughan, C. B. Bowles, J. M. Chapman, and Iver Lawson. Probably they will be followed by Cooper and M'Farland, the latter of whom they describe as the very best handicap rider yet seen in America. Lawson and Chapman are a crack tandem crew, and are desirous of meeting any Australian team in a match- or for a sweepstake. The New South Wales League Secretary, is trying to fix up negotiations for a match between the visiting team and Walne and Megson, probably the fastest tandem crew in Australia. The three — Lawson, Vaughan and Chapman— have entered for the Austral ' Wheel Race Meeting, and should prove a draw.