GENERAL NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 112, 17 November 1928, Page 22

GENERAL NOTES

D. G. A. Lowe's idea of sending a message of sympathy to Dr. Otto Peltzer on his breakdown, and having it signed by all the members of the British team, was much appreciated in Germany. It was reproduced in nearly every important newspaper there, and the fact that its effect was not merely transitory was proved by the enthusiastic welcome to the British athletes who competed in Berlin recently. The amateur athletic championhsips of South Africa are to be held at Kimberleynext Easter. ■ , . ■ After standing for eighteen years, "Teddy" Pearson's paced record of 49 hours, mado by the former New South Wales amateur long-distance cyclist between Sydney and Melbourne (565 miles) was broken by Les Cecil (Queensland) last woek, when the professional champion of the north, riding unassisted from Melbourne to Sydney, covered the journey in 48hr 484min. Incidentally, he shattered the 21-year-old record of 73ir 31min between Melbourne and Sydney, standing to the credit of. J. Salvana (New South Wales). Cecil's effort was'brilliant, and stamps him as an endurauce cyclist .of exceptional ability. R. AY. ("Fatty") Lamb, the Australian cyclist, who yisited New Zealand two seasons ago, has a record in Goulburn to Sydney racos which is probably unique, as ho has competed in four in succession, three amateur and one professional. He won from scratch in 1925 and 1926, and did the fastest riding times in 1925, 1926, and 1927, onthe last occasion creating a new record, 6 hours 0 minutes 44 2-5 seconds, for 129 miles. This year he rodo in his first professional race on the' course, and from scratch finished second, and did the second fastest time iij one of the severest races on record. At the International Games in Berlin recently tho British women's team j won the 400 metres women's relay in 49 7-10s.ee. K. L. Cooper (AVest Australia) won the long jump at the Oxford University senior sports this week, his distance being 19ft lOin. W. C. AVentworth (New South Wales) was second in the quarter-mile.