MOTOR-CYCLING

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 115, 11 November 1935, Page 10

MOTOR-CYCLING

AMERICAN BROTHERS

SEEKING FRESH HONOURS

Two of America's foremost tracing motor-cyclists, C. C- arid J. Milne, are through passengers by the Makura, which arrived in Wellington today en route from San Francisco (to Sydney.! It is the: intention of the -brothers to compete at various meetings in Australia, and they hope to return to New Zealand to sample the cinder-tracks here before going on to England. ."Cordy" Milne- recently- won the American championship for the second I year in succession, the 1934 event having been held in Los Angeles and this I year's contest in Fresno.

Motor-cycling on small tracks makes a great appeal in America, especially, according to the Milne brothers, in San Francisco, Sacramento, and Fresno, as well as in New York and New Jeiv sey. The tracks on which the.Milhes have done most of their racing are of five laps to the mile, and the surfaces do not have much "cushion." It is the loose tracks that make the racing more spectacular, as the people like to see the cinders or dirt fly. The visitors were' very much taken with, the Kilbirnie track, which they.'inspected this morning. In view of the hard nature^ of the tracks in America the times there' were rather faster than, those recorded on the cinder tracks here,, the quarter-mile being generally covered in under 19scc.

Both visiting motor-cyclists were educated at Pasedena Junior College. Cordy, now twenty-two years of age, started motor-cycle racing in 1931, and Jack, who is twenty-seven, took it up in 1933. The elder Milne, though late in starting, has done well; in fact, the brothers, to quote a Pasedena paper, "have found their, chief competition right in the family." They have competed against Australians with success in America.