LATE SPORTING
SIX-DAY BICYCLE RACE. NEW YORK, December 6. Reggio M'Namara (Australia) and Pete Van Kempen (Holland) won the annual six-day bicycle race, pulling up an immense number of sprint points in the final hour. MOTOR RACING. [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, December 8. The following are the results of the Motor Racing Club’s meeting;— Auckland Handicap. 6m.—Coleman (7 h.p. Harley-Dnvidson) scr, 1; Shakespeare (7 h.p. Havley-Davidson), 25sec, 2 Time, smin 10 2-ssec. Won by half a wheel. Five-mile Handicap.—Williamson (2] h.p. Connaught), 35sec, 1; Woodman (2| h.p. A.J.S.), scr, 2. Time, smin 17sec. Great Northern Handicap. 12m.— Mol ler (3j h.p Norton), 70sec, 1; M’Cready (7 h.pl Harley-D ividson), 65sec, 2. Time, lOmin 48 2-ssec. Australasia! Junior Championship. Bm, —Woodman (2§ h.p. A.J.S.), 1; Jones (2| h.p. A.J.S.) 2. Won easily. Time, 7min 41 l-ssec. Coleman, subsequently, despite a heavy shower, cut one-fifth of a second off his own world’s mile record of 47 2-sscc. Woodman lowered the 350 C.C. grass track record of Dawber by 2soc.
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Evening Star, Issue 18810, 8 December 1924, Page 8
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168LATE SPORTING Evening Star, Issue 18810, 8 December 1924, Page 8
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