FORTY-MILE EVENT

Evening Star, Issue 20263, 26 August 1929, Page 4

FORTY-MILE EVENT

hi the fortv-mi!e road cycling race at Wellington. W. White (It).;min) was first, W. Brnv (scr) second, and L. J. Pearce iscr) third. Coming home, the cyclists had to pedal against a stift southerly bree?*. Bray’s time was Ihr 48min lOsec. He beat Pearc* by a length.

AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS SYDNEY, August 25. The 100-mile amateur cycle road race championship of Australia was won by J. L, Gould (New South Wales) in shr 9min 32sec, W. M'Langhlin (Victoria) being rnnne' up in shr lOmin llsec. Eight started. AMATEUR ATHLETICS GERMANY. BEATS ENGLAND LONDON. August 24. Germany defeated England by eight events to four in the first Anglo-Ger-man athletic contest at Stamford Bridge since the war. Lord Burghley and Peltzer participated. Germany won the 400-metre relay, the discus throwing, the three-mile team race, the pole jump, the high pimp, the long jump, the weight putting, and the mile medley relay. England won the 440 hurdles, the two-nuie relay (7min 43 J-ssec, a British record), the mile and the four-mile relays.—Australian Press Association. TEN-MILE CHAMPIONSHIP SYDNEY, A must 25. The ten-mile track championship of New South Wales was won by Jeff Mackenzie (Western Suburbs), with his clubmates, Frank Bailey and Sid Hesketh second and third respectively. Mackenzie’s time was 54min 51sec. A week ago he won the 10,000 metres cross-country championship. Gaisford, the holder of the ten miles title for five years, was absent owing to influenza.