SPORTS AND GAMES

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 April 1934, Page 8

SPORTS AND GAMES

MOTOR-CYCLING. [by CABLE —PEES 9 ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] LONDON, April 14. Miss F, M. Blenkiron, a London typiste, whose hobby is motor-cycling, is the first woman to win the gold star awarded to motor-cyclists exceeding 100 miles per hour. She covered the circuit of 21 miles at a speed of 102.06 miles per hour. TENNIS. NEW YORK, April 14. A message from Pinehurst, North Carolina, states that Shields defeated Allison 10/8, 14/12, 6/0 to-day, winning the annual north and south men’s singles championship. billiards. LONDON, April 15. As the result of a fortnight’s match, Sidney Lee, playing his first professional contest, and receiving a start of 2000, scored 14,281, defeating Inman, who scored 11,706. INTERNATIONAL RELAY RACE. PARIS, April 15. Fifty representatives of the English Universities’ Athletic Union won the international road relay race of 151 miles in the streets of Paris, and along the Seine embankment, in one hour fifty-three seconds. The Stade Francais team were runners-up, their time being one hour fifty-seven seconds. The remaining 14 teams were soon out of the running. Lovelock gained the lead in the first 700 metres, on the track at the stadium, but the English team dropped back to third. At the riverside, they temporarily regained the lead, through Horsfall. Stade Francais led for half the time, after which England magnificently recovered, after varying fortunes.