TERRIFIC SPEEDS.

Grey River Argus, 20 June 1927, Page 3

TERRIFIC SPEEDS.

AT MOTOR CYCLE RACES. IRISHMAN’S WONDERFUL FEAT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, June 18. Terrific speeds characterised the. Isle of Man Tourist Trophy Races, dejionstrating the remarkable advance in the motor cycle engine. A hundred thousand people were thrilled by the magnificent riding of the Irishman, Alec Bennett, who smashed all records, and averaged 75 miles per hour for 264 miles. His cornering was so accurate that the machine never faltered. Stanley Woods, last year’s winner, beat the record for the course circuit, in the second lap, and beat it again at the 71st. The competitors could not cope with Woods’s terrific riding. He passed a score of riders in three laps, as he dashed down the mountain, but at the 100th lap he stopped owing to clutch trouble. PARIS* June 17. At Montlhery, a Britisher, D. W Marchant, riding a 350 c.c. Motosaeoehe, covered five kilometers at an average speed of 167.66 miles an hour and five miles at an average ot miles perjiour. both being records.