CYCLE RACE TRAGEDY
Fork of Machine Breaks RIDER S SKULL CRUSHED. (P<’r Press Association). AUCKLAND, June ]9. 'The death occurred to-day of Eric Arthur Cleaver, as the result of a crash from a cycle during a race at Tainaki on Saturday afternoon. His skull was seriously iractured. During the week-end his condition was critical. When, as scratch man in the Auckland Cycle Club’s 25 mile road race, he was riding fast in the first lap, the front fork of his machine collapsed. Cleaver -was hurled to the road with considerable force. Do remained unconscious. Club members rushed the injured man to the hospital. Cleaver was a single man, aged 22 years, and lived at Aloiint Albert. He was a popular member of the Auckland Cycle Club.
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Grey River Argus, 20 June 1933, Page 5
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