CYCLING SPORTS.
Press Association.—Hloctric Telegraph.—Copyriclit. Melbourne, April 5. At the Cycling Sports hold for the benefit of M. Porta, the Italian cyclist, the following were the results of the chief races Two Mile Handicap : Harris 1, Parsons 2, Greenwood 3. Won by a wheel. Time, 4m. 22 3 ss. McLean fell in the race and interfered with Parsons. Half-mile Scratch: Harris 1, Parsons 2, Porta 3. Won by half a wheel. Time, lm. 14 4-53. In the Parsons and Porta matches the half-mile was won by Parsons by half a fjheai. Time, lm. 18 2-5?. The Mile Race was won by Porta by a few Inches in 2m. 2s. In the Two Milo Race Parsons won easily in 4m. 36 2 ss. Don Walker gave a quarter-mile exhibition in which he beat Zimmerman's record of 30 4-5s by 2 3-ss. Adelaide. April 5. At the Cycling Carnival Martin, the American, won tho one and a-half mile firstclass race, and fell in two others. All the other competitors were local men.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10098, 6 April 1896, Page 5
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