CYCLING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11825, 30 November 1901, Page 7

CYCLING.

The Auckland Cycling Club have received very fair entries lor tho sports to be held at the Domain on Saturday next, the amateur bicycle events being particularly well patronised. Given line weather the club should have a successful meeting. , Among the competitors at next Saturdays cycling sports will be P. L. Grandison, who holds a five-mile championship of Scotland. Grandison has been in steady training for the past two or three weeks. Tho secretary of the League of New Zealand Wheelmen having received information from Invercargill to the effect that the local club agreed to hold this season's cash championships, the amateur championships were accordingly allotted to the Auckland centre. The races will probablj be held in conjunction with tho Australasian Athletic championships on December 20 and 21. The Dunlop Tiro Company landed a fine six-horso power Panhard car in Melbourne recently. Mark Foy. the big Melbourne draper, will, it is said, shortly introduce motor oars for the purpose of delivering portion of his big business. At a meeting of the council of tho New Zealand League of Whelemn last Monday evening, it was decided to grant permission to league riders to compete at unregistered meetings in tho North Island until further notice. This is only intended as a temporary measure, and the council will endeavour to revive matters in tho principal Northern centres, by sending a representative through the island. Somo of our sports promoters on the look out for a novelty should give the following a trial: —Put up a good prize for a race in which all contestants ride machines geared to 60in, with 6in cranks. The result should be a good contest, as the low gear would prohibit sprinting, and riders would go out all the way. In a race of this description the best and fastest pedaller would win. Thirty-two bookmakers paid 10s each to tho Victorian League to ply their calling at a night meeting in Melbourne recently. Fifty miles in 78m. 16 3-ss.—such is the wonderful piece of sustained riding recently accomplished in England by A. A. Chase. Readers will better understand this marvellous ride when it is stated that Chase averaged a fraction over 90s. per mile for the full distance; 33i miles were covered in the first hour. To show how little friction thero is in a first-class bicycle fitted with a free-wheel olutoh, an English cyclist recently rode 1075 yds on a cement track without using the pedals. The Grand Prix of Paris was decided at Paris on Sunday, September 29, and re--.—Diego Cbnnelli (Italy), 1; Jaequelin, 2; Van den Boon (Germany), 3. Putt, who is looked upon as a coming champion, broke tho strap fastening his foot to his pedal in the final sprint. Alphonso Allais, a French humorist, has an idea for constructing a speed-counter with a dial marked up to 16 kilometres (say, 10 miles) as a speed limit for automobiles. As long as the' needle does not get up to the limit all is well with the motorist, but should he be so ra."h as to exceed the limit a dynamite cartridge which the duly recognised authorities had placed under a seal alongside his engine would bo fired, and there is an end to the law-breaker and his unlawfully used motor-car.

Tho Sprint Championship of France was decided at Paris on Sunday, October 6, when the holder, Jacouelin, suffered another defeat. The winner, Jue, is spoken of as a second-class rider. According to Sporting Life Jue alone of tho French racing cyclists helped '_' Major" Taylor when tho latter was training in Paris, and, consequently, had to put up with the sneers of his friends for pacing a black man.

"Major" Taylor, tho negro crack, has experienced such bad luck in America since he returned from his successful European tour that he has decided to quit the land of Stars and Stripes and settle in Europe. Ho will probably winter in tho South of France, so as to be thoroughly fit for a good season's racing in 1902. One of Taylor's principal motives in quitting America is that ho has not had a fair run in the past season's racing, as it is well known that several riders put their heads together with the idea of preventing the dusky warrior from winning the championship races. :