SIX-DAY CYCLE RACE.
WIN FOR BELGIAN TEAM. A. and' N.Z. LONDON", July 22The winners of the six days' bicycle team - race ware Persyn and Vandervelle (Belgium).. Godwin and Peyrode (prance) were second, and Dupuy (France) and Olivieri (Italy), third. Nagel . (Australia) had another fall in the eighteenth of 19 sprints to-night, but his Swedish partner, continued and finished with five other teams. 1 Nagel for his team took three firsts, three seconds, and one third to-night, exhibiting extraordinary pluck in the face of an exceedingly baa accident. Probably the race will be an annual event. Over 5000 people paid for admission to-night. Macßeath, Australia, who retired from the race owing to injury from a fall, declares that the cycling track at Olympia is the 1 best on -which he has ridden.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18459, 24 July 1923, Page 7
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