NORTH SHORE CLUB.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20620, 19 July 1930, Page 14 (Supplement)

NORTH SHORE CLUB.

PRIZE-GIVING NIGHT. The annual dinner and prize-giving of the North Shore Motor-cycle Club will ho held in tlie Domain Kiosk this evening. Kindred clubs have been invited to attend, and there should bo a big assembly of motor-cyclists. During the evening tlio various prizes and trophies won in competition during the past season will be E resented. The function will bo followed y a club run to-morrow. Riders will assemble ut Hall's Corner, Takapuna, at 10 a.m., prior to leaving for Manly. WHITEWASH TRAIL. The " Whitewash Trail," proposed by the Sports Club, did not cventuato as expected last week. After a few miles had been run the trail layers, W. Dingle and P. Fletcher, were discovered on the side of the road surveying six gallons of whitewash which had escaped through the bung and the drum parting company. After a short discussion an ordinary run was continued to Howick, and thence to Eastern Beach, Buckland's, where the inore irrepressablo spirits indulged in broadsiding on the mud flats. Later Pidgeon Mountain was made the scene of " slow races," the greasy grass surfaces causing considerable amusement. THE SPORTS OLUB. No fixtures have been mado by the Sports Club for the present week-end, on account of the North Shoro Club's function. Next week, however, a club run to Sharp's Bush will bo held, riders assembling at Western Springs at 10 a.m. CINDER TRACK NEWS. The thrilling displays of broadsiding given by Frank Pearce will still be remembered by patrons of Western Springs. In a letter to an English friend, Pearce is reported to have stated that the New Zealand prize money is better than anywhere else in the world, and tho riding conditions are superior. Ho states that a rider must be good, for in New Zealand they pay by results. At eleven race meetings at various towns in the Dominion Pearco collected no less than £560. GREEK T.T. • In the Tourist Trophy Races, held recently in Grceco, British machines scored an overwhelming victory. Riders of Nortons finished in the first three places. SOUTH AFRICAN T.T. RESULTS. The seventh South African T.T. Races were recently won at phenomenally high speeds over the twenty-mile Kragga Kama course, near Port Elizabeth. In the 175 c.c. class, run over seven laps (140 miles) of tho course, a D.K.W. was first, at a speed of 51.04 m.p.h., a James was second, and a Cotton-Blackburne third. Last year's winning speed was 48.4 m.p.h. This year an addition was mado to the programme of a 250 c.c. class, also over seven laps, and this was won by J. Sarkis (O.K. Supreme) at 61.99 m.p.h., with an Excelsior second, and a K.K.W. third. D. Hall, on a Vclocette, ran home ■ winner of the 350 c.c. class at 69.61 m.p.h.: Cohen (A.J.S.) and Clark (Velocette) were second and third respectively. This class was run over ten laps (200 miles) of the course. Last year's 350 c.c. speed was 64 m.p.h. Cohen and Clark, on the same machines, were also second and third respectively in the 600 c.c. class (ten laps), which was won by J. Sarkis (Runge-Whitworth), who thus completed a double, at tho fine speed of 75.07 m.p.h. Sarkis also rode a record lap at 78.6 m.p.h., beating last year's record lap—also put up by himself —by 61 seconds. Sarkis' winning speed in the 600 c.c. class last year was 62.94 m.p.h. NOTES. By the end of September last year there were 20,598 registered motor-cycles in Denmark, as against 12,182 in 1920. A farmer in Hampshire is using a motorcycle to draw a plough. He tried it as an experiment, and found it much speedier than the horse. During the first eleven months of last year 1928 American machines were imported into Germany—an increase of 63 over the same period in 1928. The British Minister of Transport announces that 732,300 motor-cycles were registered during last year, compared with 712,583 in 1928; the figure for motor-cars taxed on horse-power stood at 980,886. In order to draw attention to the great strength of tho local motor-cycle movement and industry, a procession of no fewer than 1800 motor-cyslists was organised as one of the items of the programme of tho recent official opening by the King of the Belgians of the International Exhibition held in Liege. Tho United States Trade Commissioner in Sydney, in one of his recent reports, stated that " the importation of American motor-cycles into Australia has reached tho vanishing point, owing to duty changes." Time was, and that not many years ago, when American motor-cycles predominated in the Australian market.