SPORT OF CYCLING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22988, 16 March 1938, Page 23

SPORT OF CYCLING

TEAMS' CHAMPIONSHIP MANUKAU SUCCESSFUL Racing was recommenced at the Western Springs Stadium Inst Thursday, when two handicaps and the club teams championship event were decided. The Manukau, Northern, Lynndale and Papatoetoe Clubs were each represented by lour riders in the teams' event. The contest proved highly exciting, for tho heats provided very close finishes, 'lwo teams took the track at n time and started from opposite'sides, and at the end of each lap one rider from each team retired. In the opening heat the Papatoetoe representatives, A. J. Mclnnarnev, «J. F. Archer, R. 'J'. Taylor and W. A. Renwick, gained considerably for three laps on the Northern Club's team, F. 1). O'Gorinan, M. T. Gamble, A. W. Wallace and S A. Windsor, but over the final lap Windsor made a splendid effort to overcome the deficiency and reached'the lino three-fifths of a second before Mclnnarney.

The Manukau Club fielded a verv strong and evenly-balanced team in R. S. Triner, J. H. Wade, A. G. Patrick and J. H. Gill banks. They met the Lynndale Club, H. F. Hawke, H. It. Baldwin, W. A. Burnett and C. R. Gooder, but it was obvious at the haltdistance that the Manukau team would win. The Manukau and Northern teams met in the final, but on this occasion the Northern team was slower than in its heat and Manukau won in '2m 18 3-fis, which time, incidentally, is the same as that recorded last March by the winning provincial team, Patrick, Triner, Gooder and Taylor, at the New Zealand track championships. In its heat with Lynndale, Manukau clocked even better time, 2m 18 l-ss. The postponed two miles handicap for the Pascoe Cup was contested by 14 of the original 28 entrants and proved to bo the fastest race yet held lor the cup. Just after the halt-way mark nil bar the two scratch riders, J. F. Archer and A. ,T. MoTnnarney, had bunched. Even when the riders wen* gron]>ed there was no slackening of the pace, mainly through the untiring efforts of .J. B. Johnston, who has just graduated from the junior ranks. When the last lap was entered G, H. Cunningham, the ultimate winner, was in the middle of the hunch ami appeared to have no opportunity of improving his position. However, before ihe hack straight was reached the lending riders increased the pnee nnd Cunningham quickly seized his chance to get to the front. Chased hard on the home banking by S. A. Windsor, he won by half a length in 4m 12s.