SPORT OF CYCLING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23130, 31 August 1938, Page 21

SPORT OF CYCLING

LYNNDALE CLUB'S EVENT ANNUAL RACE ROUND HARBOUR The principal event last Saturday was the Lynndale Club's sixth annual club championship event over the round-the-harbour course of 4Q miles. A cold easterly wind and driving rain made conditions ttie worst yet experienced for the club's title event. A. L. Mawke's win was his third in the series. Mis first was in the 19:35 race off 55m when only ]2 years of age. lie won the 1937 race oil' l.'hn and had 9m start last week. Hawko won the 42 miles to Orowa last, King's Birthday, and, for a junior, has displayed remarkable ability at long-distance racing. His brother, 11. F. llawke, 4m, second, was beaten by halt .a wheel onlv, while U. R. Baldwin and I). Wrath all helped the winner to maintain a strong pace over the last half of the race. The scratch pair, E. L. G. Hughes and A. If. Silcock, combined wonderfully, only a length separating them at the"finish. Hughes has won the event on three occasions and should be able to strongly defend his title as New Zealand amateur road champion next October. ~ T7 ~ For a first-season ruler, V. V. Thomas has created a most favourable impression and now ranks among the six best road riders in Auckland. In the Jiiinukau Club's 15-miles continental style race last week ho was far superior to any ot the others in the lap sprints and amassed 22 points, against 10 by R. S. Triner and M. T. Gamble. A massed start event of 25 miles was held by the Northern Club. The Howick course was chosen and a hard ride against the wind to Howick sapped the energv of the younger riders. Jn the fast home run G. H. Cunningham, INT. 11 aria ml and G. Webb were prominent and finished in that order. IJnpaccd racing was made doubly difficult h.v Saturday's prevailing weather, therefore M. C. Johnson's effort in winning the I'apatoetoe Club's annual championship over the 20-miles Howick course in film 45s can be regarded as an outstanding ride. Very Few riders have ever succeeded in winning a championship in their first- season. He won the first road race he competed in this year and quickly graduated to the scratch mark in club events. In the last open race of 44 miles he started oil' Im, but was not quite equal to the high standard set, which can be readily understood when it. is mentioned that J. Brown, lm, made a new course record when he won that race.