WHEELING.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1621, 25 March 1903, Page 56

WHEELING.

CHAMPIONSHIP AIEETTNG AT

DUNEDIN

DUNEDIN;

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The cycling:" championship meeting took place, on; the • Caledonian- ground to-day. The .weather AA r as fine, but cold. There AA r as a good. attendance.- lii the motor race', something Avent AA r rong. with. Martin’s machine. Porter, and: Clarke gave an exhibition , mile. Results Half-mile Cash Championship; prizes, £5. £2 ; and £1. —Ai Huston, Ashburton; 1;’ W. . Martin, 2; A. Ralston; Otago; 3. Also-, started^—Connell and H;, Holland. Alar tin beat the pistol at the start, and keot> in: front till Huston,. Avit-b a i fine -spurt; beat him by a wvheel just on .the -post, lime, lmin 14 2-asee.. One-mile Cash Handicap; prizes,- £4,; £2 . and £L —First heat—V. Ritchie, 75yds; 1;• A. R-. Fleming, 80yds, 2 ; J." iR.. Roxburgh.- 75yd%3v i J. .Craig; 120yds; |4i. Also- ; started—-Wi Aiartin" scr. jMartin retired dn Jtbe second ..round-.. Won by a* good length.. Tame, . 2min ;23 4-ssec. Second’heat—G7' FV L'&t-habyr :120yds, 1; G. W. Taylor, 140yds, 2.; Rl Arnst, 55yds; 3;' E. J. 75yds, 4.*. Won by, a wheel. 1 . Time,. 2min 19.. 3-osec. FliiaL—R.. Arnst, sdyds, 1; E. J. Ritchie, 7oyds, .2; V; Ritchie, 75yds, 3.: All aa’lio had quail*, lied started.’.. Won. hy, tivo lengths. Time, 2min 16 4-ssec.. .

220yds Flat Handicap (amateur).- — G. Nidholsoh, s!yds, 1; J.’ W? Price,Byds, 2 v Four others started. Won... by. a yard. * Time. . 24seo.

Five-mile Motor Handicap; prizes, £ls and £5. —-First heat—George Porter’s Khaki Mitchell, 85sec, 1; Cooke, Howliuson.. and 1 Co.’s Reid, 240 sec, 2. Martin’s French motor, scr, and House and Co.’s Torpedo also started: Martin gave up the task.a s liopeiess. Time, lmin 44 3-ssec. Second ‘lieao—Best and Towno's Dlitchell Dumei'que, 75sec, 1; E. H. Clarke’s Mitchell Special, 85sec, 2. Murie’s Rambler also started, but gave up. Won by 20yds. Time, 9min 59sec. Final—G. Porter’s Khaivi Mitchell, 85sec, 1; E. 11. Clarke’s Mitchell Special,. 85see, 2. Dumerque and Reid also started,, but gave up. Won by 20yds. Time, 9min 50sec. Cue-mile Cash Oliampionship; prizes, £7, £3 and £l.-—-W, Martin. I; A. Huston, 2; A. Ralston, 3.. Also started— R. Arnst, Connell, 11. Holland,. O'. A. Lethaby and E. J. Ritchie. Won . by a wheel after a fine spurt. Time, 2min 33seo. Three-mile Cash Championship; prizes, £S; £4 ■ and . £2. Hr Holland, Ashburton, ! Wi Aiarbin, 2; J. Connell, 3. Also started- —-A. P; Fleming,Au Huston, A. Ralston; Nv Ralston, E'r Jr Ritchie and J- R. Roxburgh. A great finish. Martin failed to get up by about a wheel, Connell being, almost a - dead heat with Martin. Time, 7min- 42sec. Ai Ralston -fell .after, passing the-: post. Two-mile Cash Handicap; prizes, £6, £3: andu £l.^—First", heat-r—M: Idour, 270yds,. 1; W. J- McMahon; 290yds, 2 ; V* Ritchie and J 1 R. Roxburgh; dead heat, 3. W. Martin , and N: Ralston also started, bnt the former only went once round. Time, . 4min. 411 3-sseo. Second heat—G. W. Taylor, 260yds, 1; C. F.- Lethaby. 220yds, 2; D. McGavin, 280yds,.- 3 ; E.. J. Ritchie; 4. Time, 4min 49 4-ssec;. Final h eat- —DlcGavin, 280yds, .1.; Taylor; 260yds, 2; McMahon, 290yds,-3.. Won by < 10yds. Time,-4min 41see:. 880yds : Flat Handicap (amateur) — V. S: Jacobs; scr; 1; S: Rerd: syds; 2; G. Wi” Larence, syds, 3: Five others ran. Won by ;tfro feet. Time,. 2h'iin. 6 3-sseo. Five-mile Cash . Championships prizes, £lO,. £4 .and. £2_-—-W. Martin, 1; H-. Hdllaad,. 2; A. Huston, 3..-. Also started^—Arnst-; ConjneM. Fleming,; A;- 1 and N. Ralston; E_. J> and: V: Ritchie. There - was; a-, splendid-; finiisli between the-.: three placed men. With in" 20yds of the i post"" Holland : and Huston.' bumped twice against each other;'and Alar tin. won -by a length. Time,* 1 13min 5 llseo.: SYDNEY: CARNIVAL’ MEETING? THE-i. “SYDNEY: THOUSAND” WON BY HOPPER. SYDNEY, March 17; The semi-finals in’ the- Sydney £IOOO Handicap lias been completed: Major Taylor-, who - alone vran unpaced;,' only - managed- to get ’ fifth. place in the re-running-- of the heat- he won- on Saturday. He-made a sjilendid effort,-hut became -exhausted-, and required • assistance. Morgan won a fine .race by a.fewnnehes. The - following ’ eleven" remain - in. the final- to bo ; decided on Wednesday: —Don. Walker; syds; Morgan.- 10yds; Filsell) 45yds; Thorne, 80yds; Whitson; 100 yd all Victorians;- Mutton,. 25yds; Payne; SOyds; Foster, 95yds; Symon, 120yds—all of New ■ South Wales; Forbes, New Zea-* land; 10yds"; Hopper, America, 75yds. The Sussex : Plate, a. five-mile-, scratch race, resulted'as follows:.; —Morgan, Victoria. 1; Sutherland. New■ Zealand,. 2i Beauchamp; Tasmania, 3. Won by half a length: Time, llmin 34- 4-sseo-. SYDNEY ."''.March'. 15.,. The fdllovfing is the result of ney Thousand; - '’ a one *mile open: cycle handicap for cash prizes of £750,; .first; £l5O second and £SO third,- resulted: N. C. Hopper (LP.S.A;), 75yds, 1; Don Walker (Melbourne). syds, 2; Harold Thorn (Melbourne), 80yds; 3. Twenty-five thousand, people witnessed final. Shortly after the start the eleven competitors .separated into two bunches-. The limit men, pacing in turns, made the pace a cracker. Opposite the members' stand. Hopper, leaving the front hunch, shot ahead.' Walker went in pursuit, and made a great effort "to overtake him, but'tho-rapid' American 1 passed the post fifteen yards ahead. Thorn a couple of yards away ; third. Forbes - was fourth) Time,- lmin .33 2-ssee. The. Five-Mile Scratch Race-resulted Chaimera *\ ew Zealand,. 1; Megs.on r New South Wales, 2; Forbes, New Zealand, 3.. irood -finish.;' won. by half a bicycle. Wue. limin’ 11 2-ssec. Major Taylor. fel-1 in the Half-Mile Race, and* was slightly injured. Cameron of Victoria; won .the-:race. SYDNEY, March 19.: The Sydney £1000r: Handicap- wag i thefastest competition .mile . record in." the. world. Sutherland, the New- Zealander, ran third in the Cumberland Handicap;- a lialf-mile sprint; which Farley, a : Victorian, Avon in 57sec. Don Walker being second; Farley 5 aiso Avon the Clarence Handicap; two- miles, beating;Randrnp, of New Zealand, by ;a:wheel.v. Time,' 4inin 25sec. ' The - League of Wheelmen suspended Rye (Victorian), McDonald (West lian) and' Beauchamp ' (Tasmanian) fdrv three - months -fo rnat - having taken - part* jin -the. pacingyin the- semi-final foiyt.he Sydney - £IOOO- Handicap; Avlierem .Major: Taylor finished . fifth;. ;; r'The, Avinner rof - the,“Sydney Thousand,.;,, Hopper, is a, young American 'induced to visit Australia by W. Palmer, the Q,ueensland icyclist"who recently.raced; in Wellington: Palmer met- m Salt Lake City.- lasf ;y@ar, and ” the - tAVO came to Bon.,Walker is.f a c. veteran i in the* Australian. cycling arena, .and was one of .only three,-riders in Australia avlio ■' defeated the migh y. Zimmerman, ex-champion of the - worm, when- he visited the some years ago. Walker 'is-a Can adianrby birth,' is 27 vears of' age. Aveighs list 71b, and ■is - : s£t 7insin *heisht'.- He is a member o*

the Melbourne Bicycle Club/ the wealthiest body in iho cycling world. 1 horn has been racing for four years, and is considered a good second-class ruler.j

SYDNEY, March 18

M. Randrup, of New Zealand, won the Five-mile Scratch Race afc the St. Patrick’s Day sports, Sutherland (New Zealand) being second. The time was 12min 9 2-osec.