CYCLING NOTES

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2582, 7 August 1895, Page 4

CYCLING NOTES

1 There were about 5000! spectators present at the Queensland League of Wheelmen’s championship cycling carnival at Brisbane on the 13th ult. The Queensland League Cup, half a njiloi was won by C. Hunter, Bundabbrg, from the 00yds mark; P. Wootton, N.S.W., 35yds, second j W. Maguire; 65yds,'third. Time, Imin 7seo. Mogson, Powles (N.S.TV.), Middleton and Parsons (Vio.) also rode, Mogson being the only ,one "to. get into! the final heat. J. Williams, N.S.W., won the Queensland Wheel Bade!, two miles, from a start of lOOyds,.. ,A. Middleton,, scratch, ‘.being second, and J. Adams, 160yds, third. Time,! 4min 53! 4;ssoc. ~ Middleton. rode, a splendid race. Megson was blocked. Fivemile Championship of Queensland —J. Megson, :1; A. Middleton, 3; J. Parsons, 3. ”. Middleton; rushed to the front in' the second to last lap, and led by 30yds for one . round.!! i Half' a; lap . from the tape Megson spurted past I ,the others as though they .were standing, still,* and. wpn easily. by 30yds, a length separating the second and third man. Tinie.,l3min 46seo, : . ‘ AVwonderful p6rtorman«SeJwas) Abobßi-!! phshed by H. H. Maddox and W. F. Sims' in a ten-mile paced rate at the ’opening of the new Manhattan - track at Brooklyn (New York) on' June 15th, when they succeeded-' in lowering the world’s com-; petition record for ten miles by over three minutes..! There weyo six starters for, the riice,. but C. Baker, who, finished third, .was, the only other man i to stay the (distance with, Maddox; and Sims, the last-named: being beaten for first place by only a: few yards; > The first five ■ miles were - paced by a quadruplet; a ta!ndem relieving for the next three miles, and the quadruplet again pacing for the last two miles. The time for the race was 21min 39 3-sseo, an average of loss than 2min lOseo per mile. ; Sphieiidea-of the excitement caused by, bicycle races in America may be formed from the following clipping from a report in an American paper of the above race: — “ Men were clutching their wives and yelling at them to look here or there at this of that; ladies were laughing and crying in the last throes of nervous hysterics, while the men in the press, box, used as they are to contests of aU . kinds, each with a stopwatch, looked amazed from one to another, each one shaking-his head as though the watch had lied.” • - ’ The Queensland hour record was broken at Brisbane on July' 18th by Purnell, a Sydney cash amateur, who covered 21 miles ,1672 yards in the time. On June 17th J. S. Johnson, the American professional, who is considered by seine to be a better man than Zimmerman, created a new,path smile record by covering the', distance in Imin 55 3-sseo.

' R. L.. Jefferson has completed his ride of 4200 > miles from' London to‘Moscow: and back. During the journey be averaged 100 miles a day. ’•• • 1 :1 : s 1 ' 1 : - J ! '• ■. : On June 15th A. A. Hansen, an American cyclist, lowered the world’s 100-mile com- - petition record; and succeeded in estab- , Ushing records -trout 60. miles upward,' ' His time for 61 miles was 2hr 52min ' 45i8ec; for 75 miles,' 3hr 34min 3}sec; for 100 miles, ,4hr 65min 59seo. ■ G. P. Mills and T. A. Edge recently rede , a>tandem.for~'24 hours on the road, when they succeeded in heating Fontaine's record of 376 -miles on a safety by half a mile, and raised, the tandem .record of: 317 miles by 59£ miles. 'Mills and Edge intend riding their tandem from Land’s' End to John o’Groats. . ■; !P. Nessel won the 20-mile road race run by the Chicago Cycling; Club on June 15th; his time for the distance being 49min 40sec —a road ‘ record for the distance. ; Hessol rode the - last three miles on a flat rear tyre; having punctured ‘it during the race. There were 38 starters, 30 of whom wont ,tho distance.- - - : _- ’ The Irish Cyclist says there is a certain big ’cycle- factory where, the backbones, forks and wheels of oDO ordinaries are stowed away, not being worth the trouble of removal. ; In 1892 the machines were offered to. the workmen .of the place at -Is each.'and' refused with scorn. At the opening of the new Manhattan track at-Brooklyn (New York) on June loth there wore no fewer than :5000 wheelmen ■ and wheelwomen in the bioycle .^parade.:*:'; -e'-f Houben, the well-known Belgian crack cyclist, was, on ' June 1st;: twice beaten’ easily by E. T. C. Protini a fellow-country-man, who’ has been absent from the track for some years.-., j , ■. A mile novice race - has been won m Syracuse (U.S.A.) by J. Schaefer in 2mm 15sec. .t. : .-. i : ....