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GOULBOURN-SYDNEY RACE WON BY RENNIE (VICTORIA). NEW ZEALAND EIDERS UNPLACED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Recovcd September 24, 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, September 23. The following is the result of the Goufbourn-Sydney cycling road race (distance, 131 miles); — Rennie (Victoria), 30min 1 Kirkham (Victoria), scratch ... 2 J. W. Wilson (Victoria), 14min 3
.The winner’s time was 7hrs lOmin 42sec.
There were 127 starters, including tho following New Zealanders:—A. Smith (scratch), O’Shea (scratch), Tozer (14min), O’Donoghue (18min). None of the New Zealanders finished in the first twenty. Smith punctureid a tyre five miles from Goulboum. O’Shea’s riding time was 7hrs 21min 6sec; O’Donoghue’s, 7hr 43min 67sec; and Tozer’s, 7hrs 39min 40sec. Kirkham made the fastest time, 6hrs 19min 31seo, a record. Rennie won by four minutes. He has done considerable riding in New Zealand.
Till© former record time was 6hra S 3 min 36seo, made by T. Laroombe (New South ■Wales) on September 19th, 1908.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7914, 25 September 1911, Page 7
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