CYCLING.

Otago Witness, Issue 1852, 20 May 1887, Page 26

CYCLING.

WHEEL NOTES.

By Demon.

The Sydney Bicycle Club have given a donation of £5 to the Bulli Relief Fund.

H. R. Stokes, of the Melbourne Bicycle Club, succeeded in lowering the best Australian record for five miles, on a tricycle, which was 17min 55se<v He accomplished the distance in 16min 131 4>sthsec, for which performance he was londly cheered. ■ The Five-miles Amateur Championship of Victoria was ridden at Melbourne on Saturday, April 23, and won by A. E. Browne, beating Shackelford Busst, and others. ' Time, 15min 21 3rsthsec. The One-mile Tricycle Championship was won by W. P. Harrison. Time, 3min 19 3-sthsec. H. R. Stokes lowered the Australian Five-miles Tricycle record, bringing it down to 16min 31 4-stbsec.

They have a lady bicyclist in Melbourne at the present time. An exchange says :— " She sits side-saddle, and her chief feat lay in guiding her machine through a maze of bottles, stuck into each of which is a small flaming torch.' She managed her wheels most gracefully, some of the turns being performed with considerable dexterity. • , The last lap of the Five-mile Championship Bicycle Race, on Saturday, April 23, was a great struggle between W. J. C. Elliott and A. E. Browne. From the moment the last lap bell rang to the finishing pistol shot, these two riders rode with a vigour and determination seldom excelled. ' Browne led by a wheel the whole way round, and, although Elliott' • strained every nerve to bgat him, he was not able to do «<>. This last quartermile was covered in 38 J-s'hsec. Shackelford and E. Elliott were some 20 yards to the bad at the finish.

The most successful six-rlay — 142 hours — race ever held in America was that which was completed at Minneapolis on a recent Sunday night. Albert Schock, of Chicago, proved the successful man, winning easily by 240 miles, and surpassing Waller's record of 14044 miles, made in 1882. «'-■■■

A remarkable journey was made last summer by James Ricalton, the principal of the Maplewood (N.J;) Academy. Crossing the Atlantic and German' Oceans in the steerage, he reached Archangel on a coasting schooner after several days of' Arctic, Ocean and midnight sun, and started overland for St. Petersburg, trundling with him ,a> curious tricycle of his own make, in which he slept at night, cooked his meals by day, and, used as an umbrella when rain fell. Mr Ricalton shows, in a most entertaining way, that we can see much of the world without necessarily spending much money. W. J. Morgan's ride of 236 miles without dismounting, stamps him - as one of the greatest long- distance riders the world has ever seen. The previous best record was that' of Harry Higham, who, in 1880, rode 230 miles 469 yards. • • * .

— The latest instance of "married in haste " was that of a couple united in matrimony on an Erie express train while it was spinning along at the rate of 40 miles an hour.

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