CYCLING.

Otago Witness, Issue 956, 16 May 1889, Page 27

CYCLING.

WHEEL NOTES BY DEMON.

! - — As usual when winter has eet in, football ■ and cycling vie in attraction for those who, happy men, go in for both sports. On these ' bracing clear days, when zfoads are firm and hard, cycling is the sport ; button a dull drizzling day, when all the roads are heavy with mud, hurrah for the football field and soft falling. i - — Several,. of our men play, football on Saturdays and cycle on other, days in the week. Several jolly spins have been carried out on the good iTaieri roads, and two riders got as far as Wingatui viaduct; not riding all the, way though. ',A ■ ■ The secretary, in "pursuit of information for his " unparalleled " book, is at preesent at Kurow, having ridden most of the way up from Dunedin. He, reports weather and roads grand for- " mudllarking.", B*rbm Oamaru to Kurpw ' two Qamaru men, Messrs A. and D. Weir, accompanied him the greater part of the way. He speaks in glowing terms of the hospitality shown him. \ , — -A letter from a Christchurch friend tells me that the Pioneers are busy with their annual ball, and are deep in the mysteries of catering, decoration, tickets, <&c. • — —I was very sorry to hear, that the Christchurch Club did so badly over their sports on Easter Monday, and have since let their club room' to a football club for the season.

N.U.T.S. ——The energetic secretary is at present absent in the wilds of North Otago. He reports that two Qamarn men took him in charge to ensure an early start. How did they know, my dear sec, of your lie-a-bed propensities ? — i-He says they woke him at some early hour in the; .morningi gave him pears and, grapes in bed, and oysters, hot toast, coffee, &c., when they got him out of bed. 1 — -He now says the Oamaru men are the best he knows at fueling up. '- — One of ours ftas scored a record in a new. line. .' He had been out for a ride on a recent Saturday afternoon, and was returning home in the'early evening, when he fell asleep as he was riding down one of our big hills. He fell off ignominiously, but now the boys want to know what made him fall off. Asleep ! !— Oh, no.

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