CYCLING IN AUSTRALIA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2565, 13 May 1903, Page 52

CYCLING IN AUSTRALIA.

(From Ouk Own Corhespondent.) DUNLOP EOAD RACE. The value of the prizes for this year's big Dunlop Road Race, to be held on Saturday, August 12, over the famous 165-mile WarrjCGmbool to Melbourne course, is £165, the fieater portion of which has been generously onated by the cycle trade of Melbourne. Fol3o\vir,g is a- list of the prizes: — First prize, cheque £30 and £5 5a gold medal ; second prize, Speedwell cycle; third prize, Kellow-Empire tycle; fourth prize, Charleston cycle; fifth iprize, £3 3s cheque ; sixth prize, cheque £2 2s ; seventh prize, cheque £2 2s. Special prizes : — (Fastest time — Massey-Harris bicycle, and blue iriband and badge; fastest competitor receiving over 10 minutes' start, and not winning any other bicycle, Albion cycle ; fastest unjplaced competitor (meaning neither 1, 2, 3, nor #), receiving over 20 minutes' start, cheque £5 as; fastest unplaced competitor (meaning r.cithet 1, 2, 3, nor 4) receiving over 40 minutea' jBl-rl, .heque £3 3s. EIGHT HOURS DAY CYCLING. The cycling races in connection with the Hours Demonstration in Melbourne .•were commenced last Saturday at the Exhibition Oval, but after a. few heats were run they (had to be held over owing to the rain. The Jmeeting was continued on Monday afternoon jand evening. ! The principal event was the Eight Hours Anniversary Wheel Race, which fell to A. $3rownc, after a. very good race. D. J. Walker, s»l> just bf«* 'Bro'» i "» '<"wvr/jing to the judge,

at anyrate) for the DrniaV "Wheel Race, was the favourite for the event, but the buck iy.cn ntver got up, and the contest resolved itself into a struggle b?tv.-een Browne, \Y. 11. Morgan, and A. G. Flack, who finished in that order. The principal results were: — EIGHT HOURS ANNIVERSARY WHEEL RACE. Two miles. First prize £120, second £40, third £10. First in each heat to start in the final; secondhand third men to race again, and winner in each to run in final. Final. A. Brovme .. 1 W. R. Morgan 2 A. G. Flack 3 Time, 4min llsec. EIGHT HOURS PLATE. Half-mile. First prize £15, second £4, third £1. Final: — Morgan 1, Filsell 2, A. C. Colmcm 3. Won by a length. TRADES UNION HANDICAP One mile. First prize £10, second £4, third £2.— Final heat— W. S. Holbora (75yds) 1. A. E. Keating (30vds) 2, F. Dwerryhouse (40yds) 3. ONE MILE INTERNATIONAL SCRATCH RACE. First prize £15, second £5, third £2. First in each heat to start in fir.a! £1 extra for pacer in fastest heat who was also qualified to start in the final.— First heat— E. A. Pye 1 E. F Wilk«ch 2. Time, 2min 7sec. Second heat— D. J. Walker 1 (finished a!ore). Time, 2min 8 ]-ssec. Third heat— W. M'Dona-Id 1, C. E. Burton 2. Time, 2min 10 4-ssec. Fourth heat— G. R. Morgan 1, N. C. Hopper 2. Time, 2min 7 ]-ssec. Fifth heat— J. Filsell 1, J. Chalmers 2. Time. 2min 29 2-ssec. Final fceat (in which G. F. Farley, as fastest pacer, started)— D. J. Walker 1, J. Filsell 2, G. R. Morgan 3. Time, 2min 6 2-ssec FIVE MILES INTERNATIONAL SCRATCH RACE. First prize £20, second £5, third £2.— Fifteen riders started in this event, which was very keenly contested. The result was — N. C. Hopper 1, D. J. Walker 2, W. M'Donald 3. Time, llmin 38sec.