CYCLING ROAD RACE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 64

CYCLING ROAD RACE.

BATHURST TO SYDNEY,

SYDNEY, August 15. The Bathurst-Sy daisy Road Race to-day resulted as fallows: — A. Turner (New South Wales) . 1 B. Patterson (Victoria) 2 Hyslop (New South Wales) 3 The weather was fin© and the roads in good condition, but the riders had to contend against a strong head wind all the way.

Three thousand people assembled at Bathurst when the first man left at 7 o'clock in the morning, and 10,000 witnessed the finish at Aehfield.

Ninety-eight competitors started. Turner, who had 48 minutes start, covered the distance of 133£ miles in Bhr 4min, and Patterson, with 42inin start, took Bhr 14min 53sec. Hyslop, with 52min 6tart, did the journey in Bhr 24min 41isec.

Larcombe, who started from scratch, and who finished ninth, put up the fastest time (7hr 53min 40sec), and Keefe (Tasmania), with 20min start, put- up th© second fast-eat time (7hr 57min).

Summers, the New Zealander, finished in the ruck.

(Received August 16, at 4.20 p.m.)

Larcombe led at Penrith, but Turner got in front before reach Parramatta.

Last year there were 95 competitors, and the race was won by F. Aplin, with A. Aplin second, and Walcott third. The time (riding) occupied by the winner was 7hr 59min. A. Aplin took 7hr 59min 0 2-ssec, and Walcott Bhr 9m in 36sec. G. Harder, from scratch, finished fourth, and made the shortest time — namely, 7hr 35mm <-ssec. Larcombe won the race in 1906.

It is said that several dairy factories in the Hawera district have disposed of their output of butter for. August month at the satisfactory figure of Is 3d. This fisrure was on offer to the Bltham Dairy Oom-pa-ny, but was not considered tempting enough. The oldest licensed village alehouse in England is claimed to be the Greorge Inn, in North St. Philip, the license of which dates from 1307. Each story of the picturesque old structure overhangs that beneath, while the front is broken by bay windows, a porch, and a flight of stone steps leading to a doorway in the wall. At the back are more quaint doors and windows, and a turret built against the wall encloses an outside stair, while in the yard still remains part of the old gallery found in so m-any hostelries of the Middle Ages.

MOUNTAIN FLAX (' Linum Catharticum' Trade Mark) PILLS. An agreeable aperient. Worth si triftl.