CYCLING ROAD RACE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3005, 18 October 1911, Page 60

CYCLING ROAD RACE.

WARRNAMBOOL TO MELBOURNE. I NEW ZEALANDER PUTS UP FASTEST TIME. MELBOURNE, October 15. The cycling road race from Warrhambool to Melbourne, which was decided yesterday, resulted as follows : A. Collins (Victoria) 1 Tebbs (Victoria) ... ... ... 2 F. Lessing (Victoria) 3 Two hundred and eighty-three riders started. The weather was fine, though there were blinding clouds of dust. The roads were good to Geelong, but afterwards they were patchy. After a great finish, Collins (34min), Tebbs (42min), Lessing (40min), Hughes (34min), and Slaney (44min), all Victorians, finished in a bunch, Collins securing the victory by ha.lf a wheel. Time, Bhr 45min Usee. Lessing has entered a protest on the ground that Collins caught hold of his saddle in the final sprint. O'Shea- (New Zealand), the scratch man, made the fastest time—Bhr 18min 44sec. Collins denies the allegation of interference. The protest will be heard by the League of Wheelmen. . O'Shea was the only New Zealander'to occupy a prominent place. AVIATION NOTES. ' A WORLD'S RECORD. I NEW YORK, October 11. Rogers, the aviator, in his transcontinental flight, has already covered 1398 miles, which is the world's record for a cross-country flight. DIRIGIBLES OUT OF DATE. BERLIN, October 11. Prince Henry of Prussia says that dirigibles are out of date, and he asks 0 for 30,000,000 marks (£1,500,000) in 1912 for Jjhe purchase and equipment of aeroplanes. •* t TWO SERIOUS ACCIDENTS. I . LONDON, October 12. Level, when flying at Rheims, fell 250 ft and fractured his skull and spine* Horta, a Belgian aviator, was also terribly injured. j A TERRIBLE DEATH. i BERNE, October 15. ! A Swiss aviator named Schmidt fell from a height of 150 ft. His was burned to a cinder.