CYCLING.
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, NEW, FLYMOUTIf, lasi night, ;X Plymouth hoy r C. McCann, i'itlLng i: oh the 'tbiviy, minute mark, won yesterday’*. roniuL Mount Egfhont cycle race by a .coniifoi’tjible,.margin. Fiftysix riders faced Hie,,,starter at Now Plymouth, the limit men, who were given forty minutes’ start, leaving at ten o’clock. The roads, which for the greater part of the, one hundred mile course tuft, tyrfljtajecL were in go.od order.T(ie weather also was, favorable, although during the first forty miles along the coast road to Opunake a head wind was faced. (l ( (,U;cat interest ■ was displayed by the public, who lined the roads and streets in all villages 'and towns.
Thu scratch mep gftpiecj very lht,le ppi the leaders to Opunake. Passing Kap.onga, Brewster (New Plymouth) was ip the lepd, a position .lie held all ’’tile ■way tp jii&lewpQcl, wliiciyls.'aply eleven miles from home. Two minutes behind him cfpne McCann, .Yardtey, Mort)alfo, ; and BcIk) Wild in the last stretch' overhauled the leader. McCann passed the finishing ’post at the Now Plymouth; racecourse over live minutes ahead of the nttet, mph; , Following aro the results : S. McCann .(New., Plymouth), hop. 30miu., riding time Bin's. 6min. sQsec.', 1; 0. N. Yardley (New Plymouth) 32min.\ 'Slir's. 10mm. a?s'ec., 2. IJ. Mortlake (Ohristehupch), 32mip.,,5hrs. 10m in. 295ee.., 3;. V, 0 ( • jlejk (New Plymouth), 34min.. shrs. 13min. 16sec., 4; W. Brewster,(New. Plymouth.), 34min., 6hrs. 14min. Ifisec.; i>; E. Simpson (New.l’lymouth),*32min., ■ shrs lYmip. 4sec., 6; W. 0. Simmons (Napier), 36niin., shrs. 27min. 9see., 7; 0. Watson (Marshlands), ser., 41ns. 54min. 43sec., 8; W. Mackie (Ohristehureh), smin., 4hrs. 59min. 43seg,, C J;, t C*. (Ne>y Plymouth), 20hfuu., Slits. I4mfn. 44sce., 10. Watson gained fastest time, ajidyMackie second fastest. Both broke tile previous record of bin's, 3min, Bscc., established last year by C, Blitt-(Newt,Ply mouth)'.' Watson wins the N’ijrth Island road champiohebip.aud.-Uie blue ribbon.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16869, 26 October 1925, Page 10
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308CYCLING. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16869, 26 October 1925, Page 10
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