TRADE PARAGRAPHS.

Southern Cross, Volume 6, Issue 8, 28 May 1898, Page 6

TRADE PARAGRAPHS.

Although it has been repeatedly stated of late that the curtain has dropped on this season’s cycle racing, from present appearances this hardly seems correct, as we have before us notice to the effect that there is a meeting in Wellington this month, and the Linwood club have again attempted the venture of running another meeting, which will be held early in June. The Dunlop Company, by promoting a road race, will be found to have done a vast amount of good when the next racing season is in swing, as it has been proved in the Australian colonies that road racing has acted as a training school in which many now prominent path | racing men first took to racing. The great Bordeaux to Paris race has again come and gone, and, by a cable just received, Rivierre is again given as the winner, and no less than three times has this rider succeeded in obtaining this much coveted event. Cordang was till just recently looked upon as the favourite, but this rider, who covered just over 616 miles in 24 hours at the close of the last racing season in England, was not a starter, as from the latest English files io band we learn that be is at present doing good work behind the Dunlop team at. the Crystal Palace track. It will be remembered that Rivierre, a short time competed in a six days’ race in America, and was said by a great many of the journals to have gone mad from the effects, but, according to an interviewer, this was not so, as this rider stated that he retired on account of the tactics of some of the competitors, and from the result of the great Bordeaqx-Paris race, it does not seem as if there was much madness in this great rider’s constitution. Rivierre rode Dunlops, and this great race has now been accounted for more than once on these celebrated tyres. The Dunlop road race is timed to start at 1.30 p.m. on Saturday from the Riccarton Hotel. Mr James, manager for the Dunlop Company, has now completed all necessary arrangements, and competitors can don their racing suits at the hotel. The time of starting has been altered from 2.30 on account of darkness closing in so early at this time of the year. The road has not been in anything like good going order, but, with the splendid rains we have had, the going will be tip top on Saturday, and fast times are sure to be recorded, At first sight one is apt to be astonished at the tremendous growth in the popularity of the Dunlop tire, in spite of many imitators and competitors ; yet after a little thought it is easily accounted for when one considers how careful the Dunlop Company is to maintain the high standard ot excellence of materials used in the manufacture of the tire;

and with which goes a most liberal guarantee, and how the Company courteously studies its customers’ interests in the best conceivable way.