DEATH OF CYCLIST
FRONT FORK BREAKS.
MISHAP DURING RACE.
(Per United Press Association.) Auckland, June 19.
The death occurred to-day of Eric Arthur Cleaver as the result of a crash from a cycle during a race at Tamaki on Saturday afternoon. His skull was seriously fractured. During the weekend his condition was critical. When as scratch man in the Auckland Cycle Club’s 25 mile road race he was riding fast in the first lap, the front fork of his machine collapsed. Cleaver was hurled to the road with considerable force and remained unconscious. Club members rushed the injured man to the hospital. Cleaver was a single man, aged 22 years. He lived at Mount Albert. He was a popular member of the Auckland Cycle Club.
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Southland Times, Issue 22046, 20 June 1933, Page 5
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