CYCLE ROAD RACE. DASTARDLY CONDUCT.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 12017, 19 August 1907, Page 3

CYCLE ROAD RACE. DASTARDLY CONDUCT.

3. Received August 17, 8.54 p.m. Ep~ Sydney, August 17. P The annual cycle road race, from fiathuret to Sydney took place in fine heathen The ?oads were, in excellent condition, bat much indignation was expressed *• some m^creant thickly strewed task* o&Jthe road bebran Bathurat and Bowenfels, causing about forty competitors to puncture their ftyrea. In some instances over one hundred tackta were removed from ftjwfc There were ninetyfive competitor? tend the following was the result :--F.* Aplin °omins), 1; A. Aplin (40mins), 2; Walcott (50mins), 3. Large, crowds lined the route at various interesting stages. Larcombe, last yea* 9 winner of the race, was among the , competitors, but he had the misfortune to break the crank of his machine before covering half the distance. The placedZdivision got together in front, before reaching Parramatta, and fought out a^great finish, I Aplin Ccrossing the line a couple of lengths in front of A. Aplin, who was a similar distance ahead of Walcott. The (riding) occupied by the winner was seven hours fifty-nine minutes; A. Aplin, seven hours fi^y-nine minutes and two fifths second ; Walcott, eieht hours nine minutes thirty-six seconds; 1 G. fiorder, from scratch finished fouffcbf and made the shortest time, namely, seven hours thirty rp inutes forty-five secon • s