ROBERTS WINS CYCLE CUP

Taranaki Daily News, 7 October 1929, Page 3

ROBERTS WINS CYCLE CUP

FASTEST TIME IN B GRADE RACE. ONLY 22 SECONDS BEHIND RECORD Riding splendidly from scratch into third place and. securing, fastest-time in a race of 13J miles, L. Roberts won the B grade cup on Saturday. His time of 36 minutes 19 seconds was only 22 seconds slower than the record held by Sid McCann. The race was the final of a series conducted by-the New Plymouth, League Cycle Cliib for the silver cup presented by Mr. R. Arda, and the results were as follow:— Jr Wigg (Imin. 25sec.) 1 E. Nodder (2min.) .2 L., Roberts (scr.) 3 L. Tuffery (Imin. 25sec.) .......... 4. H. Parker (2|min.) 5 M. White (4}niin.j 6 Also started—G. Sole, T. Haw and C. Henry, 25sec.; E. Young, 2|ihin.; H. Kopu, 44min. The fastest times were: L. Roberts, 36min. 19scc., 1; J. Wigg, 37min. 15sec., 2;. E. Nodder, 37niin. 40sec., 3; L. Tuffery, 37min. 50sec., 4; C. Henry, 37min. 51sec., 5. Roberts wins the cup and Nodder wins the medal presented by Mr, R._ Aroa. The 25 seconds group did not seem to make best -use of the start from the scratch boy,, and were delayed slightly on the Omata hill by a mob of cattle. Roberts caught this bunch at Omata store. At the turn White and Kopu were leading, followed 40 seconds later by Wigg, Tuffery, Young, Nodder and Parker, all in a bunch. One minute later came Roberts, Sole, Haw and Henry. all together. Up the Tapaue hill Wigg and Hodder took the lead and left the others. Roberts made a, great breakaway 'on this hill. from, the .other back-markers and though Henry and Haw made desperate attempts to get him again, Roberts drew right away and was going through the field fast. Just / through Omata Wigg and Nodder were leading and riding well. Roberts caught Tuffery here and seemed to have a chance of catching the leaders, but the leaders finished on well and kept ahead. Wigg eventually won a splendid sprint by half, a wheel from Nodder. Roberts, alone, finished 29 seconds later. The final series points stand: L. Roberts 15, E; Nodder 9, G. Sole 8, Wigg 7. Roberts (15 points) and J. Wigg (15 points) tied for . runner-up in the Armstrong Cup. ' The season’s aggregate goes to S. McCann (19 points). There is no trophy for runner-up. The second of a series of three races for messenger’ boys over a four-mile course resulted as follows: — T. Goodin (2Jmin.), 13min. Isec. .... 1 T. Boulton (3min.), 13niin. 33sec. .. 2 L. Stevens (2jmin.), 13min. 12sec. .. 3 E. Hook (25sec.), llmin. Usee 4 D. Boulton '(2ssec.), llmin! 11 l-ssec. 5 ■Hook gained fastest time. A big bunch finished with Hook and Boulton,- and then came • Hargraves, Snowden and Hughes. Snowden beat Hughes in the sprint. Snowden’s'time was llmin. 23sec. Also started —D. Fox, P. Whitehead, and W. Martin (Imin. 40sec.). M. Hargraves and G. Parkes (Imin.), Whithers and. G. Tuffery (35sec), B. Berryman (255e.c.), T. Horner (25sec.), L. Erb (15 sec.), G. Hughes and H. Snowden (scr.), G. Stevens 45sec. The points stand: L. Stevens 5, Hargraves 4, Goodin 4, T. Boulton 3, Hughes 2, Erb 2, Hook 2. The final messenger, race will be run next Saturday. The race will be the messenger boys’ championship of New Plymouth unpaced; also a sealed handicap, and will be from Waiwakaiho to the Bell Block monument and back. WANGANUI-PATEA CYCLE RACE. VICTORY FOR 14-YEAR-OLD BOY. Jack Julian, the 14-year-old Patea cyclist, won the Carlyle (Patea) Club’s Wanganui-Patea road race on Saturday and gained fastest time, covering the distance in 2 hours 31 minutes. The win was both popular and spectacular, Julian laying a wheel behind Quayle with 100 yards to go, when he spurted and crossed the tape five lengths ahead of Quayle. Leaving Wanganui at 1.30 p.m., the limit men had a head wind, but set up a good pace and were doing well at Kai Iwi. At Waitotara, which was reached at 3.15 p.m., Forsyth and Julian were leading, the latter having caught the limit men and passed them. At Waverley (3.414 p.m.) Quayle, Julian, Gunn and Featonby were all together, with Maule (scratch) and the other backmarkers 44 minutes behind. Shortly afterwards Gunn retired after lagging well behind, he finding the pace too severe. Julian and Quayle then set a merry pace and, going well together, soon‘left the bunch behind. Several entrants had spills and five did not complete the course. The placed men were: Julian 1, Quayle 2, Maule 3, R. Clarkson 4, Featonby 5, Beer 6.