MOUNTAIN ROAD RACE

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1934, Page 11

MOUNTAIN ROAD RACE

HANDICAPS FOR SATURDAY. SEVEN ON SCRATCH MARK. Handicaps have been declared by Mr. L. E. Smith for the annual round-the-mountain road cycle race of 120 miles to be held on Saturday. The first riders will be despatched from Queen Street, New Plymouth, at 9 a.m. The course will be via Opunake, Kaponga, Manaia, Hawera, Eltham, Stratford and Inglewood, and the first riders are expected to reach the New Plymouth racecourse at about' 3 p.m. The handicaps are as follow:—

Scratch: W. J. Lamberton (Christchurch), R. Weir (Christchurch), H. Snowden (New Plymouth), A. Ellis (New Plymouth), C. Burke (New Plymouth), L. Stevens (New Plymouth), W. Pratney (Auckland). Ten minutes: M. Jones (Christchurch), H. Eva (New Plymouth), D. Miller (Gisborne), G. Tuffery (New Plymouth), W. Ashman (New Plymouth), A. Mackie (Christchurch).

Fifteen minutes: F. I. Belk (Midhirst), F. Jennings (Petone), F. Fussell (Inglewood), L. Wood (New Plymouth), G. Stevens (New Plymouth), L. Pittams (Midhirst), J. A. Foote (New Plymouth). Eighteen minutes: D. Newall (Christchurch), R. Sutherland (Christchurch), E. Jeffs (Gisborne),' J. R. Armstrong (Christchurch), W. Nelson (Takapau), W. J. Seelan (Christchurch), W. G. Hunter (Hastings), C. Johnston (Auckland). Twenty-one minutes: A. S. Church (Gisborne), P. Bicknell (Auckland), F. E. Lowdnes (Auckland), E. Standing (Inglewood), E. Oliver (Lepperton), A. Parkin (Christchurch), C. Brewer (Kaponga), T. J. McSweeney (Matamata), W. Collins (Palmerston North). Thirty minutes: N. Bennett (Inglewood), R. Hosie (Inaha), F. Parkin (Christchurch), B. Seaver (Hawera), W. Rollo (Hawera), W. A. Armstrong (Christchurch), L. Reeve (Inglewood). Thirty-five minutes: L. Standing (Inglewood), B. Old (Waitara), W. Ireland (New Plymouth), P. Wisnewski (Midhirst), G. Law (Kohuratahi), W. Mathews (Rahotu),