Cycling Championship

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7432, 29 November 1892, Page 3

Cycling Championship

I meeting. j to THE BDITOB. 1 Sic,— We have just read a resolution of the New Zealand Cyclists' Alliance, upholding the D.C.C. Committee's action in taking the Carisbrook grounds for the ' championship meeting : kindly allow us to 1 give the Christchurch cyclists the facts. , \ The engagement of the ground was due principally to the majority of the Committee (including the President and three | Vice-Presidents) being interested in the i Carisbrook Ground Company, who carried ( the day in face of a resolution passed at the [ annual meeting. Thereupon a general . meeting was called to reconsider the ; action of the Committee, and a vote of t censure (twenty-three to twenty) was i passed ; but tbey declined to consider it as such, and now a meeting is called for Tuesday, to ask them to resign. If we r lose the day, we are fully determined to t' sever oar connection with tho D,C.C. and I form a Club on purely amateur lines, about l forty of the members, inoluding all the racing men, being in favour of the movement.

j The racing' men, with the exception of one, favour the Caledonian track, and are determined not to be ruled by non-racing men, and decidedly object to be snubbed by the Alliance, who act without any authoritative document from here that can be relied on, but are ruled by private correspondence. The Alliance, after giving a free hand to the D.C.C. to manage the Championship meeting, should have remained neutral, and allowed us to fight the matter out. The resolution, so far aB . it Btates that " the Dunedin Cycling Club 1 were allotted the Championship meeting on the distinct understanding that the races were to take place on the Cariabrook track," is incorrect, and has caused much surprise. One of our number holds a letter from Mr Eyre stating that we had the whole management of the meeting. As to the part of the resolution in reference to the track, how many delegates have Been the tracks, if any, in their present condition ? Even the votaries of Cariabrook would not Bay that the Cariabrook track is the only one in Dunedin suitable for a championship race. All cyclists at present training, train on the Caledonian, also some twenty members of the D.A.AC., who compete on Dec. 10, on Carisbrook ground. The members who favour the Carisbrook track would do better to form a Touring Club, as they do not try to foster racing. — We are, &c, J. M'DONALD, B. EMMEESON, E. HOWLISON, S. B. STEDMAN, Nov. 25. H. INGLIS.