WHEEL TALK.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7667, 28 March 1903, Page 7

WHEEL TALK.

(By ROVER.) \j ■ ,' Tom Busst, ex- Australasian champion, is likely to try his luck on the local path if ter a very lengthy absence from e^ele-rac-tiig competitions. Mr Wearn, of the Chri&tchurcn Cycling Club, has been appointed hy the Nelson Centre to act as its representative on -the Council of $he League of New Zealand Wheelmen. Are we to have another Sutherland champion Trh^n the redoubtable George roalus room for the next one? A W. Sutherland 1 , of South Canterbury, is improving so nicely that snob. 4 contingency is not altogether Itmote. ' \ The Half and Three-milts New Zealand Amateur Championships are to be decided at the dhristchurch Cycling Club's meeting on' Good Friday. • The remaining distances, it is reported, are likely to go tothe Ashburton Club for \ decision on EosterMonday. A sarcastic onlooker remarked of the cycle race at the Pioneer sports on Saturday that the quickest bit of trork on the jairt of three out of the four competitors iras the manner in which 4hey back>edalled to take u^ their position behind he Unfit man, young Steadj tihe moment ibej caught him. Speaking at the last committee meeting »f the Temuka Bicycle Club, to consider, rraneements in oomiecfcipn with the Easter morts meeting, Mr Kalatigher, the chairoan, said that th« judging throughout South- Canterbury was anything but satisactocy in many instances. That was the speaker's impression' gained from a study >f the matter during the past eight or ten reaw. It waa decided that special efforts ihouldbe m&i» to guard aigainst a similar -tein^; applicable to the dub's, neetang in SpriL next. •. '; . ' .