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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8705, 20 August 1906, Page 1

at mile handicap, all the way, in th< sensational time of lmin 57 l-ssec, an< almost immediately turned out for th< final, and again scored in 2min 4-57 sec the difference in the respective timebeing due to the fact that in the " de cider ". the handicapped men eased pree isare a trifle ere the bell sounded, am Pdulain, although they made him trave again over the last few hundred yards profited by it. A paragraph in an English papei aneht " rational " dress for cyclists, reminds me that in the early nineties some enthusiasts in this movement organised a sports meeting at Lancaster Park, in which the races were confined to young ladies attired in bloomers or divided skirts. Some of the fair competitors looked graceful enough, others merely indifferent. At any rate the public patronage was not substantial enough to warrant the experiment being repeated. The affair ivae treated as a huge joke from beginning to end by all except the pronoters, who lost money over it. Apropos of Arthur Chase's return, to ifrie track an English writer says : — Che recovery of Arthur Chase, whose sase after a bad smash up on a motor )icycle some tinne back was deemed lopeleaS, has been, something maarvelouSj and^ affords another proof of the •eouperative power of men who keep ihemselves in good healthy condition, le is now doing real hard work, and f he should again go in eerj.onsly for ong distance paced work there is no. 'easwa why h© should not regain his ►Id form. He is still quite a young nan, a» he cannot be a long way on ihe wrong side of thirty. He n-ever eally relished mechanical - pacing, rhi.ch he onoe told me meant taking ar.too great a rick. The best remedy for Indigestion, leadache or biliousness is California lyi-up of Figs. It is pleasant to the aste and prompt, gentle and thorough a action. Doctors everywhere recomnend it. 1