CYCLING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16736, 18 May 1922, Page 2

CYCLING.

ON TRACK AND ROAD,

(By

“SPOKE.”)

The Marshland-Mairchau Chib’s fortv mile South Island championship which is to be decided on Saturday week, will bo run ground the usual (purse, starting from the Mnirehau Hall ,a 2 p.m. 'Competitors are reminded that entries close on Saturday next, and must be made out on the N.Z.A and C Union’s forms and be accompanied by the entry l'cc. The Papaniii Cycling Club intends holding two track races on Saturday r.fternoon\ and these .should help to sharpen up competitors who intend taking part in the big event on the following Saturday. Particulars regarding the six any just to hand. Sixteen teams competed and Jack Deimpsey. flic boxing champion acted as starter. Tho fnvoirrite combinations were Gon.Uet and Madden. Brocco and Do Huy ter. Egg and Eaton. Laurence arid Thomas, Grenda and MeNp.mara and. AD Beth and .Magin. There were also dx teams made up of the best foreign riders. Walter Rut t. selected Franz Krupkat for a partner, while Millie Hanley selected Pete Drobaek. both old standbys, (foullet and Brocco won the December race, but in the latest event they where opposed to one another. The Italian, team, Belzoui and Oliveri. were expected to make a good y Alfred Grend/a and Reggie McNamara of Austral! i. were the successful combination. After a dramatic finish in ibe last' hour of almost continuous sprinting, they tied with the. teams of Taylor and Kaiser and Brocco and be Buy ter in the matter of miles and laps but. Grenda’9 success in winning four sprints near the close gave his team the leading point total. Taylor and Kaiser, who furnished a. sensation in tlie last half hour by lapping the field after a desperate two miles, fin ished scron cl, and Brocco and l>o Rut ter third. fhe rest were either one or two laps behind. Fourth prize went to Egg and Eaton. thanks to Egg s remarkable speed in some of the early sprints. Goulet and Madden were fifth, after a close point tussle, with Egg and his partner in tile final hour. Rutt and Krupkat, the German team, were sixth and received a tremendous ovation.

Early in the sprints Goullet gavo promise of doing something sensational, but lie wore himself out in the efforts to heat Egg and Eaton almost single handed. Tt was during the fifteenth and sixteenth miles of the final lioui that Taylor and Kaiser set the rro\vd into a furore of excitement by breaking away from the field and setting a whirlwind pace that enabled them t. lap the field. “Spake-** welcomes contributions t this column. They should bo addressed car© of this office.