CYCLING
WEDNESDAY’S ATTRACTION VISIT OF WHEEL CHAMPIONS Undoubtedly the races of chief interest to cycling enthusiasts on Cook’s Gardens on Wednesday evening, will be those in which R. (“Bob”) Spelars, holder of the world’s championship Grand Prix de Paris and numerous other titles, will appear before the Wanganui public. Spears will race a special mlatch event against J. Henderson, the New Zealand champion, over a distance of half-a-mile. Henderson’s appearance in this city will be of particular interest loctally, for he was born in Wanganui though he now resides in Christchurch. Aj unique motor-paced exhibition of cycling will also be provided, when P. Coleman, of Wanganui, Dominion motorcycle champion, will pace H. W. Nesbitt, international and Australian cycling champion. Nesbitt will also make an attempt to break D. Nicholson’s one-mile paced record of one minute 50 seconds. Besides the outstanding attraction of the main cycling events, there are also twenty other good wheel races. Spears, Henderson and Nesbitt will appear in the handicap events. It is announced that the whippet races which were originally intended for the meeting have now been cancelled, but extra wheel events have been substituted, besides a ladies’ foot race.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19766, 14 February 1927, Page 4
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194CYCLING Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19766, 14 February 1927, Page 4
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