MOTOR-CYCLING
ISLE OF MAN CONTEST IRISHMAN ’ S MAGNIFICENT RIDrNG LONDON, Juno 18. The senior motor cycle tourist trophy for the Isle of Man resulted: Alec Bennett, 3hr. 51min. 42scc. J, J. Guihhie 4hr. Omin. 4scc. 2, T. Simister 4hr. Imin. 3scc. 3, and J. AV. Shaw 4br. 4min. 28sec. 4. The winner averaged 68.41 miles an hour—a record. Terrific speeds characterised the Isle of man Tourist Trophy races, remonstrating the rcmakable advance in the motor-cycle engine. A hundred thousand people .were thrilled by the magnificent riding of the Irishman Alec Bennett, who smashed all records and averaged 75 miles for 264 miles. His cornering was so. accurate that the machine never faltered. Stanley Woods, last year’s winner, beat tho record for tho course circuit in the second lap, and beat it again at the seventy-first. Tho competitors could not cope with Woods’ terrific riding. He passed a score of riders in three laps, as he dashed down the mountain, but at the hundredth lap he stopped owing to clutch trouble.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19871, 20 June 1927, Page 5
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