TOURIST TROPHY RACE
LIGHT-WEIGHT MOTOR CYCLES BR J. TISH RIDERS SUPK E M E [British Official Wireless.] Received June 18, 8.30 p.m. RUGBY, June 17. The international Tourist Trophy race on the Isle of Man for light weight motor-cycles with engines ol under 250 c.c. was won by Graham Walker. Tyrell Smith finished second and Mellors third. The foreign machines seemed to Le outclassed. The Italian crack rider Ghersi came in sixth, but was rid in" a British cycle. The little engines with their piston diameter no bigger than a wine glass, stood the race with astonishing efficiency. The secretary of the New Zealand Auto Cycle Union (Mr A. Way, of Marton) received a cable from Mr S. Rees (the Union’s representative in England) on Tuesday morning that both Howard Tolley and Ben Bray, the New Zealand cyclists, retired in the first lap of the Junior Tourist Trophy Race through machine trouble.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 143, 19 June 1931, Page 7
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