CYCLING AND MOTOR NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 933, 23 January 1908, Page 13

CYCLING AND MOTOR NOTES.

Entries close for the Onehunga Touring Club’s first race on the 30th Inst. The event will take place at Mr. Baker’s training track on February 8.

The annual race meeting on the Florida Sands will be held during the last week in March, when a pronounced change of programme will he submitted. The mile or two miles records Will he more or less subordinated to two long races —one for the specially-built racing cars originally built for the abandoned Vanderbilt * Cup race on Long Island, and another for cars of 60 h.p. or less.

A Melbourne writer says:—“The Melbourne ‘ saucer’ track opened on Saturday night, and ‘ caught on’ at once. A. big attendance favoured the management, and some thrilling and exciting racing kept the crowd at concert pitch; whilst a grand five miles’ scratch race sent them home thoroughly satisfied with the evening’s •sport. Seldom has such excitement been seen around a cycle track in Victoria as when 6000 people, seated around the velodrome, yelled themselves hoarse over the great finish in the tandem race A. J. Clark’s effort in his half-mile heat, won from

scratch in 59sec, and the fast and furious riding in the five miles’ scratch race. The track proved itself perfectly safe, and when racing men become better used to its peculiarities, and the handicapper shortens up some of the handicaps, which are too liberal for the track, then the Melbourne public should have a good season of exciting and interesting cycle-racing.”

The balance-sheet of the recent Canterbury reliability trial showed that the receipts were £342 ss, and the expenditure £253 11s 3d, leaving a credit balance of £BB 13s 9d.