CYCLING AND MOTOR NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 938, 27 February 1908, Page 12

CYCLING AND MOTOR NOTES.

THE ONEHUNGA CLUB’S RACES. The Onehunga Touring Club held a couple of races on Saturday which were well fought out. The results were:— ' Special Bicycle Handicap, three miles: J. Foubister, / scratch, 1; H. Flewellyn, 125yds, 2; H. Sayers, 500 yds, 3. Other starters: O. Melvern, 100yds; N. Wadham, 160yds; A. Flewellyn, 160yds; D. Howard, 240yds; L. Palmer, 260yds; T. H. Pardington, 275yds; H. Thompson, 275yds; H. Christini, 300yds; C. Denize, 340yds; . S. Kitchen, 350yds; W. Sayers, 480 yds; W. C. Hill, 500dys; S. Brooking, 530yds; J. Fletcher, 620yds. A good finish, the scratch man riding well. Time, Bm. 225. Consolation Handicap, one m!7e: S. Lecky, 130yds, 1; H. Flewellyn, 20yds, 2; H. Wright, 140yds, 3. Also started: O. Melvern, scratch; N. Wadman, 50 yds; L. Ginn, 75yds; D. Howard, 110 yds; T. H. Pardington, 110yds; A. Henwood, 300yds. Won after a good race. Time, 2m. 42 4-bs. THE RECENT SIX DAYS’ “GO.” Much has been said against the sixdays’ race in New York, chiefly on the alleged harm it works on the participants; but according to the N.Y. “ Bicycling World,” whatever of belittlement may be said of it, the big race not only attracts an enormous crowd and stirs its enthusiasm to a high pitch, but it gives the bicycle more publicity than all other of the year’s events put together. It receives columns where others receive inches or no mention at all. THE CAR IN WARFARE. The French War Office has despatched a 30 h.p. Panhard war car to the scene of the Morocco campaign. The car carries three Hotchkiss machine guns and 60,000 rounds of ammunition. It will be interesting to note the behaviour of the first war automobile that has been brought into actual use, but the French war authorities appear to have made a blunder in sending an armoured vehicle to the scene of the outbreak in Morocco, instead of a properly protected car, in which the driver and gunners could operate with the minimum risk of injury. GOING AHEAD. The editor of the English motor paper, the “ Car,” Lord Montague, estimates that there are 346,000 motor« vehicles in present use in the world; but as he has credited only 3000 to Australasia, Canada, Egypt, the Transvaal, . and other British dependencies combined, he has most likely underestimated the number. It has been computed that there are 3000 motor vehicles in Australasia alone, while Canada has a very liberal quota. Britain has 125,000, United States 130,000, France 32,530, Germany 22,000, and other countries in proportion. The figures indicate the immense strides of automobilism in a single decade.