CYCLING AND MOTOR NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIX, Issue 1097, 16 March 1911, Page 11

CYCLING AND MOTOR NOTES.

The Leagues of Wheelmen in Victoria and New South Wales (says the Sydney “Bulletin”) have come together again, and will work until Easter under the old reciprocity agreement originally framed by the dead and gone Federal Cycling Council. At Easter there will be a conference at which many things will be talked of, including a project to import star riders from the uttermost ends of the earth, run them at series of carnivals held throughout the States, with a view to “placing track racing on a proper footing once more.” It will be a fairly desperate sort of gamble; but if the business can be made very attractive at the beginning it is quite possible that

bike-racing may be suddenly lifted from the gutter to the top of . the steeple. That the public loved the old cycling carnivals there is no question. It was only when the sport became utterly rotten that the public started to say away, and when the boodlers fell out among themselves and laid the whole disgraceful business bare in the courts, the business stank—hummed, in fact. Then the public felt it had to assume an aspect of outraged virtue. But what nights they were! The Australian half-mile amateur championship, decided at Sydney on February 25, was won by Thompson (Sydney) in Imin. 4 3-ssec. The ten miles championship was won by Weston (Sydney) in 24min 3 4sec.