CYCLING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 239, 9 October 1928, Page 14

CYCLING.

THE CASH RIDERS. EVENTS OP THE WEEK. N. Bellringer, winner of the recent Hamilton to Auckland road race, is to be asked a question in reference to his entry. A letter has been sent to the secretary of the Taranaki Centre askin» for Bellringer's last two years' formances. Who will win the Auckland Athletic and Cycling Club's 14-mile championship next Saturday is what cash cyclists are wanting to know. Assuming J. liarcourt (Hamilton) competes and is in his best form he should win, but in Slatei Hayes and Frank Prior he is meetiri" two good ones. These two, working gether, wiU be a hard proposition tc beat, but the Hamilton boy, fit and well should go very near doing it. There are also J. Lindop and K. J. Mathieson to be considered. It is on the cards that the field will be a small one, as all riders, start from scratch. This should give

the sprinters a chance, and one rider whc will have to be watched if it is a slow run race is little K. J. Mathieson. Barring accidents, Harcourt, Hayes and Prioi should fight out the finish in that order Saturday's 14-mile event was well-sup-ported by cash riders, 16 facing the starter. C. [Slack (4m) appears to have' been very liberally treated, as he won practically all the way, his margin at the finish being 345. He rode a great race in the recent Hamilton to Auckland event. That ride evidently did him good N. -Wnyie (4m 30s), who finished second, just lasted long enough to beat' K. Rae. He is one of the club's latest recruits and looks like making good Saturday's second was his first time in a place. K. Rae has been in second and third money all the season. A win would no! be out of place for this popular ruler. Another new rider who keeps popping into a place occasionally is H. Lee, whc finished fourth. He can always be depended on to stick in a good lap. J. Lindop surprised most people by winning fastest time *on liis own.' With Mathieson, .Henderson a nd Francis

a minute ahead of him, it looked odds on that one of these would get .it, but the result was otherwise. Lindop with the minute riders in sight nearly all the time, gradually gained on them and finally won decisively. Lindop will be a conlpetitor in the "Round the Mountain" race on October 20 at Xew Plymouth, so that his effort there will be looked forward to by local enthusiasts. Syd McCann, who was alone on the scratch mark in the Hamilton to Auckland race, and who most certainly would have won but for a bad blow-out wheD nearing the concrete road at Papakura made amends by winning the 15)28 road championship of the Dominion at Christchurch last Saturday. Starting off the scratch mark with A. A. Monvood, L W. Hill, L. Pither and W. T. Weir, the best four road men at present riding, he ran them to a standstill, left them, and went on to finish fifth in the good time considering the day, of oh 38m 465. R..W. ("Fatty") Lamb, who last veai turned professional, has been riding exceptionally well lately. In the Geelong Cycle Traders' 100-mile open handicap, run recently at Geelong, Melbourne, he completely outclassed the other scratch men, winning the race, fastest

time and, incidentally, the road championship of the Western District of Victoria. Lamb, judging by the way he is riding at the present time, seems a very much improved rider. The name Arnst in the cycling world has "for many years been a. household word, and, judging by B. W. Arnst's recent performance, it is likely to be so for some time to come. Disqualified by the amateur authorities recently for allegedly being paced by a motor car in the amateur 100-mile race, he turned "pro." and was pitchforked into the big •Timaru-Christchurch event on 40m. A son of W. Arnst, who won this race in 1910, he is a strong natural road rider. In Saturday's race he was in the lead at Templeton, nine miles from the finish and practically won as he liked.

Achaeological discoveries, believed to date back to the New Stone Age, have been made at Courdemarehes, near Le Mane, wbere a French wine merchant has found a eeries of twenty burial places cut into the . ; irock. A depression in one of the burial places appeared to contain the bones of; aurochs, the prehistoric counterparty of; the present-day cow.