Levin Athletes Set Pace In First Class Company

Chronicle (Levin), 12 February 1948, Page 4

Levin Athletes Set Pace In First Class Company

(Special to "Ghronicle")

PALM. NTH, Feb. 12. ' Although oiil.y a small team frpm Levin ,'entered the Palmerston North Amateur * Athletic -and Cycling. iCIub's bpen meeting last night, they made their. presence feit' jn 'first .class athletic and cycling- company. The .outstandjng cpmpetitors were the two cycling nien whp jyere .entered,. R. Harper, -the c.apabfe jimior who snatched the h.alf-mile handicap fihal in 61 stconvis,. and' N. "Parker, .whose st.erling ride in the senior mile gained him a hard fought seconh j place. j Harper was entered for just ,one Srace' and he' took it in .good style. i Parker was riding against some 'first class company. Some of the j outstanding' pjen- in .f he ' recent iWest Qpa^t/bbt^pion^hips at New ! plymouth were his bp'ponents, but jit is donbtfui if any.of .tfxefn r,ode ja more nicely j u'dge^ f ape fji-an the iLeyip boy in the'Sepipr mii^» * . I Both Sem'ors and junipcs were ' alsp placed • in -tb,e atlfiCtiQ?- Pj'Spencej^staAp^uR^w4Lk^^^ ers as the home stretch was r.eached in tbe junior 880, .and he fougbt Igamely* for first place /oyer ' 100 I yarfis* with the eventual winner, E. Ariidge, of Feilding. Spencef's secpnd was only a matter ,of a yard .behiiivi Arlfdge. .J./Gobdwin enterc.d for two ,of the.'fiistanqe/eyenfs in tfie s'epipf section, .and in a w.efi fudged' mfie fie fust fafle.d tp get tfiere in front cf K. "Ga-lloway, of Fteildhig. One of ,the riders the junior, Rarper, was pftted agaipst the lYest iCpast jypiQX two m.fic champiofi, p. "Hpllpws. Tfie pace set by Rarper" ppi fflfi yar.ds w.as too hdt for tbe chtampion, and be held his ppsitiop throughLOU,t.