Grass Track Cycle Championships
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CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 6. North Island riders scodped the pool in the New Zealand grass track cycie championships at • Lancaster Park on Saturday and shoved a greater knowledge of conditidns which werp strange to Canterbury , men accustomed to banked asphalt tracks. The best performance of the day was put up by G. E. Lambert ( Auckland) in the three miles paced championship. He beat the holder of the tifle, E.'L. G. Hughcs, in a close finish in 7min. 14 3-5 sec., 73 1-5 seconds better than Hughes did last year. . Several spills marred some of the events. ResultS' of finals: — Junior half-niile: M. Simpson (Auckland) 1, J. R. Laxop (Auckland) 2, G. Harroc (West Coast) 3. /Time, Imin. 16sec. " Senior half -mile: E. G. Hughes
(Auckland) 1, D. Wright (West Coast.) 2, P. Coker (Auckland) 3. Time, lmin 1'3 2-5sees. " Senior miler P. R. Coker (Auckland) 1. E. G. Hughes (Auckland) 2, J. Williams (Hawke's Bay) 3. Time, 2min ±4 2-5secs. Junior two-miles: K. J. Lind (Wai-! kato) 1, J. Ritchie (Canterbury) 2, G. Sharrock (West Coast) 3. Time, 5min_ 20 2-5sees. Senior three-niiles (paced): G. E. Lambert (Auckland) 1, E. G. Hughes Auckland) 2, L. Eock (Canterbury) 3.. Time, 7mins 14 3-5secs.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 February 1949, Page 7
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