LAYKOLD CUP.

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1934, Page 3

LAYKOLD CUP.

There will be a big array of athletes and cyclists at the Petone Recreation Ground tomorrow afternoon, when the Laykold Cup meeting will be held. The Laykold Cup cycle race is described as the mostimportant event of its kind in New Zealand, and it has drawn a fiejd of forty rideijs, who include' Frank Grose, Theo. Grose, R. Ulmer, O. Disley, L. Soiverby, T. Roe, 13. Lawrence, and T. McCord. A most exciting race is promised, and as the cycle track has recently been put in order, everything promises well for tho event. There will be a full programme of athletic events, and among the competing athletes will be J Fleming, F. 11. Stephenson, W. Crook, W. Ogg, M. Furlong, and G.. Pye., The meeting is to \ commence at 2.15 p.m. The charge for admission to the ground is Is, and to the stand Gd, and unemployed with their cards will be admitted for 6d. ,

Lieut. Desmond' Burke, of Ottawa, who won the King's Prize at Bisley in 1924, and tied for it five years later, only to lose to a fellow-Canadian in the shoot-off, is spending the winter as resident physician to the 1200 inhabitants of historic Wolfe Island, which ' lies in the ' St. Lawrence River opposite Kingston and only a mile from the United States shore (according to a recent Toronto report). Lieut. Burke graduated in medicine from ■ Queen's University at Kingston (Ontario) last year.