Cycling and Motoring Notes.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 July 1913, Page 4

Cycling and Motoring Notes.

Ifollowiug are details of the Dunlop Company's projected road race:— 7. PHIZES. The following prizes will be donated by the Dunlop llubber Company :— i>loo for the winning team; £50 for the second team; i>2o for the third. A M 5s gold medal to the individual rider establishing the fastest time for the ten mile relay. £o gold medal to the second fastest relay. £2 2s gold medal to the third fastest relay. Xo rider is to receive more than one medal. The three individual prizes are subject to conditions in Clause 8. Special prizes.— £10 to team leading in contest on ols October: £10 to team leading on 31st January, 1914; £10 10s trophy to Cycling Club providing winning team; such trophy to be the club's property. Trophies will be awarded in the eA'ent of an amateur team being successful. A handsome medallion will be awarded to the members of every team who negotiate the 100 miles in five hours or under; no rider to reseive more than one mcladdion. 8. THE WINNING TEAiI shall be the ten riders of one club who establish the fastest total time in or under the limit of five hours for the 100 miles run, subject to such performance being accepted by the Dunlop Rubber Company, and the same shall apply to the second and third fastest teams. Before a member of any team can qualify for the special prize of £5 5s awarded to the rider establishing fastest time over the out-and-hoine ten miles relay, the team of which he is a member must record five hours or better for the eentury, and the rider's individual performance must comprise one of the sections of that run. 9. The Dunlop Itubber Co. will bo the sole judge of the winners of this sompotition, and their decision will be final. Further, the Company reserve the right of accepting or refusing to accept the performance of any team, provided there is occasion to doubt their bona fides. 10. Clubs must nominate for the competition oil a special form obtainable from The Dunlop llubber Co., and no performance by any team will be recognised unless such entry has been duly signed and received by the Dunlop Rubber Co. from any Club. No entry fees will be charged. 11. Notice of club's intention to make an attempt should when convenient be forwarded to tho Dunlop Rubber Company nr their nearest depot', so that the Company may be represented at the ride, if desired. This is not compulsory. 12. Reports of rides. Club secretaries must fill in the report form after every 100 miles run, and mail copy without delay to the nearest Dunlop depot. The times recorded throughout the Commonwealth and New Zealand will be recorded' in the press from time to time. An effort is being made in New South !\Vales to receive the Bat hurst-Sydney road race, and already substantia J donations have been promised towards this end. This event, a few years back, ranked second in importance to the jjunlop road race from Goulburn to Sydney, and produced some fine contests. It has been definitely decided by . the League o± A.S.W. to this year hold a road race from Tamworth to Newcastle, a distance of 74 miles. The Dunlop Rubber Company have donated £2b as first prize for the event. The race will be the .largest yet held on the road in Australasia and it will probably be held in September or October . The forthcoming Grand Prix motor car race has already been responsible for two fatalities, Messrs Bigio (chief engineer of the Itala Co.) and Arbizzon, both being killed while testing their racers on the French roads. A certain amount of mystery surrrounds the unfortunate accident, for having occurred soon after -"> a.m., there were no witnesses, andj of the two victims, one died almost immediately and the otTfer could give but meagre information. Signer Bigio, who had been connected with the Itala Company about six years, had intended driving one of the firm's care in the Grand Prix, his companions being Nazzaro and Moriando. In company with Moriando and a number of mechanics, Bigio left Turin and proceeded to where the big race is to be decided. As the course is closed to racing cars, tile men had to be satisfied with, goiug round on tcmring models. In order to test out their racer, they proeoedI ed to ■ Brookland6 (Eng.), remained there a few daj-s, and then wont back to l'rance by way of Dieppe. Wishing to fake advantage of the remark-

ably fast roads which formed last year's Grand i'nx course, the Italiaii engineers made arrangements to spend a few days at Dieppe.. To avoid all possibility of trouble with traffic, Siguor Bigio left Dieppe at <S a.m. on tlie morning of the smash-up intending to make one round of the course and then return to town. Soon after passing through the village of Mes-lnlc-Rea.ume, the car overturned, both men being pinned underneath. Although very seriously injured the mechanic , was able to crawl out on his elbows, and laid by the roadside' for more than an hour, when he was observed by a peasant going to work in the fields. The mechanician subsequently succumbed to his injuries.