CYCLING.
f!OUI,BOT T RN-SYDXEY RACE. [by TEIiF.QRArH - I>ER TRESS ASSOCIATION.! SYDNEY, September 19. Yesterday tile Melbourne to Sydney eyrie road rare tvas run. Tlie distance usually, has been one of 129 miles, but it was on this occasion increased to 135 miles, owing to the road.s being under repair. The going over the first fifty miles was very bad. but afterwards it. was excellent. * Seventy riders started in the amateur, race mid fifty-nine, including the New Zealander, Nicholson, in the League of Wheelmen's race. R. AY. Lamb scratch (of Victoria) won for the second year in succession, doing the distance in seven hours thirteen minutes. NY. Rucklaml (New South NValcsi with fifteen minutes’ start, was second in 7 hours 23 minutes Isee. E. Jones (N.S.W.) with seven'.minutes’ start was third in 7 hours. 25 minutes, 35 seconds. A protest was entered by Ruekland on the ground that Lamb had changed machines during the race with another competitor. The protest will he decided on Wednesday. The League of Wheelmen’.s race resulted:— R. A. Munro (forty minutes’ start) was first in 7 hours 15 minutes. Ken Ross (scratch) was second in 7 hours 13 minutes 45 seconds. TI. Williamson (twenty-three minutes’ start) was third in 7 hours 36 minutes, 47 seconds. Ail the placed men belong to New South Wales.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1926, Page 4
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218CYCLING. Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1926, Page 4
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