MOTORCYCLING
VETERAN KILLED (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright), LONDON, June 14. The veteran, • Frank Longman, winner in 1923, crashed in the first lap of the Tourist Trophy race at the Isle of Man, and was killed. “This is t 0 be my last race,” was Longman’s tragic prophecy to his wife, hitherto his mascot in twentyfour, races, who unprecedentedly remained at home with her two children Longman was competing to-day for old times’ sake, and crashed into a bridge, breaking the forksprings, which lie patched with wire. He continued,' but tell again, iand finally smashed into a wall on a lonely rdad. He was found unconscious with his spine fractured.
TOURIST TROPHY RACE RUGBY, June 14. Cleave, riding an Excelsior motorcycle, won the Tourist Trophy lightweight race, over a* mountain course at the Isle of Man. llis average speed was 71.59 miles an hour.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1933, Page 6
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