MOTOR CYCLING
BRITISH SUCCESS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 16. Stanley AVcods, who won the Junior Tourist Trophy, won the senior race to-day, for macnines of 500 c.c. maximum engine* capacity. Woods won the same double honours last year. He rode a Norton motor-cycle. Twenty-nine ,i;iders contested to-day’s race over the mountain course, a total distance of 264 miles. The foreign competitors v/jre outd,ac,.sed. Woodp led throughout and finished in 3hr. 15min. 35sec., averaging. 81.04 miles an hour.
Simpson, on a Norton, was second, averaging 80.41 miles 'an hour. Hunt, on a Norton, was third as an average of, 79.49 miles an hour. The lap record was broken three times during tlie race, and in now held by Weeds, whose speed for a single circuit represented 82.7 miles miles an hour. Moses (New Zealand) retired in the first lap. AWARD FOR NEW ZEALANDER. (Received this day at 10,10 a.m.) LONDON, June 17. Moses (New Zealand) was presented wdth the Nisbet Award, for pluck and endurance in the tourist trophy races.
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