Cycling.

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 85, 15 February 1902, Page 19

Cycling.

Geoige Sutherland, New Zealand's champion cyclist, is expected to arrive in New Zealand from Australia about the middle of this month. He has a leg-in" for several trophies in this country, and it is stated that he is coming over to endeavour to make them his own. English cycles still lead. The net result of the two big English evele shows has been to once again demonstrate that, as regards evele manufacture. England has not merelv maintained, but increased, her advantage over all other nations. N.ot only have the completed English machines of the newest types gained great lv bv comparison with their foreign rivals, but the remarkable fact has been re-mani-fested that no single new invention applied to the evele of to-dav has come from abroad Although evele racing is not too piosperous in New South Wales, close on £'3o00 w as raced for last vear. The biggest winner in the Mother State was Mai tin— £280. It is almost impossible to over-estim-ate the amount of inconvenience caused to c\chsts by the wiong angle at which main handle grips are placed. It is quite a common thing to see these arrips parallel with the ground, with the result that the rider cannot get a straight pull, but has to bend his wrists in a way which, sooner or later, causes fatigue. The handle errips should be invariably dropped slightly, so that the rider may be able to hold them in a natural grip when pulling straight. A Cmcinatti motorist, named E V. Wilbern, intends making an attempt to motor round the world in three hundred davs. A beautiful calendar is at all times eagerly sought after, but that issued by the Dunlop Tyre Company to the trade this year is such an exceptionally attractive one, representing as it does a beautiful spray of wattle blossoms and autumn leaves tied ud with Dale blue ribbon on a rich chocolate background that one can easily understand the Dunlop Company being besieged for copies. The company now state that thev have reprinted a further thousand co 'es. which will be distributed amongst the first thousand applications that, come through the post A<= no further copies will be printed it is

necessary that those who desire a copy should write for same at once, enclosing a penny stamp for postage, to any of the Dunlop depots. The captain of the Blenheim crew at the late championship regatta has a grievance over the manner in which the Junior Fours race was reported. He states that his crew were leading by o\ or a length from the Kawatiris when then- No. 3 had the misfortune to break his stretcher, and it took the latter orew a considerable amount of rowing to catch his crew even when they had only three men working in the boat. The grievance is that nothing was said in the papers about the stretcher breakin". The details of the race simply stated that Blenheim also started.