Cycling.

Free Lance, Volume IV, Issue 207, 18 June 1904, Page 17

Cycling.

AH anangements m connection with the Manawatu test race, to choose a district representative foi the TimaiuOhristchuich load race are non completed. A senes of three events over a couise of seventy-five miles, has been decided upon. It is reported that Barrow, last yearS wmnei of the TimaiuChristchurch race, and who represented the Manawatu district, will be unable to oompete in this year's event, on account of ill-health The Auckland test race will be over a course of one hundred and thirty-sax miles, the Manawatu 1 ace is some seventy-six miles, the Otago race' fiftvsix miles, the Southland test sixty miles, and advice from the othei centres is still to come in. The fight foi the £7.so— first prize in the Sydney Thousand Wheel Race—^ias been advanced a stage in Sydney. The matter came before the Supreme Court, and the piesiding judge held that the case was simply one of Loibett versus O'Brien. The promoters paid the £750 into court, which will now be contended for bv_ Corbet*, who won the race, and was disqualified for collusion, and O'Bnen, who finished second, and was awai ded the race on appeal . The promoters of the sensational cycling matches between MacFarland and 1 Taylor and Lawson and Taylor, held at the Melbourne Exhibition Track last February, have issued a wut against the Leftqnie of Victorian Wheelmen for the return of £75 lodged with that body as stakes for the La.wsonTaylor match, which wew c never concluded, owitiq: to Tavlor's «• -i,sh-un in one of the heats and Law«o^'s> subsequent disqualification for foul ridinor W. McDonald made am unsuccessful attemnt to secure the five miles Australasian pneed record ! in Rvd<nev twn ■wepk*. aero but failed owino- to Wp lan scorei malcine a mistake, and running a