GROSE'S FORM

NZ Truth, Issue 1215, 14 March 1929, Page 14

GROSE'S FORM

Experiences Some Reversals

(From "N.Z. Truth's", Special Athletic Writer.) Why Frank Grose can't pedal a cycle as fast and as • well m Christchurch nowadays as he can m Wellington is a little matter on which the psychologists might care to" experiment. TN the southern town the ex-triple N.Z. champion is easy pickings for one or two riders. Put- him on a Wellington track 1 ; however, and he is the Grose of old. J All his dash comes back; .all the determination of a good' rider is m evidence and the -opposition goes • down like corn -before the reaper. Can it •be .• that , the influence of friends, supporters or others interferes with Frank's complex m Christchurch, or has it come about that'.. he!: is^under what '.the Americans' term ■ the "Indian sign"? Whatever it is; Grose m Wellington is ' far superior to Grose •m dhristchurch. .This he has" amply demonstrated on, more than' one occasion, the latest being at the big Petone meeting. I Faced with his Canterbury rival and conqueror, "O'Brien, ' and the cream of the local talent, including Gane, Flett, Pearce and Carswell, Grose showed them just exactly where the bus stop was. . He rode m his very best Grosean manner as approved by all- the leading critics of _ Petone. He takes back the Laykold Cup to adorn the ancestral sideboard.