CYCLE AND MOTOR NOTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 22, 19 September 1912, Page 3

CYCLE AND MOTOR NOTES.

A big road race, to be bn own a c tlio Dunlop Gold Cup, is to be decided in Victoria on the sth October. Tbr. event is. being subsidised by flie Dunlop Rubber Company, so that Victorian road riders may have a long distance race in place of the annual Warrnambooi which has lapsed this year owin' to governing troubles in Victoi >a. Tin contest is being promoted by the Victorian cycle traders, and will bo held under the rules of the Victorian Road Board. The prize list will be a valuable one, totalling £2lO. The course selected is part of the world-famed Warrnambool route, viz.,' from Camper down to Footscray, a distance of IK miles. ■ • I t. : ! The secretary of tho League (f Nov South, Wales has received communications from several Continental. League's and riders, stating that a numbci of foreign riders contemplate visitin'

Australia for, the six days’ team .race to be held on the Sydney Cridkei Groiuld from December 29th to JaiiUAry 4th. '' "

S'nco. the, re markable J gsdcfe s if df 'tftrt •British -Sunbeam in the small chi* ’division of tho recently decided Grand Pvix at Dieppe (France), 1 there has

been, a decided feeling in English motor in" circles that road racing should again he taken in hand by the Royal Automobile. Club of England, and a

big annual event, hold on, the Tslo of Mlth,' Which' offers a splendid courseonly a few hours from London. A few years hack at 4th race for? the Tourist Trophy was held at this venue on two occasions, and provided a splendid opportunity for the English motor car industry to try out their now designs and models. The opinion is that this form of race should be revived, and the matter will no doubt receive the serious consideration of the English controlling body. The Isle of Man authorities are keenly alive to the value of holding such an event on their course, and would welcome a revival of the “four-inch” race. South Africa recently held its first motor car race over a circuit of 21 miles, which had to be negotiated five times. The course was a typical South African one, over the rough veldt roads south of Johannesburg. Nineteen cars started —handicapped on formula for power and weight. D. H. Sakcr, a well known South African motorist, won on a 12 horse powci Talbot.

What a wonderfully consistent rider F. Kramer—the American champion is! F or ten years he has been right in the front ranks of the world’s best S' sprinters, and during that period ho ri ]ms been the undisputed champion of | America. Last week Kramer added. I the world’s professional champions,hip I to his already long list of successes', I winning this classic blue riband event from the Tamanian crack, A. Grenda, who is riding in splendid form in America. This is the first time Kramer has figured on the roll of world’s champion winners, not because he was incapable of winning tlio blue riband, but owing to his attaching more value | to the American championships, which § yearly clashed with the world s cha.n- ---| pionship meeting, usually decided, in I Europe. This year the championships I were held at ’ Newark (N.Y.) and g Kramer, as predicted in these columns | two weeks ago, duly proved Ids supore iority. Grenda demonstrated what a | fine rider he has developed into by | finishing second in the final. A. J. E; Clark and A. Gonllett did not comI pete at the meeting, being engaged £j racing at Salt Lake City, IJ.S.A. This P is only the second occasion an Ameri- | can has won the world’s sprint hi no p riband since 1900—Ivor Lawson, who tj has raced, in Australia —winning this | classic event in London, 190-1. Ausi tralia- was probably represented in the | amateur sprint championship, dfeidb od at the same meeting, by the New I Smith Wales rider, E. W. Sehnidcr, ji but as no word lias come through hy p. cable as to the result oi this i,ue, | it is almost certain the New South S Wales crack was not placed in the | final. | The latest American files firing word | of a new hatch of world s motor c.M'lo j track records, that have been cstah- ** lished by Hay Seymour ut Lo» Angeles,

California. Tlio new figures are: One mile, 36 4-ss; five miles, 3m 8 2-ss; ton miles, 6m 21 4-ss; 15 miles, 9m 33 l-ss; 20 miles, 12m 52 4-ss; 25 miles, 16m 275; and 30 miles, 20m 21 4-ss.