CYCLING.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 275, 23 June 1888, Page 3

CYCLING.

This is troin a Tasmanian exchange:— A»i accidont of an unusual nnfcuro happened at tlio E. A. S. Club's sports, Sydney, recently, during a race, when one of tho competitors throw off his cap. The man following picked it up in his wheel, which whirled it instantly round into the top of the fork. Strange to say, it never upset the machine, and after carrying it some fifty yards, the rider disentangled it, and started in a vain effort to pick up the half-lap ho had fallen behind. When the owner camo round the course to recover t.he lost pioperty, he wanted to know " who the bla/.es had been putting mud on hi.s cap !" The week before la-t (i. Itawsou and .1. Mills had a four-mile race at New Plymouth. Rawson won rather easily. It is likely that another race between JMcssih F. Jackson and F. Denham, who are considered the beat ridors in the town, will come oiTat an early date. D. Li beau, the l New Zeal/mdor' .says, has? given up all hope** of inducing lv. Rolfe to meet him in a bicycle race. Ue has tried e\er\ tiling he could, going to consideiablo oxpense in coming over from Sydney to negotiate a match with Rolfe. but to no effect. He thercfoie thinks in Kolfe'^ default he has a legitimate right to the championship, which ho now claims. He is willing to meet all piofessional or amateiu bicyclists o\ er any distance from one to twenty-five miles for any part of C'iOO a-hide. Thus much for t.he cyclists. He will also walk a-nv man in Australia for from one to twenty -five milc> for the same stake. There is a likelihood of T. Husst, the crack Victorian anuiteiu, joining the pro fe^sional ranks. He is understood to have intimated that, if Libeau would race him for ClOO a-^itle, he would be inclined to make a match.