CYCLING.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 352, 20 March 1889, Page 4

CYCLING.

"Pedal" in the "Sportsman" says: — The principal topic among racing men this week is the determination of Mr Tom JBusst to proceed home on his own account now that the Union has decided upon taking no action in reference to a visit of cyclists to England until next year. lie has already applied for the necessary leave, and, all going well, he intends leaving for England in the Britannia in April. But ho is undertaking a very arduous trip in going singlehanded to " beard the lion in his den," and if he comes out of the fray victoriously he is indeed a wonder. For my own part I confess to be a trifle doubtful that he will. Tom Busst's great forte undoubtedly is his ability to stay. The faster a race is run the better he likos it, and when towards the finish the rest have cried enough, it is then that he leaves his field as if they i\ere standing still. But in England, or at any rato in the scratch races, the race is

invariably a waiting ono, which is not to our champion's liking. Such men as Synver and Osmond are wonderful sprinters, and in those events where tho race goes wearily on until the last lap is reached, when the real racing takes place, it will take Tom Busst all he knows to get his wheel in first. If only he had someone in tho race with him to force the pace, thon, like the Yankee, I believe he would "lick creation." And here I think Mr Busat makes a mistake in not waiting until next year, when he would have three or four other riders to accompany him, and between them there is not the slightest doubt they would carry away more than their proportion of the honours. However, as the champion i? determined in going Home in April, I am sure everyone will hope with me that he will have as glorious a career before him a&» did our errand old ex-cham-I pion oarsman, Beach. By the way, while i in England he will remain the guest of Mr J. W. Hudson, the well-known bicycle manufacturer of Elizabeth street, and whose father has a large cycle factory in Leeds. Thus " Bicycling News " : " Half, off' to the Rev. G. Cufle, of Coventry. At a smoking conceit in the cycle cily last Thursday he stated that he had no objection to seeing men going off on Sunday for a ride- on their bicycles or tricycle?. He infinitely preferred it to the sight of half a dozen boys and men crammed into a cart drawn by a binall donkey."