CIRCULAR ROAD RACE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 45, 15 August 1911, Page 7

CIRCULAR ROAD RACE.

i ROUND MOUNT EGMONT. 1 Thursday's "Round the Mountain" circular road race is attracting increased interest as the convincing day draws near. The course—from New Plymouth to Eltham via Opunake, and from Eltham to New Plymouth, (via Lepperton)—is about 110 miles. Competitors who have traversed it during the past week or two report thait the road is for the most part in excellent order, and, given fine weather, fast times should he put up. The prize money is the largest offered in any road race in Australasia to daite. There -will lie eighty starters, and these include all the loading road-racers in the Australasian colonies. No other circular cycle road race route of anything like this length is known, and, because of the fact that at the first time of asking there has been such excellent responses on the part of cyclists,. it is hoped that the Taranaki Circular Rood Race will become an annual fixture. For this, of course, a liberal support on the pant of the pulblic is required. Each succeeding race must be the means of bringing a large aimount of "foreign capital" in, and New Plymouth must benefit considerably. The race will start from Messrs. Burgess, Fraser and Co.'s warehouse, Gill street, the limit men leaving at 8.30 a.m., and the scratch men at 9.20 a.m. Every competitor who is not in the , Drill Hall at least thirty minutes before his starting-time will be penalised. The checking of the competitors, serving out of food, numbers, and check tags, and the sealing of the 'bicycles, et<\, will be done in the Drill Hall. The race will finish at the Sports Ground, where a seven-a-side Rugby tournament will be held to entertain the spectators waiting for the finish of the race. The handsome challenge cup presented by the Britannia Tvre Company 'for the l winner of the race will arrive in Now Plymouth to-night. It will be exhibited, with all the other prizes, in Messrs. Morey and Son's windows, Devon street.