BICYCLE ROAD RACE
MELBOURNE TO WARRNAMBOOL WON BY A VICTORIAN. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) MELBOURNE, October 15. Two hundred and eighty-three started in the bicycle road race. • The weather was fine, though there were blinding clouds of dust. The roiads, were good to Geelong, but afterwards j became patchy. There was a great finish, the result being -as follows : Collins (Vic.), 34 mins 1 Tebbs, (Vie.), 42 mins 2 Lessing, (Vic.), 40 mins 3 Hughes, (Vic.), 34 mins 4 Staney, (Vie.), 44 mins 5 The five first men finished in a bunch, Coljins securing the victory by half a wheel in Bhrs 45mins llsecs. Lessing entered a protest against Collins, alleging that the latter caught hold of his saddle in the final sprint. O'Shea, the New Zealander, scratch man, put up the fastest time, doing the distance in Bhrs 18mins 44secs.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10450, 16 October 1911, Page 5
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142BICYCLE ROAD RACE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10450, 16 October 1911, Page 5
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