CYCLING
CABLE NEWS
(United Press Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
SIX DAYS' RACE ADVERSE wi/VTHER CONDITIONS. (Received Last Night, 9.10 o'olock.) SYDNEY, January 5. TBue cyclists iin the sax days' race Slave encountered the worst possible weather conditions. In the mornrimg the soura tempera-tua-e reached 154 degrees', and this wa® accompanied jy a str»ng hot wind. Efcurly in the afternoon a thunderstorm lxroke, and rain, deluged the 'track. The riders donned weird protecting garments*, from oil skints to blankets. Some carried open umibrellas. Thie rain continuied all the after-, mooro, and the riding wa© very sfiow. Mian-y of the competitors 'became tmusolie-bound, necessitating cxxntiiil- - maasagiitng. ■Seventeen- liundired aind ten miles had been covered ~y 5 o'clock.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10519, 6 January 1912, Page 5
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113CYCLING Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10519, 6 January 1912, Page 5
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