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AUSTRALASIAN ROAD
'. RECORDS. ''
Broadbent Breake the SG and
WO MHCB.
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0. B, Broadbeot bad broken Che -fifty inileB
AhitralMiaxi iroefi record 'in 3hr 24min.
Meagre ''details wore to hand ..then, and,
through & mistake in ft wire, an error of
left piinntoB arose. Ike time Wfts 2bi
34min, for the fifth time, Broad
bent has pat op a new reeord for the
distance. The coarse was from "Wools-
thorpe to Arse miles past Oarainut. Then
back through Mortkuoe to within a few
miles of EUenlis and back to Mortlako
again, a distance of 50£ miles. The
record was properly checked by four
different persons.
Last Tuesday Broadbent made an
attack on the 100 miles Australasian re
cord. held by A. J. Body, of New Zealand,
in 6 hours 4min. He started from VfBii-
nambool, aud rode 100 miles straight ont
to Great Western in Ghr 45min. He
was nnpaced right through, and had
made no feeding arrangements. Xn addi
tion be punctured twice, and had to stop
to repair the tyre. Both these records
are really sterling performances, and,
under tbe circumstances, are exception
ally meritorious. Broadbent has always
been Australia's foremost road record
breaker, and teems to be gifted with
more pace and stamina than ever.
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