Conisbrough Cyclists Accept £5 “Challenge” By Their President

A Former member of Conisbrough Ivanhoe Cycling Club, now women’s National Cycling Champion and Best 1957 All-Rounder, Mrs. Iris Miles, presented prizes at the annual dinner of Conisbrough Ivanhoe Cycling Club in Doncaster Plant Works Athletic Club at Hexthorpe on Saturday.

Mr. C. J. Pickett. M.C.. M.B.E., president of the club, offered a prize worth £5 to the first club member to cover 25 miles in less than one hour. The club record for the ’25’ is 1 hour 1 minute, 19 secs., and the “challenge” was readily accepted.

Mr. Pickett said the club had excelled itself this year. He said three parties had toured the Continent and two club records, the ’10’ and the ’25,’ had been broken. As records showed, the younger ones were better now than their fathers were. He said the club was a progressive one and a cycling club was good to keep young people together. He said It seemed a success to bring the annual dinner to Hexthorpe as Conisbrough Welfare Pavilion was not big enough (over 100 members and guests attended the dinner).

Mr. J. Woodward (Don Valley C.C.) proposed “Conisbrough Dan-hoe Cycling Club.” He said the club had at present no champions but they had made them in the past and there were some good youngsters coming on.

The club records broken this year were 10 miles T.T. by S. Ryan (23 Mins. 57 secs.) and the 25 miles T.T. by B. Breedon (1 hour 1 min. 19 secs.).