UPROAR AT SPEEDWAY.
AUSTRALIAN ASSAILED. A violent disturbance occurred at Wimbledon Speedway track, recently, the Australian champion, Lionel van Praag, being assailed with missiles. As top-scorers in a match between the Wimbledon and Wembley teams, five riders qualified to Competo in a special match arranged for four riders. Tho Wimbledon officials asked all five to compete, but van Praag, as the Wembley captain, maintained that the track was dangerous for more than four. After a heated argument with tho officials van Praag and his team-mate, Frank Charles, left for the dressing rooms. The crowd shouted at them and threw missiles into the pit at them. Thev eventually rode under protest, van* Praag winning, with a jar of bath salts, which someone had hurled, tucked in his pocket. When he returned he again met with a hostile reception, and the officials cleared the ground. Van Praag remained in tho stadium until tho wildly clamouring crowd outside had dispersed." The crowd, unable to get van Praag, tore the radiator from the cur of “Ginger” Lee, a team-mate, smashed the glass and kicked in tho panels.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 29 July 1937, Page 9
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183UPROAR AT SPEEDWAY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 29 July 1937, Page 9
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