BOBBATH
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Like who??-can't think of any offhand e.g. Eddie Jancarz was murdered by his wife.
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Anybody know how old he was-this is ghoulish I know, but I can think of only one other World Finalist who committed suicide if indeed VP killed himself- and that's Kenny Carter
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Recall Jim's buddy Gordon Guasco-I think they both started at Sunderland in 64 and went to Wolves when the Saints closed down
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Definitely Airey
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Blimey-that's a name from the past-George Glen struck me as a salt of the earth type speedway rider-recall him riding for the Diamonds in the early sixties.Everybody who knew him liked him- a fatherly sort.Please tell George's son that he is still remembered with affection even as far away as Canada and that he should be proud of his old man!!!!
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Would be interested in reading this book, do you know where I could order it from.??
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Hi Tony, do subscriptions to Vintage Speedway automatically carry over into the new mag.Looking forward to receiving it as my period of interest is the fifties and sixties. By the way greatly enjoyed your Kenny Carter book after all the fuss I made about it on this website.Mea culpa and keep up the good work.
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Recall Eric??-was in the first ever BL race I think for CH.Anybody know how he is these days??
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George Wilks was a mainstay of Wembley in the glory years-tended to think of him and Bill Gilbert in the same context(altho I think Bill got to the World Final once)-a thread on another site about Bill got me thinking about George-anyone remember him, have details on his career and is he still alive(I presume no).Over to you Norbold and other members of forumland.
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Re porkies-or like Hillary Clinton being under sniper fire in Bosnia, or like Cherie Blair coming from a poor background in Liverpool!!
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I thought that both Gerald Pugh and Hugh Geddes had passed away-but I've been wrong before!
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Surely Ken Adams has passed away-and surely someone must know re Cyril Roger-he must be in his mid eighties now.
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I thought of Rick France-I recall the 1967 World Final where he got to-did he have an accident later then??
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Is Reg Reeves still alive??
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Good for Bob-he proves 60 is the new 40!!!
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A post on the thread of F riders by FASTGATER mentioned that Cyril Francis was in the first race he had ever seen, got me thinking of this.The first race I ever saw was at Newport in 1964(Sat 13th June) heat one Southern League v. Long Eaton.It was a 5-1 to Newport, Alby Golden won it and broke the track record finishing ahead of Jon Erskine, Ken Adams and John Mills. I kept the program all these years which is how I know-anybody else have similar memories??
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Roy Bester-South Africa, Malcolm Brown definitely English
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Are any of the members of the original 1948 team still with us Al.This will be a great event that is being organised.
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Not so difficult as you might think-e.g. John MILLS-one vowel and four consonants-assume you meant starting with a vowel!!!
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Thanx Al Stewart for updating us re Don-didn't realise he lived in Oz-glad he is still with us-how old do you reckon he is??
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OK folks(particularly dons67) I can confirm that Maurie rode in 1966 also. He rode for Oxford and his average was 25 meetings in BL with a CMA of 5.16.He seems to have improved over 1965-the question is -was 1967 his last ever season.If so his career spanned 16 years or so which isn't half bad.Anyone know when MM passed away??One of the unsung heroes of our sport.
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Interesting dantodan-I don't recall that -I am sure post war the numbers were always on the back
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Maurie McDermott was definitely English-a Londoner I think. Also Ian- re Seery's stats-is the same method of calculation used today for Riders Averages??? By the way glad we are talking about Maurie-great to see his name mentioned and bet he would be tickled to hear of us picking over the bones of his long ago Speedway career.Thanx for bringing his name forward folks.