daveallan81 330 Posted July 25, 2019 I have quite a few to tidy up here so I'll start with the 'main' queries: 23/03 Aldershot Easter Cup - Abandoned heat 3 - REASON FOR ABANDONMENT (HEAT TIMES DON'T POINT TO RAIN SO WOULD LIKE CLARIFICATION) 26/04 Long Eaton v Aldershot Juniors 31-53 - CONFIRM DATE POSSIBLY 26/05? 26/05 Norwich v Glasgow (Nat. Trophy) Abandoned heat 3 - rain - CONFLICTING INFO RE. SCORE AT THE TIME 15-03 OR 14-04 04/06 Exeter World Championship QR - Hardy & Sargeant tied on 13 - ANY OUTRIGHT WINNER? 11/08 Long Eaton v Cradley Heath Rained off - CONFIRM DATE & EVENT 11/08 Swindon v Wolverhampton (NL Div. 2) Rained off - CONFIRM DATE And these which are all Southampton home related: 23/03 Southampton Charles Knott Trophy - Winner Harry (?) Edwards - CONFIRM DATE & WINNER 06/04 Southampton v Oxford (South Shield) Rained off - CONFIRM DATE 18/05 Southampton v Norway 60-23 - CONFIRM DATE & RESULT 19/06 Southampton v Ex-Saints 42-42 - CONFIRM DATE & RESULT 10/07 Southampton World Championship QR Winner ? Oakley - CONFIRM DATE & WINNER 21/07 Southampton Gala Of Sport - CONFIRM DATE & ANY RESULT(S) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nodlew 15 Posted July 25, 2019 (edited) The Birmingham Daily Gazette of 13 August 1951 stated that the challenge match between Long Eaton and Cradley Heath was cancelled due to the heavy rain. It went on to say that Torrential rain flooded Swindon’s track causing the postponement of the Third Division match against Wolverhampton. When I am back home next week, I will check my Long Eaton programmes for before and after the 11th to confirm this date. Edited July 25, 2019 by Nodlew 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nodlew 15 Posted July 25, 2019 I have a blank 26 April Long Eaton v Aldershot Juniors programme. Again I will check my programme collection next week. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BL65 656 Posted July 25, 2019 (edited) 19 hours ago, daveallan81 said: I have quite a few to tidy up here so I'll start with the 'main' queries: 23/03 Aldershot Easter Cup - Abandoned heat 3 - REASON FOR ABANDONMENT (HEAT TIMES DON'T POINT TO RAIN SO WOULD LIKE CLARIFICATION) The press reported that several Football League matches were postponed or abandoned on 23rd March (Good Friday) because of rain, snow and muddy conditions. The speedway meeting at Bristol was reported to have taken place when the weather cleared up after pouring rain all day had saturated the track. At Harringay, the racing was described as reasonably good in the rain soaked conditions. The Leicester meeting was described as good, considering the condition of the track. West Ham's meeting took place following torrential rain an hour or so before the match. The meeting at Southampton took place on a wet track. The Plymouth meeting took place under atrocious conditions according to reports. It seems highly likely that the meeting at Aldershot started in acceptable conditions but then succumbed to the rain, which appears to have been widespread across the country. 26/04 Long Eaton v Aldershot Juniors 31-53 - CONFIRM DATE POSSIBLY 26/05? 26th April, 31-53 (Speedway News, Speedway Gazette)26/05 Norwich v Glasgow (Nat. Trophy) Abandoned heat 3 - rain - CONFLICTING INFO RE. SCORE AT THE TIME 15-03 OR 14-04 Speedway News recorded 15-3, but Bryan Tungate recorded 14-4 on his Norwich file, I have a programme which also shows the score as 14-4 and contemporary newspapers recorded the score as 14-4 at the time of abandonment.04/06 Exeter World Championship QR - Hardy & Sargeant tied on 13 - ANY OUTRIGHT WINNER? Sargeant beat Hardy in a run-off (Speedway Gazette)11/08 Long Eaton v Cradley Heath Rained off - CONFIRM DATE & EVENT 11th August, Challenge (local press)11/08 Swindon v Wolverhampton (NL Div. 2) Rained off - CONFIRM DATE 11th August, re-staged on 15th August (local press)23/03 Southampton Charles Knott Trophy - Winner Harry (?) Edwards - CONFIRM DATE & WINNER Harry Edwards (Walthamstow) 15 pts (Speedway News, Speedway Gazette)06/04 Southampton v Oxford (South Shield) Rained off - CONFIRM DATE 6th April (programme was used for the re-staging on 13th April)18/05 Southampton v Norway 60-23 - CONFIRM DATE & RESULT 18th May, 60-23 (Speedway News, Speedway Gazette)19/06 Southampton v Ex-Saints 42-42 - CONFIRM DATE & RESULT 19th June, 42-42 (Speedway Gazette) 10/07 Southampton World Championship QR Winner ? Oakley - CONFIRM DATE & WINNER 10th July, Tom Oakley (New Cross) 15 pts (Speedway News) Edited July 26, 2019 by BL65 Updated information. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daveallan81 330 Posted July 27, 2019 Excellent, thanks. These are all Rye House home queries, anything anyone can do much appreciated: 25/03 Easter Trophy - CONFIRM DATE & RESULT 08/04 Date only - ANY FIXTURE TAKE PLACE? 06/05 Date only - ANY FIXTURE TAKE PLACE? 20/05 Best Pairs Winners abbreviated to Gen/Den - CONFIRM DATE & RESULT 17/06 Reds v Blues v Whites v Yellows Winners Whites - CONFIRM DATE & RESULT W/SCORING IF POSSIBLE 01/07 Date only - ANY FIXTURE TAKE PLACE? 08/07 Date only - ANY FIXTURE TAKE PLACE? 15/07 Date only - ANY FIXTURE TAKE PLACE? 05/08 Reds v Blues v Whites v Yellows Winners Yellows - CONFIRM DATE & RESULT W/SCORING IF POSSIBLE 16/09 Four Team - CONFIRM DATE & RESULT W/SCORING IF POSSIBLE Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
norbold 7,106 Posted July 27, 2019 (edited) Sunday 25 March. Easter Trophy. Won by D Cross, 2nd Stan Bedford, 3rd J Fry From filled in programme. Edited July 27, 2019 by norbold 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BL65 656 Posted July 30, 2019 On 7/27/2019 at 11:51 AM, daveallan81 said: 20/05 Best Pairs Winners abbreviated to Gen/Den - CONFIRM DATE & RESULT 05/08 Reds v Blues v Whites v Yellows Winners Yellows - CONFIRM DATE & RESULT W/SCORING IF POSSIBLE 20th May Best Pairs, Ronnie Genz and Eric Dench. 5th AugustReds (Butler, J Codling, Young, Bason res) 7 Blues (Cross, Maidment, Applegate, Dench res) 14 Whites (Flower, B Codling, Croombs) 17 Yellows (Genz, Swain, Knight) 21 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daveallan81 330 Posted August 15, 2019 The remaining 1951 queries: 25/03 California v The Rest - RESULT 08/04 California - Date only - ANY FIXTURE TAKE PLACE? 16/09 California v Beachcombers - RESULT 14/10 California - Date only - ANY FIXTURE TAKE PLACE? 11/10 Oxford - Open - ANY FIXTURE TAKE PLACE? 18/10 Oxford - Date only - ANY FIXTURE TAKE PLACE? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BL65 656 Posted August 15, 2019 1 hour ago, daveallan81 said: 11/10 Oxford - Open - ANY FIXTURE TAKE PLACE? 18/10 Oxford - Date only - ANY FIXTURE TAKE PLACE? The souvenir programme for the meeting on 4th October stated on the front cover that it was the FINAL MEETING of the season. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted September 1, 2019 (edited) On 7/27/2019 at 11:06 PM, norbold said: Sunday 25 March. Easter Trophy. Won by D Cross, 2nd Stan Bedford, 3rd J Fry From filled in programme. It was interesting to see Johnnie Fry placed third at this meeting. He came from Forest Gate in London's East End. Suffice to say about him that in more than one outside speedway he was one of the area's characters. He was around the speedway scene for some years, mainly in second-half races at various tracks, although in 1954 he did for a while hold down a team place with Eastbourne in the old Southern Area League. Johnnie also came to prominence in the mid-1950s as a stock car driver, racing mainly at West Ham. As a driver his track name was the 'Cisco Kid. Edited September 1, 2019 by Guest Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
