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I've just noticed from your list - it was Split's 96th birthday yesterday. Happy Birthday Squire!

Sunday 25 March. Easter Trophy. Won by D Cross, 2nd Stan Bedford, 3rd J Fry From filled in programme.

Göte Nordin was born 2 July 1935. Björn Knutson is a mere youngster, being born on 27 April 1938.

Josef Hofmeister was 85 yesterday. Not sure if that qualifies him yet. I think we need a new up-to-date list.

What!? Now that he's had this year's experience, Bomber will have his set up right next year.

How can you explain to non cricket fans that after a month of playing the team with most points might not be champs?

Yes, I think you're right. He's sorted his set up out now.

He just needed one more race, but sadly there isn't one - at least not for us.

Is it just my imagination or was the set up slightly better there? Just watch him go in the last race!

I can't understand what went wrong there. I was so sure, that Bomber would have his set up right.

One more race and that set up will be sorted....

Quite right. I mean who did riders like Jack Parker, Peter Craven, John Louis, Malcolm Simmons, Peter Collins, Mark Loram think they were representing? All hopeless.

Not long now.....

Not long to wait...Bomber will have his set up right any time now....

I'm quite a bit older!

Harris is not even Ipswich's best English Rider!

One positive for us is that all the other countries are going to use their under 21 rider against us!

25/05 Rye House Scratch Races - CONFIRM DATE & OUTRIGHT WINNER(S) IF ANY 08/06 Rye House - did anything take place? No results are written in the results grid I mentioned on your 1953 Queries.

Rye House Some years ago, I was given a fairly complete set of Rye House results from 1934 to 1973. The three dates you mention are on the grid but no results have been written in. The 31 May Coronation Shield meeting is also left blank. I have the actual programme for the Rye House Championship PR2 dated 13 September. As you say Bedford and Goldfinch are shown as tying but there is no indication of a race off. My set of results gives Bedford as the winner.

I would guess that is correct. The 1954 Stenner's Annual just shows Stoke as having a bye in the fourth round. The Stenner's 1953 Fixture list shows New Cross seeded through to the fourth round along with other first division clubs except Wembley and Birmingham, who were seeded straight through to the quarter finals. But, of course, New Cross had closed by then.

So, I gather it 's a big win for Wolves then. Anyone know the result? I seem to have missed it.

16/06 Harringay Television Trophy Best Pairs - Waterman & Hunt tied on 16 points with Biggs & Young - WAS THERE AN OUTRIGHT WINNER? I have a very neatly filled in copy of the programme for this but there is no run-off race shown nor any comments written in about any outright winner. It just shows England and Australia tied on 16. There is also nothing in the explanation of how the event will work about how first place will be decided in the event of a tie. Ooops, just seen BL65's post. The compiler was obviously more concerned with neatness than accuracy then! Perhaps he or she felt that writing in another race would spoil the look of the programme!

Just for a bit of confirmation. I have some filled in Rye House programmes for 1954. They show the following: 16 May: Rye House 44 Aldershot 39 27 June: Rye House 51 Ringwood 33 11 July Rye House 54 Eastbourne 30 25 July: Rye House 33 California 21 - Match abandoned after Heat 9 8 August: Rye House 41: California 43 (Re-run of abandoned match) 22 August: Rye House 53 Brafield 31 5 September: Rye House 50 Ringwood 34 Heat 11 of 11 July Rye House v Eastbourne shown as 1. Johnny Fry (E) 2. Bill Simpson (RH) 3. Wally Wilson (E) 4(f). Vic Ridgeon (RH)

So anyway, it's like this.....I have almost a full collection of Speedway Stars from 1970 to the early 2000s (there are just one or two missing) which I would like to dispose of as they are now taking up far too much room! I don't want anything for them, so if you'd like to turn up in Colchester and take them away, I would be very happy. I would like the whole lot to go in one go, but I am prepared to break them up a bit, but not too much! Say, in decades. I don't want to dispose of single copies for example. Alternatively has anyone got any ideas about disposal.

Just checking some old Rye House programmes and the final tie, California v. Rye House on 1 July, was originally scheduled to be a League match. It was changed to a Cup Final leg after Rye House and California won their semis. The League match was rescheduled to 16 September. Unfortunately I don't have the programme for 1 July, but later programmes give the result as 61-47 to California...though they also give the result of the home leg on 8 July as 38-40 to California, when it was, in fact, 70-38 to Rye House. So, I guess we can discount their results list!!!