UPROAR AT SPEEDWAY
AUSTRALIAN ASSAILED. LONDON TRACK INCIDENT. LONDON, July 14. A violent disturbance occurred at Wimbledon Speedway track, 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 compete in a special match arranged for four riders. The 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 the officials van Praag and his team-mate Frank Charles, left for the dressingrooms. The crowd shouted at them and threw missiles into the pit af them. They 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 the stadium until the wildly clamouring crowd outside had dispersed. The crowd, unable to get van Praag tore the radiator from the car of “Ginger” Lee, a. team-mate, smashed the glass and kicked in the panels.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 250, 3 August 1937, Page 5
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187UPROAR AT SPEEDWAY Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 250, 3 August 1937, Page 5
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