GRASSHOPPERS GIVE TROUBLE AT RACE MEETING
AD KLAIDK, .Tan. Z. Flying grasshoppers were so dense at M'O'itpheitville raeecourse that a irovel test was made to decide whether the traek was safe. Three- offieials mounted on raeehorses made a preliininary circtnt. The stewards then declared the eourse safe, but gave the ;joe keys perlnission to vrear goggles as a proteet'ion against t'he. grasshoppers. Flying ijrests also e-aused ti'ouble «Jt a motor race meeting at Lobenthal, 'Wh'ere the eompe'ti'tors compTeted the events n.'th their maehines eovered with a thiek layer of erushed grasshoppers.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 January 1948, Page 5
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91GRASSHOPPERS GIVE TROUBLE AT RACE MEETING Chronicle (Levin), 3 January 1948, Page 5
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