SPEEDWAY EARNINGS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 66, 10 December 1937, Page 8

SPEEDWAY EARNINGS

£15,000 in Five Years Lean, black-haired Jack Milne, speeck way champion of the world, is the envy of half-a-million men and dare-devil darling of every woman speedway fan. At 28 he receives more adulation than any film star.. Milne .talks in a slow, Californian drawl, and this is what he had to tell a London reporter ahout himself: "I figure I'll be through at 31 or 32. Maybe a year or go longer, but certainly not more, and I've got to earn enougfc money by that time.to buy a business and retire with my wife. Yes# I m married, and my wif e comes to watch me race — and- emjoys it. "tt he keeps at the top of his form a speedway rider can earn ' between £10,000 and £15,000 in five or six years, and that 's all the time I give him at championship form. ' ' Don 't f orget for six months • of the year he's got to risk his neck at three or four meetings a week. "But I'll know the very minute when my riding days have, come- to an end," he told me quietly. /'The first second I start to feel cautipus I shall quit. There. is only one way on the speedway— to. be on the tip top " of your form or right out of the game. The moment you lose your touch you rnust get Out." > \