WOMAN BROADSIDER

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 876, 21 January 1930, Page 6

WOMAN BROADSIDER

MISS TAYLOUR’S RECORD One of the most brilliant women riders on the cinder track, Miss Fay Taylour, is among the stars who have been engaged to ride at the Western Springs Stadium. Miss Taylour, who is now riding with conspicuous success in New South Wales, is expected to appear in Auckland about March next. Her appearance at the Penrith Speedway on New Year’s Day was a memorable one, and her performance in the scratch race was one of the most exciting incidents of the evening. Since her arrival' in Australia she has added a number of successes to her list.

When she rode in Adelaide at the end of last season, Miss Taylour put up the fastest time for the track that season, and also defeated the South Australian champion, Keith Litchfield, in a special match race. This intrepid broadsider will ride in Wellington early next month and will appear at Western Springs before the end of February.

Other international stars to ride on this track are Frank Pearce, holder of the world’s mile record, who will appear on Saturday week, and Charlie Spinks, another Australian, who will compete at the Stadium on February 8. These two have been making the cinders fly at the Kilbirnie Stadium, where Spinks made a Dominion record of lmin 20sec on Saturday in the Gold Helmet event, which he won. Pearce’s record was made at Davies Park, Brisbane, where he covered a mile in lmin lOsec. Before Easter a team of three English riders will arrive in the Dominion and they, too, will be seen at Western Springs. The racing on Saturday night was under the control of the Australian crack, Jimmy Datson, who was injured some weeks ago, and events were run off promptly and efficiently. Datson hopes to be riding again within a fortnight, and it is probable that Cass Goodwin, who has been nursing a broken collarbone, will be back on the cinders again at the same time. At Saturday’s meeting Lionel von Praag was riding a new machine, a Peashooter Harley, and, had not his mount been slow to start on several occasions, he would certainly have headed the field easily. Ben Bray rode a track Douglas in the final of the Open Handicap, his own machine having been smashed in an earlier event. He won easily, but his time, lmin 43 l-ssec, suggests that his handicap of 3isec is not too large. Bill Allen rode exceptionally well until the skid which resulted in a broken bone in his left ankle. He hopes to be on the cinders aghin shortly, however.