TWENTY DISQUALIFIED

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1044, 7 August 1930, Page 10

TWENTY DISQUALIFIED

CINDER TRACK RACERS AT BLANDFORD PARK NEW SPEEDWAY CONTROL Special to THE SUN WANGANUI,. Wednesday. The New Zealand Auto Cycle Union at its annual meeting yesterday disqualified several riders for having taken part in cinder track events at Blandford Park Stadium. Auckland during the past year. Names and periods of disqualification imposed are fellow:—Charles Goldberg, Cyril D. "Walker. Hugh Stephenson, international disqualification for the 1930-31 season (May to June); A. Lemon. T. ißlomfield. L. Coulthard, L. G. Curtic, disqualified from racing until January if 4, 1931, inclusive; R. M. Moorcraft, Cedric Taylor, A. McLaren, Keith Teats, H. A. Richards, E. S. Brooker, B. Cuthbertson, C. Yeats, B Smith, L. A. Sowerby, Herbert IT. Wood, P. Butler and R. Bull, until December 20. 3 930, inclusive. Motor-cycle racing was placed on what might be described as a newfooting at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Auto Cycle Union* a* Marton today, when a decision to affiliate with the Auto Cycle Union of England was confirmed. This will mean that any arrangement entered into with the Auto Cycle Council of Australia will 1 mse and one effect of the new affiliati n will be that the New Zealand Speedways’ Association will cease to act as the body to receive and deal with the applications of any speedways for affiliation. The licensing of tracks will be left solely to the N.Z.A.C.U., but speedway bodies wi'l , still be able to make their own arrangement with regard to the interchange of riders with Australia and : England. Criticism of the manner in which ; the N.Z.A.C.U. delegates were re- | eeived by the Australian Council in | Sydney was made by the president of the Dominion body. Mr. W. A. Spragg. of Hawera, who said that, on their av- ; rival at Sydney, they were made 1o ; n eel they were not wanted. Bland- I ford Park was represented separately j at the conference. “We were put on a back landing, I where we paced up and clown, while | the Australian Auto Cycle Council held a council of war. Then I v. a s put in the witness box and cross-exam-ined. I felt like a criminal in the end. j New Zealand’s application was granted, but we did not know of our affiliation with England and what progress had been made in that direction ” Mr. Spragg stated that the New south Wale§ delegates’ attitude bad been belittling to New Zealand, but that every courtesy had been received from Victoria.