1949 Queries

[daveallan81]

These are in track order (updated):

21/08 Rye House Best Pairs - Tie between M. Wood & J. Rodwell and J. Wright & T. Lack - ANY OUTRIGHT WINNER?

09/10 Rye House Four Team - DATE, COMPETING TEAMS & RESULT

23/10 Rye House - date only - did anything take place?

17/04 California Individual winner: ? Peck - CONFIRM DATE, EVENT NAME & WINNER

19/06 California California Trophy - Tie between Billy Newell & Gerald Jackson - CONFIRM DATE & ANY OUTRIGHT WINNER

25/09 California - date only - did anything take place?

21/07 Edinburgh Press Charity Gala Sports Night scratch races - ANY OUTRIGHT WINNER?

16/07 High Beech v Bishops Stortford - DATE & RESULT

16/07 Hull - date only - did anything take place?

21/05 Rayleigh World Championship QR - Tie between Alan Hunt & Will Lowther - ANY OUTRIGHT WINNER?

15/05 Rye House Best Pairs - CONFIRM DATE & WINNERS

05/06 Rye House Whitsun Trophy - CONFIRM DATE & WINNER

15/05 Southampton - practice - winner: Welch - CONFIRM DATE, EVENT NAME & WINNER

29/03 Southampton Charles Knott Trophy - winner ? Oakley - CONFIRM DATE & WINNER

10/05 Southampton North v South 36-48 - CONFIRM DATE & RESULT

05/07 Southampton  World Championship QR - winner Fred Tuck - CONFIRM DATE & WINNER

16/08 Southampton Inter-Track Best Pairs - winners May & Boyd - CONFIRM DATE & WINNERS

04/10 Southampton Leg Trailers v Foot Forward 34-50 - CONFIRM DATE & RESULT

11/10 Southampton Pre-War v Post-War 43-41 - CONFIRM DATE & RESULT

08/08 Wimbledon World Championship QR - Tie between Aub Lawson & George Wilks - ANY OUTRIGHT WINNER?

Edited September 7, 2019 by daveallan81
Update

[arnieg]

9 hours ago, daveallan81 said:

These are in track order:

17/04 California Individual winner: ? Peck - CONFIRM DATE, EVENT NAME & WINNER

19/06 California California Trophy - Tie between Billy Newell & Gerald Jackson - CONFIRM DATE & ANY OUTRIGHT WINNER

25/09 California - date only - did anything take place?

 

California Queries

17/4 was a team challenge: East 47 West 52 (Wokingham Times 22/4) followed by a 5 race second half (4 heats with winners to final). The May 1 programme notes Peck 15 points (Sims 12, Harrison 12, Nailor 12, Leonard 11) as the top point scorers on 17 April - this includes second half races making it likely (but not 100% certain) that Peck won the second half

19/6 CT was held over three rounds. Th filled in programme I have shows no evidence of a run-off and the prog for round 2 says: "top point scorers from round 1: Jackson and Newell 12, runners-up..."

25/9 Previous two programmes advertised future dates as 25/9 and 16/10. 2 Oct: CT Champ R3 (prog dated 2 Oct) so it looks as if this was simply rescheduled for a week later than originally planned.

Incidentally overall result:  Newell 41, Sims 33, Jackson 32, Peck 30, Harrison 29, Davies 23 (2 rnds), Leonard 21 (2 rnds)

[Sotonian]

Southampton 1949

15/05 Southampton - practice - winner: Welch - CONFIRM DATE, EVENT NAME & WINNER

Did you mean 15/03 ? The 29/03 programme refers to a practice meeting on 17/03 so I reckon that would be the date. 

29/03 Southampton Charles Knott Trophy - winner ? Oakley - Date correct, Winner Bob Oakley 13pts 

10/05 Southampton North v South 36-48 - Date & result confirmed

05/07 Southampton  World Championship QR - winner Fred Tuck - Date correct, Winner Fred Tuck 14pts

16/08 Southampton Inter-Track Best Pairs - winners May & Boyd - Date correct, Winners Charlie May & Jim Boyd 23pts (May 10, Boyd 13)

04/10 Southampton Leg Trailers v Foot Forward 34-50 - Date & result confirmed

11/10 Southampton Pre-War v Post-War 43-41 - Date & result confirmed

Edited September 7, 2019 by Sotonian

[BL65]

21/07 Edinburgh Press Charity Gala Sports Night scratch races - ANY OUTRIGHT WINNER?
Appears to have been demonstration races between three riders only.

16/07 High Beech v Bishops Stortford - DATE & RESULT
16/07 Rained off (programme)

16/07 Hull - date only - did anything take place?
Speedway World advertised an ‘open’ meeting the week before, but no match reports in weekly magazines suggest nothing was staged.  EDITED to add: The Hull Daily Mail, 15th July 1949, carried an announcement saying 'Hull Speedway Ltd regret they have been unable to arrange a match for this week.  Next home match v Exeter on July 23'.

21/05 Rayleigh World Championship QR - Tie between Alan Hunt & Will Lowther - ANY OUTRIGHT WINNER?
Hunt and Lowther tied for first place (Speedway News)

15/05 Rye House Best Pairs - CONFIRM DATE & WINNERS
15/05 Winners Ken Smith & Harold Bull 12points, 2^nd= Reg Fearman & Ken Osborne and George Bason & Ernie Saunders 10 points (Speedway World)

05/06 Rye House Whitsun Trophy - CONFIRM DATE & WINNER
05/06 16 heats, 2 semi-finals and a final, won by Alan Briggs from Allan Kidd, Stan Bedford and Harold Bull in 67.2 (programme)

15/05 Southampton - practice - winner: Welch - CONFIRM DATE, EVENT NAME & WINNER
Should this be 15/03?  Speedway Echo reported that ‘in the recent trials Cecil Bailey carried all before him in his races’.  There was no mention of Welch, or of a competition, in that report.

08/08 Wimbledon World Championship QR - Tie between Aub Lawson & George Wilks - ANY OUTRIGHT WINNER?
Lawson beat Wilks in a run-off, 70.4 (programme)

Edited September 7, 2019 by BL65
Hull details amended.

[The White Knight]

I think it is great the way folk help out Dave and others with details.

It is also very impressive. 

Edited September 7, 2019 by The White Knight
To expand my point.

[daveallan81]

Excellent work as always, my thanks to you all.

A couple here from Dublin Santry:

29/04 Described as Individual Championship - WINNER?

22/05 Versus English League - RESULT?

[BL65]

20 hours ago, daveallan81 said:

A couple here from Dublin Santry:

29/04 Described as Individual Championship - WINNER?

22/05 Versus English League - RESULT?

22/05 Santry 35 English League Selected Team 37 (Reports in Irish Press and Irish Independent newspapers on 23/5/49).

The meeting for Friday 29th April was originally scheduled for Sunday 1st May, but according to a newspaper advertisement it was changed as the Midget Car season began at the track on 1st May.  The speedway event was to be for a 'Cup presented by the makers of Red-X Lubricants'.  EDIT to add: George P. Kearns of Dublin spent a great deal of time researching Irish newspaper reports for his 2009 book 'A History of Speedway - The Dublin Experience'.  He discovered very little relating to the 1949 season at Santry, with no reports found at all in the week following this meeting.

Edited September 8, 2019 by BL65
Additional comment.

[BL65]

On 9/7/2019 at 3:39 PM, daveallan81 said:

A couple here from Dublin Santry:

29/04 Described as Individual Championship - WINNER?

22/05 Versus English League - RESULT?

 

On 9/7/2019 at 4:37 PM, BL65 said:

22/05 Santry 35 English League Selected Team 37 (Reports in Irish Press and Irish Independent newspapers on 23/5/49).

The meeting for Friday 29th April was originally scheduled for Sunday 1st May, but according to a newspaper advertisement it was changed as the Midget Car season began at the track on 1st May.  The speedway event was to be for a 'Cup presented by the makers of Red-X Lubricants'.  EDIT to add: George P. Kearns of Dublin spent a great deal of time researching Irish newspaper reports for his 2009 book 'A History of Speedway - The Dublin Experience'.  He discovered very little relating to the 1949 season at Santry, with no reports found at all in the week following this meeting.

Speedway World 18th May 1949 reported on 'Speedway in Ireland', with the article referring to a recent meeting in which Santry beat a team from England 39-29.  Speedway Researcher has a meeting listed for 8th May with the result being Santry 35 English League 37.  However, the meeting on 22nd May had the result 35-37 and it looks likely that the meeting on 8th May is the one mentioned in Speedway World, with the score of 39-29.

Edited September 11, 2019 by BL65