BOBBATH Posted June 6, 2020 Report Share Posted June 6, 2020 Was wondering is Eric still with us-if not when did he pass away?. What about Howard Jacobi, Robin Martakies, Bob Radford, Paul Parish et al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunky Posted June 6, 2020 Report Share Posted June 6, 2020 (edited) 14 minutes ago, BOBBATH said: Was wondering is Eric still with us-if not when did he pass away?. What about Howard Jacobi, Robin Martakies, Bob Radford, Paul Parish et al I know that Bob Radford passed away in May 2017, at the age of 70. I haven't looked, but I am absolutely positive that we had a thread on here. Edited June 6, 2020 by chunky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Doctor... Posted June 7, 2020 Report Share Posted June 7, 2020 Yeh there was a thing in the Star that he passed away i'm sure it was only this year. Bob Radford sadly went a while back as Chunky said - he had a fair old fight against the big C. Great servant to Reading and others in the south. Lovely fella. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve roberts Posted June 7, 2020 Report Share Posted June 7, 2020 1 hour ago, The Doctor... said: Yeh there was a thing in the Star that he passed away i'm sure it was only this year. Bob Radford sadly went a while back as Chunky said - he had a fair old fight against the big C. Great servant to Reading and others in the south. Lovely fella. Fell out with the Promotion at Oxford in 1974 however when he was involved at Cowley after the demise of Reading in 1973. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOBBATH Posted June 7, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2020 Extremely sorry to hear about Bob Radford-liked him a lot. If any of you kept the 1964 Speedway Stars a young Bob had a letter published in the Readers Letters column. I think Bob was from Swindon, it referred to a proposal he suggested for the Prov. League-it would be called The Captain's Trophy and would be the captains of each track e.g. Doug Templeton (Edinburgh), Jack Kitchen (Sheffield) etc. racing against each other-it was because supporters in the southern Prov. League Tracks might only get to see these Northern Captains once a season. Before you ask what's the date of that Star-don't because I don't have it after all these years. The age of 70 is too young to die these days. Anyone know about the other journalists mentioned in my previous post.-anyone know if it was lung cancer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve roberts Posted June 7, 2020 Report Share Posted June 7, 2020 16 hours ago, BOBBATH said: Was wondering is Eric still with us-if not when did he pass away?. What about Howard Jacobi, Robin Martakies, Bob Radford, Paul Parish et al There's a tribute to Eric in the latest edition of "Backtrack". He passed away in a Leicestershire care home in April aged 94. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityrebel Posted June 7, 2020 Report Share Posted June 7, 2020 14 hours ago, steve roberts said: Fell out with the Promotion at Oxford in 1974 however when he was involved at Cowley after the demise of Reading in 1973. A very good announcer as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve roberts Posted June 7, 2020 Report Share Posted June 7, 2020 47 minutes ago, cityrebel said: A very good announcer as well. Remember when he stood in at Cowley during 1976 he started off with a war cry as "The Rebels" before realising his mistake and that Oxford were now operating under the name of "The Cheetahs"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split Posted June 8, 2020 Report Share Posted June 8, 2020 Wasn't the Angus Kix column in the Speedway Star, Eric Linden writing under a nom de plume? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOBBATH Posted June 8, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2020 34 minutes ago, Split said: Wasn't the Angus Kix column in the Speedway Star, Eric Linden writing under a nom de plume? Yup it was, in my innocence when I first started reading the Star in 1964 I was amazed by the number of journalists they seemed to have. Does anyone know if Eric also wrote the Danny Carter "Gossip and Gas" column-was he Danny as well??. Also anyone know who wrote the Exeter reports-surely it wasn't a guy called Frank Drake (I think it was a nom de plume derived from Sir Francis Drake). Also any news on Robin (or Ross) Martakies-think he was a local Newport journalist who used to do the Newport match reports-think he moved up to Cumbria in later years?? Also anyone know if Frank McLean is still alive-he wrote the Belle Vue reports? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted June 8, 2020 Report Share Posted June 8, 2020 On 6/7/2020 at 1:10 AM, BOBBATH said: Was wondering is Eric still with us-if not when did he pass away?. What about Howard Jacobi, Robin Martakies, Bob Radford, Paul Parish et al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 8, 2020 Report Share Posted June 8, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, iris123 said: What about the initial involvement at Speedway Star in 1952 with Bob and Charlie? Edited June 8, 2020 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted June 8, 2020 Report Share Posted June 8, 2020 2 minutes ago, gustix said: What about the initial involvement at Speedway Star in 1952 involving Bob and Charlie? What about it ? I was just pointing something out, not answering every question going. I guess as a proper Charlie you might know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salty Posted June 8, 2020 Report Share Posted June 8, 2020 1 hour ago, BOBBATH said: Yup it was, in my innocence when I first started reading the Star in 1964 I was amazed by the number of journalists they seemed to have. Does anyone know if Eric also wrote the Danny Carter "Gossip and Gas" column-was he Danny as well??. Also anyone know who wrote the Exeter reports-surely it wasn't a guy called Frank Drake (I think it was a nom de plume derived from Sir Francis Drake). Also any news on Robin (or Ross) Martakies-think he was a local Newport journalist who used to do the Newport match reports-think he moved up to Cumbria in later years?? Also anyone know if Frank McLean is still alive-he wrote the Belle Vue reports? The Speedway Star tribute to Eric Linden mentioned that Danny Carter was a figment of Eric's imagination - as was Rick Eldon,James Oldfield, Dave Nelson, the aforementioned Angus KIx and many more. Pretty sure Frank McLean passed away a few years ago, I seem to recall a feature in the Star - apologies if I'm mistaken. Hopefully, Phillip Rising might see this thread - he's likely to have more info on these writers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILIPRISING Posted June 8, 2020 Report Share Posted June 8, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, BOBBATH said: Yup it was, in my innocence when I first started reading the Star in 1964 I was amazed by the number of journalists they seemed to have. Does anyone know if Eric also wrote the Danny Carter "Gossip and Gas" column-was he Danny as well??. Also anyone know who wrote the Exeter reports-surely it wasn't a guy called Frank Drake (I think it was a nom de plume derived from Sir Francis Drake). Also any news on Robin (or Ross) Martakies-think he was a local Newport journalist who used to do the Newport match reports-think he moved up to Cumbria in later years?? Also anyone know if Frank McLean is still alive-he wrote the Belle Vue reports? DANNY Carter was another of Eric Linden's pseudonyms (he had many). Frank Maclean passed away many years ago. Frank Drake was also a pseudonym for a local journalist whose paper didn't want him to use his own name.There was a few of these for a time, something I stamped out when I took over as Editor from Paul Parish in 1979. Paul went on to work for TV Times (with Eric Linden and Dave Lanning) but lost track of him. Edited June 8, 2020 by PHILIPRISING Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 8, 2020 Report Share Posted June 8, 2020 1 minute ago, salty said: The Speedway Star tribute to Eric Linden mentioned that Danny Carter was a figment of Eric's imagination - as was Rick Eldon,James Oldfield, Dave Nelson, the aforementioned Angus KIx and many more. Pretty sure Frank McLean passed away a few years ago, I seem to recall a feature in the Star - apologies if I'm mistaken. Hopefully, Phillip Rising might see this thread - he's likely to have more info on these writers. Actually James Oldfield was the 'creation' of another Speedway Star writer. When that person left Eric continued using it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOBBATH Posted June 8, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2020 Thank you Philip, I always enjoyed your writings in the Star also. Hope you are keeping well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILIPRISING Posted June 8, 2020 Report Share Posted June 8, 2020 43 minutes ago, BOBBATH said: Thank you Philip, I always enjoyed your writings in the Star also. Hope you are keeping well. OKAY thanks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salty Posted June 8, 2020 Report Share Posted June 8, 2020 2 hours ago, gustix said: Actually James Oldfield was the 'creation' of another Speedway Star writer. When that person left Eric continued using it. Wasn't aware of that, I was only going by Peter Oakes tribute to Eric recently. Love the way Phillip says he "stamped" out the practice of pseudonyms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve roberts Posted June 8, 2020 Report Share Posted June 8, 2020 Always remember when Eric wrote an article referring to Garry Middleton but spelling Garry with one 'r'. Garry was quick on the uptake and said to Eric just think of "Rolls Royce" when you refer to me again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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