SPEEDWAY RIDERS ATTACKED

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21858, 11 August 1936, Page 12

SPEEDWAY RIDERS ATTACKED

♦ ENGLISH CROWD ANGERED BY ACCIDENT ON TRACK LONDON, August 9. The “Daily Mail” says that scenes unparalleled in the history of speedway racing occurred at Harringay after Hackney Wick beat the home team in a league match by 38 points to 34. Dicky Case, the Australian international, captain of Hackney Wick, accompanied by his wife, the other Hackney Wick riders and Mr Fred i Whitehead, the managing director, (were leaving after the match when a shouting crowd of 2000 men and .women assailed them. The crowd rej peatedly struck Case and others. | Mrs Case was roughly handled, and her dress was torn. Case’s motor;car was wrecked and attempts were imade to overturn the other cars of | Hackney Wick riders, j Amid a fusillade of brick-bats and j other missiles, they reached a garage, where their supporters rushed to the rescue. A fight developed land traffic was held up until the | police intervened, j The trouble is attributed to Case | falling when leading, and causing a I four-fold crash, for which nobody ; was to blame, but Norman Parker, a leading Harringay rider, suffered lan injured foot and was unable to j continue. Hackney Wick has twice surprisingly beaten Harringay. Mr Whitehead has asked the Board of Control to enquire into the incident immediately,