SPEEDWAY RACING

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 151, 29 June 1931, Page 9

SPEEDWAY RACING

ENGLAND V. AUSTRALIA

LONDON, 27th June,

Enthusiastic onlookers packed the speedway track at the Crystal Palace to' watch the first Tost between England and Australia, which England won by 55 points to 37, her teamwork proving superior to the brilliant individualism of the Australians, who were somewhat handicapped by accident's.

Vie. Huxley and D. Case won the first two heats, England winning the remaining six, in the first half leading by 30 points to 15. Huxley met Lnngton in the eighth heat after both had made the fastest time in the qualifying heats, but Huxley fell in tho first lap. Langton and Parker easily beat Len Woods.

Watson led Huxloy in the ninth, but the latter shot forward like a bullet and won by two yards on the post;

Case gallantly tried to head Laugton in the ninth heat, but a tire came'off/ giving Parker (England) second.. Wilkinson and two othor riders fell in tho thirteenth. ■ Gross Kroutz won. Gartner and O. O. Inson woro second.

Phillips and Francis (England) were first and second in the fourteenth. Australia won the fifteenth and England the sixteenth.