SPEEDWAY RIOTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20493, 11 August 1936, Page 5

SPEEDWAY RIOTS

VISIT’NG COMPETITORS ASSAULTED United Press Association—By Electne Telegraph —Copyright LONDON, August 9. The “Daily Mail” says that scenes unparalleled in the history of speedway racing occurred at Harringay, after Hackney Wick defeated the home team in a League match, the score being 38 points to 34. Dicky Case, the Australian international, the captain of Hackney Wick, accompanied by his wife and other Hackney Wick riders, and Fred Whitehead, managing director of the club, were departing after the match, when a shouting crowd of 2000 men and women assailed them, and repeatedly struck Case and others. Mrs Case was roughly handled. Her dress was torn, while Case’s motor car was wrecked, and attempts were made to overturn other cars of the Hackney Wick players. Amid a fusillade of brickbats and other missies, they reached a garage, where their supporters rushed to the rescue. A fight developed; traffic was held up, and the police intervened. The trouble is attributed to Case falling when leading, causing a fourfold crash, for which nobody was to blame, but Norman Parker, the leading Harringway rider suffered an injured foot and was unable to continue. Hackney Wick also twice surprisingly defeated Harringay. Mr Whitehead was asked by the Control Board to immediately inquire into the incident.