| 21 September 1929 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Edinburgh Handicap ( 4 Laps Standing Start ) Heat 1 Andy Milne Harry Duncan Buzz Hibberd Bill Barclay William Forsyth 1min 33.4 Heat 2 Archie Chisholm Drew McQueen Allan Campbell Tommy York James Logie 1min 37.4 Heat 3 John Duncan Bob McGregor Billy Galloway Gordon Spalding James Edward 1min 38.8 Heat 4 Bill Dickie Sprouts Elder Jimmie Pinkerton Reg Heller Bob Dawson (NS)1min 37,6 Semi Final Archie Chisholm Drew McQueen Andy Milne Harry Duncan Alan Campbell 1min 36.2 Semi Final Jimmie Pinkerton Sprouts Elder Bob McGregor Bill Dickie (ET) John Duncan (EF)1min 33.4 Final: Archie Chisholm Andy Milne Sprouts Elder Drew McQueen Jimmie Pinkerton (F) 1min 35.2 Scottish Silver Sash ( 4 Laps Flying Start ) Heat 1 Billy Galloway Andy Milne Bob McGregor Allan Campbell 1min 28.2 Heat 2 Sprouts Elder Bill Barclay Tommy York James Logie 1min 29.6 Heat 3 Gordon Spalding Buzz Hibberd Reg Heller James Edward 1min 32.8 Heat 4 Drew McQueen Jimmie Pinkerton Harry Duncan Bill Dickie 1min 28.6 Semi Final Sprouts Elder Andy Milne Bill Barclay Billy Galloway (ET) 1min 28.8 Semi Final Gordon Spalding Drew McQueen (EF) Buzz Hibberd Jimmie Pinkerton 1min 30.8 Final: Sprouts Elder Gordon Spalding Andy Milne(F) Drew McQueen (F) 1min 27.6 Match Race ( 4 Laps Flying Start ) Sprouts Elder Bt Drew McQueen 1min 24 |
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| 21 September’s racing at the Marine Gardens Speedway was an undoubted triumph for Sprouts Elder. He had performed in noteworthy fashion earlier in the afternoon at the White City speedway in Glasgow and his victories there were supplemented at Portobello by a win over Drew McQueen in a match race and victory in the Silver Sash event. Owing to his accident in the international trial, McQueen had been idle of track work for a month and though he performed well on Saturday evening, the old skill and dash were absent. Consequently Elder, after drawing inside position in the match race, though having to ride hard, was comfortably ahead of the Scot to the end. Both McQueen and Elder reached the final stage od the Sash race, but McQueen’s efforts to retrieve himself were doomed to failure. He had trouble with his engine and was in the end forced to rely on a borrowed mount. Yet he early led Elder but lost ground on the bends and in an effort to regain distance slipped up. With Andy Milne also down, Elder had an easy win. He was presented with the Sash by the Marquis of Tweedale who waas present with a party. Elder raced exceedingly well in the handicap race and was not very far away in the end, but Archie Chisholm and Andy Milne made good use of their starts and narrow though the margin was kept ahead of Sprouts to the end. |
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Marine Gardens 21/09/1929
