Edinburgh vs Sheffield 18/06/1938

Edinburgh 26	18 June 1938
Sheffield 27	Challenge
Edinburgh 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 T B 1. Drew McQueen 2 ex 2 4 2. Clune Johnstone 1' n 1' 2 2 3. George Pepper 2 3 2 8 4. Stanley Gargan 0 2' 1 3 1 5. Kid Curtis 2 2 3 7 6. Bill Nisbet 1' 0 1 2 1 . Sheffield 1. Billy Lamont 3 3 2 8 2. Paddy Mills f 0 3. Tommy Allott 3 3 0 6 4. Stan Williams 1 2' 1 2 6 1 5. Ted Bravery 3 0 3 ex 6 6. Eric Blain 0 1 0 1
Team Match Heat 1 Lamont, McQueen, Johnstone, Mills (F) 1min 25.6 3 3 3 3 Heat 2 Allott, Pepper, Williams, Gargan 1min 24.4 2 4 5 7 Heat 3 Bravery, Curtis, Nisbet, Blain 1min 24 3 3 8 10 Heat 4 Allott, Williams, McQueen (X), Johnstone (N) 1min 27.6 0 5 8 15 Heat 5 Pepper, Gargan, Blain, Bravery 1min 25.8 5 1 13 16 Heat 6 Lamont, Curtis, Williams, Nisbet 1min 26.2 2 4 15 20 Heat 7 Bravery, McQueen, Johnstone, Blain 1min 26.2 3 3 18 23 Heat 8 Pepper, Lamont, Gargan, Bravery (X) 1min 25.4 4 2 22 25 Heat 9 Curtis, Williams, Nisbet, Allott 1min 29 4 2 26 27 Captains Match Race Billy Lamont Bt George Pepper 1min 23.8 Scottish Silver Torch Heat 1 Ted Bravery, Clune Johnstone, Leo Lungo, Les Gregory (NS) 1min 26 Heat 2 Tommy Allott, George Pepper Tom Shearer, Dick Dennie 1min 24.6 Heat 3 Billy Lamont, Kid Curtis, Stan Williams, Stanley Gargan 1min 26.2 Heat 4 Bill Nisbet, Jack Gorst, Eric Blain, Paddy Mills 1min 28 Final: Billy Lamont, Tommy Allott, Bill Nisbet, Ted Bravery 1min 24 Reserves Race Tom Shearer, Dick Dennie, Geoff Gore, Leo Lungo 1min 28.8
The Sheffield team defeated Edinburgh by 1 point (27-26) over nine heats, while Billy Lamont, Sheffield’s Australian captain, was a fairly easy winner of the Scottish Silver Torch race. There was never much in it in the team event. Edinburgh were never in the lead, but were never more than five points in arrears. The most successful of the Edinburgh team were George Pepper, who scored 8 points, and Kid Curtis with 7 points. Drew McQueen, the Scottish captain, had an off day scoring only 4 points. In the Sheffield side, Lamont scored 8 points and Tommy Allot, Ted Bravery and Stan Williams were each responsible for 6 points. Edinburgh riders failed rather badly against the steady, if not brilliant, riding of the Sheffield men in the Silver Torch and in the final there were three visitors to one home rider, Bill Nisbet, and the visitors claimed the first two places. The captain’s match race came to a sudden end when McQueen slid round on the home bend on the first lap and a wrenched ankle kept him off the track for the rest of the day. George Pepper then took on Billy Lamont and the Sheffield captain won by the narrowest of margins in a race which brought the crowd to their feet with excitement and incidentally which showed the fastest time of the day. A new Edinburgh rider, T. Shearer, on his first appearance on a track, won the reserves race while in the midget car challenge race Charlie Pashley just got the better of Eric Worswick in a two car event, the third having broken down.