International SPEEDWAY

HOME

INTERNATIONALS

TOURNAMENTS

WORLD TEAM CUP

COUNTRIES

ABOUT THIS SITE

LINKS

INTERNATIONALS - UNITED KINGDOM

Wales v England

1929	Series tied 2-2
UNOFFICIAL	17.07 : Cardiff (White City)	Wales	38	England	25
	18.07 : West Ham	Wales	20	England	43
	02.09 : Wimbledon	Wales	23	England	40
	11.09 : Cardiff (White City)	Wales	48	England	16
	A 5th.match on 03.08 at Birmingham (Perry Barr) was cancelled due to rain
	Heat scoring in these 9-heat matches was 4-2-1-0, as it was also for league matches in 1929.
	For the 1st match (Cardiff), Wales included Nick Carter 8, Nobby Key, Jack "Champ" Upham, Ron "Whirlwind" Baker, Jack "Lightning" Luke, & Fred "Hurricane" Hampson; the England team contained Tiger Stevenson, Jack Adams, and Don Taylor. For the 2nd match (West Ham), the England was led by Tiger Stevenson 12. For the 3rd match (Wimbledon), SEE BELOW for full details For the 4th match (Cardiff), the Wales team included Champ Upham 12, Ron Baker 12, Nobby Key 12, while the England team included Eric & Stan Spencer, Jim Kempster, & Clem Cort


The two Cardiff programmes

These match reports are from the "Auto Motor Journal"

WHITE CITY, CARDIFF, JULY 17th
Home Riders Defeat English Team
A team from the West Ham Speedway, London, was defeated by the home riders by 38 points to 25. The visitors rode well, but were no match for the Welshmen. Don Taylor (E) took the first heat, and in heat 2 Nick Carter and Nobby Key (W) were first and second. Champ Upham (W) won the next, while Tiger Stevenson (E) beat Carter in the fourth, returning the fastest time of the match, 1min 39secs.
Upham took Race 5, but Maguire and Adams (E) gained the minor positions. Wales were now 3 points ahead. Baker (W) was successful in races 6 and 8, and Taylor took race 7 for England. The final race was well contested, but the home riders gaines first and second places with Key and Carter.

WEST HAM STADIUM, JULY 18th
Tiger's "Benefit Meeting"
Tiger Stevenson rode seven times during the evening and won every event. Such dashing and consistent riding as Tiger put in has seldom been seen, and even when his handicap was reduced from four seconds to three, as the result of his marked improvement, that could not stop him. He won all three heats in the inter-track contest, two heats of a match race with Eric Spencer, his heat, semi-final, and final in the Open handicap. In fact he cleared the board.
Wales brought a fine team to the Stadium. England took the lead from the start, but suffered a slight set back immediately, only to come away and win by the comfortable margin of 23 points, the final score being returned as 43 to 20 points.

02.09 : at Wimbledon : England 40 Wales 23
England		40	Wales		23
Colin Watson	4 4 4	12	Len Parker	f 2 2	4
Reg Pointer	1 0 0	1	Nick Carter	2 1 0	3
Jim Kempster	4 4 4	12	Jimmy Hindle	0 1 1	2
Stan Spencer	2 0 1	3	Nobby Key	1 2 2	5
Eric Spencer	4 4 4	12	Ron Baker	2 2 2	6
Alf Medcalf	ef 0 0	0	Champ Upham	1 1 1	3
Alf Sawford (res)		-	George Gregor (res)		-
1 Watson, Carter, Pointer, Parker f 80.2 5-2 5-2 2 Kempster, S Spencer, Key, Hindle 81.6 6-1 11-3 3 E Spencer, Baker, Upham, Medcalf ef(chain) 80.6 4-3 15-6 4 Watson, Key, Hindle, Pointer 82.8 4-3 19-9			5 Kempster, Baker, Upham, S Spencer 80.1 4-3 23-12 6 E Spencer, Parker, Carter, Medcalf 80.6 4-3 27-15 7 Watson, Baker, Upham, Pointer 81.2 4-3 31-18 8 Kempster, Parker, S Spencer, Carter 78.8 5-2 36-20 9 E Spencer, Key, Hindle, Medcalf 80.4 4-3 40-23

2003	23.03 : Carmarthen	Wales	33	England	38
UNOFFICIAL	This was a 12-heat, second-half, match.	Tom Brown	8 (3)	Jeremy Pestell	11+1 (4)
	This was a 12-heat, second-half, match.	David Gough	8 (3)	Craig Taylor	9 (3)
		Dyfed Evans	4+1 (5)	Dean Felton	6 (3)
	Heat details from the British Speedway Forum	Matthew Tutton	4+1 (5)	Scott Blackwell	4+1 (3)
	Heat details from the British Speedway Forum	Gordon Meakins	4 (2)	Matthew Cross	4 (2)
		Darren Hatton	3+2 (3)	Allan Morgan	2+1 (3)
		Chris Davies	2+1 (3)	Paul Candy	2+1 (3)
				Lawrence Needs	0 (3)
	1 Brown, Felton, Candy, Davies 3-3 3-3 2 Gough, Cross, Blackwell, Hatton 3-3 6-6 3 Taylor, Meakins, Tutton, Needs 3-3 9-9 4 Pestell, Morgan, Tutton, Evans 1-5 10-14 5 Brown, Cross, Davies, Blackwell (fx) 4-2 14-16 6 Taylor, Gough, Hatton, Needs 3-3 17-19 7 Felton, Meakins, Candy, Evans 2-4 19-23 8 Pestell, Tutton, Evans, Morgan 3-3 22-26 9 Taylor, Brown, Davies, Needs 3-3 25-29 10 Gough, Hatton, Felton, Candy 5-1 30-30 11 Blackwell. Pestell, Evans, Tutton 1-5 31-35 12 Pestell, Evans, Tutton (fx), Morgan (fx) 2-3 33-38