International SPEEDWAY
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INTERNATIONALS - AUSTRIA
Continent v Australia
Note : This match was previously listed as Europe v England & Australia. This was incorrect.
| 1958 | Australia won series 2-0 | |||||
| UNOFFICIAL | Sat 04.10 : Vienna | Continent | 39 | Australia | 51 | (Att: 10,000) |
| Sun 05.10 : Linz | Continent | 44 | Australia | 45 |
| Continent | Total | Australia | Total | |||||||
| Josef Kamper (Aut) © | 9 | 13 | 22 | Jack Biggs (Aus) | 12 | 11 | 23 | |||
| Josef Seidl (Ger) | 8 | 11 | 19 | Ray Cresp (Aus) | 10 | 10 | 20 | |||
| Lubos Tomicek (Cz) | 8 | 10 | 18 | Ronnie Genz (Eng) © | 7 | 9 | 16 | |||
| K Janicek (Cz) | 6 | ? | Gerald Jackson (Eng) | 11 | ? | |||||
| Bob Andrews (Eng) | 6 | ? | Jack Unstead (Eng) | 8 | ? | |||||
| Josef Hofmeister (Ger) | 2 | ? | Ken Adams (Eng) | 3 | ? | |||||
| Full details not available for second match | ||||||||||
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The list of teams on the left is from the Vienna programme. Interesting to see Gerald Jackson become a New Zealander, Bob Andrews as a "Continental" Englishman, and special congratulations to Ronnie Genz, the first-ever Englishman to be captain of Australia! |
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| Contributors : Bob Andrews, Wally Auckram |
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