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INTERNATIONALS - RHODESIA
Rhodesia v South Africa
1953 | 05.09 : Bulawayo Showgrounds, | Rhodesia | 34 | South Africa | 37 | |
UNOFFICIAL | Southern Rhodesia. | Bob Raw (S A) © | Doug Serrurier (S A) © | 9 | ||
Johnny Bekker (S R) | Bob Serrurier (S A) | 8 | ||||
Royal
Show Handicap: Naude, James, Clark Rhodesian Golden Helmet Match Race: Bob Raw beat Doug Serrurier |
Dave Naude (S A) | 10 | Sonny James (S A) | |||
Joe Blankfield (S A) | 9 | Harry du Toit (S A) | 6 | |||
Toby Boshoff (S A) | 8 | Doe Luyendyk (S A) | 6 | |||
Bert Clark (N R) | Stan Paulsen (N R) | |||||
This match, the very first
speedway meeting in Southern Rhodesia, was held at the conclusion of the
Royal Agricultural Show, and the teams were a mixture of riders from
South Africa (S A), Southern Rhodesia (S R), and Northern Rhodesia (N
R).The above details have been researched by Ken MacLeod from the Herald
(Salisbury) and the Chronicle (Bulawayo). The track was 470
yards long, and the 3-lap track record of 70.1 secs was set in the final
heat of the match. The attendance was 12,000 - a record for a sporting
event in Bulawayo, and a quarter of the town's population. The track
appears to have had four distinct corners. The first meeting in Northern Rhodesia was the Northern Rhodesia Open Championship at the Kitana Stadium, Kitwe, on 16.07.53. It was won by South African Bob Serrurier, who was resident in the country at the time, and who was a prime mover in these early efforts to establish the sport in Rhodesia. Bert Clark, of Northern Rhodesia, became the first Rhodesian to ride in the UK when he rode for the ill-fated Edinburgh team in 1954. |
1971 | This series, for the "Southern African Team Championship" was between the Rhodesian Stars | |||||
UNOFFICIAL | and a touring South African Select. The Rhodesian team had to be strengthened by the inclusion of | |||||
foreign riders. | ||||||
Rhodesian Stars won series 3-0 | ||||||
06.02 : Bulawayo (Showgrounds) | Rhodesian Stars | 49 | South African Select | 28 | ||
07.02 : Gwelo (Newmarket Stadium) | Rhodesian Stars | 55 | South African Select | 35 | ||
10.02 : Salisbury (Glamis Stadium) | Rhodesian Stars | 42 | South African Select | 28 | ||
Team manager for this
series for South Africa was Trevor Blokdyk. For Rhodesia Stars, team
managers were Martin Lee (Bulawayo), Gerald Spanton (Gwelo) and Alex
Hughson (Salisbury). At Gwelo, Jessup established a new track record of 69.8 |
Rhodesian Stars | Total | South African Select | Total | |||||||||
Bob Young (Aus) | 9 | - | 11 | 20 | Dennis Newton © | 8 | 11 | 8 | 27 | |||
Zak "Abe" Koekemoer © | 10 | 2 | 4 | 16 | Vic Pretorius | 7 | 3 | 4 | 14 | |||
Barry Duke (Eng) | 15 | - | - | 15 | Bob Young (Aus) | - | 13 | - | 13 | |||
Dave Jessup (Eng) | - | 15 | - | 15 | Oyvind Berg (Nor) | - | - | 11 | 11 | |||
Oyvind Berg (Nor) | - | 14 | - | 14 | Dave Jessup (Eng) | 9 | - | - | 9 | |||
Bill McMillan (Scot) | - | 14 | - | 14 | Ettienne Olivier | 2 | 5 | - | 7 | |||
Peter Prinsloo | 4 | 5 | 5 | 14 | Tommy Viljoen | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | |||
Geoff Curtis (Aus) | - | - | 11 | 11 | Danie Fourie | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
Laurie Etheridge (Eng) | 9 | - | - | 9 | Tony Jongvisser | - | - | 2 | 2 | |||
Alan Harris | 2 | 5 | - | 7 | ||||||||
Bobby Beaton (Scot) | - | - | 6 | 6 | ||||||||
Jim Gallacher (Scot) | - | - | 5 | 5 |
1st Test at Bulawayo 6th Feb | |||||||||
Rhodesian Stars | 49 | South African Select | 28 | Ht 1: Duke, Koekemoer,
Newton, Pretorius 5-1 5-1 Ht 2: Prinsloo (nf), Etheridge (nf), Fourie (nf), Olivier (nf) 0-0 5-1 Ht 3: Young (nf), Harris (nf), Jessup (nf), Viljoen (nf) 0-0 5-1 Ht 4: Etheridge, Newton, Pretorius, Harris 3-3 8-4 Ht 5: Young, Prinsloo, Olivier, Fourie 5-1 13-5 Ht 6: Duke, Koekemoer, Fourie, Jessup (ef) 5-1 18-6 Ht 7: Newton, Young, Pretorius, Harris 2-4 20-10 Ht 8: Jessup, Etheridge, Prinsloo, Fourie 3-3 23-13 Ht 9: Duke, Koekemoer, Fourie, Olivier 5-1 28-14 Ht 10: Etheridge, Newton, Pretorius, Harris 3-3 31-17 Ht 11: Duke, Koekemoer, Olivier, Fourie 5-1 36-18 Ht 12: Jessup, Young, Prinsloo, Newton 3-3 39-21 Ht 13: Pretorius, Harris, Etheridge (nf), Olivier (nf) 2-3 41-24 Ht 14: Duke, Koekemoer, Pretorius, Newton 5-1 46-25 Ht 15: Jessup, Young, Etheridge, Newton 3-3 49-28 Star of the Day Championship: Duke, Etheridge, Jessup, Young |
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Abe Koekemoer | 2' 2' 2' 2' 2' | 10+5 | Dennis Newton | 1 2 3 2 0 0 0 | 8 | ||||
Barry Duke | 3 3 3 3 3 | 15 | Vic Pretorius | 0 1' 1 1' 3 1 | 7 + 2 | ||||
Laurie Etheridge | nf 3 2 3 0 1' | 9+1 | Ettienne Olivier | nf 1 0 1 0 | 2 | ||||
Alan Harris | nf 0 0 0 2 | 2 | Tommy Viljoen | nf | 0 | ||||
Bob Young | nf 3 2 2 2 | 9 | Dave Jessup | nf ef 3 3 3 | 9 | ||||
Peter Prinsloo | nf 2' 1' 1' | 4+3 | Danie Fourie | nf 0 1 0 1 0 | 2 | ||||
Not sure what happened in hts 2 & 3! | |||||||||
1974 | Rhodesia won series 2-0 | |||||
13.09 : Salisbury | Rhodesia | 27 | South Africa | 21 | ||
14.09 : Bulawayo | Rhodesia | 36 | South Africa | 12 |
Note : The Rhodesia Herald named the teams for these matches as: |
Rhodesia : Peter Prinsloo, Mike
Ferreira, Pip Harris, & Ray Barclay. South Africa : Dennis Newton, Louis Fourie, Danie Fourie, & Vic Pretorious At Salisbury, Peter Prinsloo was only beaten by Dennis Newton in heat 5. At Bulawayo, Mike Ferreira lowered the track record to 53.9 in heat 8 (all races at Bulawayo were over 3 laps) At Bulawayo, other than through engine failure, Prinsloo, Ferreira and Harris rode undefeated. |
Contributors : Christian Weber, Ken MacLeod, David Austin |
© Brian Collins