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1929 Speedway English Dirt Track League

Annual British motorcycle speedway season

Field	Value
competition	English Dirt Track League
competitors	11
domesticcup1	Champions
domesticcup1 winners	Leeds
domesticcup2	Knockout Cup
domesticcup2 winners	Preston
highestaverage	Syd Jackson
league other	1929 Southern League
nextseason	1930

The 1929 English Dirt Track League was the inaugural season of speedway in the United Kingdom, featuring from Northern England. In the same year, the 1929 Speedway Southern League also commenced, catering to teams from Southern England The sport had been introduced to England in 1928 at High Beech Speedway.

Summary

The season was marked by mid-season withdrawals, but Leeds were ultimately crowned champions. In 1930, the league was renamed the Northern League, thus existing for only one year. White City Speedway (Manchester) withdrew from the league following a dispute and would have been crowned champions if they had not withdrawn. At the time of their departure, they were leading the table by four points, having won 18 of their 20 matches.

The introduction of speedway in Middlesbrough at the Cleveland Park Stadium was a success with the team holding their first home fixture was on 16 May 1929 against Salford. However, on 12 July 1929, Dennis Atkinson suffered critical injuries following an accident at Cleveland Park, riding in a Golden Helmet meeting. He died the following day.

Final table

Pos	Team	PL	W	D	L	Pts
1	Leeds	20	16	1	3	33
2	Preston	20	14	0	6	28
3	Halifax	19	12	1	6	25
4	Newcastle	20	10	0	10	20
5	Salford	20	10	0	10	20
6	Rochdale	20	9	1	19	19
7	Leicester Stadium	20	9	0	11	18
8	Liverpool	18	8	0	10	16
9	Sheffield	20	6	1	13	13
10	Middlesbrough	19	6	0	13	12
11	Barnsley Lundwood	20	6	0	14	12

Withdrawals (Records expunged) :

Belle Vue Aces
Bolton
Burnley
Hanley
White City Speedway (Manchester)
Warrington

Fixtures & results

Top Five Riders

Team	C.M.A.
1	Syd Jackson
2	Joe Abbott
3	Ham Burrill
4	Charlie Hornby
5	Walter Creasor

English Dirt Track Knockout Cup

First round

Date	Team one	Score	Team two
03/08	Barnsley Lundwood	32–30	Sheffield
10/08	Rochdale	39–23	Salford
10/08	Sheffield	33–30	Barnsley Lundwood
13/08	Middlesbrough	25–38	Newcastle
16/08	Manchester White City	50–13	Warrington
21/08	Liverpool	16–47	Preston
22/08	Halifax	49–13	Leeds
22/08	Leicester Stadium	34–27	Leicester Super
22/08	Preston	44–19	Liverpool
23/08	Newcastle	38–24	Middlesbrough
23/08	Warrington	33–29	Manchester White City
24/08	Leeds	32–31	Halifax
24/08	Leicester Super	30–32	Leicester Stadium
24/08	Nottingham	35–23	Wombwell
26/08	Salford	37–26	Rochdale
29/08	Wombwell	38–24	Nottingham

Second round

Date	Team one	Score	Team two
12/09	Halifax	35–25	Wombwell
14/09	Rochdale	30–33	Leicester Stadium
16/09	Wombwell	31–31	Halifax
18/09	Sheffield	35–28	Preston
19/09	Leicester Stadium	35–27	Rochdale
19/09	Preston	55–11	Sheffield
	Manchester White City	w/o	Newcastle

Semifinals

Date	Team one	Score	Team two
19/09	Halifax	44–19	Newcastle
20/09	Newcastle	37–25	Halifax
21/09	Preston	48–14	Leicester Stadium
03/10	Leicester Stadium	39–24	Preston

Final

First leg Frank Charles 12 Joe Abbott 10 Ham Burrill 8 Frank Chiswell 8 Jack Chiswell 7 Claude Rye 3 Walter Creasor 5 Bert Clayton 3 Geoff Taylor 2 Frank Smith 2 Geoff Kilburn 2 Jack Dudding 1

Second leg Cyril "Squib" Burton 7 George Reynard 6 Bert Clayton 4 Frank Smith 3 Arthur Atkinson 2 Jack Dudding 1 Frank Chiswell 12 Frank Charles 10 Joe Abbott 6 Ham Burrill 5 Claude Rye 4 Len Myerscough 2

Preston were Knockout Cup winners, winning on aggregate 87–39.

Riders

Barnsley

Bob Allen
Tommy Allott
Albert Brown
Bert Round
Fred Ledger
Reg Marshall
Joe Mitchell
Arthur Moore
Tommy Thompson
Charlie Ward

Halifax

Arthur Atkinson
Cyril "Squib" Burton
Bert Clayton
George Corney
Walter Creasor
Jack Duddings
Dusty Haigh
Geoff Kilburn
George Reynard
Frank Smith
Geoff Taylor
Alec Tidswell
Geoff Wilson

Leeds

Arthur Atkinson
Dennis Atkinson
Roy Barrowclough
Tommy Bullus
Billy Burrows
Tommy Gamble
George Greenwood
Alec Hill
Eric Langton
Oliver Langton
Arnold Moore
John Scratcherd

Leicester

Stan Baines
Alec Bowerman
Len Brown
Squib Burton
Billy Ellmore
Jimmy Gent
Dilly Gittins
Hal Herbert
Syd Jackson
Nobby Kendrick
Slider Shuttleworth
Henry Taft

Liverpool

Eric Blain
Larry Boulton
Crasher Coxhead
Chris Hughes
Eddie Myerscough
Syd Plevin
Thomas Arthur Price
Les Wotton

Manchester White City (withdrew)

Cyril "Squib" Burton
Larry Boulton
Billy Dallison
Harry Gresty
Walter Hull
Syd Jackson
Arthur Jervis
Hugh Jervis
Rex Kirby
Jack Owen
Skid Skinner
Bunny Wilcox
Tommy Withington
Les Wotton

Middlesbrough

James Allen
Dick Bailey
Charlie Barratt
Billy Brown
Dan Buck
Ron Carling
Edde Crenston
Broncho Dixon
Norman Evans
Frank Harrison

Newcastle

Phil Blake
Gordon Byers
Arnie Cattell
Fred Creasor
Walter Creasor
Percy Dunn
Charles Sanderson
Roy Sanderson
Ernie Smith
Tommy Storey
Bud Thompson

Preston

Joe Abbott
Bill Anderton
Ham Burrill
Frank Charles
Jack Chiswell
Frank Chiswell
Doug Hutchings
Jack Lund
Len Mysercough
Thomas Arthur Price
Claude Rye

Rochdale

Jack Atkinson
Buster Breaks
Cyril "Squib" Burton
Ben Higginbottom
Wally Hicklin
Scott Michie
Skid Nock
Bud Proctor
Fred Proctor
Ron Thompson

Salford

Hen Helsby
Billy Howard
Tommy Mason
Ken Miller
Sid Newiss
Tommy Simpson
A.J. Ward
Cliff Watson
Arthur Wilcock
Cyril Wilcock
Fred Williams

Sheffield

Jack Barber
Clem Beckett
Frank Bianchi
Johnny Broughton
George Crawshaw
Scotty Cummings
Eric Hall
Dusty Jenkins
Arthur Longley
Gus Platts
W.S. Shuker
Spencer Stratton
Arthur Westwood

Warrington (withdrew)

Cyril Crowther
Norman Dawson
Ezra Deakin
Harold Formby
Tommy Hach
Charlie Horby
Phil Hughes
Alec McLachlan
Tom Middlehurst
George Milton
Harry Solomon
Jack Wood

References

Rogers, Martin. (1978). "The Illustrated History of Speedway". Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd.
"Historic league tables". Speedway Archive.
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"Middlesbrough Speedway Track At Cleveland Park".
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