Stevenston trained Aussie wins Powderhall Sprint
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 12:10 am
Ayrshire Gazette
January 4, 1952
Willie Mitchell Does it Again
When Eric Cumming. 26-year-old sheep farmer from Australia won the Powderhall 130 yards sprint on Wednesday, he became the fifth winner of the event sponsored by Mr. William Mitchell, well-known Saltcoats commission agent. Cumming started odds-on favourite and won by inches In a terrific final from J. Berwick, Ashington and F. Wilson, Kirkintilloch.
The 5 ft. 10 in. winner has been training secretly at Granvue Greyhound Stadium, Stevenston, over the last two months. He weighed 13 st. 10 lbs. when he ran on Wednesday. It says much for the Mitchell 'school' and trainer Marshall Braidwood that they took up Cumming who was second last year under a different sponsor and nursed him to victory.
Past winners sponsored by Mr. Mitchell were Duffy (Broxburn), Scott (Gala), McPhillips (Edinburgh) and Short (Ashington). Mr. Mitchell told a 'Herald and Gazette' reporter that each year he decided it would be his last. "But," he added, "it gets into your blood." He cherishes an ambition to sponsor a local lad to win the Powderhall sprint.
January 4, 1952
Willie Mitchell Does it Again
When Eric Cumming. 26-year-old sheep farmer from Australia won the Powderhall 130 yards sprint on Wednesday, he became the fifth winner of the event sponsored by Mr. William Mitchell, well-known Saltcoats commission agent. Cumming started odds-on favourite and won by inches In a terrific final from J. Berwick, Ashington and F. Wilson, Kirkintilloch.
The 5 ft. 10 in. winner has been training secretly at Granvue Greyhound Stadium, Stevenston, over the last two months. He weighed 13 st. 10 lbs. when he ran on Wednesday. It says much for the Mitchell 'school' and trainer Marshall Braidwood that they took up Cumming who was second last year under a different sponsor and nursed him to victory.
Past winners sponsored by Mr. Mitchell were Duffy (Broxburn), Scott (Gala), McPhillips (Edinburgh) and Short (Ashington). Mr. Mitchell told a 'Herald and Gazette' reporter that each year he decided it would be his last. "But," he added, "it gets into your blood." He cherishes an ambition to sponsor a local lad to win the Powderhall sprint.