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Post by Administrator on Nov 27, 2009 9:59:03 GMT
Re: Eddie Lack
With acknowlegements to the Edinburgh Monarchs website and Mike Hunter:::
Wednesday 25 November 2009 by Mike Hunter
Eddie Lack, one of the great figures of our early days in 1948-54, died last week in Manchester Royal Infirmary. He was 87 and was believed to be the oldest surviving Monarch.
Eddie rode throughout the 1948-54 period and competed in 200 league matches for us, making him 11th in our list of matches ridden. He was 15th in our points list with 1226 points.
He also became team manager during 1953 while still riding.
A Londoner, he was a highly popular club man throughout this time, and was also notable in Edinburgh for opening a toy shop in Haddington Place.
He had ridden pre-war at West Ham, and also for Glasgow before becoming one of the original Monarchs' team in 1948. After the sudden closure of Old Meadowbank in 1954, for which match he wrote the programme editorial, he briefly rode for Weymouth.
After he stopped riding he was involved in track preparation and team management down south.
Unfortunately we did not manage to contact him for our Diamond Jubilee last year, and we thought he might have passed on at that point. We have sent a message for Eddie's funeral which is to be held this Friday (27th).
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Post by crossedhammers on Nov 27, 2009 16:39:03 GMT
Eddie Lack was a junior rider at West Ham - aged about 16 years - in 1938. He was also with club in 1939 and may have ridden in some of the 1940 war time meetings at Custom House. It would be nice to see a photo of Eddie on this site.
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Post by crossedhammers on Dec 15, 2009 15:18:31 GMT
Eddie Lack had an older brother Tom who spent a few post-war seasons with him at Edinburgh.
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