teamhonour years birth_place teamyear birth_date career article_title name retired
national league division two champion 1937 1938-1939 1946 -1952 leicester , england 1950 1913 leicester hounds sheffield norwich stars paddy mills -lrb- speedway rider -rrb-
 paddy mills retired
paddy mills -lrb- speedway rider -rrb-

horace burke -lrb- born 1913 -rrb- , better known under the alias paddy mills , was a motorcycle speedway rider whose career spanned world war ii .
born horace burke in leicester in 1913 , he adopted the name paddy mills and began his career at leicester in 1937 , riding for the hounds in the provincial league .
in 1938 he joined sheffield , spending a season there before joining the royal air force .
he served in the raf for six years , and was awarded the british empire medal .
after the war he joined the norwich stars , for whom he was the third highest points scorer in 1946 , with 348 points in total .
he went on to be the team 's leading points scorer in both 1947 and 1948 .
he was picked to represent england in second test match in 1949 , but suffered a fractured skull a few days before .
in 1952 mills became president of the newly formed leicester amateur speedway club , which had a training track at syston .
in the late 1960s , mills ran training sessions for the long eaton archers .
