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THE CUTHEROE ATTACK FAILED Table Tennis:


AGAINST OLDHAM Lack of cohesion and drive CLITIiEROE 1; OLDHAM ATHLETIC RES. 2


which defences were largely on top, and the visitors always showed a little more bite than did Clitheroe.


I ’LITHEROE’S reshuffled forward line flopped on Saturday when Oldham Athletic Res. visited Shaw Bridge. It was a game in


after the interval he was not given any support from his inside- forwards, and Spurdle, the veteran ex-Manchester City player, played him out of the game.


At centre-forward, Hobson was nippy in the opening stages but


started when the game had been in progress about 10 minutes, made the ball greasy and difficult to control.


A heavy downpour, which


dangerous side in the first half, and Rackley and Collinge worried the home defence with their raids down the wing.


Oldham looked the more


time in dealing with Rackley and Collinge, particularly Moss, who found the speedy and tricky winger a big problem. Heyes had a hard duel with Rackley. but his neat interceptions enabled him to keep the winger under control.


Moss and Heyes had a hard


visitors were not well in the lead by the interval was the outstand­ ing play of Pinder, who inter­ cepted. tackled and distributed like a veteran. He has played only two games at centre-half, and if he keeps up this form he must surely be an automatic choice for this position before


The main reason why the


long. At the interval, Clitheroe were


two goals down. LIDDELL, the elusive Oldham inside - right, scored them both with fine shots.


shuffled the forward line many times, but none of the combina­ tions tried worked very well.


In the second half, Clitheroe


seized the initiative and seemed to be about to make amends for their lack-lustre show of the first half, but the capable Old­ ham defence kept them out. Then Oldham took command once more when Hobson was


On the resumption, Clitherce injured. A HARD DRIVE


ham pressure, Bush got the ball and made a long run to the edge of the penalty area. His short pass found WAREING, who beat


20 minutes as they struggled for the equaliser. Repeatedly they worked the ball out to the edge of the area, but they could never find the way from there to goal.


Hardie with a hard drive. Clitheroe dominated in the last


was a fair result as they com­ bined better than Clitheroe and played the better football.


Oldham’s win by the odd goal


blamed for the defeat. Bush and Barton played well in dispossess­ ing the inside-forwards and then moving the ball into position for the forwards, but attack after attack petered out. Wallace, in


Clitheroe’s defence cannot be


goal, was extremely safe, al­ though some of his kicking was wild.


Clitheroe to visit Nelson


who are at the moment in second place in the league and should give Clitheroe a hard fight.


C'LITHEROE travel to Seedhill to-morrow to play Nelson,


eroe and Nelson at Shaw Bridge this season have both been thrillers, and this one will probably be in similar vein.


c»ntre-half when he comes up against Alan Shackleton. the Nelson centre-forward, who has had First Division experience with Burnley, Everton and Leeds United. If he finds the form of his last two games, the Clitheroe player will give Shackleton a severe testing.


Tom Pinder will be tested at


ted from the following: Wallace; Moss, Heyes; Bush, Pinder, Barton; forwards from Gill, Fletcher, Hobson, Wareing, Fran­


cis, Furness and Lumm.


TO-MORROW’S MATCHES Lancs. Comb., Div. 1


Nelson v. Clitheroe. Clitheroc Amateur League


Hurst Green v. Low Moor. Waddington v. Chatburn. Calderstones v. Read Utd.


Accrington Combination, Div. 1 Clitheroe Res. v. Pioneer.


Clitheroe’s team will be selec­ The two games between Clith­ After a lengthy spell of Old­


was disjointed is an understate­ ment. There was no cohesion, and Hobson, who displayed the most ideas, was ill-supported.


To say that the forward line BAD LUCK


wing, and only bad luck preven­ ted him from scoring.


Gill was fairly sound on the


could never get going and found great difficulty in beating a man.


On the left wing, Francis


of holding the ball too long, and Wareing. returning to inside- left, had a bad game. He seemed to have the ideas, but he never managed to put them into opera­ tion.


Fletcher fell into his old habit


Heyes; Bush, Pinder, Barton; Gill, Fletcher, Hobson, Wareing, Francis.


Ir el an d , Beswick; Robinson, Spurdle, Hall; Rackley, Liddell,


Oldham Ath. Res.; Hardie;


Ball, Bailey, Collinge. Referee; Mr. F. Schofield.


Teams; Clitheroe: Wallac e; Moss,


Rathmell ‘B* are champions


play-off for the championship of the Bowland District Billiards League, Rathmell B became the champions for tire first time since they entered the league.


T)Y beating Rathmell A at Rathmell last week in the


at Rathmell on March 15th, when the champions will play a team representing the rest of


The trophy will be presented


the league. Rathmcll A v. Rathmcll B


100 E. Lis ter__ S. Garnett 76 100 M. Frankland .. P. Syers 71 81 E. Lister, Jnr.


100 D. Currie .. I. Charnley 53 63 W. Lister __ R. Currie 100 63 R. Brennand B. Robinson 100 — start


B. Shepherd 100 507


start 75 575


Re-arranged fixtures


-rpHE four games which Clith- x eroe did not play earlier in


the season owing to cup commit­ ments or bad ground conditions have been re-arranged.


the fixture list, Clitheroe will play Burscough (hi on Saturday. March 11th, Fleetwood (a) on Monday, March 27th, Marine (h) on Wednesday, April 5th (kick-off 6-30), and Fleetwood (h) on Wednesday, April 12th


In addition to the games on


Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, March 3, 1961


They defend their titles to-morrow


knock-out competition will be held to-morrow at Moor Lane


T7HE Ribblcsdalc Table Tennis League annual individual


Schoolroom. Last year's singles winner,


charming, but cunning and ruthless crook who persuades a naive young girl to assist him in his plan.


Barrie Parker, will defend his title and the doubles winners, Geoff. Tomlinson and Ted Thompson, will also defend their


winners will be made by Mr. Ronnie Carus, who, until he retired two months ago. took an active part in the league.


title. The presentations to this year’s


defeated Clitheroe C.C. 5-4 in a very exciting match and they now meet Moor Lane Reds in the semi-final.


tion is now nearing its climax. Last week, Ribble Cement


between Ashworth and Smiths and Chaigley Transport, and it is anyone's guess as to who will reach the final.


Last week’s results: League Knock-out , 2nd Round


St. Path's B 0, Ashworth and Smiths 5.


Reds 7.


I.C.I. 1, Chaigley T. 8. Moor Lane Greens 2, Moor Lane


Division A


day, March 11th, is Clitheroe v. Rossendale Utd., but this game was played earlier in the season.


(kick-off 6-45). On the fixture list for Satur­


final, in which Clitheroe will play either Wigan or Chorley at Shaw Bridge has not yet been arranged.


Amateur League Spotlight


WILL CHIPPING DO THE HAT-TRICK?


concerned. They have been playing in the league for three sea­ sons, including the present one, and have been champions for the


( 'HIPPING seem to have decided to do the hat-trick as far as the championship of the CLITHEROE AMATEUR LEAGUE is


past two years. The 16-0 hiding they handed out to Chatburn on Saturday brings


club who are anywhere near them, but they will need maxi- mum points from their three


Waddington are still the only C.P.A. lose to


from third place on Saturday as Calderstones gained a one-point advantage over them by beating C.P.A., but Waddington have three games in hand over the


games in hand. They were nominally ousted


hospital side. There was an exciting game at


five. Results:


Chipping 16, Chatburn 0. Calderstones 3, C.P.A. 1. Read Utd. 3, Hurst Green 2.


LEAGUE TABLE


Chipping .. Calderstones Waddington


Read Utd. Low Moor Hurst Green 18


17 13 17 11 14 10 19 17


C.P.A...........16 Chatburn .. 18


1 P. W. D.L. F. A. Pt.


0 10 54 76 14 1 11 44 53 13 2 10 46 80 10 2 12 43 94 10


3 94 32 27 5 66 41 23 2 55 37 22 9 64 60 17


Chipping win 16-0!


Chipping 16; Chalburn 0


only in the game for a few minutes, as his forwards found plenty of gaps in the Chatburn defence.


The Chipping goalkeeper was


lost heart and in the closing stages they were unlucky when a hard drive hit the bar.


The visitors, however, never


FREEMAN (4), LONGTON (3), R. MERCER (2), G. MERCER (2) R. FREEMAN (2), BLEZARD, R PROCTOR and V. ROBIN­ SON.


Scorers for Chipping were D. LAST WEEK OF


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Read Hall Lodge, Bead beating Hurst Green by the odd goal m


Calderstones Caldcrstoncs 3; C.P.A. 1


were well on top and were un­ lucky when a good shot hit the post.


In the opening stages, C.P.A.


works side took the lead with an opportunist goal through ATKIN­ SON. A back pass stuck in the mud and the centre-forward ran in to slam the ball into the corner of the net.


I t was no surprise when the


LEE equalised with a drive from 13 yards.


Calderstones hit back and


under heavy pressure, and the home side took the lead against the run of play when A. BAR- ROTT, the inside-left, scored with a close-range shot.


The home defence played well


derstones were reduced to 10 men when the inside-right pulled a muscle and bad to leave the Held.


firm as C.P.A. fought stubbornly for the equaliser, and after a Calderstones player was up­ ended in the visitors’ penalty area, D. BARROTT scored from the spot to put the hospital side further in the lead.


The Calderstones defence held


chances which might have given them a draw and Calderstones missed an open goal in the last few minutes.


Excellent show at Read


and the strong wind into con­ sideration, both teams put on an excellent show.


Read Utd. 3; Ilurst Green 2 Taking the muddy conditions


were on top, but then came three goals in five minutes. SNAPE scored first for Read and then GOODWAY put United two up by a shot from ,the left which went across the face of the goal and entered the net by the far post.


For the first half-hour, defences


bined much better and it was no surprise when GOODWAY' put .them further ahead.


but the Read rearguard kept them at hay. They reduced the arrears once more, however, when ROGERSON got the ball from a breakaway and scored from close range, the ball striking the foot of the post before going in.


Hurst Green never gave up,


header was headed off the line by a defender.


At the other end, Snape’s


play swung from end to end, but no further goals came.


An exciting struggle ensued as


In five was a fair result and Hurst Green went down fighting. Although smaller in stature, tire visitors pulled back what at one time looked to be developing Into a runaway victory for United.


Read’s victory by the odd goal


doubt right up to the final whistle.


left wing, besides scoring two of his team's goals, gave a brilliant all-round performance.


Richard Goodway, on the Read The result was, in fact, In


Green two minutes later. After the interval, Read com­


TROTTER scored for Hurst C.P.A. missed several good Shortly after half-time, Cal­


them up to the 94 goal mark, and they still have the lowest num­ ber of goals scored against them.


The Combination Cup semi­


Barrow 4, Chaigley T. 6. Division B


St. Paul’s B 1. Moor Lane Blues 9.


I.C.I. 7, Low Moor A 3. St. Paul’s A 3, Ashworth and Smiths 7.


Division A P. W. D. L. Pt.


Ribble Cement__ 7 5 2 0 12 Clitheroe C.C......... 7 4 3 0 11 Moor Lane Reds . .7 3 2 2 8 Chaigley T................7 3 1 3 7 Barrow ................. 7 2 0 5 4 Moor Lane Greens 7 0 0 7 0


Division B P. W. D. L. Pt.


I.C.1......................... 7 6 1 0 13 Ashworth and S. 7 5 0 2 10 Moor Lane Blues 7 3 1 St. Paul’s A ...........5 2 0 Low Moor A ......... 5 1 2 St. Paul’s B ......... 7 0 0


SCHOOLBOYS FOOTBALL


Accrington Primary Schools in the Luther Mercer Trophy com­ petition at Edisford Road Prim­ ary School to-morrow morning.


QLITHEROE and D 1 s t r ic t Primary Schools are playing


teams from Accrington, Burnley, Blackburn, Nelson and Clitheroe and is decided on a points basis. In the event of two teams finish­ ing their fixtures with equal points, there 'will be a play-off for the trophy.


District Primary Schools will be represented by: Ain sw ort h (Pendle Junior); Waring (Clith­ eroe R.C.), Nuttall (Edisford); Bealecki (Edisford), Lund (St. James’s), Scott (St. James's); Davies (Edisford), W r i g 1 e y (Clitheroe R.C.), Graham (Chat­ burn), McLean (Pendle Junior), Wilson (St. James's).


To-morrow C l i t h e r o e and


James's) and Wilkinson (St. James’s).


The reserves are Crabtree (Pendle Junior), Carus (St.


Kick-off 10 a.m. GREATEST-EVER


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Clitheroe C.C. 4, Ribble Cement 5.


The other semi-final game is The team knock-out competi­


“brain" behind the robbery; Yoko Tani, the charming Japanese star of “ The Wind Cannot Read” and “ The Savage Innocents,” is Fina, the shy and appealing daughter of a foreign ambassa­ dor. Lovely Mai Zetterling plays Dominic's mistress, and also the long-suffering wife of Joe Preedy, played by John Crawford.


Terence Morgan—star of “ The Shakedown”—plays Dominic, the


rennially satisfying supporting star—is a smooth safe-cracker, and talented Dennis Price makes a welcome guest-star appearance as Edward Humphries, the suave organiser of gambling parties.


William Hartnell—that per-


time—is depicted in “ The Time Machine.”


REMARKABLE excursion into the fourth dimension—


both realistic and strikingly imaginative settings, and with the unique photographic effects for which five-time Academy Award-winner George Pal is noted, tlie new picture is based on H. G. Wells’ famous novel concerning an Englishman who invents a machine which takes him into the future.


Filmed in Metrocolor against


by Rod Taylor, with other top roles enacted by Alan Young (who starred in Pal’s previous production, “Tom Thumb”), Sebastian Cabot, Tom Helmore and M.G.M.’s new find, blonde Yvette Mimieux. The latter plays a girl depicted as living in the year 802,701 A.D., and one of the fascinating aspects of “ The Time Machine ” is its view of what people will look like, dress like and behave 800,000 years from now.


The Time Traveller is played


"YyiTH “ The Bramble Bush,” Warner Bros, has under­


taken a daring screen project. one packed with


as much world-wide interest and astonishment as any film of the past decade.


KING LANE controversy and certain to evoke


Charles Mergendahl, which in it­ self was a monument of literary controversy and which aroused comment throughout the United States.


It is based on the novel by


The “Bramble Bush" cast is headed by Richard Burton, Bar­ bara Rush, Jack Carson, Angie Dickinson, James Dunn, Henry Jones and Tom Drake. I t was directed in Technicolor by Daniel Petrie, prominent stage and tele­ vision director, who is making his screen debut with this picture.


.sMndals of. a small Cape Cod tom. The more controversial aspects of the story have been treated by director Petrie for their narrative • value only and not for sensationalism.


The film deals frankly with the


perfectly planned diamond rob­ bery—without a single word being spoken.


TWO men break into a Mayfair ' house, and pull off a bold,


sequence of breath-taking excite­ ment is the tense opening to one of the most gripping suspense thrillers produced at a British studio—“ Moment of Danger.”


This sensational 15-minutes


But this is more than just a thriller There is a deep and


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tender romance, and light relief, too, in a dialogue that crackles


with life. The two men involved in the


robbery are Trevor Howard, who portrays an embittered and dis­ illusioned locksmith persuaded to convert his skill to crime by the smooth-talking Edmund Purdom,


a ruthless and hardened young criminal.


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INTERNATIONAL star Sophia Loren and the British pro­


duct of “ The Goon Show,” Peter Sellars, are the


comedy “ The Millionairess.” The screen play is by Wolf Manko- witz and Is based on the play by Bernard Shaw.


PALLADIUM s t a r s of the sparkling new


fania Parerga, heiress to a vast industrial empire left by her eccentric Italian father, who is described as the tycoon of ty­ coons, the millionaire par excel­ lence.


Sophia Loren portrays Epi-


right, and almost the duty, to behave as a millionairess. This she does .with devastating effect. She is a law unto herself, guided


Epifania knows she has the


in guile by Sagamore (Alastair Sim), a shrewd solicitor used to dealing with the eccentricities of the wealthy.


tric in so far as she wants to be permanently and


married. But this is where her wealth is of no avail.


brings her into contact with Dennis Price as Adrian, a society psychiatrist, and Peter Sellers, who plays Doctor Kabir, an Indian who runs a small ill- equipped clinic for the poor.


Her search for the right man


Vittorio de Sica and Alfie (Bootsie) Bass also have parts in


Noel Purcell, Gary Raymond,


this extremely light-hearted film, which is filmed in Cinemascope with Eastman Colour, and is a bubbling, smiling comment on love, beauty and riches.


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WANDERERS CRICKET


CLUB SHOW A PROFIT The first within memory


T> IBBLESDALE Wanderers Cricket Club made a profit last season—the first within memory and in spite of the


fact that outstanding debts of <£20 from the previous year were also paid. The profit amounted to £25.


School on Friday, when the chairman, Mr. R. S. Hudson, commented “ We have done well financially. Our team is good and now I am sure we can do really well on the


This was reported at the annual meeting in St. James’s field.”


which donated £60 to clear debts at the end 'of the season.


he pavilion fund committee h “ The pavilion committee


After clearing debts on the pavilion of £400, some money was left. I t just shows what can be done by concerted effort.”


as done wonderfully well.


ti He went on, “ For the first nme we start a season owing t othing. This is partly due to


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bers (either cricket or bowls) £1, instead of 17s. 6d.; and boys and girls five shillings, instead of three shillings.


brother, Mr. R. S. Hudson, as chairman.


elMr. Blackburn was re­ Frected president, and Mr. chank L. Hudson, vice-


airman, re p l ac ed his


president, commented that ke the committee was willing to


SOCIAL EFFORTS


B Tributes were paid to Mr. a lackburn and other officials


for social efforts which had raised more than £300.


nd also to those responsible beMr. Blackburn asked mem­


people to become players so f that there would be new blood


needed. suIt was decided to increase


rs to encourage young or the team when it was


will now pay £1 2s. 6d., instead of £1; section mem­


1 v i bscriptions. Full members


club to provide funds for improvements generally.


Mr. J. Blackburn, the Ming, and the hon. treasurer, ep going as a supporters


appointed vice-chairman. KThe secretary, Mr. C. R.


Mr. Rjchard Turner was


re-elected. Mr. K. Eccles was elected deputy treasurer.


p The new committee com­ r. J. Brooks, were also


Holden, K. E. Weaver, A. Mus- grove, L. Dixon, T. Price, R. Scott, j. Cook, W. Tattersall, P. Hatch, J. Wallbank, T. Cowperthwalte and two mem­ bers of the howling com­ mittee.


rises Messrs. K. Procter, K.


mThe ma tc h committee J embers are Messrs. H. Scott, H. Brooks, A. Eccles, F. L.


Waterworth and A. Dixon. a Mr. Harry Leigh was


udson, R. H. Hudson, N.


ppointed bowling secretary with Messrs. T. Cowperthwaite J. lHall, j. Wallbank, H. Wil­ kinson, E. Weaver and F. Bush as/the committee.


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