Table Tennis


EDITOR’S iSTBAG


I'CIL THANKED


liellifleld line :o pas- ]ic has been made.


■ms quite evident that ■ision to close the


hiitheroe against the psuro.


.10 criticised the Town eel I should now pay hem on the decision (ther objectors on the inquiry held by the Users' Consultative o formulate a strong


[.hinted by the Coun- to be fruitful inas- helped immensely to ilicial case.


ins no doubt that the


ovine to lack of nmence was given to ti.s voiced by Councils citizens.


.•snaiier reports of the :’h the T.U.C.C..


live that credit should Ivon to the citizens |:olved with the pro- who so couragcous-


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■ard their particular •tther by writing or them to the com-


Il be claimed as hard- Jt the closure proposal Incnted.


jining of a passenger |t primarily for the hearing objections.


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wishes to


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Jembers of Clitheroe Irict Council decided le t te r expressing the Ibest wishes for a rovery to Mr. T. P. t he Clerk, who has Ispital for an opera-


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that the meeting was with the object of Itggeslions for intprov-


t.- astounded to learn railway airhorities


we'.l be that the


Leading clubs keep to


winning path


Tennis League. All three clubs —Chaigley Transport, Moor Lane Reds and Clitheroe C.C. — won convincingly. Moor Lane Reds had the best win, defeating St. Paul's 10-0.


T'HEP.E is no change at the top of tile Ribblesdale Table


been improving over the past week or so. they lost at home this week to Moor Lane Blues 6-4.


Although Parish Church have


play Moor Lane Blues—a re­ arranged match. At a general meeting this


Next week, Moor Lane Reds


week, the league decided to begin the team knock-out compe­ tition on February 20th, playing each round on a home and aiway basis. Each player will be indi­ vidually handicapped on their respective results this season. Tite individual knock-out will


CLITHEROE LOSE IN A FOGGY FARCE


‘How’s play?’-queries in the fog NETHERFIELD 3; CLITHEROE 1


FOG swirling around the ground at Kendal on Saturday limited visibility to less than 30 yards and it is difficult to understand


why this match was played. The linesmen could not flag for offside with any certainty and


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points of the ground, it was learned that Clitheroe put on heavy pressure in the first half and only brilliant saves by Slater prevented Clitheroe s c o r in g through Gill and Birkett.


From inquiries made at various


corners in four minutes, but the home side moved into the lead when Gornall took a corner on the right and DEHENY drove tlie ball home through a crowd of players..


Clitheroe forced four fruitless


be held on Saturday, March 3rd. I t will be staged (pro­ visionally) at Moor Lane. It was also decided that the 1961 singles champion, Denis Punch- ard, no longer a member of the league, would defend his title.


LEAGUE TABLE P. W. D. L. Pt.


Chaigley Trans. 11 Clitheroe C.C. .. 9 Moor Lane Reds 10 Barrow ................ 11 Moor Lane Blues 10 Parish Church .. 9 I.C.I....................... U Catholic Y.C.........10 St. Paul’s ............ 10


Last week's results:


Chaigley Trans. 9, I.C.I. 1. Moor Lane Reds 10, St. Paul’s 0.


Parish Church 4, M. Lane Blues 6.


Next week’s fixtures Tuesday:


Chaigley Trans, v. Catholic Y.C.


Wednesday:


Parish Church v. St. Paul’s. Clitheroe C.C. v. I.C.I.


Thursday: Barrow v. Moor Lane Blues.


Yorkshire Bank rpOTAL assets of the Yorkshire x Bank Ltd. up to December


Moor Lane Reds v. Moor Lane Blues (re-arranged).


1 19 0 18 1 17


until the interval, and on the resumption tire Clitheroe defence dropped back and allowed Mc­ Mullen 'to run more than 30 yards before slipping the ball inside to BROWNLEE, who scored easily.


Netherfield held their lead


Slater pulled off another brilliant save.


Pinder fired in a fine shot, but


when HOBSON ran through the middle and coolly lofted the ball over Slater's head.


Clitheroe reduced the arrears


field defence and many times they sent the ball into the stand with hurried clearances.


LANCS. COMB., DIV. 1 P. W D. L. F. A. Pt.


Morecambe 22 20 0 2 79 26 40 Horwich .. 23 16 G 1 69 27 38 Netherfield 22 16 4 2 81 38 3G Burscough 24 14 6 4 70 39 34 Chorley


Rossendale 25 13 4 8 71 58 30 Lancaster C. 25 11 7 7 43 35 29 Oldham R. 24 12 4 8 46 39 28 Clillicroe .. 23 11 4 8 53 49 2G Nelson __ 22 11 3 8 44 29 25 N. Brighton 21 10 2 0 50 28 22 Fleetwood


23 16 2 5 63 38 34


Prescot C. 23 8 4 11 37 47 20 S'port Res. 25 7 5 13 48 56 19 Earlestown 23 8 2 13 53 68 18 Marine ---- 20 7 2 11 40 54 16 Skelm'sdalc 23 6 4 13 32 58 16 Darwen — 24 5 6 13 32 59 16 Lytham ... 24 5 3 16 36 73 13 Leyland M. 23 3 4 16 41 77 10 Bacup Bor. 25 4 2 19 27 78 10 Padiham .. 24 3 3 18 32 82 9


22 8 5 9 51 45 21 TO-MORROWS TEAM


31st, 1961, were £112,519.415— compared, with £108,490,944 in 1960.


Jones; Whittle, Howarth, Smith; Wilkinson, B. Skinner, Hindle, Goodway, Taylor.


R e ad . — Whitehead; Seed, THIS VOUCHER i IS WORTH OPEN TILL 8 p.m. FRIDAYS This goal rattled the Nether­


all through the second half it was impossible to see any play from the half-way line.


but it was felt that, under normal conditions, Clitheroe would have fared better as their claret and blue strip was too dark to show through the fog and many passes went astray.


A late goal settled the issue,


ton, Holt (G.); Talbot, Downey, McMullen; Gornall, Holt (A.), Brownlee, Tulloch, Deheny.


Teams: Netherfield: Slater; Warbur-


waite, Heyes; Parkinson, Hodson, Barton; GUI, Hobson, Pinder, Tyrell, Birkett.


burn. Burnley Combination, Div. 2


Read lose to the leaders


Read Uld. 0; Worsthorne 2


league leaders Worsthome, they could not prevent them gaining this victory, which was partly played in fog.


ALTHOUGH Read put up a good fight against unbeaten


LONSDALE in each half gave the visitors the points.


A goal by centre-forward


exchanges and B. Skinner was unlucky with a drive that struck the crossbar then went on to the post before a Read player finished off the move badly.


Read had their share of the


LANCASHIRE JUNIOR CUP


taraw for the Second Round ^ of the Lancashire Junior Cup on February 10th (3 p.m.) is:


Netherfield v. Wigan Ath. Earlestown v. Formby. Chorley v. Droylsden. New Brighton v. Darwen. Rossendale Utd. v. Fleetwood. Nelson v. Prescot Cables. Clitheroe v. Horwich R.M.I. Morecambe v. Marine.


Clitheroe: Wallace; Dowth- Referee: Mr, Haslam, Black­


Sports Jottings


Clitheroe fail in the Kendal fog


first defeat of 1962 at the hands of Netherfield. So thick was the fog that


TN the fog at Kendal on Satur- x day, Clitheroe suffered their


neither goal could be seen from the stand and the far side of the ground was invisible.


the game difficult to follow, and in the later stages the ball could not be seen from 30 yards.


The farcical conditions made


at the kick-off time, the journey having taken three hours.


Clitheroe arrived at the ground


coach and this was a great dis­ advantage to tile side.


The team had to change in the


at the start of the game, but supporters soon tired of peering through the murk and half-an- hour before the final whistle all


The stand was full to capacity


the seats were empty. TO MEET DARWEN


the Anchor ground to meet lowly Danven.


To-morrow, Clitheroe travel to


Although in great financial trouble, Darwen are fighting hard to climb the league and have re­ called Raymond Hull, dropped shortly after the start of the season, to the attack, which had been lacking in punch.


Tommy Kenny, a Darwen-born winger who has been on the staff of Blackburn Rovers and player- coach with Horwich R.M.I., and Richard Dinnis ,a full-back who lias played with Bishop Auckland and Leyton Orient.


The club also signed recently


revival in the Danven side, for in their last three games they have held Rossendale United to a draw at Dark Lane, come very close to defeating Chorley at Victory Park, a match they were unlucky to lose, and defeated Northern Nomads at the Anchor in a Lancs. Junior Cup tie.


This new blood has sparked a


playing its last few games in the Lancashire Combination, there is still plenty of spirit in the team.


Although the club may well be


Bush is expected to return to the Clitheroe team at right-half. The line-up will be: Wallace; Dowth- waite, Heyes; Bush, Hodson, Barton; forwards from Gill. Hob­ son, Pinder, Tyrell, Parkinson and Birkett.


After a two-match lay-off, Alan


of the Lancashire Junior Cup was announced last week and Clitheroe have landed an attrac­ tive home tie.


The draw for the second round JUNIOR CUI>


entertain Horwich R.M.I., who are second in the Lancashire Combination league table.


On February 10th, they will


should have played White Ash away, but the game was post­ poned.


On Saturday, Clitheroe Reserve


Haslingden Youth “ A,” one o! the strongest teams in the Accrington Combination.


To-morrow they are aw«.v to


Bolton, Bush (E.); Atherton, Cooper, Horsfield; forwards from Pendlebury, P e a t , Hollands, Marsden, Nield, Kenyon and Hobson (N.).


The team will be: Thornber;


Wednesday League needs more teams


Lancashire Wednesday League, Clitheroe Tradesmen, a team drawn from local shopkeepers and employees, will have no games this year.


■JJNLESS more teams are found to swell the ranks of the


prised Ramsbottom, Accrington Wednesday, Haslingden Co-op. and the Clitheroe team, but Ramsbottom left to join a Man­ chester league, leaving only three teams in the league.


formed about 30 years ago to cater for tradesmen who worked on Saturday afternoons. In its most flourishing period it com­


The Wednesday league was


prised 12 teams. Efforts will be made to attract


more teams to the league.


be paid to egg producers for the current period are: Large, 3s. 3d. per dozen; standard, 2s. 9d. per doz.; medium, 2s. 8d. per doz.; small, 2s. 5d. per doz.


J JR IT I S H Egg Marketing Board’s minimum prices, to


Last year the league com­


LOVE and war intertwine in the plot of “BATTLE ON THE BEACH’’ (Grand) which stars Audic Murphy, Dolores -Michaels


and Gary Crosby. One night during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, an


;™™lrmd his job with a search his wife, Ruth (Dolores Michaels), who had become


American submarine lands Craig Benson (Audie Murphy) a civi-


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ball will fall in the local Casino’s roulette wheel!


strange surroundings. Gary Crosby plays Marty


resourceful Fergie, Jack Mullaney is his friend, who comes close to ruining the whole scheme by way of a couple of innocent moth­ balls.


Steve McQueen portrays the


fcackley, a tough Marine sergeant left behind in the American retreat.


starring Dick Shawn, Diane Baker and Barry Coe.


On the same programme is The Wizard of Baghdad,’’


comedy. With Venice as its setting, the


" ’pHE Honeymoon Machine ” is a bright, witty situation


plot revolves about the plan of young Lieut. Fergie Howard, Ensign Beau Gilliam and civilian missile expert Jason Eldridge to use their ship’s electronic com­ puter, which can trace a missile within inches of its landing, as a means of detecting where the


CLARION AT BEACON HILL


^yiNTER'S fingers were still pretty cold when we left


Clitheroe on Sunday morning, and frozen pools at the side of the road bore evidence of the severity of the previous night's frost.


much to ensure that we kept warm, however, and the cold didn't cause any untoward discomfort as we pedalled briskly to Skipton for our mid-morning


The climb up Satvley Brow did


daughter who has no use for Navy men until she meets Fergie. Jim Hutton is the missile expert who dodges heiress Paula Pren­ tiss. Jack Weston plays a signal­ man who gets his signals mixed, and Dean Jagger is the admiral who almost precipitates an inter­ national crisis. * * *


Brigid Bazlen is the admiral’s


Tongs ” is the story of a British merchant skip-


GET in Hong Kong in the year 1910, “ The Terror of the


Red Dragon Tong, one of the notorious secret societies that terrorised the waterfront.


PALLADIUM per’s attempt ■to smash the


Toone) finds his daughter mur­ dered by the Tong, and sets out to crush the society.


Captain Jackson (Geoffrey


r u t h l e s s organisation whose profits from protection rackets, white slave traffic, smuggling and dope peddling amount to thousands of dollars a year.


He finds himself up against a


powerful Tong boss, is played by Christopher Lee, who has ap­ peared in many horror films and will he remembered especially for his part in “ Dracula.”


The sinister Chung King, the


role of a lovely half-caste bond slave, whom Jackson frees.


Yvonne Monlaur takes the


break. Further climbing from Skipton


film adds to the dramatic and sinister theme of the plot.


to Draughton also proved useful in combating the cold. The long descent to Addingham, with its narrow, winding streets, did not prove quite as chilling as had been expected, and a few miles of easy going brought us to


the river to climb Beamsley Beacon, feeling at first that our efforts might be rather futile as there was quite a heavy mist on the Ilkley side of the river, but our fears proved to be ground­ less and from the summit of the peak, 1340 feet high, we were able to overlook a wide range of


Ilkley for lunch. In the afternoon, we crossed


\ the valley. Down to earth again, we made


an early start on the afternoon s run, and soon after four o’clock were back in Skipton feeling yen’ appreciative of the warmth offered by the cafe, where we polished off the last crumbs of our sandwiches.


MAGPIE


have a look up Littondale, leav­ ing Woone Lane at 9 a.m. “ GEARS


On Sunday we are going to HUNTING


THE BLEASDALE BEAGLES SEASON 1961-62


p.m—The Delph, Claughton-on- Brock.


-The Ghyll, Sedbergh. Saturday, February 10th, 12-30


Tuesday. February 6th, 11 a.m,


p.m.—Higher Brock Mill, Bleas- dale.


-Pell End School, Cautley, near Sedbergh. Saturday, February 17th, 12-30


Tuesday, February 13th, 11 a.m,


p.m. — Wellbrook, Marshaw, Abbeystead. Tuesday, February 20th, 11 a.m.


— —


a.m.—'The Heights, Rigmaden Tuesday, February 27th, 11 a.m,


Birkhaw, Howgill. Saturday, March 10th, 1 p.m.


Tuesday, March 6th. 11 a.m


deducted from the price paid for all dirty and stained eggs.


One shilling per dozen to be


Stennersceugh, Ravenstonedale. Tuesday, March 13th, 11 a.m.-


Pair Mile Gate, Howgill. Amateur League Spotlight


AMATEUR FOOTBALL TTWO games were postponed and one abandoned in the CLITII- EROE AMATEUR LEAGUE on Saturday.


game with Low Moor and the match between C.P.A. and Bash- all Eaves at Dick Field was abandoned after 2o minutes for the same reason. Bashall Eaves were ihen leading 1-0.


Fog at Chatburn caused the Postponement of the village team’s


break in the Bradford area, no visitors were allowed at Calder­ stones Hospital and therefore the match between the hospital side and Chipping on the hospi­ tal ground was postponed.


Owing to the smallpox


measure taken on the advice of the local health authority m view of the fact that many visi­ tors come from that part of York­ shire.


This was a precautionary


entertain C.P.A. in the prelimin­ ary round of the Aitken Shield, but it is doubtful whether the tie will be played.


To-morrow Calderstones should


meet to-morrow at Henthoin Field, a week earlier tnan


scheduled. St. Paul’s and Chipping: will out-


Has scored 34 goals in his last sight games for Chipping, signed for Gt. Harwood in the Lancs.


Last week, David Freeman, who


Leagve side Wrexham last season but got tired of travelling.


Combination, Division 2. David signed for Football


Low Moor 13 11 0 2 62 26 22 Chipping .. 11 10 1 0 72 17 21 Waddington 12 5 4 3 50 36 14 Calderstones 11 6 1 4 29 25 13 Chatburn .. 14 5 2 7 44 61 12 C.P.A........... 12 3 3 6 40 46 9 Gisburn .... 13 3 3 7 29 67 9 St. Paul’s .. 13 2 2 9 37 52 6 Bashall E. 12 2 2 8 22 57 6


LEAGUE TABLE P. W. D. L. F. A. Pt.


Four Lane Ends, Howgill. Saturday, February 24th, 11


Pox’s Pulpit, Firbank, near Sed­ bergh,


Thursgill, Sedbergh. Saturday, March 3rd, 1 p.m.—


- Saturday, February 3rd, 12-30 The oriental setting of the 1960 Commer Express Van, condition as new ... £325


William Castle’s production of Homicidal," an intense story of household terrified by a psychotic killer in their midst.


On the same programme is


Brides for Seven Brothers ” comes to the screen complete with the verve and brilliance of the Rogers and Hammerstein score.


QNE of the most popular musi­ cals ever filmed “ Seven


voice is heard to good effect in the greatly varying songs, and Jane Powell makes the most of her part.


Howard Keel’s big baritone


the highest order and this, allied to 'the singing, makes “ Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ’’ one of the outstanding musicals of our time.


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


Darwen v. Clitheroe. Aitken Shield—Preliminary Rd.


Calderstones v. C.P.A. Clitheroc Amateur League


Gisbum v. Bashall Eaves. Low Moor v. Waddington. St. Paul’s v. Chipping.


Burnley Combination, Div. 2 Read Utd. v. Padiham Res.


Chipping draw level


drew level with Tossido A at the head of Bowland Billiards League. The Yorkshire team were defeated by Rathmell A, who stand an outside chance of participating in a triple play-off for the championship.


12Y gaining maximum points against Tosside B, Chipping


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LEAGUE TABLE P. W. L. Pt.


Tosside A ................... 8 6 2 12 Chipping ................... 8 b i iz Rathmell A ................ 8 5 3 10 Rathmell B ................ 8 3 5 Newton ...................... 8 3 5 Tosside B ............... 8 l


6 6


1 7 2 Newton v. Ratlimcll B


100 R. Pinder B. Shepherd 100 J Pinder.........E. Lister 100 J. Baines .. J. Charnley 100 S. Rushton — J. Lodge 100 J. Rushton — G. Lamb — start


start FOG, SMALLPOX HIT 590 551


200 start 523


79 S. Foreman 56 G. Capstick 70 F. Harrison 41 J. Wilson .


505 Ratlimcll A v. Tosside A


98 D Baines .. H. Lambert 100 53 E Lister W. Tomlinson 100


100 W. Lister......... J- 9}Fk 100 M. Frankland W. Mitton 67


— start


100 D. Currie .. J. Calverley 57 100 R. Brennand W. Emmott 79


Tosside B v. Chipping


55 R. Adair ......... D- Seed 100 22 D. Dinsdale


. .. W. Seed 100 L. Longton 100


D. Freeman 100 , R. Mercer 100 , B. Mercer 100 start


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Stainton Cotes. Tuesday next, February 6th.


Bracewell. To-morrow, February 3rd.—


Downham Village. Saturday, February 10th.—


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