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14 CUthcroc Advertiser and Times, Friday, December S, I%7


HOME SUCCESS MADE VICTORY HAT-TRICK


Three victories in succession have raised Clitheroc’s hopes of climbing the


league tabic to reach a really good position by the time the season ends. Their 2-0 home triumph against Bacup Borough o n Saturday was well deserved


and gave supporters, generally, almost complete satisfaction. As Clitheroc in their previous two games, both away


from home, had beaten Skelmersdale United and Southport Reserves, in that order, their current form is definitely im­ pressive.


One remarkable feature of


their victory over Bacup Borough was that in the first half, while defending the Jubilee end, Clitheroe had not to take a single goal kick. There were two corners for


den is the type of footballer who plays until he drops from sheer exhaustion. The only real criticism of


the visitors and Schofield had two or three shots to save, but the bare tacts illustrate 'truth­ fully what happened before the interval.


and far between and, had Clithcroe's finishing matched midfield play, Bacup would have been in a sorry mess by


Bacup's attacks were few


led by a single goal scored by Widdup and it was not until ten minutes for the end that Wilson crashed home, beauti­ fully, a right-wing centre to put the issue beyond doubt. There can be no question


the interval. As It was however, Clitheroe


Clitheroe's defence was a ten­ dency on the part of more than one player to slacken off long before the end.


frequently prominent and it was chiefly due to their efforts that Schofield, who was calm and confident, received such splendid coverage.


was unlucky not to pave the way for at least two goals as ho outpaced defenders and crossed the ball into the goal­ mouth.


is one of the fastest players in the Combin-Mon and he


Kay again proved that he


about CUtheroe’s superiority despite the fact that they never quite impressed as they did at Skelmersdale. Clitheroe played some delight­


understand why Bacup should be so much outmatched and yet stay in the game so long with a chance of snatching a point.


Ten men


with ten men as Holden, their left half, who works at Grimsby, had been delayed on his long trip by road to the Shaw Bridge ground. Despite the fact that he


ever, that Clitheroe played for the first quarter of an hour


One must not forget, how­


ful football but they were in­ clined to be erratic and, in patches, they faded away. It was really difficult to


impressive moments but also a few lapses from grace. Baron had a very good first


The forward line had many


half but was not quite so effec­ tive after the interval.


made a very dangerous wing. Braysford, at outside right was inclined to stick to the ball a little too long and he was not cool enough near goal. There was one occasion for


Nevertheless, he and Wilson


instance, when the ball came across from the left wing and Braysford blazed away first time to send the ball well wide of the target.


tion, with Bacup’s defence out of position, there seemed no reason why Braysford should not have controlled the ball and shot almost at leisure.


set off before 5-30 a.m„ Hol­ den was delayed by fog and traffic congestion to such an


game that he was feeling the effects of his long journey — some of his tackling was tack­ ling in name only — but he never gave up trying and


extent that ho found it im­ possible to reach the ground on time for the 2-15 kick-off. It was obvious during the


Clitheroe have never had a more enthusiastic player. Hol­


inside forward than he in the middle or on the wing, chiefly because he has more room in which to move. It is a pity he is not a schemer for Clitheroe's need is a little more craft to enable the best to be brought out of Kay and the left wing.


Widdup is much better as an Improved


it however, that Clitheroe are a greatly improved team and some of their football was really delightful to watch. It was really satisfying, for ins­


There can be no doubt about As he was free of all atten­ Clegg, Holden and Kirk were


tance, to see openings being planned and executed deliber­ ately and with precision.


It is some time since one saw so many long, accurate


passes to the right wing, so that Braysford ought to have had a picnic in the second half.


lead after 21 minutes, follow­ ing a free kick on the right. Widdup succeeded in heading the ball which rolled over the line as Bacup's goalkeeper dived, but was harassed by two of Widdup's colleagues,


Clithcroe took a deserved


until 10 minutes from the end, when a glorious movement was started on the right in which Clegg and Baron were chiefly concerned. When the ball came across Wilson, who had dashed into the middle, crashed the ball home with a ' great first- time shot. There were plenty of inci­


The second goal was delayed


dents, but they were chiefly, in the Bacup goalmouth.


during odd lapses by the home defence Bacup had "gift’1 chances which they wasted. Even so, had Bacup gat away


It is true, : however, that


with even one point' it would have been a grave injustice. Teams: Clitheroe—Schofield;


Clegg, Holt;'Kirk, .Williamson, Holden: Braysford, Widdup, Ka.v, Baron, Wilson.


Sanderson, Sinkinson; Howard, Davies, Thompson;.. Ashurst, Dagger, Kenyon, Corbishlev, Lane. Referee — Air. P. Birchall,


Bacup Borough — Clayton; Bolton.


Morecambe .. 17 13 1 3 27 Honvicli


P w D L P


Skelm'rsdale .. 11 11 2 3 24 Lancaster ___ 14 10 o o 22 Netherfield .. 15 10 T 4 21 Guinness Ex... 12 s o 2 18 Marine


......... 1j 11 2 3 24


Barrow Res. .. 16 8 0 8 16 S. Liverp’l ___ 16 6 4 6 16 Kirkby Town


CUtheroe ___ 17 7 0 10 14 St. Helen's .. 17 5 1 11 11 Southport Res. 16 4 3 9 11 G t . Hanvood .. 12 3 3 6 9 Droylsden ___ 16 2 5 9 9 Bacup Borough 14 3 3 8 9 Wigan Rovers 14 3 1 10 7 Rossendale .. 16 o o 12 6 Prescot Town 17 3 0 14 6


15 7 1 7 15


Burscough ___ 11 8 1 5 17 Chorley ___


Fleetwood


......... 13 8 2 3 18 15 8 1 6 17


10 7 3 6 17


Billington


clear goals on Saturday in a game brought forward from


Gisburn beat Billington by six


missed early G chances


isburn 6, Billington 0.


defence into several early mis­ takes It was indeed fortunate for the home side that the Billington forwards squandered their chances for they could have been three up in 15


January 20. Billirigton started at a fast pace and worried the Gisburn


minutes. Gisburn finally settled down


but over-eagerness on the part of their forwards and a clever offside game played by Billing­ ton prevented them from mak­ ing much headway until the 30th minute when Atkinson


GISBURN HAVE 1 NOW CLEAR


LEAD If Trinity’s run is to continue, they should be in line for


three successive wins following their defeat at the hands of White Lions on Saturday, lor this season they have had several runs of three wins and then a del eat. Gisburn have now taken a


scored with a good shot. Gisburn began to take con­


stant pressure after the inter­ val and Rogers soon put them 3-0 in the lead when he scored with a 15-yard shot. Price then added a fourth before Mouls­ dale scored the fifth. After a long run up the left


trol and Moulsdale added a second just before half time. The home side applied con­


two-point lead at the top of the table following their 6—0 win over Billington in a re­ arranged game, and Trinity stay in second place, al­ though they could be chal­ lenged by St. Paul’s (16 points) and Chipping 0 5 points), the latter having four games in hand over


Trinity. One of the talking-points m


the league at the moment is the decline from power of Chat- bum who, for the past three seasons have finished in the top three places in the tabic, but


Richardson; Embery, Wilson, O’Donnell; Bigg. Atkinson, Rogers. Price, Aloulsdale. Billington: Gartwell, White-


wing. Moulsdale completed his hat-trick and scored Gisburn’s sixth goal from an almost impossible angle. Teams. Gisburn: Dennett: Taylor,


head, Swan; Brown, Thistle- thwaite. Wilcox; Metcalfe, Ross,


Atkinson. Duckworth. Scott. Amateur


teur League are to choose from 14 ■ players for their Inter Lea gue competition game against Nelson and Colne Amateur League to be played at Seedhill, Nelson on Sunday, kick-off 2-30. The team .will be from:. Den­


League Team Clitheroe and District Ama­


who are, this season, holding a middle-of-the-table position with 10 points from 10 games. Another fall from grace is


that of Calderstones, who are firmly placed at the bottom of the league with only, one win and one draw from their nine


fixtures. It seems hard to behove


Saturday, scoring 12 without reply against Sabden, Gillibrand and Hinksman scoring four


throe seasons ago. Brockhall had a good win on


;oals each.


LANGH0 HIT BACK


nett (Gisburn), Jeffrey (Brock- hall), Rawsthorne (Bowkers) O'Donnell (Gisburn). Dawson (Chatburn), Wilkinson (St. Paul's): Tomlinson (Brock- hall), Wright (St. Paul’s). Rey­ nolds (White Lions), Eliadin (Brockhall), Briggs (Whi t e Lions), Simpson (Brockhall) Scott (Bowkers) and Bolton (Hurst Green). The League played a chal­


B L A C K B U R N CO M B IN A T IO N D IV IS IO N 3


dier end of the pitch in the first half, and though Y.M.C.A. did most of the attackhig, the visitors held out well. Langho’s out-side right, Kay


lenge match on S u n d a y against a team containin: several Clitheroe. FC players at Shaw Bridge and were beaten 2—0,


ing an unsuccessful season, came right back to form on Saturday and beat Prescot Town 5—0 away. Clitheroe will be fielding the


tough away game against Wigan Rovers, who, alter hav­


Tomorrow Clitheroe face


Y.M.C.A. 'B ' 1, Langho 3 Langho defended the mud­


score. Y.M.C.A. soon equalised however, and the scores were


broke down the right wing and put Haworth through to


level at half-time. In the . second half .Y.M.C.A.


were less competent in defence and allowed Langho to have


most of the play. Langho regained tlieir lead


that they were league cham­ pions only four seasons ago and Aitken Shield winners


trick scorer when he hit three in Gisburn’s 6—0 win over Bil­ lington.


I. Moulsdale was another hat-


12, Sabden 0 (played at Sab­ den); Gisburn 6, Billington 0; Grindleton 5, Ch a tb u rn (played at Chatburn); St. Paul’s Calderstones 0; Trinity. 0, -


Saturday’s results: Brockhall White Lions 5.


burn; Billington v. Sabden; St. Paul’s v. Trinity.


Trinity .......... . 12 8 1 3 17 St. Paul’s ___ . 12 7 2 3 16 Chipping ___ . 8 7 T 0 15 White Lions . 12 7 0 5 14 Brockhall


Gisburn ___ . 11 9 1 i 19


Chatburn ___ . 10 5 0 5 10 Bowkers ___ . 9 3 0 6 6 Billington


. . . . . 8 6 1 1 13


Sabden .......... .. i i 2 0 9 4 Caldcrstones


Hurst Green . . H 2 1 8 5 Grindlcton


BROCKHALL


TOO STRONG FOR SABDEN


Brockhall 12, Sabden 0


Sabden as no games ar allowed on the hospital pitch due the outbreak of foot and mouth disease.


This fixture was. played at


after only five minutes when Eliadin scored from about eight yards’ range. Leeming added the second


Brockhall went into the lead


after 12 minutes and then Elia­ din made it 3—0 five minutes before the interval. In the second half Brockhall


took complete control and Gillibrand and Hinksman scored four goals each to make it 11-0. About 10 minutes before the


when a header from Paul Hil­ ton was parried by the goal­ keeper and stuck in the mud


same team that has won it.; last t h r c e matches: Schofield Clegg, Holt: Kirk, Williamson Holden: Braysford. Widdup Kay. Baron. Wilson. The coach will leave Shaw Bridge at 12-15 p.m.


on the goal line and Andrew Best raced in and forced it into


the net. Minutes later Paul Hilton


scored with a strong shot, to increase Langho’s lead. Langho's team: Ward; Ains­


son. P. Hilton, Andrew Best, Haworth.


. . 11 3 0 8 6 .. 8 2 0 6 4 .. 9 1 1 7 3


Tomorrow’s fixtures: Bowkers Brockhall: Chatburn v. Gis­


L E A G U E T A B L E P. W. D. Li. PS.


Shock for Trinity


scoring in -their away game with the joint league-leaders, Trinity, on Saturday when Reynolds converted a penalty. A few minutes later Sullivan


Trinity o, White Lions 5 White Lions opened the


sent over a cross and Fottlker scored his team’s second goal with a long lob. Trinity played hard but lacked the vital


SNOOKER LEAGUE Calderstones 0 points


T. Haythornthwaite . . . . 63 T. Howarth ..................... 64 G. Burgess ......................... 97 R. Holt ............................. 78 L. Edwards ..................... 92 F. Hudson ......................... 82


Pcndle Club 16 points Total 476


finishing power in front of goal. With only 10 minutes of the


D. Niven ......................... 55 J. Geldard ..................... 64 T. Seed ............................. 89 T. Palmer ......................... 51 S. Hoit ................................ 45 B. Smith ......................... 73


Cross Keys 8 points


first half remaining, McGurk left the field with a knee in­ jury. At the start of the second


place of the injured McGurk. Mac o lm s o n immediately


in


Lions in for their third goal which was scored by Briggs. The same player added another goal minutes later to make the score 4—0. The Trinity side by now,


A defensive slip let White . . Total 377


half Trinity brought on their substitute, . Mnlcolmson,


brought a little more life into the home attack and Turnbull


was unlucky to see a fine hea­ der go just wide of the up- wright


T. Fish .......... H. Wilkinson :G. Blackburn J. Ainsworth .. R. Holden ___


B. Jackson ............— 68 ........ 79


Social Club "B” .12 points


........ 67 ........ 71 ........ 47 ........ 43


Total 375


E. Tomlinson ................. 81 G. W. Anderton .............. 94 G. Tomlinson ................. 77 W. Redfern ..................... 75 D. Cowperthwaite .......... 94 W. Bray ............................ 49


Con Club 14 points


lacked organisation and but for A. Kay in the goals, the score could have been many more. Another defensive error let


Total 425 Chatburn 'B' 4 pts


Chatburn through to score the fifth goal of the match. A. Kay turned in a splendid


display for Trinity and it is no discredit to him that five goals were scored against him. Malcolmson. as substitute, in his come-back after being on the injured list for seven .weeks, also had a good game, Briggs and Hcminsley were


J. Fish .......... ............... 49 F. Webster .. ............... 36 H, Frankland ............... 75


B. Jones .......... ............... 50 A. Holgate


............. 39 . ...... .


V. Broderick . ................... 70 C. Nutter ........ ........ 53


Billington 'A' 12 pts


outstanding for White Lions. Teams: Trinity: Kay; Grime.


M. Gorton . . . R. Charnley ..


Wrigley: Penman, McGurk, Morrison; J. Peel, Haworth, Czapowski, R. .Peel, Turnbull. Substitute: Macolmson. White Lions; O'Neill: Geelan.


C. Rydeheard ................. 41 F. Gorton . . . . ................. 48


Total 343 —


Foulker; Chatbum. Heminslcy, Wild: Sullivan, Woodwoi-th, Reynolds, Lord, Briggs. Substi­ tute: William's. Referee: Mr K. Eastham.


Calclerstones overplayed


first half, St. Paul's were soon on the attack and after about 10 minutes Fye gave them the lead. Calderstones had no answer


St. Paul’s 5, Caldcrstones 0 Kicking down the slope in the


final whistle, P. Lambert, the Sabden right back, was sent off for using bad language. Immediately after that inci­ dent, Hilton scored Brockhall'


worth, B. Hilton; Clague, Duck­ worth, Alan Best; Kay, Thomp­


Fielding: Birtwcll, Wright. D. Lambert: Parsons, Graham, Macro, Grout, Hall.


son; Patterson, Bolton; Jeffrey, Ren wick, Simpson; Hilton Leeming, Eliadin, Hinksman, Gillibrand. Sabden—Foster: P. Lambert,


to the home attack, and further goals were added to make the half-time score 3—0. Furber, in the Calderstone’s


12th goal. . Teams: Brockhall — Harri­


Pendle Club who have collected 32 points from their last two matches, has been a feature of recent games in the Clitheroe and District Snooker League.


A remarkable recover}’ by


have in consequence taken over their place at the foot of the league table while the Social Club's teams, along with Wad­ dington, have a commanding lead at the head of the table.


Their opponents Calderstones,


32 by L. Field of the Social Club.


goal had plenty to do and made several good saves, but even he was unable to prevent St. Paul’s from scoring two more goals after the interval. Teams: St. Paul’s; Parker;


The highest break so far is


L E A G U E T A B L E Played Points


Social Club A Waddington


Social Club B Billington


Hargreaves, Pearce; Wilkinson, Sims. Taylor; Lawson Devine, Wright, Pye, Robinson. Calderstones: Furber: Fitz­


worth, Bibby, Bradshaw; Grirn- shaw. Holden, Leach, Clayton, Desmont.


Chatburn B Pendle Club Chatburn A Pendleton


Calderstones


patrick, Harrison: Shuttle- Billin^ton B Cross Keys Police


Conservatives


8 8


8 3 8 8 8 8 6 6 6 6


8


82 80 79 68


T. Fitzpatrick ................. E. Botley .........................


H. Mayer............................. .D C. Graham......................... J. Horrocks .....................


40 fi2


s i TRUTI


W. Tlplady ..................... Total 277


Waddington 8 points


M. Sowden......................... 78 S. Cox ................................. 35


J. Sowden ......................... 44 J. Wooff


W 'J 60


G. Dinsdale ..................... 78 N. Waterworth ................. 77


Total 372


B. Parker ......................... 29 E. Horsefield ..................... 4“


Chatburn "A” 4 points


R. Astin ............................. *>’ B. Hodgson ..................... 60 A. Clark ............................. °0 A. Middlesbrough .......... 40


Total 295


H. Lawrenson ................. 22 L. D. Conchie ................. 28 E. Petty ............................. '43 S. Fitzpatrick .................. 38 H. Dewhurst ..................... 56 J. Swain ............................. 44


Billington ‘’B" 2 points Total 231 Social Club 'A' 12 pts.


............... 56 W. Waggctt ---- .............. 39 G. Woodworth .............. 87 R. Swales .......... .............. 83 A. Atkinson ---- ............. 63


T. Riding .......... ............. 67 Total 315 D Nuttall ........ Total 403 ■ ■ - Telephone Cj Pendleton 4 pts


H. Nutter ........ ............. 41 L. Whittaker . ............. 39


F. McNab ........ ............. 62 R. Crozier ........ ............. 54


Total 307


School hack in form


School First Eleven came right back on to top form on Satur­ day when they defeated a strong Trojan side 4-0.


C.R.G.S. 4, Trojans 0 CUtheroe Royal Grammar


mistake by the visitors’ goal­ keeper. and then Evans scored a similar goal two minutes


Carus opened -the scoring after five minutes followmg a


later. In the second half play was much tire same with the


63 60 59 59 47 45 44 44 38


school very much on top. After 62 minutes Carus made it 3—0. and five minutes later Evans scored the fourth when he shot the ball home through a crow­ ded goalmouth. Clitheroe team: Fielding:


Ward. Carter. Waddington. Cookson; Nuttall. Scott; Davies, Law. Carus. Evans.


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