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Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, Friday, August 23. 1968 9


IIE V E S \K E I) HAUL


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i almost £70 was stolen a house in Clithcroe


I. Whalley, on Monday ipimy director j an


■el Green relumed lo lu! Cranston, on Monday


ig. to find that thieved entered the house and several valuable iu,ns


y were: Two solid silver •s3lad serving <,Drni>C1


:>endant in the shape „f art, with an amethyst


m the centre, also in the of a heart., £io.


the property js offered ile to anyone, or if anv- as any knowledge of the "ty, they are asked tn a Chtheroe police station


-liUieroe 3818, or any officer.


‘hoolboys


iP afrans


ree 11-year-old Clitli- schoolboys hearing of


'light of Biafran refu- decided to do somc- about it during their


lys. boys, Brian Cowell, of


descent, Andrew Garnett, nthome Road and David is, of Millthorne Avenue. iout collecting old hand- clothes, toys and other


s from their neighbour- "hich they sold from a at the comer of Mill- i Avenue and Henthome last weekend.


Ir takings of 18s. were 1 to the Clitheroe Oxfam fund for urgent use to


to the suffering. The Ider of their stock also liuted as it was added to D be sold at the Oxfam In King Street, starvation lunch, dance


idividual donations have brought in £181 and for rth Lancashire region of m £1,957 has been d.


will be needed in Biafra ny months yet. so the will remain open.


ball


ults week's scores in Clith-


y claimed points because earn did not turn up. Ladybirds v. Brockhall


lancelled). Whalley v. Luxaflex.


11. Calderstones v. Trinity


celled match w h ich have been played on


o Electric v. Luxaflex. Whalley v. Ladybirds.


11.


•ds LEAGUE TABLE


10 9 12 8 11 8


tones ill ) El. Y.C.


X . .


11 2 11 0


11 2


8 4 9 3


week’s fixtures: Calderstones v. Trulex:


Smarties United v.


P. W. D. L. P-. 11 11 0 0 22


lied). . Dynamo Electric 24, Y.C. 19.


etbal! League were; Smarties United 18.


y


« set. £5; two silver £ lour inches high, £7 eacl • er pepper pot, five inched £9; a gold charm f t of a horse, £ 15; and


iniit irilaid in the silver’ £15; a solid silver lta,’


llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll»<l«"lllllllllllll,l,,lll,,ll,,,ll Weakened, but Clitheroe play like wizards One goal was sufficient


{0 gi ve Clitheroe two from their opening of the season. What


points


gams is more encouraging is that


the success w a s w e l l


f*s flj-st half and threw them but CUtheroe had to


deserved. u is true that B a r row 'serves had their chances in


£Sy the heavier burden and 'h5 r courage was justly re-


WT h f ' news that Bernard wallbank had not been re­ leased by Horwich and could S play came as a great


chnek to CUtheroe. 5 M the last minute the team


had to be re-organised, David with a fractured wrist.


S to appear at inside k To add to CUtheroe’s diffl-


Ttoke his P^ce all through


Ne»-look team m


win easily friendly


Calderstones


new look team new management this sea­


have under


son, and singings have been made of players from White L i o n s , Bowker


against Blackburn Hospitals,


Bros, and Billington. their pre-season game


Calderstones won, 6—l. Dust and Wild, both pre­


stalemate, with no score. J Brooks came on tor Bacx


At half-time, it was stall ....


season signings, were a con­ stant threat to the BlacK burn defence.


r ,« to the Calderstones


side and scored with his first tek of the match. This goal opened the floodgate and Dust (2), Desimone (2) and Wild <!' were further scorers for Calderstones as the for­ wards swept aside the Black-


T u s to r r t centre-haif, Oust a t b r i g h t , and Desimone at outside left were outstand ing for Calderstones. _


^ " c h a S HardC man; Shuttleworth. Auster, Hartley; Holden, Dust; Wild, Backhouse, Desimone, Su • Brooks. Referee Mr. c.


Whiteside. YOUTH PLAY AT


OLD TRAFFORD The point that many young cricketers are unable


to play spin bowling was made clear when Ribbiesda e Youth XI met Saddleworth and District Youth XI at Old


cricket, a very interesting game was played and it was found that the most success­ ful bowlers were those who could tackle spinning. This would seem a bad


Trafford, on Sunday. ^ On a day ideally suited to


___.


reflection on the coaching given to the young players. Although this was largely the case, a very fine spell of spin bowling came from Gordon Hindle of Whalley, who was not afraid to toss the ball up even when he


_18—0; Matthews, 5—0—27 —1; Crossiey, 7—1—26—2; T ushingham , 3—1—8—0; Smith R. 5.2—2—10—2; Min­


Total ...................... 96 Bowling; Hinchcliffe, 4—0


gham, 4—2—6—4. SADDLEWORTH LEAGUE


Nicholls c Benson b Cui- shew ..................


was hit. First class wicket keeping


Mingham b Haworth .. 11


was displayed by Olive Ward and Graham Davies was in good batting form with some hard-hitting strokes. Peter Atkinson also had a sound


innings. ribblesdale league


C. Davies c Smith b Crossiey


Benson b Matthews . . . .


Atkinson c Broadbent b Crossiey ....................... 24


................... 39 9


Ward lbw Smith R......... 14 Nuttall run out ............


Sharp b Mlngham......... 7 Hindle c and b Smith R. 8 Pollard b Mingham . . . .


9


Haworth lbw Mingham . 4 Newby b Mingham — 9 Culshaw not out


9 Extras ................ .........


9 1


9


Nuttall run o u t .......21 Matthews c and b Atkin­ S son ............................. 32


Tushingham st Ward b Hindle


Smith D. c Davies b Hindle


Broadbent st Ward b Hindle


Crossiey st Ward b Hindle ............


alton lbw Atkinson .. ..................... ............... . • • • ..............•••••


Total


mith R. c Sharp b WHindle ....................... 19


delightful condition and there were favourable comments from supporters. Shaw Bridge has never looked better, but even so. from a playing point of view, it was hard going because of ruts and the hard playing surface. By full time most of the players were complaining of tired ankles and stretched muscles. With five new players in


the. second half. The ground looked In


showed Clitheroe that they did not mean to stand on any ceremony. Their defence was tough, fast moving and re­


keeper and' the game was peculiar in that, although there was splendid action there were few really worth­


sourceful. In their attack they had


their side, Barrow Reserves lo o k e d really formidable opposition. I t was quite obvi­ ous that some of them were competing for places in the Football League side. Teams like Barrow Reserves


two very lively wingers—the outside left in particular often led Clitheroe a merry dance and the Inside forwards would probably have taken advant­ age of the openings thus created but for the splendid positioning of Chris Sims, Clitheroe’s centre half. Sims was in great form,


while shots at the nets. Both CUtheroe full-backs showed good positional play but lacked speed, and one realises that tills weakness could provide problems in the


future. In view of the re-organisa­


and indeed it was at half back that Clitheroe held the


are always something of a menace at the beginning of the season to Combination teams like Clitheroe. Every player is on Ms


mettle and usually has had the advantage of rigorous


training. Barrow on Saturday quickly


greatest advantage. Kirk and Williamson proved


tion of the forward line, one hesitates to offer any serious criticism. If Wallbank plays with the initiative, skill and thrust he showed In the days when he was skipper, CUth­ eroe should have a left wing second to none In the Com­


two capable wing halves and it was this department of Clitheroe’s te am w h ic h earned highest marks. Schofield kept a good goal,


bination.


showing splendid anticipa­ tion but he was not ^ called upon to make any outstand­


ing saves.Neither, for that matter, was Barton, Barrow’s goal­


stitute, did fairly weU at centre forward when Fenton


Malcolm Robinson, the sub­ .. .


went on the right wing. Wilson, scored the only


while on his knees, a centre


goal of the game after 61 minutes, when he headed,


from Williamson. CUtheroe’s most improved


player is Mel Widdup. He worked hard throughout the 90 minutes, produced one or two new tricks to baffle the opposition and was of invalu­ able assistance to the defence


when needed. I t was a bright opening to


the season with a clear indi­ cation that CUtheroe have, at the very beginning of the season, the material with which to strive for leading honours.One or two weak spots may develop as the season goes by or when injuries occur, but at least, Clitheroe have every ground for feeling optimistic. CUtheroe; Schofield; Hol­


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CAPTAIN IS NEW ALL ROUNDER


CHAMPION The new champion all-rounder of the Ribblesdale


League is Clitheroe’s captain Simon Westhead. ^ _ Simon gained the title by winning the league s sing e-


wicket competition at the Chatbum Road groun on


Simon was one of the few batsmen who was prepared to hit the ball hard. In fact many of the players over­ looked the object of the com- petition—which Is to provide


Sunday. Throughout the competition


den, Holt; Kirk. Sims, Wil­ liamson; Kay, Widdup, Fen­ ton, Baron, Wilson. Sub.


bright, entertaining, cricket— by adopting tap and run tactics when at the crease.


Robinson. Barrow Res.: Barton; Ste­


vens, Daveson; M. Knox, Rawllngson, Newby; Casson, Woodbum, R. Knox, Wright, Armstrong. Sub. Graham. Referee: Mr. N. Numey, of


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m Georeeson and S. Westhead of Clitheroe take the f ie ld a f th e start of the single wicket contest.


The Weekend's Matches How to make County players blush


Local cricket continued


to be favoured by the weather, as the sun shone


on a fair-sized crowd. The wicket, having been


very fast during the dry weather, had been slowed down by this week’s rain into an easy-paced batting wicket on which Read were put into


bat.


men, Malcolm Grainger and Peter Pairclough, batted very


The villagers’ opening bats­ , . *


soundly and put On 92 runs before Grainger was out for


50.His maiden half-century for the club In his first season


9 4 i


6


HinchcUffe not out . . . . Extras ................


9 0


1 ................... 199


14—1; Newby , 7—3—4—0 Handle, 15.3—2—


lard, 4—0—12—0; 3—1—12—1; —17—2.


43—5;


Bowling: CulShaw, 7—2— POl-


Atkinson, 8—0 Haworth,


Rain came 1 FAILED TO RAISE -but salmon TEAM-FINED


not moving The spate I had antici­


pated early last week did not materialise, but finally j


we have had heavy rain. Much of this rain has


soaked into the very dry ground, even so, sufficient has


At a meeting of the


Ribblesdale League execu­ tive committee, held at the Chatburn Road ground on Monday evening, it was


found its way down the becks and streams to bring the level of the Ribble up'to the 1ft. 3in mark on the gauge at Brungeriy. This should be enough


fine and to award the four points for the game to Pendle


reported that during the recent holidays Padiham II could not raise a team to play Pendle Forest. I t was decided to Impose a


fresh water to allow the sea trout to run but I doubt if


the salmon will move. A young schoolboy angler,


0 11 0


9 4 9 4


1 18 4 16 3 16 0 8 6 6


aged 13 rushed into my shop last Wednesday with the


biggest smile on his face I have seen for many years, to tell of a nice 10 lb salmon he had caught at Brungeriy Park on the Clitheroe Cor­


poration water. Trout anglers are still find-


ins it very difficult to take fish in daylight, although


some were successful, several fish were caught most of them on worm ■ or maggott. The most productive period


LOKTITOA


Forest.Saturday’s results — Junior League, Division I: Earby 83 for 1, Cherry Tree 1821 for•5 dec.; English Electric 63, Lucas 96; Oswaldtwistle Im. 87, Blackburn N. 135, Padi­ ham 16, Lower Darwen 181; Pendle Forest 159, Langho Colony 160 for 7; Ribblesdale


W. 94 tor 3. Waddtngton 92.


league table P W o


Lower Darwen 19 12 Lucas


......... I9


Earby .......; “ 8 Pendle Forest 19


ls the evening risC. and after dark, many anglers 1 had spoken to. have • don© ■ really


Cherry Tree . 19 Oswaldtw’le I- 19 Langho Col. Padiham ..


well, some have left, toe river with .three .brace of


E.E.C............ Ribblesdale W.


brownies fishing dry fly until dark, then changing over to


wet fly.Duns, Ribble Sedges and Black gnats, accounted for many of these fish.. ______


19 19 19 19


Blackburn N. 19 Waddington . 18


2 10 30 4 9 28 5 9 25 6 10 18 4 11 16


L PT 4 51 2 50 5 37 7 36 5 35 5 35 7 33


wirk 11. Read 104; Burniey Bel. 93, Great Harwood 94 for


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5; Cherry Tree 131, Rolls Royce 108; Settle 106 for 1, Baxenden 52; Whalley 85, Oswaldtwistle Im. 122.


LEAGUE TABLE p W D


Clitheroe . . . . 16 10 Settle


Baxenden Read


Oswaldtw’le 1 Rolls Royce . Cherry Tree Gt. Harwood Burnley Bel. Bamoldswick


Whalley ...


......... 17 10 .......


18 10 18 9 18 17 17 16 17 17 17


2 11 18 5 11 9


X. PI 3 43 5 42 7 41 5 40 8 34 4 34 7 28 7 27 9 26


Knock-out final


arranged Arrangements have been


made to play the final game in the Ribble Valley Knock-out competition be­ tween Pendle Forest II and Wellington at Barrowford on Sunday. This also has involved a


with the first XI was built up by a very watchful defence ana some fine driving on both


the hands of deep square-leg, when only two short of lus 50i t was difficult to bowl a good length to him as he used his feet well to get to the


pitch of the ball. Eventually Read declared


at 205 for 4 wickets, with skipper Peter Fairclough not


out, having passed the 500U1 run mark for the season. His Imperturbable tempera­


ment, coupled with his exem­ plary technique and his ex­ perience have made him one of the league’s leading run- getters for the last 20 years. Sherwood and Lord were


sides of the wicket. Next man in, Richard


to within two runs of a half-


zentury.Lord batted with a vigour which gave no hint of his 47 years and during his splendid innings of 52, he arrived at


the 500-run mark for the season.


search of victory, had pro- fessional Clayton hitting the ball very hard indeed; in fact he hit one ball out of the (admittedly small) ground into the main road. Unfortunately, none of his


Barnoldswick, still in


the stars of the Bamolds- wick innings, as they put on 97 runs for the second wicket, by following the simple form­ ula of keeping out the good balls on the wicket, picking


Goodway, was just the man to exploit the lack of penetra­ tion of the Barnoldswick


bowling. He had only been at the


crease for half an hour when he pulled a ball straight into


,


D. Seddon, run out . . . . 1 F. Skinner, run out . . . .


Bowditch .................. 43


E. Sumner, not o u t ......... 12 Extras .............


Total (for 4 wkts) 205 p Pickup 7—0—39—0;


3 °


Clayton 14—2r “40:— Bowditch 4—O


Barker 10—0—65—0;


Whipp 5—1—38—1. barnoldswick


partners was able to match thL enterprise, and the


t-15—1; T. J.


B. Sherwood, lbw Duer- Dden .....................


match ended in a draw. Even though there was no


F. Lord, ct Green b Duer- den ............................


. Pilkington, b Wilkin­ son ..........................


out the bad balls and hitting them firmly to all parts of


the field. Sherwood executed particu­


larly well his own brand of outturn- forcing shot off the back foot which helped him


result, the spectators were entertained by a total of 370 runs during the afternoon, which should cause some of our County and Test cricket­ ers to blush with shame.—


Onlooker. READ


W. F. Fairclough, not out M. Grainger, b Whipp .. R Goodway, ct Clayton b


Cole finishes in fine style On Friday e v e n i n g


Brian Cole was officially told that Clitheroe did not intend to re-sign him as


their professional for the 1969 season — and on Saturday he played his best innings of the season and highest score with the


club. Brian soared 96 against


Earby ahd would undoubtedly have reached hts century had he realised how dose he


was to it. He occupied the crease for


three hours 12 minutes and hit 14 fours, many of them flowing cover drives hit with


perfect timdng. His innings e n a b le d


Clitheroe to gain a draw


which virtually rules out Earby’s chances of league honours. The Earby followers were far from pleased at the tactics of CUtheroe’s cap­


tain Simon Westhead who allowed Ids team to bat for .three and a quarter hours before declaring at 181—9.


85 minutes in which to score 156 runs in order to claim


This gave the visitors only


the extra five overs. But they went tor the runs


despite a bad opening in which they lost Foster and Wright cheaply. Malcolm Dennett and Mike Chappie, two of toe hardest hitters in the league, fairly hammered the Olitheroe bowling to get within five runs of the tar-


Westhead prepared to bowl the last over of normal time with Earby still requiring 14


get. As excitement mounted


runs to be in with a chance Witih two bails left this


M. Blackburn b Moore D. Ireland not out


had been reduced to five runs. Chappie, who had ear­ lier hit Entwistle for a glorious six over the sight- screen went for another big


hit.The ball reached a tremen­ dous height but did not have sufficient length to reach the boundary and Blackburn brought off a good catch.


OLITHEROE


Cole st Newsholme b Moore


G. Davies c Moore b Dennett


......................... R. Read b Dennett . . . . * ................... “


A. Entwistle c and t> Moore


. Westhead c Newsholme b Madden


J. Fletcher c Wiseman b Chappie


......


J. Lewis c Newsholme b S"Madden ..........•••••• 2


>


............... 9 1


................... 22 xtras


22 11


G. Elson c Foster b Mad- den


E ............................. 9 Total (9 wkts dec.) 181


................... ‘


49—2; M. Chappie 13- 4 -48 —1; C. Madden 11—2—31—3; D. Moore 9—2—46—3.


EARBY


F. Foster b McLean . . . . 4 B. Wright b Westhead .. 8 Dennett not out ............ 56 M. Wiseman b Elson . . . . a M. Chappie c Blackburn b


G. Newsholme not out .. u Extras


Westhead ............. 44 .................. ” Total (5 wkts) .. 151


44_i; s. Westhead 4—0—27 _2; G. Elson 4—0—35—1; A. Entwistle 5—1—38—0.


Bowling: R. McLean 6—0 One man, and Whalley’s downfall Whalley have g o o d


cause to remember their visit to Pleckgate on Saturday, and particularly the part played in their down fall by Ronnie Wal­ ton, Blackburn Northern’s


rh<mgp m the league fixtures and the match between Wel­ lington and Barrowford has been brought forward from next month to tomorrow. For the first time this sea­


eight wickets for 26 runs, but he also had a hand in the dismissal of the two other


opening fast bowler. Not only did Walton claim


batsmen. in one case he took a catch


son a game in the Ribble Val­ ley League was completely ruined by the weather. On Sunday, Burnley ID’S home game against Coal enough was abandoned without a single delivery being sent


fi0Wn-Saturday’s game:— Wel­ lington, 33 for l ; Pendle Forest n , 30.—Pendle Forest: J. Clegg, 13, A. Dyson, 1, A- Barnes, 1 S. Spensley, 0, J. Keaeh. 4, B. Tomlinson n.o.,


X Kerr, 9> Nutter’ 6’ ^ Procter, 1 n.o., T. Wheeler, 9,


E. Lumb, 1. Extras 3. Total 3Q.


Bowling: R. Jones, 2 for 14; T. Birch 7 for 11; A. Gunner,


1 Wellington: J. Whalley, 7 n.o., R. Adcroft, 0, K. Wall- bank, 25 n.o. Extras 1. Total


rowford 32 for 1, Brockhall. M. Britcliffe, 0, J. Leeming, 1, M. Gorton, 7, W. Lamb 1, D. Curry, 2, V. Ashton, 6. C. Warden, 4, F. Heald, 0, P- Hull, 2, M. Bibby, 2 G. Brit- oliffe, 0. Extras 5. Total 30 all


(for one wicket) 33. Sunday: BrockliaJl 30, Bar­


° Bowling: E. Holden, 4 for (1 wicket) 32. P; W. D. L. ps. _ .


82 - 86 LOWERGATE - CUTHEROE Telenhone 3867


Barrowford . Coal Clough Wellington . Burnley HI . Brockhall Lucas II Pendle F. .•


. 11 . 10


11 11 9


11 9


12, S. Whitley, 5 tor 13. Barrowford: J.i Hanfonv 6


n.o., J. Lomax, 11, K. &lt- cliffe, 12 n.o. Extras 3. Total


9 2 9 29 6 2 3 20


4 4 1 16 4 3 4 15 4 2 5 14


1 1 7 ,4 0 2 8 2


to give Colin Reilley his only wicket, and to conclude a, remarkable afternoon’s work


he ran out R. Singleton, Whalley’s last batsman. Whalley crashed for 4» and Northern made the win­


ning hit for the loss of only one wicket. But as they had to bat until five o’clock, according to league rules,


they succeeded in reaching


118 for 2.Only two Whalley batsmen reached double figures, and but far a late stand, Whaliey would have been out for a very poor score indeed. Whalley’s opening pair,


players missing, the batting was below standard and toe lack of quality in the bowling emphasises Whalley’s need of a professional.


With one or two regular


Blackburn N. 118 tor 2, Whalley 49.


WHALLEY


G. Ireland b Walton .. 2 N. Duckworth c Walton


skipper Geoff Ireland and Neil Duckworth have often Droved the foundation for a useful total, but on this occasion they were o u t


^Thte made all the differ­ ence to what happened


afterwards, despite Peter’s stubborn resistance. Ronnie Walton was to


j Peters b Walton . ■ • • D. Blezard c Duxbury b


b Reilley ................... 13 4 AWalton .......... . ••••• 4


. Anderson c Duxbury b J Walton ............ . — • a . Devonport lbw Walton l


devastating form and Whal­ ley never really looked like making a game of it.


R. Singleton run out . • Extras .................


r . Wilkinson b Walton . 9 9


. Threlfall c Ibbotson b GWalton ............... . • • • ?


A. Barrot not o u t .......... 4 M. Bibby b Walton . . . .


0 Spin bowler fractured jaw Rdbblesdale Wanderers’


spin bowler Peter Wilkin­ son fractured his jaw in the


last few minutes of the Wanderers’ game against Rolls Royce on Saturday.


mid-off when Bolls Royce batsman G. Roberts made a


He was fielding at silly-


terrific drive. He turned his head, but could not get out of the way.


. drove himself to hospital, where he was detained for an operation.


After treatment at the ground* be insisted that be


wThe game ended in a 6r®w*


With'the end of the season approaching, Bolls Royce, who occupy the tottom posi­


ith the honours fairly even.


‘ resisted Wanderers’ attack with grini .determination.


tion, are desperately anxious to give nothing away After a poor start their batsmen


The Wanderer’s innings was noteworthy mainly be­ cause of an extremely good


innings from Les Dixon who deputised for opening bats­ man Ken Proctor. Once he had settled down,


_ _._


Dixon turned the ball very well Indeed and his contribu­


tion of 84, ranks , as one of the best innings in his car-


eer. Tony Holden and BUI Colley later took advantage


of Rolls Royce’s tired attack % that the Wanderers were able to declare at 185 with half their wickets standing.


, likely that the Wanderers would race to an early vic­ tory but H. Pilkington, 128). R. RUey (44) and professional Peter wear (47 not out) saved the day and Wanderers had to settle for a point.


When Bolls Royce lost four auick wickets it s^med


blesdale W. 185 for 5 dec. RIBBLESDALE W


K. Weaver, c Harker b Wear


Rolls Royce 169 for 8, Rib­


A. TiniHpn b Lemon . . . . W. Colley, not out Extras


a Holden, on 3!


1- R. Lemon, 17.4—3—51—2> R. Riley, 3—0—34—0; G.


Total (5 wkts dec) 185 Bowling: Wear, S-O-30-


Roberts, 9—0—67—0. ROLLS ROYCE


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Wear, not out •••-•••• 4{ R. Lemon, Ibw Colley •• G. Roberts, not out . . . . 17


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..................6 Total (8 wkts 169


L. Dixon, b Lemon . . . . 84 A. Musgrove .run o u t . . . . 7


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- I . Metcalfe, 4—1—19—0; P. Wilkinson, 5—1—32—1; W. Colley, 6—2—33—2,


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—24—8; C. Reilley 9—2—2— 5—1.


Bowling: R. Walton 9.2—2 BLACKBURN N.


j. Ready c Bleazard Singleton ..................


F. Duxbury not out . . . . B. Haydock not out . . . • Extras ...............


............... .........


24-0; R. Singleton, 3—0— 21 i; N. Duckworth, 2—0—


Total (2 wkts) . . . . 118 Bowiing: M. Bibby 3 - 6 -


13—o’; J. Peters, 2—1—1—0; G. Ireland 2—0—30—0; B le a z a r d 2—0—7—0; Devonport 1—1—0—1; Wilkinson. 1—0—6—0.


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B. McNulty lbw Daven­ port


CASTLE LOSE BY 65 A Holt and W. Stratton achieved the highest scores


for the Castle Veterans in their match against Corpoi a- tion Park, which they lost by 167 points to _3_. CORPORATION PARK v. CASTLE VETERANS


G. Hoole


W. Sharpies ................... “ F. Graham ................... 13 G. Capstick .............


...................... J6 9


J. Moody ...................... 7“ j . Tyson .......................... to T. Haworth .................


J. Wood ......................... J. Bromley ........


W. Hope


W. Holmes................. E. Aspden ................


13 15


C. Green ............... •••• j . Everin ...................... J3 J. Farish ..................


15 Jo


T. Duckworth ................ I3 232


J3


N. Windle ....... R. Holt .......... F. Hudson ....... A. Holt .......... W. Marsland . W. Edwards . . . W. Stratton . .. T. Wignall....... H. Pemberton , Jim Whitaker G. Taylor . . . . H. Knowles .. H. Lawson . . . . H. Bowker . . . . Jack Whitaker W. Wilkinson


167 a n d b y 20; Clitheroe Cricket Club,


who are currently lying second in the Great Har­


wood Bowling League, beat Clitheroe Castle by. 20 p o i n t s on Wednesday


week. Results: Calderstones S.C.


109, Whalley 79. . Olttheroe Castle 80, • CUtheroe. Cricket C. 100: Salisbury M.O. 102,.


Lowerfold. Park 90. Ribbles- t dale A 93, Oswaldtwistle f


Cons. 92.LEAGUE TABLE PW L P I s


Blackburn All. . .1 4 CUtheroe C.C. .. 14 Ribblesdale A. . . 14 Oswald. Cons. . . 13 CUtheroe Cas. .. 14 Calderstones .. 15 Lowerfold Pk. .. 15 Whalley


Salesbury . . . . 14 .........13


1 3 92 8 6 87’ 8 5 75] 7 7 7l! 6 9 66; 5 10 57 6 7 56 2 12 33


3 98 riding omi I'* ’IS Bowling; Dennett 16—5—


K. Green, not out ......... 4 Extras ................. H Total (for 6 wkts) 161


Duerden ...................... 9


D. Seddon, 11—2—45 1; Wilkinson, 7—1—13—1;


Goodway, 9_ Sumner, 5—0—34—0; Duerden, 6—1—23—3.


R. E D.


48 52


Clayton not out . . . . — es


j. Whipp b Seddon •••• 9 T. Scothern, run out •• 9 K. Wilson ct Wilkinson b


ment to the spectators that not a single six was hit all afternoon. Nevertheless there were


I t was a great disappoint­


some interesting matches. In the preliminary round the league’s outstanding bowler Ronnie Walton of Blackburn


t Northern was to


o Whalley’s hard-hitting young batsman Neil Duck-


worth. Walton scored nine runs


before slipping and being run out. Duckworth then had to face the fast bowler. With most of the allotted ten balls bowled Neil was still short of the target, but then a mag­ nificent drive to the boundary put him through to the next


round. Duckworth had the highest


score of the day whim he tot 21 runs off ten balls from BUI TattersaU of Ribblesdale


Wanderers. The highest scoring match


of the day was the semi-final between Westhead an d Graham Whipp of Bamolds- wick. Simon, batting first, scored 17 and looked a sure thing for the final when he skied one and was caught.


Mick Hayton of Settle by four runs in the final. He was presented with the Dutton’s


Simon went on to beat


silver trophy by the league vice-chairman, Mr. Arthur Shaw.


SCORES:


Georgeson (Read) 5, S. West- head (CUtheroe) 18; J. Ready (B. Northern) 11, G. Knowles (Ribb. Wanderers) 13; G.


Preliminary round; M.


Ireland (Whalley) 12, R. Swainson (Settle) 14; P. Wall (Gt. Harwood) 4, R. McLean (CUtheroe) 9; M. Hayton (Settle) 2, G. Harker (Rolls- Royce) 1; R. Walton (B. Nor­ thern) 9, N. Duckworth


Whalley is thrashed


at Pleekgate Blackburn N o r t h e r n


greatly strengthened their position as leaders in the Ribblesdale L e a g u e by thrashing W h a 11 e y at


rivals and last season’s cham­ pions were held to a draw at Clitheroe, Northern are again Arm favourites for chief


Pleckgate. As Earby, their nearest


honours.Two vital games will be played this weekend when Northern visit Earby on Sat­ urday and are at home to Earby on Sunday in the final of the Ramsbottom Cup knockout competition. Last season Earby won botn


; , >11 • -rSm


the league and cup contests. Brian Cole, Clitheroe s pro­


fessional, who was informed that the club had decided not to re-engage him for next


hospital


dale Wanderers’ all-rounder, fractured his jaw on the Rolls-Royce ground. He was fielding at mid-off when he was struck by a hard drive


Peter Wilkinson Ribblcs-


season, took the batting honours of the afternoon, scoring 96.


>1 :1 ( 'm


only two minutes from time. After receiving attention


ford. Results:


7 Blackburn Northern lie for 2, Whalley 49. Chtheroe 181 tor 9 declared, Eavby 151 for 4. Gt. Harwood 149 for 7, Padiham 151. Read 205 fo r1


Baxenden 117, Settle 118 for ,


declared, Bamoldswick 161 for 6. Rolls-Royce 169 for 8. Ribblesdale Wanderers 185


4


Theaker (Gt. Harwood) 5; Knowles 13, S. W. Knowles


(Whalley) 10. Round 1: Westhead 8, J-


(Baxenden) 12; Swainson 11. r . Lemon (Rolls-Royce) 4; M. Greenhalgh (Padiham) 9, G. Whipp (Bamoldswick) 10; McLean 8, T. E. Barker (Bam­ oldswick) 5; Hayton 6, J. Keys (Padiham) 3; G. Farnsworth (Baxenden) 11. D. Wymer (Read) 10; Duckworth 21, W. Tattersall (Ribb. Wanderers)


for 5 declared. Batting: Cole (CUthcroc)


i ' 4*


96; L. Dixon (Ribblesdale) 84; P." Fairclough (Read) 78x; Dennett (Earby) 56; F. Lord (Bamoldswick) 52; M. Grain­


ger (Read) 50. Bowling: R. Walton (Black-


bum Northern) 8 for 24; K. Foster (Settle) 5 for 38.


Blackburn N. . 18 12 3 3 5!


12.Round 2: Westhead 4, Knowles 1: Swatoson 0,


Earby ...........18 8 Padiham — 18 7


Whipp 1» McLean 9, Hayton 11; Farnsworth 7, Duckworth g


Whipp IT. Hayton lO. Fams- worth 4. Final: Westhead 9.


Semi-finals; Westhead 19, Hayton 5.


Ribb. W. Clitlieroe .... Barnoldswick


Baxenden Rolls-Royce .


Read .............. 18 7 Settle


Whalley — 18 5 Gt. Harwood .. 18 5


...........18 6


LEAGUE TABLE p. W. D. L. Ps.


7 6 5 34


2 40 5 34


6 9 3 33 5 8 5 28 5 7 6 27 4 10 4 26 4 8 6 24 2 10 6 18 3 6 9 18 2 5 11 13


;tAi , ^ - 0 ,


M m


i . ' i l


from a doctor he was treated at Burnley Victoria Hospital


and later removed to Reedy- „


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