first game provided talking-points CRICKET


tension. More than that, it produced


some points to argue about, two nine-ball overs for a start.


o: ' lhi, Ribblesdale ,:i jmpeuiion.


nck-Out Cup when thev I ot Cluheroe and Di/.


First for a month


ddington 2, Walpaniur o.


'lie rc-arranged meet- of the two'’clubs, on


mday. gave Waddina- tlieir lirst victory for


nontli—a much-needed ic for last night’s ven Cup semi-final,


he villagers again fielded reserves who did them­


es proud in an all-round n effort. There could be


onnance as they inflicted the second defeat on the -en side in 1 2 games.


complaints about this


’addington took the lead r 30 minutes in which


•r a Behan header had l fisted out by a defender,


,■ had been under pres- Robinson got the goal


l the second half, the ie team were mostly in


From either sale's point „


The one that cot ;iwu\. ■ hew, this is :‘ii apt


St» « !£n*


;mand due to fine work bv half backs.


wenty minutcs from time rott made sure of both ts with a chip shot,


i an encouraging perfor­ ce, Lund, Marsden, sunn- and Behan plaved well


king the end of a spell ad form.


'addington team; How- Marsden, Jones; Lund


'?«* (F)> Simpson; ■k.edge, Bawott, Behan


Defeat at


Cliorley Ithough Clitheroe FC t down to Chorlev


) hove their eyes oil championship of the


leashire Combination, heroe gave a good Hint of themselves at torv Park on Saturday.


loriey turned round with aal advantage but Clitli- grabbed a shock equali- within three minutes,


s in the 56th and 72nd iites.


Darls


i their first match, the Iv formed Commercial el women's darts team the satisfaction of ing the experienced


i c k Horse Hotel len’s team to a 4—4


•v. m games were played at •k Horse, Commercial ins a good start by win- the first three games,


lies. ic home side made sure i-.e points with further


civ was the scorer. He ed Barnet’s cross past


mson, Edmunds’on. SuK he, Richards.


Counter bei'«en Rib- ",.hlc Wanderers and


aj opening day or th. RibNesdalc C r i c k e t


l,- wickets m hants. It "‘I- .0 have been easy but.


1 '3^UC •« h 85 to »m;’.


;;«c only 11 ana tod^ half * because a ‘or*?


, ’iFiglv inevitable defeat, -i,4 finally Held ot bay by


,v’(a ‘jo nag. 'Tvi'-dcrcrs. after Mem? a


y


rrteroe's lost pa«’ / ’ho 4 'rtced a good example of


Option of this Derby


THE one that got away B:id steal


"stonewalling" which. saw them safely through the extra five overs.


the. game would be played because of the wet state of the pitch but. at 3-la the umpires came out and'plith- croe. having won the . toss, put. Wanderers in.


There were doubts whether


The first 30 took 65 minutes, with the half centuryibeing reached in an hour Wid a half for the loss of three wickets, including that of Procter whose share was nearly half. From that point the sheet


The scoring rate was'.’slow.


by Slinger got Clitheroe off 10 a bad start. Davies and Westhead then retrieved the situation by taking the scorc to 36. the Clitheroe skipper having the distinc­ tion of hitting the first six of the season at Church Meadow. A change of bowling


Two wickets in two balls


anchor was Co tram who out­ lasted three partners in taking the score to 85. Clayton finished with five.


Draw was inevitable Conditions were far


from suitable for cricket ,13 Saturday when Wlial-


i.v entertained league ^comers, Cherry Tree for the opening fixture of


iu new season. ’i--a"ev included their new


•'visional G. Hai! while y.--v Tree had Kevin Flat- v':/e former Rishtou all- L-der as their professional. A cold wind and a pudding


•/.' pitch are not the ingre- trnts for good cricket but ;.-;a ’.cams took to the task sirusiastically. The Villagers -:r. :hc toss and began cau- t::s!v on a wicket which was iTo real advantage to cither


found they had to wait for the ba-11 to come on to the hat and the occasional rising ball


Anderson and Shuttleworth


caused most trouble. With only four runs on the


board Andersen was dismissed by such a- bail and at twenty one Topham and Shuttle- worth also fell victims to similar deliveries. Lack of practice was lead­


ing to mistimed strokes and the wet outfield stopped the ball when it was hit past the fielders. The middle order batsmen


come by they declared at 103 for nine.


the village side’s innings, was that Hall, who had been signed as a bowler, showed a liking for hitting the ball and he could well be a success as a batsman when the better wickets arrive. He was well backed in the middle of the innings by G. Ainsworth and T. Parkinson.


A11 interesting feature of


batted almost three hours and as runs were so hard to


Read find it easy Read gained a comfort-


£!■: victory in the open- match of the season Settle. f:3irclough. cap­


l i n , and new professional Tatton scored 70 and 62 Kipwiively. and pro- feed these runs at a nest appropriate moment, then Read appeared to ?c ([niggling.


SC.tleput Read in. and when Oitidscn bowled Goodway ad Georgeson in his first


:wo overs. the gamble


appeared to be paying off. However. Fairclough and


Tatton settled down to recoup the losses and after some cautious play, produced some fine strokes to take the seore from five for two, to


in time to claim the extra overs if necessary. In the event, they were


luck was on their side, for Settle put down half a dozen catches, not all difficult ones. Read declared at 163 for 5.


139 for three. It must be granted that


not required. Only Mitchell offered any real resistance ’ to the Read bowlers, scoring 39 and playing the fast bowl­ ing with cottfidence. When Read eventually


turned to an all-spin attack, Mitchell was caught by Wad­ dington off Goodway-, and Settle, collapsed. Sumner finished with three


wickets for one and Good- way had three for seven. Read can be well satisfied


with this result, If such all­ round effort and team spirit can be maintained, they


next two were shared but the home players, found aim and won the last-


lerciai are now look- >imd for more oppo- P e o p l e interested


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CHATBURN WIN WITH 10 MEN


King’s Arms 2, Cliatburn 4.


; hard and Pyc resulted in f-op puffing me home a::n icvel.


r -ytil restored Chatbum’s ’-a after a good run down -/feat wing by Bush.


before the interval,


■; '-Vi increased the lead 'y- be ran through on his " and netted. King’s


the resumption. Hol-


i"s -‘cored through Peel, ■ / ’as given a good ball Bishop. They began to


ytMttore into the. picture, ‘”p’ ^fled like equalising. yl: it was Chaiburn who


jo.rafc to get a fourth goal ltis side after another


y.ti! when .-•lark marking home dcfeivc allowed


s’Zd so’o run. ^standing for King’s


pJa were Bishop and Cal- and Townsend who 0:1 as substitute in the


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i.V,c a ?ood account of him- beach and Hoi gate 1 the. village side well.


Trinity


do well ll'oi'y 6, st. Paul’s 1. ttinity. who at one were down to nine


P, vietorv aul’s.


a"d later never had ‘han ten, built up a over St.


trappy panic m E d is fo rd . / old when L aw so n pav uislit wing cross. 1altr- good work


Chaiburn. with ten m en.


, beat King's Arms 4--2 in a The game was only ten min- e the villagers the lead from


carlv exchanges equally and St. 'Paul’s were unfortunate not to take the lead. Cants received an early injury' but resumed and Harrop put Doric away on the. left to make a cross front which Cznpowsk; put Trinity


The teams shared the ahead. men.


rence of a previous injury’, and Carus also left. the. field, leaving Trinity with nine


Devine sustained a recur­ Eddie P e nm a n \va.s


brought on as substitute shortly before the interval but prospects still looked easy for St. Paul’s. Dcarden put the church


making it 2—1 . The lead was short-lived.


good games for St. Paul’s, and Harrop and the two Penmans for Trinity.


Pcnrcc and Bradley had


Smith, Halpin: Morrison. Penman (J), Wood; Czapow­ ski. Harrop. Turnbull. Cants, Devine. Substitute, Penman (E). St. Paul's: Adcroft; Hudson. Naylor; Pearce, Dcarden. Taylor: Greenup, Bradley. Basker- ville, Nester. Bradley. Sub­ stitute, Driver.


Teams—Trinity: Marsh;


Missed chances


side level from the penalty- spot. with Greenwood soon


Turnbull putting Trinity back on level terms. Eddie Penman, playing up front, seemed to enliven the for­ wards but the ten men still


found the going hard. Wood and Harrison


worked hard in midfield to keep pressure on St. Paul s and a I-Tarrop shot was turned in for an "own goal ’. In the 75t.h minute, Har­


rop scored with a gem from 30 yards and Trinity were leading 4—2. Czapowski and Penman proved troublesome to the St. Paul’s rearguard and Eddie Penman made it 5—2 with live minutes lctt. Before the final whistle, Czapowski added a sixth to set the seal on a creditable performance by Trinity.


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Trinity 0, Caldcrstopes 5. There was an end of Lhc


season atmosphere about the first 25 minutes of this fifth meeting of Trinity and Calderstones, which the hospital side won by five clear goals. An uneven pitch and a


them was Reynolds, and Morrison and John Peel for Trinity.


Smith, . Micklewriglit; Mor­ rison. Penman (J), Wood: Howarth, Peel. Penman (E), Czapowski. Turnbull. Sub­ stitute, Halpin. Calderstones: Whitehead:


Teams — Trinity: Marsh:


Dus-t. Hardman; Reynolds, A lister, Wright: ■ Holden, Haythomthwaite. Wi ld, Macro, Lee,


Promising


Waddington Res. 2, Trinity 2.


Trinity began-this, re­


arranged fixturdjjfo great style, taking the lead in the first minute when Howarth crashed home a great 25-yard drive. It took the home side just


strong wind did not help matters. Trinity almost went ahead in the early stages but Turnbull failco with only the keeper to beat.


derstonos away, both being the result of bad back


Two ’’gift’’ goals put Cal-


posses. jMor.riscn beat the hos­


pital's keeper in 0 heading duel from a Howarth comer but the ball hit the wood­ work and just before half­ time Haythomthwaite made it 3—0 for the vistors. After the interval. Trinity


several easy chances. Ca-lderstoues added a


went to pieces and had only themselves to blame, for they had already missed


fourth while Trinity were -trying to get organised. The fifth came from a penalty wh’ch the referee awarded after consulting a linesman who was some 35 yards away. The referee himself was about


but presumably unsighted. Calderstonc.s got


goals -through Hnythorn- thwm-te (2). Wright, Wild and Lee. Outstanding for


10 yards away their


nine minutes to get back on ’eve! terms. Behan heading home a right wing corner.


and made real football vir­ tually impossible. Trinity had all tbe ideas and looked the more dangerous side: Waddington d-id not seem to have any interest or spirit: probably because of the looming Aitken Shield semi­


Conditions were atrocious


final.Waddington brightened up a little in the second Iha-lf. giving Trinity some anxious moments. Dust sa,w a couple of 20-yard drives go narrowly wide and then


Luod put Waddington in front but Trinity hit back a.nd Tumblfii grabbed a well-deserved equaliser. The Reserves looked only a shadow of the team that had done so well in previous weeks: Trinity’s 1 perform­ ance held great hope for next season. Outstanding for Wadding-


missed an open goal. Seven minutes from time


ton were Rigby and Wil­ liams, with Trinity being similar}’ served by. Howarth and Turnbull. . Teams — Wadriirigton:


should do well this season, READ


W. P. Fairclough c Lam­ bert b Mitchell ..


R. Goodway b Davidson M. Georgeson b Davidson


Tattani c Agar b Cook P. Grainger not out . B. Tomlinson b Mitchell F. Skinner not out — Extras ......................


Total (5 wickets' on. 1 0


70 0


1 0 14


163 -25—2: K. Foster 6.2- -1— S. DeCruz c Grainger b Bowling M. Davidson 9-2


P. Cook c Grainger b Sumner


K. Foster lbw b Wilkin- son


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


began to hit the ball move firmly and the score moved up to the mid-nineties. By this time, Whalley had


reply in similar style to Wlml- ley and at three lost Batcly, cican bowled by Jim udd. At 14, Rudd struck again this time having Edcfieston caught behind the wicket by Jack Collier. This was Collier’s first victim for whnllev after some


Cherry Tree began their


into the attack in preference to Ha.ll, tvho was getting nothing out of the soft wicket. Almost at once, he found a


twenty years with Accrington in the Lancashire League. Topham w a. s introduced


little life and he liad Fiat-ley and Brothwood caught at square -leg and short point, respectively. These two had taken the


WHALLEY


P. Shuttleworth b ......... Howard ....................... 3


A. Anderson c Woodliead b Fla tier ----, -------- l


G. Topham c Flatley b .. Howard ................ • ■ •


score to forty, but time was running out for both teams and a draw yvas inevitable. At 46 Topham claimed an­ other yvicket when, ho brought the ball back sharply to bowl McGlonc. Cherry Tree baited out the


G. Hindle b Flatley . . . . 14 T. Parkinson c Woodhead b Mcglone ................ 20


J. Rudd st Batev b Howard


Extras


remaining couple of. overs to earn themselves their first- points in the senior league.


Total i9 wkts decl


G. Ainsworth c and b Flattey .................... 18


Hall b "Mcglonc ............ 17 J. Peters (Jnri not out .. 5 J. Collier c Howard b Flatley ....................... 6


................... 1 ..................... 2


103


for 15, had three for eight at one period and bowled six consecutive overs.


i’,ac.uf


■ Su: r ^ rammc opcncd cl 'saturday-


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wicket decision in Wanderers innings, J. Hutchinson, being the unlucky batsman. He slipped when starting to run and his back foot touched the stumps, bringing the bails off. These two incidents started


first he received, that Mal­ colm Blackburn broke his wicket. There was also a. hit-


It was off a ninth ball, the


part 2 of experimental rule 38 which says that in setting off for his first run after play­ ing the ball, v> player shall be out -;f with the bat or any part of his person he hits the wicket down.


a discussion among • some people who claimed that if a b a tsma n completed his stroke then he is not out even though he accidentally breaks


experience of the difficulties caused by selected players failing to turn up. Two short on Saturday they had to with­ draw players from t h e i r second eleven. The result was


Ribblesdale had an early


the wicket. The answer is provided by


Whalley for their first game in senior company, had the satisfaction of a t least shar­ ing the points. Whallcy ta t ­ ted nearly three hours and insufficient time was left to reach a decision. Encourag­ ing for Whalley was the per­ formance of professional Geoff Hall with t,he tot although ho was signed ns a bowler. The Abbey club’s second


that the seconds played their junior Derby at Chatbuni Road with eight men and were beaten by ten wickets. Cherry Tree, who visited


at Settle. Falrclough, the skip­ per, 6cored 70 and new pro­ fessional Paul Tatton obli­ ged with 62, the runs coming when the tillage side had need of them after a partial collapse. Team spirit was a notable feature of the gome.


beat Cherry Tree juniors single-handed. He scored 99 not out and took seven wickets as Whalley romped to an easy win. Read had an easy passage


RESULTS


string benefited from the in­ clusion or arm Peters, senior. Left out of the senior side at his own request, he almost


CHthiroe 73 for 8; Whallcy 103 for 9 dee. Cherry Tree 48 for 5: Settle 67. Read 163 for 5: Great Harwood 46. Black-


Uihb'.ti :le’c Wanderers 85.


bunt Northern 47 for 7; Padi- hain 80 for 7 dec, Barnolds- wick 55: Earby 72 for 9, Bax- enden 69.


PERFORMANCES


Read, 70; Tatton, Read, 62. Bowling: C. Madden, Ear­


Batting: W. P. Fairclough,


by, 5 for 13; Ha-lliwell, Great Harwood, 5 for 15: Clayton. Clitheroe. 5 for 15: Slinger, Ribblesdale Wanderers, 5 for 27.


TOMORROW


Wanderers: Clitheroo v Great Harwood, Rea d v Whallev.


Cherry Tree v Ribblesdalo


Waddington u n p r ove


Waddington 0, Worth Avenue 1.


Although they lost .by


an only goal in this Blackburn Combination,


.division one game. Wad­ dington improved v 0 n


recent displays. Waddington fielded no


fewer than five reserves who were members of the side which lost to Chipping in the Ait-ken Shield semi-final the previous night. So anxious were they lo


Clithcroc Advertiser mid Times, April 24,1970 I t


Chipping storm into final


Chipping 3, Watldington Res. 0 Chipping stormed into the final of the Aitkcn Shield


with a powerhouse display that left Waddington floun- derine to a 3—0 defeat. Chipping thus became final­


ists for a second successive year and will meet Calder- stones at Shaw Bridge to­


make amends for that per- formam- that their enthu­ siasm. plus the experience of senior players nearly


brought, a victory that would have


b e e n thoroughly


and Clayton having -taken Clitheroc for 64, leaving the Chatham Road side to score 22 in 17 minutes if the extra overs were not to be claimed.


Davies was next . to go, he


Knowles when 16 were wanted, put Clitheroe really on the spot by taking three wickets in one over and he had the mortification of seeing Entwistle dropped in the slips.


Metcalfe, who replaced


brought about his dismissal without further addition. Knowles had replaced Wil­ kinson at the Littlerooor end and Weslhcad was stumped by Parker off the first ball.


RIBBLESDALE WANDERERS


W. Workman n Sut-cliffc 1 2 K. Procter b Enlnvistle 22 A. Musgrove st Vauglt- ton b Sutcliffe<te.


6


W. Slinger c Sutcnffe b Entwistle ................... 12


—15—5: S. Westbcad 3—0— 1 1 _ 0 ; g . Sutcliffe 17—4—40 —3: A. Entwist-lc 8—2—17—


Bowling: Clayton 12.6—7 2.


D. Cottam b Clayton .. 22 P. Wilson c Entwistle b Sutcliffe


A. Parker c Fletcher b Clayton ........................ 5


................... 3


J. Stirzoker c Wash- brook b Clayton __ 0


J. Metcalfe not out — t J. Hutchinson ht wkt b Clayton ....................... 0 Extras


P. Knowles c Blackburn b Clayton ................... 0


........ Total 2 85


G. Davies b Slinger 26 M. Washbrook b Slinctr 2 R. Wilson lbw b SHB- ger


CLITHEROE


S. Westihcad- st Procter b Knowles


....... ; .................... 0


J. Clayton b Slinger . • 15 A. Entwistle not out .. 4 R. Vaughton lbw b Met­ calfe ..........................


................ 20


S. Bennett b Stinger 0 G. Sutcliffe not out .. 0 Extras .......................


M. Blackburn h t wkt b Metcalfe


................... 0 6


27—5; P. Wilkinson 7—1— 1 5—o; p. Knowles 4—0—18—


Total (9 wkts) ......... 73 Bowling: Slinger 15—5—


1; I. Metcalfe 4—1—7—3. 0


side that plundered the points with a goal 15 min­ utes alter half time. The pitch was so bad that scor­ ing chances were -few and


deserved. But it was the Danven


far between. The home side's best


. Wadding ton’s point of view was Richards at centre half. He was dominant through­ out the game. A disturbing feature was


chance fell to Edmondson, making his senior debut on the left w.ing. The keeper parried a. shot from Robin­ son and the ball fell at Edmondson's feet five yards from goal, but in trying to “change feet" he lost his chance and the ball was hurriedly cleaved. The big success from


7„27—4; H. Howard 8.7—1— 26—3: J. Walsh 5—0—25—0:


D. Mcglone 6—0—23—2. CHERRY TREE


:E. McGarrv not out — 16 Flatley c Peters b Top­


I. Ba-tey b R u d d ............ 1 G. Eddleston c Collier b Rudd .......................... 11


j ham .............................


D. McGlonc b Topham 1 B. Woodhead not o u t... 0 Extras


. Bvothwood c Bibby b Topham ...................


...................... Total (5 wktsi 2 48


25—0: J. Rudd 9—2—14—2: G. Topham 6—3—7—3.


Bowling: G. Hall 10—4— Bowling: K. Flatley 20—


den: Marsdcn, Benson: Barroit, Richards. Simpson; Trotter. Robinson. Behan. Lofthouse. Edmondson.


Bowls


opening of the Great. Har­ wood Bowling League last week. Only two matches were played and these resulted as follows: Calder- stoncs SC 451 156. Clitheroe Castle fa 1 155: Salesburv MC (71 155. Park View WMC f3) 112.


Bad weather marred the


the performance of Behan at centre-forward. Much of the edge has gone off his game in recent weeks as was dear not only in this match bur. also against 'Chipping. Waddington team: How-


night. Friday's game was to have


been played at Sha.iv Bridge but at. Clitheroe FC’s request was transferred to Caldcr-


The final' of the Aitken


Shield will be played at Shaw Bridge tonight. Kick­ off is 6-30 p.m. and |t is hoped that Lcs Shannon, tho Black­ pool manager, will present the trophy. The remainder of Ihc Ama­


stoncs in view’ of ground con­ dition.-. Waddington's performance


troubled t h e Chipping defence. Added incentive to both


must rank as the worst of the season; they never once


teams was that the game also ranked for league points


teur League programme is; Saturday, Grindlclon v Trin­ ity; Hurst Green v Chatburn; King's Arms v Low Moor Club. Tuesday; Chipping v Grindlcton; Low Moor Cliff) v Caldcrstones; White Llops v King’s Arms. Friday, May 1; Bowkor


in place of an outstanding fixture. The reserves’ poor efforts


did not detract, from Chip- oing's fine display of attack­ ing soccer that'might well have produced double tbc score. In the first 15 minutes. Chipping built up a .two-goal


lead through Duncanson and Freeman CRL Waddington were on the defensive for most of the game but held Chipping until five minutes from time when Freeman added a third. Both Waddington teams


Bros, v Waddington Ros.; Saturday, May 2: Chipping v Low Moor Club; Grindlc­ ton v st. Paul's. Tuesday, May 7, Caldcrstones v Wad­ dington.


Five iii


a row Walpantur Res. 0, Brookhall 3.


Brockhull re corded


have, in fact, fallen away badly; the pressure of 60 league and cup games seems to have told on the squad of 30 players. Chipping will have a much


their fifth consecutive win with a weakened side, their 3—0 victory causing Waipamur to be relegated to the fourth division of


harder task against Calder­ stones, the meeting of the


son: Freeman (Dj. Rich: Freeman 'R). Cookson. Blezard: Freeman <PL Proc­ ter. Squires. Rhodes. Dun­ canson. Substitute. Freeman iJ>. Waddington Reserves: Williams: Jones. Edmondson: Davies. Richmond. Rigby; Stoddart. Lund. Behan.


teams promising a great final, of which referee Mr. J. Swalno will take charge for the first time. Teams—Chipping: Atkin­


Trinity put paid to Calderstones’ 16 month run


Trinity ‘A' gained a magnificent win over present


o;_O' P. Lambert 5— 20—0: P. Cock 11—0—53- E. Mitchell 5—0—30—2


SETTLE


62 M. Hayton b Waddington 0 15 E. Mitchell c Waddington


J. A ear e Sumner b Wad- dington ............


•> p. Lambert c Grainger b Tatton ............


b Gocdway ......... 7 39 3 ■0-


- t : ' R. Thompson c Snape b Goodway ............■ 0


Sumner .......... . 1


L. Bird not. out............... 0 M. Davidson b Sumner .. 0 B. Hemmingway c Snape


b Goodway ......... 3 Extras ...................... 2


—


Bowling Tatton 5—1—14 —1; J. Waddington 5—0—23 9 —2; N, Snapo 4—0—8—0; I. Wilkinson 5—3—12—l: R. 3 Goodwav 4.5—1—7—3: E. Sumner 3—2—1—3.


Total ....................... 67 ——


tile more creditable by the. fact that it was earned at Calderstones.


Blackburn and .Trevor Wil­ son won two games each, and Donald Parker one. Blackburn and Wilson also won the doubles. For C11I- derstones, George Roberts won two. Brian Seed and David Wynne one each.


with an unbeaten record. For Trinity. Howard


dcrstones first league defeat since December, 1968.


Incidentally this was Cal­ Amateur football


Williams: Jones, Edmond­ son: Davies, Richards, Simp­ son: Stoddart. Dust. Behan, Lund, Rigby. Trinity: . Par­ ker; Smith, Micklewright; Peel, Penman (J), Halpin, Wrigley, Howartih, Penman CE), Czapowski.


Grindleton


tried hard Great efforts.by Grindle-


ton failed to stave off a 4—2 defeat when they


ahead when Rudgyard came out on top in a duel with the home keeper after 35 minutes.


visited Billington. The Yorkshire side went


just after half-time, right half Manning getting the equaliser with a re-bound shot off a post. Five min­ utes Sater outside right Tompkins took Billington into the lead with a. fine header. Rudgyard restored the balance after 58 minutes


They held the lend tmlil


cess. Billington hit. hack with a


■ fourth goal came through Manning who gave the keeper no chance. Manning. Threlfall and


Wallbank goal, the ball going in off a post. Their


Scott were outstanding for BiUtagton. and Rudgyard and Green for Grindleton. Teams — Biilington: Ed­


' Mud made it difficult to move the ball around but low Moor began well, going in front when Pinch gave the keeper no chance. Chipping fought back and


in the semi-final of the Aitkcn ShieldChipping managed to run out 3—I winners in a league game with' Low Moor Club.


lead at the top of the table, even if Calderstones win a game they have jn hand.


rose clash next week takes on an even more vital turn. Caldcrstone's other remain­ ing games are against Pen- dle Mill (home), St. Paul’s ‘C’ (home), St. Paul's ‘A’ (away). Primrose still have to


The Caldcrstoncs — Prim­


play Trinity ’A' (away), St. Paul’s ’A' (home). So it would seem that


equalised with a Squires header, the player possibly being offside but there was no linesman. Procter, un­ marked in the penalty area, put Chipping in front as they came more into the game. End-to-end play was a


Trinity 'A' and also St. Paul's ’A’ have still a big say in the final run-in to the championship. RWCC ‘A’ the knock-out


Primrose have a one-point There is now no club


league champions Caldcrstones last week, and with this defeat Caklerstones’ chance of retaining the title has been seriously jeopardised. This victory was made all


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feature of the second half and Squires ran on lo a through ball and pushed it past the tow Moor keeper, who was slow to move off


finalists also received a. shock in the league, this week when they were beaten 6—4 by their own ’’B” side. A very surprising result. Arthur Norman took the


ted in several near misses but in the end Chipping comfortably kept their lead. Squires was Chipping’s


his line. Low Moor pressure resul­


player, and Scott and Allen for Low Moor Club. Teams—low Moor Club:


and Grindleton piled on the pressure, but without suc­


Bleza'rd: Freeman (PL Dun- canson. Squires, Mercer. Rhodes.


Finishing was bad


mondson: Scott, Swain: Manning. WaUbank, Threl­ fall: Tompkins, Whitehead, McGurk, Duckworth, Ains­ worth. Grindleton: Part; Cowell. Clayton: McKenzie, Jones, Buchanan: Jones, Green, Taylor, Rudgyard, Bennett.


Low Moor lose


Low Moor C. 1, Chipping 3, Still feeling the after­


effects o£ (heir hard game


Chipping 1, Chatham 2. • Bad finishing was the


chief contributory cause of Chipping’s 2—1 defeat in a good game with


45 minutes of end-to-end play produced no goals. In the second half. Chat-


Chatburu. Chipping kicked off and


bum went ahead with a Holgate goal and made it 2—0 as the result of a bad backpass by Freeman (D), which left Read with the simple task of putting the ball into an empty net. .. Chipping's goal was sup­ plied by Duncanson.


Alien: Johnson. Ireland: Clegg. Humphreys; War­ den: Bradley, Dean, John­ son, Scott, Pinch. Chipping. Atkinson: Freeman ' (Hi. Rich: Procter. Cookson,


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honours for tho "B" team, winning three games, ancl well supported by Raymond Dickinson, two. and John Hutchins, one. No doubt Pendle Mill.


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’A’ 6: RWCC ‘B’ 6, RWCC ‘A’ 4: Venture Scouts 9, RWCC ’B’ l; RWCC ‘A’ 6, Forden Club 4: Trinity ‘A’ 7, Pendlo Mill 3; Chat-bum 0, St. Paul’s ’C’ 10; Trinity •B‘ 3. St. Paul’s ’C’ 7 (this match was prayed for four points), St. Patti's ’A’ are asked to


Caiderslones 4, Trinity


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condition, mud being ankle deep in places. The Brock- hall defence held the home attack to the perimeter of thc penalty area, despite Waipamur having the wind behind them, and was never in any real trouble. Having to field -two stand-


Blackburn Combination. The ground was in bad


in wingers, Brockhall had to rely on thc through ball down the middle. Ross


Trotter. Lofihou.se. Substi­ tute. Cook. Referee. Mr. L. Farnsworth.


hall were reduced to ten men, Jones leaving the field with a knee injury, but Ross and Pcddcr put the visitors three up. Pcdder's goal was largely


scored the first SoaI after a good pass from Jeffrey. After 65 minutes. Brock- '


the result of good work by Simpson. He took the ball out of defence and gave the inside a long ball on the wing for him to beat thc full back and cut. in to scorc as the keeper advanced. Only once in the game did


Waipamur look like scoring but Bolton came to thc res­ cue. hooking thc ball for a corner with Harrison beaten. This was Harrison's best


game for some lime after going through a lean spell. He handled the ball well. Brockhall played only


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Parkinson, Bolton: Jeffrey. Lecming. Simpson; Jones. Ross. Lamb. Pedder. Thomp­ son.


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