Huddersfield Daily Examiner from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England • 16

16 Huddersfield Daily Examiner Thursday June 24 1982 Telephone: Classified Advertising 38321 All Other Departments 37444 Captaincy switch a last desperate throw Another retrograde step Line up for the Mugs Handicap JACK BANNISTER looks at the latest controversy to hit success-starved Yorkshire County Cricket Club mondbury Con) Sykes and A Chapman (Meltham) Haigh and partner (Lindley Lib) Daniels and A Brook (Denby Dale) Whitham and (Slaithwaite) Moms and Porrit (Thorpe Green) A Other and partner (Newsome) RAY ILLINGWORTH resumed his cricket playing career yesterday as captain of Yorkshire at the age of 50 Yorkshire took the captaincy away from Chris Old in favour of Illingworth and then apologised to Old the former England paceman for having given him the job which was not his in the first place executive committee chairman Ronnie Burnet said: are very hopeful that practical knowledge and expertise on the field of play will result in an all-round improvement in the performance of our young But surely Yorkshire cricket and commonsense were abandoned at Middlesbrough Rain washed away any chance of play in their match against Northamptonshire and the committee decision to appoint 50-year-old Ray Illingworth as captain is the strangest one yet in the never-ending list of upsets in Yorkshire cricket in recent years The wobbly wheel of the White Rose committee has turned full circle with a vengeance In 1968 they thought so little of the then 36-year-old chances of playing much more first-team cricket that they refused his request for a three-year contract and so he left to start a distinguished captaincy career at Leicester The circumstances surrounding his return to rkshire in 1980 as manager did not please Leicestershire and since then little in which he has been involved has pleased a sizeable section of the large Yorkshire membership His task was a near impossible one anyway but as he played in the Yorkshire team for over 15 years on the basis that takes one to know he must have been fully aware of the niggles and fall-outs which are part and parcel of Yorkshire cricket and that includes both committee and dressing rooms Yorkshiremen believe they are different and effectively they are like no other club in first-class cricket Illingworth tackled England batsman Geoff Boycott head on and still no one is quite sure who the eventual winner will be The new captain was party to the appointment of Chris Old as skipper and now he is party to his removal That is a tacit self-criticism of his original judgment and both he and the club must be in a desperate position to try to relaunch what was a marvellous career Even if he was a much younger man the very principle of stepping back into the first team and deposing as captain the man he appointed 15 months ago is a dubious one Obviously his role is that of a trouble-shooting nature But what trouble he can eliminate as a 50-year-old playing seven days a week that he cannot tackle as a manager from the dressing-room is difficult to envisage It is said that players have ignored his advice and in- BRIDGE: Geoffrey Sharpe THE following hand produced a variety of contracts in a recent pairs event Peacock (DBT) (6) Smith (Marsh U) (4) Watson (Jackson Bridge) (7) First round Holmes (Linthwaite Hall) (7) Jones (Fartown WMC) (4) Haigh (Outlane) (7) Walker (Linthwaite Hall) (3) Abbott (Meltham) (7) Turner (Lindley Lib) (7) Beeby (Marsh U) (7) Toth (Waterloo) (7) Ford (Kirkheaton Con) (3) Wylde (Marsh U) (7) Davies (Paddock I and C) (3) winner of A NEWSOME WMC Preliminary round Winterbottom (Newmill) (4) Bottom (Marsh U) (4) Fenton (Almondbury Con) (4) Noble (Meltham) (5) Fellows (Linthwaite and BC) (7) Sutton (Thorpe Green) (3) Kewley (Linthwaite Hall) (4) Walker (Spring-wood) (5) First round A Collins (Kirkheaton and BC) (7) Greenwood (Golcar and AC) (5) Rainbird (Waterloo) (3) Matthews (DBT) (3) Snowball (Crosland Moor Lib) (3) Mitchell (Paddock I and C) (6) Roberts (Dalton) (6) Hill (Thorpe Green) (3) Pollard (Crosland Moor Lib) (3) Manning (Lockwood Con) (7) Bentley (HC and AC) (7) Moxon (Golcar Lib) (5) PADDOCK I AND Preliminary round Clay ftyn thwaite Hall) (6) Lyons and Colne) (4) Ellis (Hillhouse ani Birkby) (5) Harper (Lockwood Con) (7) Dyson (Milnsbridge) (4) Tweed (Broad Oak) (5) Barn-ford (Slaithwaite and BC) (3) Wright (Linthwaite Hall) (7) First round Randerson (Meltham) (2) I Hey (Thorpe Green) (5) Arthur Taylor (Crosland Moor Lib) (7) Bleazard (Waterloo) (4) A Swift (Brockholes) (6) Haigh (DBT) (4) Robertshaw (Bradley and Colne) (4) Boothroyd (Crosland Moor Lib) (4) Rhodes (Spring-wood) (6) Porritt (Thorpe Green) (5) A Broughton (Almondbury Lib) (5) Norgate (Linthwaite and BC) (6) MILNSBRIDGE BC Preliminary round Humble (Newsome WMC) (3) Murphy (Golcar Lib) (6) Brook (Kirkheaton Con) Howlett (Broad Oak) (5) Bradley (Kirkheaon Con) (3) Greenhalgh (Meltham) (4) Sykes (Slaithwaite and BC) (3) Hoplev (Newsome WMC) (7) First round Read (Longwood) (3) Priestley (Bradley and Colne) (5) Dickinson (Newsome WMC) (4) Ci Smith (Slaithwaite and BC) (5) Bustard (Golcar and AC) (6) Manning (Kirkheaton and BC) (5) Bland (Moldgreen Con) (4) Sykes (DBT) (7) 1 Fawcett (Golcar Lib) (7) Robson (Netherton Con) (4) Watson (Outlane) (7) Dyson (Slaithwaite and BC) (6) THE draw for the Seven Valley Textiles-sponsored open pairs tournament at Broad Oak Bowling Club on Sunday (1030 start 1045 scratching and half-hourly intervals) is: Haigh and Armitage (DB Tractors) Morley and Jackson (Lindley Lib) Hoyle and Crow-ther (Almondbury Con) Lowrey and Holmes (Linthwaite Hall) Gibson and Lunn (Waterloo) Parkin and Sykes (Newsome) A Crowther and Wright (Longwood) Snowball and partner (Crosland Moor) Taylor and A Smith (HC and AC) Wrathall and Winterbottom (Meltham) Gibson and Giles (Crosland Moor) Crowther and Rangeley (Longwood) Whitehead and Coulson (Thorpe Green) Brook and Roberts (Jackson Bridge) A Baker and A Hirst (Meltham) Walsh and Aspinall (Crosland Moor) Marshall and partner (HC and AC) Firth and Humble (Newsome) Byes: Wood and Radley (Al- Ray Illingworth near impossible task structions but if they feel that way then his presence among them on the field may only bring about a change of surface attitude This looks like the last desperate throw of the Yorkshire committee and their manager but as with all their problems in the past it is just a snip here and a snip there instead of the full-scale pruning that is clearly necessary before the White Rose can bloom again an apology Dealer North East West reached game in spades clubs and no trumps with differing degrees of success as well as playing in part scores in the same denominations Five Clubs played by West is best After three passes West will open and a sensible auction is: As already implied 3C rather overstates values but it should have helped to reach the optimum contract These days 3C is often used as a conventional inquiry about holding in the major suits and with no more than a doubleton in both majors the conventional response is 3NT However in the above instance 3C was showing a second suit and forcing for one round East whose hand is unsuited to no trump play should certainly go for the club game either bidding an immediate 5C or jumping to 4D agreeing clubs and showing the ace of diamonds en route actual bid of 3D says have no great enthusiasm for either of your suits but 3NT is a possibility I have a good diamond suit so worry if you are short in diamonds but I am concerned about the heart a hand such as 9 8 10 3 2 I) A 10 7 3 10 5 Holding the king of hearts West bid 3NT but can have had little confidence about the outcome Against 3NT a heart lead was indicated and South led the five the standard lead from three to an honour North won with the queen and returned a diamond Declarer considered going up with the ace but as a successful club finesse would still only produce eight tricks he played low allowing the king to win in dummy The only hope seemed to be to give up a club trick and play South for the ace of hearts However when the singleton king fell under the ace problems were over Although the five is the lead from heart holding had he given more thought to the bidding he might well have concluded that the more inspired lead of the knave was unlikely to cost In the event the defenders would win the first five tricks East is too strong to pass IS but not quite strong enough to introduce clubs at the two level so must respond 1NT in spite of the unattractive heart holding rebid of 2C is enough as the singleton king must be devalued and game is unlikely if East bid again Once East shows a club fit West is able to bid 3H a try for game and at the same time completing the picture of his distribution East is able to accept the invitation and the play presents no problem At one table East played in 3NT after the auction big effort to retain trophy By GRANVILLE BECKETT MARK TAYLOR of Longwood Harriers who won the West Yorkshire Track and Field individual points scoring trophy last year is making a commendable effort to win it again He added maximum points to the 36 he had before the meeting started at Cleckheaton last night when he was first home in the 1500 metres Conditions were far from ideal with the event going on towards 10 in the gloom and drizzle However he won in 4mins 9secs Taylor left it late for even when the field rounded the last bend he was only third about 10 metres down on the leader Karl Murgatroyd from Halifax champion over 3000 metres made a long run for home but was unable to sustain the pace and Simon Peace of Rowntrees took it up in the straight Taylor got him in his sights and picked him off by a fifth of a second at the end but he would be well advised not to let his rivals have too much leeway in future especially as he meets two schoolboy internationals next Sunday at Cleckheaton Richard Findlow from Cooper Bridge was third for Airedale in 4mins 118secs and Martin Sharp the Longwood captain who led in the early stages produced a best of 4mins 158secs for fifth Angela Gibson won her 800 metres race for the Huddersfield club in 2mins 123secs but she had less than a second to spare over the tenacious Melissa Smith of Halifax Another Halifax runner schoolgirl international Christine Lord edged Helen Wilkinson out of the top three with her return of 2mins 145secs against 2mins 16 lsecs Led throughout Longwood had the first two in the race in Sarah Lewis (2mins 266secs) and Debbie Fisher (2mins 304secs) but only the fastest six overall score points Kenneth George a winner over 800 metres and 1500 metres in previous league meetings this season had to bow to Dave Slater the England runner from Bingley over the longer distance Slater led throughout but George remained close enough to let him know that he had been in a hard race Slater finished in 3mins 585secs with George producing a career best of 4m ins 004secs The highlight of the meeting was the senior 400 metres where Olympic runner Alan Bell scored in 478secs only two-fifths of a second outside his own track record and dragged the next four men inside 50secs Mick Crimmen from Ravensthorpe gave Spen-borough a victory in the discus competition with a mark at 3966 metres and Huddersfield-based Julie Gledhill from the same club was third in the competition with a throw of 2054 metres Norma Hanson county champion over 100 metres from Longwood was beaten in the junior section 200 metres by Featherstone girl Francis Spencer in 269secs against 272secs but Miner-nia Fogarthy from Longwood took the senior sprint ahead of Claire Sugden in 13secs Bryce Gibson ran his fastest 800 metres in 2mins 134secs in the division for Spenborough and it gave him third place behind Hannon of ASVAC and Pickering from Leeds City Wells hits out ALLAN WELLS made his first track appearance of the season at Leicester camf out with a win double and then hit out at the British Athletics Board The 30-year-old Olympic champion had not raced for nine months and was not at his best but still won the 100 metres in 10 71 sec and then followed up by taking the 200 metres in 209sec finishing five metres clear of his rivals The Board has criticised Wells for not being available for last against East Germany and tftc Scot said last night: was angry with the Board I stop them saying stupid things but it was not a case of not wanting to represent my West IS 3C 3NT East 1NT 3D NB THE Huddersfield and District Bowling Association team to represent Huddersfield in the Inter-City match at Harehills Park Leeds on Tuesday July 6 is: Ellis Hemingway Sayles Hirst A Smith Martin A Simpson Bamford Addy Clayton Lodge Marshall Armitage Nicholson Hirst Liberal League Crosland Moor (scr) J68 Almondbury (40) 132 Taylor 21 Wright 9 Aspinall 21 Milner 9 Haigh 21 Pollard 8 JDews 21 Haigh 9 Taylor 21 A lightingale 16 Walsh 21 Shaw 15 Morris 21 Ramsden 15 Gibson 21 Aspinall 1 1 Iindley Lib (scr) 149 Primrose Hill Lib (35) 152 Booth 21 Thompson 15 Gledhill 21 Moxon 19 Hallam 13 Wrigglesworth 21 Horsfall 21 Lepiniere 9 Littlewood 21 Dyson 15 Svkes 10 Cockburn 21 Stott 21 Gillon 6 Armstrong 21 Pearcy 11 Primrose Hill (10) 136 Lindley (15) 163 Priestley 19 Warner 21 Dobson 12 Cook 21 Eastwood 10 Chappell 21 Binns 21 Haigh 7 Raper 14 Armitage 21 Wrathall 15 Atkinson 21 Dyson 21 Cartledge 15 Garside MAT Lawson 2 1 Golcar (20) 188 Cowcliffe Lib (40) 154 Pennington 21 Swann 17 Tattersley 21 Booth 14 Murphy 21 Riding 8 Schofield 21 Sayles 15 Moxon 21 Wim-penny 18 Icndon 21 May 14 Murphy 21 Jones 14 A Iredale 21 Wilkinson 14 Colne Valley League Taylor Hill (193) 8 Linthwaite and BC (139) 4 (ICI) Howard 21 Sykes 7 I Simpson 19 Fellows 21 Bradley 19 Shelton 21 Jenkinson 21 Pearson 9 A Rose 21 Ellis 10 Howarth 21 Woodruff 9 Barnes 17 Quarmby 21 Baxter 21 Littlewood 4 A Quarmby 12 Whitehead 21 Ibbotson 21 Littlewood 16 Meltham (178) 6 Taylor Hill WMC (157) 6 (Broad Oak) Kershaw 16 Smith 21 Ingham 14 Baxter 21 A Kershaw 16 Hovarth 21 Noble 20 A Quarmby 21 Harvey 10 Barnes 21 Gibson 21 I Simpson 3 Barrowcliffe 21 Howard 9 Heaton 21 Bradley 10 Buckley 21 Jenkinson 9 Mosley 18 Ibbotson 21 Ravensknowle Park Ladies (190) 11 Shroggs Park (105) 1 Nunns 21 Fearnley 0 Farmer 21 Ramsden 11 Cockburn 21 Donnelly 2 Moxon 21 Horsfall 13 Parr 21 Charnock 14 Clayton I Sutton 21 Snowball 21 Conroy 13 Armitage 21 Wilson 1 Senior 21 Turner 19 McCurdy 21 Hop-kinson 1 1 Greenhead Park Ladies (168) 8 Lund Park (159)4 A Hemingway 21 Beedle 9 Archer 18 Preston 21 Wilde 8 Dumbleton 21 Swift 3 I Garnett 21 Abbott 13 Brawn 21 Wood 21 A Bown 16 Thripland 21 Connelly 12 Hardcastlc 21 Adams 15 Knight 21 Skaiff 9 Carr 21 A Orchard 14 (Luton) Wright (Wolves) Broadis (Newcastle) Finney (Preston) Lofthouse (Bolton) Matthews (Blackpool) Mullen (Wolves) Quixall (Sheffield Wednesday) Taylor (Manchester United) and Wilshaw (Wolves) It was also Wimbledon time Maureen Connolly was in action and en route to winning the singles title for the third year in succession Little opened her account with a win over promising youngster Angela Buxton And the combination of World Cup and Wimbledon words obviously got one BBC announcer into a terminology tangle In the World Cup he announced to the nation Austria had beaten Scotland one love! THE second half of the opening stages of the Huddersfield Mugs Handicap will be bowled on Friday July 9 Play begins at 615 (scratching 630 and then half-hourly) and players bowl down to four on each green The draw is: MELTHAM Preliminary round Saxton (Thongsbridge) (5) Whitham (Slai-thwaite) (6) Mellor (Ciolcar Lib) (7) Gray (Cowcliffe Lib) (5) Shaw (Linthwaite Hall) (4) Hew-son (DBT) (4) Whittal (Hillhouse and Birkbv) Civ Wood (Lock-wood Con) (7) Hammil (Jackson Bridge) (7) Atkinson (Slaithwaite) (7) Lunn (Waterloo) (3) Rush-worth (Paddock I and C) (4) First round Roberts (Jackson Bridge) (6) Livcrsedge (Lockwood Con) (7) A Roberts (Dalton) (5) Schofield (Thongsbridge) (4) Lock-wood (Waterloo) (7) Cartwright (Brockholes) (7) Shaw (Slaithwaite) (6) A Locke (Golcar Lib) (6) A Brook (Jackson Bridge) (5) A Shaw (Linthwaite Hall) (5) SPRINGWOOD Preliminary round Ineson (Slaithwaite CBC) (3) Buckley (Mel-tham) (6) Denbigh (Waterloo) (4) Allen (Netherton Con) (6) White-head (Linthwaite Hall) (4) A Swift (Longwood) (3) Gledhill (Linthwaite and BC) (7) Hinchliffc (Brockholes) (6) Simister (Jackson Bridge) (7) vRS Bricklebank (Mold-green Con) (4) Haigh (Thongsbridge) (5) A Atkins (Longwood) (4) First round Bentley (DBT) (5) Moore (Thongsbridge) (6) Seers (Thongsbridge) (4) Radley (Skel-manthorpe) (3) Lumb (Marsh U) (7) Kaye (Lindley Lib) (3) Parkin (Slaithwaite) (3) Firth (New-some) (3) Haigh (Crosland Moor Lib) (5) Beaumont (Broad Oak) (7) ALMONDBURY LIB Preliminary round Perry (DBT) (6) Platt (Golcar Lib) (5) A Quarmby (Taylor Hill) (6) Bentley (Springwood) (4) Winterbottom (Meltham) (4) Raine (Newsome) (5) Sykes (Kirkheaton Con) (6) Cross (Linthwaite Hall) (6) Tat-tersley (Golcar Lib) (3) Brook (Jackson Bridge) (7) Challenger (HC and AC) (5) Higginbotham (Golcar and AC) (7) First round Hinchcliffe (Springwood) (4) Frith (Marsh U) (5) Howlett (Broad Oak) (4) A Ratcliffe (Netherton Con) (6) Ba-vington (Linthwaite Hall) (5) Kaye (Cowcliffe Lib) (4) Mulligan (Crosland Moor Lib) (5) Fair-clough (Longwood) (7) Gwynnc (Slaithwaite) (3) Donlan (Lindley Lib) (4) BROAD OAK Preliminary round Wriggles-worth (Primrose Hill) (6) Livcsev (Paddock I and C) (5) Drake (Moldgrecn Con) (4) McColm (Netherton Con) (4) Kenworthy (Milnsbridge) (3) Hudson (Pad-dock I and C) (5) Baines (Longwood) (3) 1 Evans (Lockwood Con) (7) Taylor (Marsh U) (3) I Bis-set (Fartown WM) (7) A Nightingale (Almondbury Lib) (5) Chapman (Golcar and AC) (6) First round Hirst (Slaithwaite) (6) Kaye (Paddock and BC) (6) Byram (Almondbury Con) (5) Armitage (DBT) (6) Wood (Linthwaite Hall) (5) Stead (Almondbury ib) (6) Hine (Kirkheaton and BC) Murphy (Golcar Lib) (5) Wade (Slaithwaite) (5) Wright (Almondbury Lib) (7) GOLCAR LIB Preliminary round (A) Parr (Waterloo) (4) Collins (Kirkheaton Con) (3) Hallas (Newsome) (6) Mellor (Waterloo) (7) Carter (Linthwaite Hall) (7) Irving (Lower-houses) (6) Ellis (Milnsbridge) (3) THE Came rang the bell he had to come out of his corner to join the REME at the start of his National Service Stanley Ratcliffe the Huddersfield golfer put up a good show to win the Meltham Open and Soren Hoejberg ranked number three in his native Denmark put up one to win the singles in the Huddersfield Lawn Tennis open touran-ment And there was a good show of another kind for Pat Smythe Riding Prince Hal she won the International Turf Club event at the Lisbon Horse Show jack Garner the Meltham bowler was on the right road in more ways than one as he won the Yorkshire Merit at Taylor Hill WMC He did road to get himself fit Derby for the first Do you remember Jack Solomons? The promoter the big cigars Chris Old with when Yorkshire met Derbyshire at Chesterfield Ken Taylor opened the innings for Yorkshire and Arnold Hamer did the same for the home side And Primrose Hill were also in the news when their president Wally Heap presented a mounted cricket ball to Leslie Binns the club professional to mark the taking of his 300th wicket for the club Elland were chasing their sixth Sykes Cup win and Ernest Needham with a devastating 5 1 spell (he took 8 21 altogether) took them to the final with a semi-final success over Broad Oak at Paddock Torrential rain made conditions for the Isle of Man Mountain Time Trial over 37 miles of the TT course the worst for many years But two Huddersfield cyclists revelled in it Huddersfield Road Club Brian Haskell won the event in lhr 42min and his THE strawberries and cream were out at Wimbledon And was on her way to tasting the fruits of success in the singles title for the third consecutive year Sportswriter PETER MUFF looks back once more at the old the ones which came along just 28 years ago this month In June 1954 colleague and holder of the title Tommy Oldfield finished second Derek Ibbotson celebrated his 22nd birthday by winning the 800yds and mile events hen Longwood Harriers Longwood Athletic Club and the Huddersfield Cycling Association promoted a meeting at Honley And Heather Armitage the Longwood runner who had been in the British team in the Olympic Games at Helsinki was chosen for England in the Empire Games due to be held at Vancouver Peter Smith the Huddersfield professional welterweight boxer was waiting for a title match meeting with Jackie Braddock the Central Area champion but he suddenly found that would have to wait longer than he expected When the Army Maureen Connolly on her way to winning this prize for the third time in succession JACK SOLOMONS the boxing promoter characterised by his immaculate suits the splendour of his ties and the ever-present torpedo-sized cigar had just been punched where it hurt most In his wallet Don Cockell the British and Empire heavyweight champion had beaten Harry Matthews of America in a White City promotion But the official attendance for the fight was only 25389 and having expected a crowd of 54000 the man who rose from being a fishmonger in East End to being the top promoter had lost "something like £7500 He too pleased about it either and he said he was seriously thinking of giving up promoting in Britain A promoter has little chance of making a go of anything these days he cried "what with Dr Edith Summerskill screaming Jack Solomons the with a verbal or in is for the Whitsuntide three-day marathon crown green event It was World Cup time (although it didn get anywhere near the saturation coverage it does today) in Switzerland Town manager Andy Beattie was the manager of the Scottish team and Town players Ron Stani-forth and Bill McGarry were in the England party of 17 announced for the competition Close your eyes and think about the squad for a moment But if you can remember too many of them read on The party was Burgin (Sheffield United) Merrick (Birmingham) Byrne (Manchester United) Green (Birmingham) Sta-niforth (Town) Dickinson (Portsmouth) McGarry (Town) Owen Lester Piggott was just 18 and he put his name in the Derby records for the first time when he took the 33 1 outsider Never Say Die to victory in the Epsom classic in front of Arabian Night (Tommy Gosling) and Darius (Manny Mercer) But you win some you lose some When he rode the same horse in the King Edward VIII Stakes at royal Ascot later in the month he was involved in some scrimmaging and he got a six-month ban after the inquiry into it all Grossly unfair said his father Keith "but there is nothing we can do about it David Sheppard the 25-year-old Sussex batsman who gave up the leadership of the county in order to concentrate on theological studies at Cambridge was invited to captain England in the second Test match against Pakistan at Trent Bridge Sheppard now the Bishop of Liverpool replaced Len Hutton who had to withdraw because of illness Maurice Tompkin the former Huddersfield Town footballer became the first batsman in the season to score a century against Yorkshire He scored 149 for Leicestershire at Fartown in a match which had a dramatic finish The teams tied Yorkshire scored dec and 113 Leicestershire got 328 and 136 Two Primrose Hill Cricket Club products were on opposite sides against boxing and Mr Butler doing his best to tax it out of existence Solomons who also built up a chain of betting shops in partnership with comedian and singer Bud Flanagan before selling out to one of the present-day multiples was also throwing a few verbal punches later in the month this time against television He said he would not allow any of his future promotions to be televised filmed for TV to be shown at a later date Everyone knows that television has killed boxing in America said the transatlantic traveller who his career promoted 26 world title fights "and it well on the way to doing the same thing here boxing promoter punch World Cup time in Lester Piggott being led in after winning the time on Never Say Die.