1 September 1947 Blackpool 4 Huddersfield Town 0

TOWN FADED WHEN DOHERTY TIRED

Blackpool 4 Huddersfield Town 0

By “Spectator”

HUDDERSFIELD TOWN are in a game these days for as long as Peter Doherty is in it. Once the Irishman begins to tire, there is not a lot left of the Town.

Once that happened in last night’s game, as it must happen when a man is here, there and everywhere, as he was for an hour, Blackpool were fated to win by a distance.

It began in the 10th minute of the second half. Then Murdoch McCormack, free-transfer Ranger from Glasgow, took Buchan’s pass, shot it as it reached him, and hit the net as Bob Hesford leaped too late.

It was all over soon afterwards. Stanley Mortensen was there to race away on his own for No. 2 when Hepplewhite, his tall, relentless shadow, fell.

MORTENSEN’S PACE

No accident of fortune, but his great pace and opportunism, gave Mortensen the chance to make a present of the third goal to this new outside-left, McCormack, who, whatever his other limitations may yet be, can position himself for a scoring shot.

No. 4 was a penalty. George Farrow, a great wing-half in this game, stronger in defence than I have seen him for months, shot it.

The Town might have taken the lead in the first half. Afterwards, once Doherty’s influence waned, it was merely a case of counting the goals and sitting back and admiring the audacities of Stanley Matthews.

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Biggest queue as football booms

Never has there been such a boom in Blackpool football as is raging in the town today, writes “Spectator.”

A NEW postwar record was created at the Huddersfield Town match last night. 

Official figures are not yet released, but the gates were closed before the teams took the field, and it is estimated today that 29,000 people were inside the ground, 500 fewer than the new regulations permit.

Biggest attendance last year was 27,452, with receipts of £2,645 for the Villa game on September 21.

Sequel today to last night’s 4-0 defeat of Huddersfield was a queue which was the longest in Blackpool football history for tickets for the Wolverhampton Wanderers game on Saturday.

The first in the queue were in position shortly after eight o’clock. By 11 a.m. the file of applicants reached from the new ticket office in Bloomfield-road down the entire length of the east wall of the ground to Henry- street

“NO” TO MIDLANDS

Hundreds of applications for tickets from the Midlands have been refused.

"If they had not been,” I was told today, “the stands, except for season-ticket holders, would have been monopolised by Wolverhampton visitors. As it is, a sellout is certain.”

Last season’s Wolverhampton match on September 7, produced record receipts of £2,831. 

This weekend there may be £3,000 in the till before the match begins.