BLACKPOOL ARE IN LAST 16 FOR F.A. CUP
Valiant Chester could not hold Matthews
CLASS TELLS
Blackpool 4, Chester 0
THEY came in their thousands from Chester for this afternoon’s Cup-tie at Bloomfield-road.
A fleet of 60 motor coaches, reinforced by 2,000 passengers in special trains, stormed the town shortly afternoon. Everywhere there were blue and white rosettes, and in every street there was the chorus of rattles.
I am told that not fewer than 6,000 were in this “C - (for Cup) Day invasion.” Community singing to the band with Chester’s wandering mascot, Micky Moran, who goes everywhere with the team, prefaced the match in that atmosphere of tension which only the Cup can create.
Half an hour before the kick-off there were 20,000 on the ground, and at that time the queues at the turnstiles were as long as I have seen this season.
A film of sand had been scattered on a field still under a thin crust of frost. Both teams announced “no change.”
BLACKPOOL: Robinson; Shimwell, Suart, Johnston, Hayward, Kelly, Matthews, Mortensen, McIntosh, Dick, Munro.
CHESTER: Scales; Wilcox, McNeil, Williamson. E, Lee, Butcher, Hamilton, Astbury, Burden, Westwood, Brown.
Referee : Mr. W. H. E. Evans, of Huyton.
Except in the paddocks it was nearly “house full” - between 28,000 and 29,000 - when the teams appeared to a riotous reception.
THE GAME
The Chester mascot even attended the tossing of the coin ceremony which Chester won. Blackpool defended the south goal.
Robinson snatched up a Hayward back pass perilously close to a tearaway Chester forward, in the first ten seconds.
A raid on the left in the next half-minute and Blackpool won a corner which ended in McIntosh shooting a low ball which a Chester full-back cleared off the line.
That was the sort of opening you expect In a Cup-tie.
There was pace and drama in everything with Chester in retreat but surging through the barrage in breakaways.
In one of these breakaways they forced Blackpool to a panic clearance almost under the bar.
THE LEAD
It was in the next minute after this raid that Blackpool took the lead - the seventh minute - with the most amazing goal seen on the ground for years.
Three Chester forwards were raiding. When a pass was crossed to the left SHIMWELL, standing half a dozen yards inside his own half, hit the ball with one of those mighty half-the-length-of-the-field clearances in which he specialises.
Fast and low the ball soared yards in front of the waiting Blackpool forward's. Out to it Scales came, advanced half a dozen yards too far, leaped desperately at it as it hit the frozen turf in front of him and rose high over his head into the net.
Half the Blackpool team raced back to compliment the first full-back to score a goal for Blackpool in a home match for over 20 years.
CHESTER HIT BACK
Chester went at it afterwards, three times reached shooting range without shooting: But each time they had Blackpool’s defence almost stampeded by the pace and fury of their raids.
Robinson made a great clearance from Williamson’s long free-kick and a minute later raced 10 yards from his goal to snatch from the feet of Brown a pass which had left the wing-forward with nearly an open goal in front of him.
Chester were often raiding, finding their men with long, low passes and impressing everybody.
For five minutes the ball was seldom outside Blackpool’s half.
Hayward made a succession of great clearances as this Chester pressure continued.
Matthews escaped at last and crossed a low centre which missed three men in front of Chester’s goal.
SECOND GOAL
Mortensen increases the lead
In the end Matthews decided that there had been sufficient of this Chester domination, crossed to the left wing, took a loose ball, gave a perfect pass to McIntosh.
On to MORTENSEN the centre-forward glided it, and the inside-right did the rest, brushing past two men to shoot a low bail to which Scales fell late.
That was 2-0 in 25 minutes after Chester had been pressing for about 15 of them. That is Cup-tie football all over.
It was nearly 2-0 a minute later as Kelly, in the unexpected position of inside-right, missed a post by inches with the Chester goalkeeper beaten by the pace of the ball.
Afterwards the Chester defence was at times nearly riddled with Matthews racing away from his man and crossing centres.
A massed retreating defence repelled them one after the other. Scales held magnificently a ball headed wide of him by Dick as the inside-left leaped to one of these centres.
Chester, earlier almost dictating the game, were fading out to isolated breakaways.
OFF THE LINE
A Chester full-back cleared off the line from Munro after Matthews had left a couple of men sprawling in his wake again as he toyed with Chester’s scattering left flank of defence.
Near the interval Robinson held a fast rising shot from Astbury.
A minute afterwards Brown, in front of a nearly open goal, missed a ball which skidded away from him.
Chester should never have been losing by two goals at the interval.
Half-time: Blackpool 2, Chester 0.
Second Half
In the first half-minute Matthews took his partner’s pass, swerved his man. and crossed a centre which passed in front of Scales and was headed off the line by Wilcox.
Then Blackpool surrendered a free-kick a couple of yards outside the penalty area which Williamson lobbed into the packed ranks in front of him.
Another minute and McIntosh shot a ball which a full-back deflected wide of a post which his goalkeeper was not guarding.
Nearly every time, Blackpool raided, and invariably it was on the right, where no one could hold Matthews, the Chester goal was in peril.
Hayward once had to head anywhere for a corner t» repel one Chester raid by a forward line still refusing to call it a day.
Scales made one of the clearances of the match as Matthews, given one of those shooting positions which he had been giving himself to every other forward, shot a ball which the goalkeeper could reach only by a leap to his left.
Chester surrendered three corners in a couple of minutes to the incomparable Matthews who has never exercised a bigger influence on a game since he came to Blackpool
McIntosh hooked a shot inches wide of a post in one of the succession of Blackpool raids which followed.
It was not often for a time that the Blackpool full-backs had to play the ball.
MORTENSEN AGAIN
Twenty - minutes were left and Mortensen came storming into the game.
Near the centre circle McIntosh put the inside-right in possession.
Off went MORTENSEN, outpaced two men, swerved away from a third man’s despairing tackle, shot past Scales as the goalkeeper came out in a last desperate bid to halt him. That was a brilliant goal.
Within a minute Robinson made a do-or-die dive at the feet of Burden, collapsed still clutching the ball, and was under attention for a minute before the game could resume.
Five minutes from the end JOHNSTON scored for the first time in his career in a Cup-tie. making position for himself brilliantly before shooting a ball which appeared to hit the tips of Scales’ fingers before cannoning on to a post and rebounding over the line.
Result:
BLACKPOOL 4 (Shimwell 7 min, Mortensen 25, 70 mins, Johnston 85 min)
CHESTER 0
What a player this Stanley Matthews is. He had one of the best games of his glittering career against Chester this afternoon.
Almost he gave a brave Third Division team the count all on his own.
On a day when the Chester defence massed on the other Stanley and left the wing open he was never held, took the ball to whatever position he preferred and raked Chester’s goal with a succession of centres and passes which might have caused a rout.
The rest of the front line had to play second fiddle to all this magnificence and for a long time could achieve little design in its raids.
Yet, ultimately, it had the Chester full-backs and halfbacks scattered, and before the end it was winning at will.
But this Chester team deserved all the praise which could be given it. Some of its football was of a class which Third Division teams are not supposed to play.
Yet class tells even in Cup-ties and it told today in the excellence of the Blackpool half-back line.
Robinson played a composed game in goal and must no longer be called only an understudy.
Errors made it easier for Blackpool
GEORGE SCALES, the goalkeeper who works in an Altrincham factory and whose exploits against Crystal Palace in the third round Cup-tie gave Chester a fourth round ticket to Blackpool, would accept no consolation when in the dressing room after this game they said, “It happens to every goalkeeper some time.”
He was guilty of two errors in this game - and goalkeepers cannot afford even one in a Cup-tie.
Eddie Shimwell unexpectedly qualified for the marksmen’s list with a 60-yards clearance which became a goal when the ball hit a rut in the frozen turf and bounced over the goalkeeper’s head for No. 1.
To No. 2 this goalkeeper who could do nothing wrong a fortnight earlier fell late. Then, although in this case I consider him blameless, when No. 4 came the ball hit the foot of a post, cannoned on to his head as he fell, and bounced off it into the net.
FOUR STAND OUT
Would Chester have escaped defeat if Scales had not presented Blackpool with a 2-0 interval lead to which Blackpool were not entitled? I question it.
There were four men in this Blackpool team who must, I think, have ensured Blackpool’s passage to the fifth round even on a day when the forward line was never completely convincing.
One was Stanley Matthews, who mesmerised a Chester defence which made the fatal tactical error of allowing the pass to reach him before deciding to do something about it.
Chester - game and gallant to the last, playing in the first half-hour, football which was of authentic class and never resorting to the man-or-ball tackle - had to pay the price.
This amazing Matthews was No.1, of Blackpool’s 11. The three other stars were the halfbacks. Johnston and Kelly were always in contact with the forwards and Hayward halted raid after raid in those critical opening 15 minutes; when it seemed that anything might happen.
That it never happened could also be attributed to Joe Robinson. He is no longer a stand-in goalkeeper now. Up can go his name in lights.
CARDS ON THE TABLE AT CARLISLE
Blackpool made “take it or leave it” bid for Broadis
By “Spectator”
WHERE’S IT ALL GOING TO END - THIS MIDWINTER MADNESS IN FOOTBALL’S TRANSFER MART?
Mr Jack Bray, the Watford manager and ex-England and Manchester City wing half, denounced it, and in despair walked out of it and all its sordid machinations this week.
A few hours earlier, up in Carlisle, three clubs had been politely informed that the fee required for a player who has made his reputation in the Third Division - which is no disparagement of Ivor Broadis, who may be as good as Carlisle think he is - was not less than £14,000.
One of the three clubs was Blackpool. Another of the three had informed the United directorate in advance that whatever the other two offered they were prepared to bid higher and to go on bidding higher.
Chairman Harry Evans, of Blackpool, who has always refused to countenance these auctions, considering them, as I consider them, degrading to the player and debasing to the game, authorised his manager, Mr. Joe Smith, to state Blackpool’s terms and leave it at that, with all the cards on the table - in Mr. Ernest Bevin’s phrase, face upwards.
Offered players
THAT the Blackpool delegation decided not to go home immediately the £14,000 minimum was mentioned implies that the Blackpool offer was at least within range of this amazing figure.
Such a fee may not have been bid in £s.d., but it is probable that the price Blackpool were prepared to pay was at least its equivalent, for I know that in addition to a cheque bordering on five figures the board had also sanctioned the offer of two or three players.
So Blackpool this week might have made history - whatever such history is worth. They might have paid for one player a fee which would have been a record for a club which has already twice gone to £10,000 for a forward - Jock Dodds and Willie Buchan each cost this figure - and nearly a record for the game, too.
The last word
IT is to Blackpool’s credit, I think, establishing that there is at least some sort of morality left in this commercialised mad-house called professional football, that once this offer, however extravagant it may have been, was made, Carlisle were told, “That’s the last word - take it or leave it”
A last word may have been spoken on another subject this week with the announcement of the suspension by the club of Jock Wallace, the goalkeeper.
What a pitiful epilogue this all is after 14 years’ service at Blackpool by a player who until a fortnight ago had given his club not a half-day’s concern from the day he was signed from Raith Rovers in 1934.
I still hope that the differences will be resolved, but present indications are that Wallace’s career at Blackpool may be over.
No unrest
INEVITABLY, as I wrote last week, all those people who have no intimate knowledge of the circumstances are still asserting that this case and the transfers which preceded it indicate that all is not as it should be at Bloomfield-road.
They should go to Bloomfield-road some day, and, if they are admitted, meet the players there. If this ground is a hot-bed of discontent, as I am assured so often that it must be. the entire cast should transfer itself to a West End theatre, for assuredly it contains some of the best actors outside Shaftesbury-avenue.
There are no signs of unrest for the good reason that there is none.
Finest spirit
IN casual conversation with Harry Johnston, the captain, the other day, seeking no denial of all the rumours which I considered were not worth denial, I was told:
“There’s never, I think, been a finer spirit among the lads.
“I admit that one or two were a little unsettled soon after the death of Col. Parkinson, but everybody seems content now again.
“The new chairman, Mr. Evans, has told us, ‘You give us a square deal, and we’ll give you one!’ What could be fairer that that? Dissensions behind the scenes? Not a bit of it.”
Rumourmongers, please note.
Jottings from all parts
BY "SPECTATOR" 24 January 1948
MOLINEUX MARVEL
LATEST installation at Wolverhampton, where everything has been made up to the minute out of the thousands which Major Frank Buckley accumulated for the club in transfer fees, is a machine, controlled by electric circuits, which must be numbered among the Seven Wonders of Football.
Built in the main office, it is in continuous contact with every one of the 40 turnstiles admitting to the embankment and terraces, records every admittance at each turnstile, and on a big screen flashes the total admissions second by second.
The pressure of a switch rings a bell at each turnstile as soon as its maximum permitted capacity has been reached.
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A TALE about the old days at Blackpool - the days when the club was always near the breadline and sometimes in it - was related in the Wolverhampton programme last week.
It was attributed to Mr. Tom Barcroft, the secretary in the straw hat, who died a few months ago, and concerned a match at Small Heath - Birmingham today - where the visitors had to supply their own half-time refreshments for the players.
Unprepared for this demand on limited resources, Blackpool mixed oatmeal with water in a bucket.
“Our outside-right - a lad on trial - had a thirst and took an overdose,” said “Tommy.
“The yeast or something in the oatmeal got to work, and soon he was bouncing about like a balloon. He blew up. We had to fetch him off.”
HOW fleeting is fame.
The three inside forwards - Smythe, Forbes and Pye - who appeared for Wolverhampton Wanderers against Blackpool in September were all in the second team when the return match was played a week ago.
Two of them are internationals.
One of them, Jesse Pye, might not be out of First Division football long if Blackpool were to make a few discreet enquiries about him.
£8,000 . . £6,000 . . £4,500.
You pays your money - or, in this case, Hull City pay it - and you takes your choice.
What fee did the city pay for Willie Buchan? Those are three of the figures I saw quoted by the men who always say they know in the Press last weekend.
The man who chose the third and the lowest of the three was nearest the target. His, in fact, was what you could call a bull’s-eye.
THE Highbury of the provinces is the Molineux Ground at Wolverhampton.
Behind the scenes it is so luxurious that Manager Joe Smith, of Blackpool, taken on a Saturday morning tour last weekend by assistant-secretary, Mr. Jack Howley - Mr. Ted Vizard was out of town - was compelled to observe enviously, “If only we’d such a ground at Blackpool!”
The therapy room resembles a scene out of a Dr. Gillespie film. They even have their own cobbler’s shop. The crockery in the Wanderers’ panelled board-room is in the Wolves’ colours - and so are the motor coaches which take the club’s teams to away matches.
They even illuminate the halftime scoreboard - so, presumably, that the customers who pay 3d. for a programme which is nearly a magazine shall get value for their money.
SAMMY NELSON, the little lightweight Irishman, has soon had his first game in the Second Division at Luton.
He was in the Town team defeated by the leaders, Birmingham, last weekend.
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THREE men familiar to Blackpool’s football public in the first three teams in the Southern Section:
Ivor Powell, one of the wartime guests, son-in-law of Tommy Browell, at Queen’s Park.
Jimmy Blair, at Bournemouth, where, I am told, he played an outstanding game against the Wolves in the Third Round Cup-tie.
George Eastham, at Swansea, but not destined, from all I hear, to be there long.
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ONE of football's craziest bets was lost at Wolverhampton during the interval in the Blackpool game a week ago.
One man bet another that he could walk on his hands from the halfway line to one of the goals, ran on the pitch after the teams had left it and balanced himself upside down.
He had nearly reached the penalty area as 40,000 cheered him when four police constables converged on him, said. “You can't do that there here!" set him right way up again - and ordered him off.
He would have won the bet, too.
THEY say that the Wolverhampton forward line is still on its day the fastest in football.
It may be - and yet the fastest man on the staff is not one of the forwards. He moves less during a game than any other man in the team.
He is the goalkeeper, Bert Williams from Walsall. He is reported to be capable of about even time over 100 yards when he makes up his mind to it.
WHAT’S gone wrong with Blackpool Reserve? They are still in the Central League championship hunt, but -
In December, continuing an impressive sequence, four out of five games were won and the other drawn. Since the New Year opened three matches have been lost in succession.
What’s wrong? The answer is simple.
Constant shuffling of the team, caused by first team calls and a casualty list, has upset its balance.
Even now Blackpool are only four points behind the leaders, Newcastle United, who, after leading by a distance, have allowed the rest of the field to come perilously close.
SOMETHING uncommon about Willie Buchan’s first penalty - one of two in his first match - for Hull City a week ago.
The Hull captain was apparently unaware of the Scot’s famous moving one way and shooting another act which he presented for the first time at Charlton over a year ago, and which has since been so nearly infallible that he has only missed once with it.
Another forward was chosen for the penalty and shot wide, but as there had been an infringement the kick had to be retaken. Whereupon - and few people knew this was permissible - Buchan was nominated, and made it look so simple again.
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TOM GARRETT was Blackpool’s 12th man for the visit to Wolverhampton. It was, I think, the first time this young full - back who still works in a pit, had been given this privilege, which includes bonus- money - if any.
The match made an extra £1 for Tom, who, one of these days is certain to be winning his own bonuses in the highest class of football. They are convinced at Blackpool that he has a great future in the game.
He is content to wait - as Joe Robinson, his friend, waited.
Half a dozen clubs would pay a big fee for Garrett today - and he has only played one First Division game, the Stoke City match at Blackpool last year. He is one of the men with whom Blackpool will not part.
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BLACKPOOL have three supporters’ clubs these days. One is official, the other two are unofficial, but no less zealous in the cause.
Half a dozen Blackpool girls send chewing gum at regular intervals to the club’s three teams.
Now four Ansdell girls have established their own club, made a cake for the team for the recent Leeds United Cup-tie. and with a credit balance of £3 or £4 in the exchequer, cannot yet decide how it shall be spent for the benefit of the players.
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YOUNG FANS
'THE Blackpool players saw the Charles Chaplin film, “Monsieur Verdoux” at Wolverhampton last weekend as guests of the management at one of the town’s big cinemas.
The following day the “Two Stanleys’’ - Matthews and Mortensen - returned the compliment, attended the cinema’s Saturday morning club and were photographed for the Press encircled’ - almost engulfed - by the adoring patrons.
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Bloomfield-rd revisited
MR FRANK BROWN, manager of Chester, this afternoon's Cup visitors to Bloomfield- road, is familiar with the ground.
He was in the Blackpool team which won the Central League championship in 1919-20.
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Wallace hearing next week
HEAR from the Football League offices in Preston this afternoon, that the appeal by Jock Wallace, the Blackpool goalkeeper, against the disciplinary action taken against him by his club will be heard next week.
I prefer not to give the date or venue, as the League regard this as a purely domestic question, and the inquiry will definitely be held in private.” said Mr. F. Howarth, secretary of the League.
The Blackpool club has been instructed to send a representative to the meeting, and a letter to Scotland today called Wallace to be present.
DIED ON WAY TO MATCH
On. his way to the Blackpool football match on Saturday, Mr. Robert Walkington, aged 63, a retired trawler owner, of Pharos-street, Fleetwood, called at the house of a friend in Westmorland-avenue, where he collapsed and died.
Mr. Walkington was a trawler skipper for over 30 years, and at one period during the war sailed in the trawler Ariel, he owned.
It sank three years ago following a collision with a 12,000-ton vessel, but the crew were saved.
COLCHESTER, CUP GIANT KILLERS, HERE IN
ROUNDS FIVE
COLCHESTER UNITED, CONQUERORS OF HUDDERSFIELD TOWN AND BRADFORD, WILL COME TO BLACKPOOL ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, IN THE FIFTH ROUND OF THE F.A. CUP COMPETITION.
THE DRAW, MADE IN LONDON TODAY, IS:-
Tottenham H. v. Leicester C.
Blackpool v. Colchester U.
Manchester U. v. Charlton A.
Middlesbrough v. Derby C.
Southampton v. Swindon T.
Queens Park R. v. Luton T.
Manchester C. v. Preston N.E.
Fulham v. Wolves or Everton.
To be played February 7, kick-off 2 45. Extra time if necessary. Replays following Saturday, kick-off 2-45. Extra time if necessary.
In the event of a second replay being necessary in the Wolverhampton v. Everton fourth round tie, it will take place on the Aston Villa ground next Monday.
As both Manchester clubs have again been drawn at home the venue of the Man Chester United v. Charlton Athletic tie will be subject to mutual arrangement between these clubs.
Blackpool's cup opponents, say - We aren't scared
BLACKPOOL have been drawn at home to Colchester, the Southern League club, in the next round of the F.A. Cup.
Here is what Colchester’s player-manager, Ted Fenton, said about the draw today:
“Interesting. It could have been a lot worse. The Blackpool ground is very little larger than our own and this will help the lads. The odds are against us, but we aren’t scared.
FOR A PLAN
“Along with a director and another colleague I will be going to Blackpool next Saturday to watch them play Aston Villa in the league. Then I hope to be able to work out a scheme to beat them.
“It’s a pity Blackpool don't wear red shirts, but tangerine is near enough.
NOTE. - Every team Colchester have beaten in the Cup this season have worn red or partly red shirts. Blackpool play in tangerine jerseys.
NO WALK-OVER
“Colchester,” said Manager Joe Smith, of Blackpool. “We’ll treat them as if they were Manchester United. There’s no walk-over in a Cup-tie - and this isn’t one.”
- And now he seeks a Blackpool plan
FIRST reaction of Colchester's player-manager,
Ted Fenton, one of the greatest strategists in the game, was to consult a railway time table.
Before the United’s sensational overthrow of Huddersfield Town and the Arsenal's conquerors, Bradford, he watched his club's opponents in a League match, and, in a secret rehearsal behind closed doors, based his team's plan of action on the data he accumulated.
I shall be at Blackpool for the Villa match on Saturday,” he admitted this afternoon. “If find anything wrong in the Blackpool team- and no team is 100 per cent. - I’ll produce a plan to exploit it.”
This technique is reputed to have worked against Huddersfield and Bradford.
NAMES MAKE NEWS
Every name in the Colchester team has abruptly made news in recent weeks. People who a month ago never knew' there was a team in Colchester are talking now about the men who train on oysters and play Cup practices behind locked gates.
Only four men in the team - Ted Fenton, the manager who played for West Ham and England in his day, the two who play each side of him in the halfback line, Harry Bearryman and Andy Brown - plus Bob Curry, the captain and inside-right, who scored two of the three goals against Bradford, are full-time professionals.
All the others train an evening or two a week and work five and a half days - Cup or no Cup.
Harry Wright, the goalkeeper, and Bob Allen, the left-back - a former outside-left at Fulham and Brentford whose target for the day at Blackpool will be Stanley Matthews - are P.T. instructors.
MARKET GARDENERS
Albert (“Digger”) Kettle, the right-back, is in an engineering works; Thomas Hillman, the outside-right, is a market gardener; Arthur Turner, who was Charlton’s centre-forward in the 1946 Final, is in his father’s timber business; Fred Cutting is another with his own market garden; and Len Cater, the outside-left and the team’s only amateur, is a fitter at the gas works.
These are the men who travel in the Cup after five successive home ties to meet the first Blackpool team ever to play three successive games in' the Cup at home.
The United have made history already. Blackpool can make it by qualifying for the last eight for the first time in the club’s records since the famous Ewood Park match which Blackburn Rovers won 1-0 in 1925.
TICKETS?
IT'S A DELUGE
HUNDREDS of people have deluged the Blackpool F.C. offices since noon today with applications for tickets for the Colchester United tie.
Not for a minute since the news circulated that the giant-killing babes of the 1948 Cup series were coming to town has the telephone bell ceased ringing.
With Colchester’s consent it is not to be an all-ticket match. The stands only will be booked, and, if the Southern League club are agreeable, the prices will not be increased.
Tickets will be 6s. for the reserved centre stand, 4s. 6d. for the wing and 4s. for the south stands.
ROTATION
“We are accepting applications-immediately by telephone, letter (stamped addressed envelope) and by personal calls,” I was told at the club’s headquarters this afternoon. “They will be taken in strict rotation.”
Present indications are that within 24 hours there will not be a seat left.
There are about 6,000 stand seats at Blackpool. Colchester’s quota is 1,500 - 25 per cent - and stand season ticket holders will be give be given an option of one seat per ticket.
MR HARRY EVANS, the new chairman of Blackpool F.C., has accepted an invitation to become the new president of the Supporters’ Club.
We are sure we shall benefit by Mr. Evans’s experience. His name is known wherever the game is played, and he has a long connection with Bloomfield-road.
Mrs. Parkinson, widow of our former president, Colonel William Parkinson, J.P., who was keenly interested in our welfare, has accepted our request that she becomes an honorary president.
Snooker final
MOST interesting evening, which raised over £70, was held at the South Shore Hotel on Monday, when Harry Johnston won the players’ snooker final.
After beating Stanley Matthews in the semi-final, he defeated Jimmy McIntosh, who had knocked out the favourite, Joe Robinson, in the other semi-final.
To all who worked so hard to make this evening a success we extend our thanks.
Dance
THE ladies’ committee have arranged a dance to be held at the Jubilee Theatre on Tuesday, February 10, from 7-30 p.m. to midnight.
Tickets are now on sale at 2s. 6d. Late transport will be provided.
Membership
MAY I again remind all our old 11 members that membership fees for the New Year are now due.
Please send your 2s. 6d. immediately.
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