Newspaper Clippings - Dick Butler - page 4
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◦ JOURNAL GONE 2014 Strip to put them streaks ahead Mayor , GATESHEAD'S Coun . John Wheatley , took his wife along to a strip show yesterday . There were no blushes , no disapproving glances ... but hoots of approval as a pair birds paraded of dolly around among the specially invited guests . It was no ordinary strip show . For the girls were not peeling clothes off . they were keeping them on - and very nice they looked , too . The show was the unveiling ceremony of the strip to be used next season by the town's new football club . Gateshead United . Their green , red and white shirts will grace the fields from Goole to Boston , from Gainsborough to Great Har wood , and club chairman Mr. Jack Leighton hopes his heroes and their new outfits will eventually grace the turf at Wembley . The unveiling took place in a town centre store , and Leighton afterwards Mr. said : " I am pretty confident that this will be the first and Gateshead last season United will be in the Premier League . We hope to be spearheading next season's move for a super league among the top non - league clubs . " The first game that the team will wear their new colours will be on August 5 in a pre - season friendly with Scottish League club , East Fife . Shields Gazette and Shipping Telegraph 3 Wednesday , June 19 , 1974 Mr Martin Ford ( left ) , chair man of the new South Shields Mariners Football Club , pic . tured with committee mem bers ( left to right ) Bill Carr , Ruben Wright and Bill Wall Snr . at the club's social even ing in the Armstrong Hall last night . Mayor gives support to new Mariners THE new South Shields Mariners Football Club's second social evening at the Armstrong Hall last night was another resounding success with the Mayor South Tyneside , Coun . Murtagh Diamond , displaying his support for the club . Gazette sports writer Dick Kirkup welcomed the guests and added that the new club 1 was looking for 14 sponsors , C each to sponsor a player for a track suit and training shoes . Coun . Diamond , who was accompanied by the Mayo ress , Coun . Mrs Elizabeth Diamond , immediately con tacted club chairman Mr Martin Ford and became the first sponsor , saying : " I wish the new club every possible success . " Mr Malcolm Wright , Lei cestershire born but now an " adopted Geordie " living in South Shields , was another who came forward with a sponsorship . LECT ANDY IRVINE FOR Also in attendance were Coun . Vincent Fitzpatrick , Labour Leader of the South Tyneside Borough Council , and Coun . Ernest Mackley , a District and County Council lor . Eviday . August 9 , 19 14 DON'T LOSE INTEREST in your By TYNE ( BUIL IO , GRANGE RO 7 , CHARLOTTE TER 161 |
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