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OCR	SPORTS SPECIAL January 27th 1979 , he day South Shields played on the C.C.ground And Johnny Rundle sums it all up in this letter : * As vice - chairman of South Shields Football Club , may I , through Social Scene say Cricket a big THANK YOU to CC , lovely Cricket their ground committee , bar steward and staff in helping Sputh Shields out of their ground problems . I honestly believe that CC have South Shields Football Club at heart especially in Simonside . We now have the luxury of 3 Simonside operators on our Supporters ' Association Committee Deborah Rundle , Violet Sayer and Mary Purcell all belonging F103'shift ....... Deborah Rundle runs an " Under 16's " team in a Sunday League and is on the look - out for budding players . If any CC employees have anyone who may be interested , please contact Deborah . BIG THANK - YOU Getting back to the match , Shields versus Horden in the Durham Challenge Cup , we got under way 15 minutes late as Horden were reluctant to play because of hard ground . Could I , at this point , mention John Brown , our Groundsman and his efforts to get the match played . A BIG THANK YOU JOHN ! The game continued with a full clubhouse which kept the doorman busy . The match was covered from the Social Club by Radio Newcastle and , reporters came from as far as Hartlepool , Newcastle and South Shields . The result was disappointing , a 1-1 draw , Horden equalising after half - time on a disputed penalty . Also attending the game were the President and Secretary of the Wearside League , members of the Northern League and local leagues who spoke to Ivan Harkness , our Social Club Chair man , and myself and expressed how they were staggered at the facilities of CC . May I , on behalf of South Shields Football Club Comm mittee end by saying that the hospitality shown by Ivan Hark ness , Barry Porthouse and his staff on Saturday , January 27th will always be remembered by us . As I wrote recently in the Shields Gazette ... with friends who care like the ones I have mentioned , South Shields Foot ball Club can only go from strength to strength . " Good news for all cricket lovers , be they players or spectators . . . the new season starts on April 21st . After only one season the CC eleven finds itself promoted to the North East Durham League so every body is looking forward to the new season with excite ment . Before the season officially opens there will be a few friendly games . Already arranged . are matches wit Aus and Pickersgill , Wardley CC and Plessey's . Anyone who would like to sign on for the team will be most welcome . They should get in touch with Norman Hunnam right away . POSTSCRIPT : Inter - depart mental cricket will definitely be held again this year . More in formation in the next edition of SOCIAL SCENE . DOWN THE FAIRWAY CC's golf society's big autumn event of last year was played at Fulford Golf course at York , and was won by Norman Kelly ( Superintendent F7 ) for the second year running . He beat Billy Jordan ( super visor F7 ) in the finals . Looking ahead , the spring meeting will be held at Bamburgh Castle Golf Club and the Autumn meeting will be held at the Garesfield course , Rowlands Gill . Big news of the year is that Jarrow are to be hosts for the first time ever in the Bunzl Spring tournament . This will be held on May 24th at the Whitley Bay golf course . * H 5 Libri Spot anyone you know in this line - up with the South Shields Football Club ? You SHOULD be able to recognise Bob McIntyre ( extreme right ) , Barry Porthouse ( third from right ) , the three standing on the extreme left John Rundle , Ivan Harkness and Roy Stidolph . Left of the front row is Gordon Hope . The occasion , of course , was when South Shields played Horden on the CC ground . PLENTY TO SMILE ABOUT JACKIE HURST ( Simonside warehouseman ) has plenty to smile about . Read all about it in the column on DARTS . The recent Darts Pairs Tournament for Bede and Simonside held in the Social Club proved a great success with 14 pairs taking part and the final won by Lee and Barlow from Hurst and Drake . Autori Here are the details : FIRST ROUND : Jordan and Stobbart had a bye and Barlow and Lee ( Simonside ) beat Rundle and Henderson ( SS ) . V. Copp and C. Copp ( SS ) beat Richards and Costello ( SS ) and Mather and Row ( Bede ) beat . Dunn and Walsh ( SES ) . Wilkinson and Gibson ( Bede ) beat Dixon and Scott and Hurst and Drake ( SS ) beat Ram shaw and Kerr ( Bede ) . Dods and Kirby ( SES ) had a bye and Stidolph and Porthouse ( Social Club ) were given the tie by Fulcher and Costello ( Bede ) . Printed by Unit Offset Ltd First and last paragraphs of a match report extracted from the sports pages of the Shields Gazette of January 29th 1979 : " South Shields must travel to Horden this week . end to replay their Durham Challenge Cup second round tie after the two sides played out a 1-1 draw at Cigarette Component's ground on Saturday . ☆ QUOTE Superstars ☆ The SUPERSTARS com petition was such an out standing event last year that it is to be repeated , this time on an even more ambitious scale .. " The Mariners , one of the few local sides to com plete a fixture on Saturday , would like to express their appreciation to the Social Welfare Committee of Cigarette Components for allowing them the use of their ground and facilities on Saturday . " SECOND ROUND : Hurst and Drake beat Wilkinson and Gibson ; Stidolph and Porthouse beat Mather and Rowe . Lee and Barlow beat Copp and Copp and Jordan and Stobbart beat Dods and Kirby . SEMI - FINALS : Hurst and Drake beat Stidolph and Port house ; Lee and Barlow beat Jordan and Stobbart . DARTS PAIRS TOURNAMENT A SIZZLING SUCCESS FINAL : Lee and Barlow beat Hurst and Drake . $ 1 JACKIE HURST WRITES : K₂ our The organiser of the tourn ament Jackie Hurst ( warehouse man at Simonside ) writes : - " We would like to express appreciation to the Social committee for the financial help towards the buying of trophies for the winners and runners - up . " A singles tournament is now being run for Simonside workers only , for a really nice trophy which has been kindly donated by Roy Stidolph . Gestures such as this deserve all our thanks . " This year , too , more will depend on skill than on chance ; a new system is being devised so that good luck won't get anyone as far this year as it did last ! Anybody keen on entering should get in touch with Norman Hunnam or Bob Tuck . There are , report Hunnam and Tuck , several new events being considered . OUT will come table tennis , badminton , 100 an mine and tool and in probably , will be the metres , the 600 metres , assault course , a penalties com petition , the Slalom , javelin throwing , shot - putting , squat thrusts , darts and a crossbow competition . PS Touchwood , we THINK we have a javelin being lent to us . ORGANISATION MAN All those who took part in the Tournament agree that Jackie Hurst himself deserves thanks too for organising it so well . The Simonside Singles tournament is already at the third round stage and 27 players entered . It is hoped that the trophies for both tournaments will be formally presented during a future Disco at the Club . POSTSCRIPT : Jackie used to organise darts tournaments such as this years ago , before Factory 10 was opened . But the revival has caused so much interest that it is hoped to make the tourna ments annual affairs . NEXT SOCIAL SCENE WILL BE SPRING TIME ISSUE .

OCR

SPORTS SPECIAL
January 27th 1979 , he day South Shields played on the C.C.ground
And Johnny Rundle sums it all up in this letter :
*** As vice - chairman of South
Shields Football Club , may I , through Social Scene say
Cricket
a big THANK YOU to CC , lovely Cricket
their ground committee , bar steward and staff in helping Sputh Shields out of their ground problems .
I honestly believe that CC have South Shields Football Club at heart especially in Simonside . We now have the luxury of 3 Simonside operators on our Supporters ' Association Committee Deborah
Rundle , Violet Sayer and Mary Purcell all belonging F103'shift .......
Deborah Rundle runs an " Under 16's " team in a Sunday League and is on the look - out for budding players . If any CC employees have anyone who may be interested , please contact Deborah .
BIG THANK - YOU
Getting back to the match , Shields versus Horden in the Durham Challenge Cup , we got under way 15 minutes late as Horden were reluctant to play because of hard ground . Could I , at this point , mention John Brown , our Groundsman and his efforts to get the match played . A BIG THANK YOU JOHN ! The game continued with a full clubhouse which kept the doorman busy . The match was covered from the Social Club by Radio Newcastle and , reporters came from as far as Hartlepool , Newcastle and South Shields . The result was disappointing , a 1-1 draw , Horden equalising after half - time on a disputed penalty .
Also attending the game were the President and Secretary of the Wearside League , members of the Northern League and local leagues who spoke to Ivan Harkness , our Social Club Chair man , and myself and expressed how they were staggered at the facilities of CC .
May I , on behalf of South Shields Football Club Comm mittee end by saying that the hospitality shown by Ivan Hark ness , Barry Porthouse and his staff on Saturday , January 27th will always be remembered by
us .
As I wrote recently in the Shields Gazette ... with friends who care like the ones I have mentioned , South Shields Foot ball Club can only go from strength to strength . "
Good news for all cricket lovers , be they players or spectators . . . the new season starts on April 21st .
After only one season the CC
eleven finds itself promoted to the North East Durham League so every body is looking forward to the new season with excite ment .
Before the season officially opens there will be a few friendly games . Already arranged . are matches wit Aus and Pickersgill , Wardley CC and Plessey's .
Anyone who would like to sign on for the team will be most welcome . They should get in touch with Norman Hunnam right away . POSTSCRIPT :
Inter - depart mental cricket will definitely be held again this year . More in formation in the next edition of SOCIAL SCENE .
DOWN THE FAIRWAY
CC's golf society's big autumn event of last year was played at Fulford Golf course at York , and was
won
by Norman Kelly ( Superintendent F7 ) for the second year running . He beat Billy Jordan ( super visor F7 ) in the finals .
Looking ahead , the spring meeting will be held at Bamburgh Castle Golf Club and the Autumn meeting will be held at the Garesfield course , Rowlands Gill .
Big news of the year is that Jarrow are to be hosts for the first time ever in the Bunzl Spring tournament . This will be held on May 24th at the Whitley Bay golf course .
***
H
5 Libri
Spot anyone you know in this line - up with the South Shields Football Club ? You SHOULD be able to recognise Bob McIntyre ( extreme right ) , Barry Porthouse ( third from right ) , the three standing on the extreme left John Rundle , Ivan Harkness and Roy Stidolph . Left of the front row is Gordon Hope . The occasion , of course , was when South Shields played Horden on the CC ground .
PLENTY TO SMILE ABOUT
JACKIE HURST ( Simonside warehouseman ) has plenty to smile about . Read all about it in the column on DARTS .
The recent Darts Pairs Tournament for Bede and Simonside held in the Social Club proved a great success with 14 pairs taking part and the final won by Lee and Barlow from Hurst and Drake .
Autori
Here are the details : FIRST ROUND : Jordan and Stobbart had a bye and Barlow and Lee ( Simonside ) beat Rundle and Henderson ( SS ) . V. Copp and C. Copp ( SS ) beat Richards and Costello ( SS ) and Mather and Row ( Bede ) beat . Dunn and Walsh ( SES ) . Wilkinson and Gibson ( Bede ) beat Dixon and Scott and Hurst and Drake ( SS ) beat Ram shaw and Kerr ( Bede ) . Dods and Kirby ( SES ) had a bye and Stidolph and Porthouse ( Social Club ) were given the tie by Fulcher and Costello ( Bede ) .
Printed by Unit Offset Ltd
First and last paragraphs of a match report extracted from the sports pages of the Shields Gazette of January 29th 1979 : " South Shields must travel to Horden this week . end to replay their Durham Challenge Cup second round tie after the two sides played out a 1-1 draw at Cigarette Component's ground on Saturday .
☆
QUOTE Superstars
☆
The SUPERSTARS com petition was such an out standing event last year that it is to be repeated , this time on an even more ambitious scale ..
" The Mariners , one of the few local sides to com plete a fixture on Saturday , would like to express their appreciation to the Social Welfare Committee of Cigarette Components for allowing them the use of their ground and facilities on Saturday . "
SECOND ROUND : Hurst and Drake beat Wilkinson and Gibson ; Stidolph and Porthouse beat Mather and Rowe . Lee and Barlow beat Copp and Copp and Jordan and Stobbart beat Dods and Kirby .
SEMI - FINALS : Hurst and Drake beat Stidolph and Port house ; Lee and Barlow beat Jordan and Stobbart .
DARTS PAIRS TOURNAMENT
A SIZZLING SUCCESS
FINAL : Lee and Barlow beat Hurst and Drake .
$ 1
JACKIE HURST WRITES :
K₂
our
The organiser of the tourn ament Jackie Hurst ( warehouse man at Simonside ) writes : - " We would like to express appreciation to the Social committee for the financial help towards the buying of trophies for the winners and runners - up . " A singles tournament is now being run for Simonside workers only , for a really nice trophy which has been kindly donated by Roy Stidolph . Gestures such as this deserve all our thanks . "
This year , too , more will depend on skill than on chance ; a new system is being devised so that good luck won't get anyone as far this year as it did last !
Anybody keen on entering should get in touch with Norman Hunnam or Bob Tuck . There are , report Hunnam and Tuck , several new events being considered . OUT will come table tennis , badminton ,
100
an
mine and tool and in probably , will be the metres , the 600 metres , assault course , a penalties com petition , the Slalom , javelin throwing , shot - putting , squat thrusts , darts and a crossbow competition .
PS Touchwood , we THINK we have a javelin being lent to us .
ORGANISATION MAN
All those who took part in the Tournament agree that Jackie Hurst himself deserves thanks too for organising it so well . The Simonside Singles tournament is already at the third round stage and 27 players entered . It is hoped that the trophies for both tournaments will be formally presented during a future Disco at the Club .
POSTSCRIPT : Jackie used to organise darts tournaments such as this years ago , before Factory 10 was opened . But the revival has caused so much interest that it is hoped to make the tourna ments annual affairs .
NEXT SOCIAL SCENE WILL BE SPRING TIME ISSUE .