Bill Marshall heads off down memory lane to recall the Press' sporting headlines from this week...

80 YEARS AGO

BILL Bowes was the only Yorkshireman to be picked by the MCC for the champion county match against Yorkshire at Lord's, and the fast-medium bowler performed admirably – with the bat!

He scored 18 not out in the first innings at No 11 and, promoted to No 10, made 37 in the second innings (almost his highest-ever score) to ensure that the match went into a third and final day.

MCC were dismissed for 170 (Frank Smailes 5-63, Hedley Verity 4-56) and 166, Patsy Hendren (75) helping Bowes add over 60 for the ninth wicket as Smailes completed a fine match with 6-64.

Yorkshire won by eight wickets after scoring 269 (Arthur Mitchell 57, Len Hutton 55, Verity 39no, Maurice Leyland 37) and 68-2 (Herbert Sutcliffe 30).

Just how much Yorkshire missed Verity, who was killed in the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943, can be seen from the opening matches of the 1936 season as he took 5-48 against Essex, 8-56 and 7-73 against Oxford University and 5-48 against Worcestershire.

York Rugby League Club were the only side to beat Championship winners Hull FC twice during the 1935-36 season and met them in the City of Hull Great War Trust Shield match, losing 49-23 in front of 6,000.

Tries for the visitors went to Welsh (2), Rees, Thomas and Hardgrove, and the match made £223, £175 of which went to the War Trust.

It wasn't difficult to find famous tennis players in Yorkshire as Fred Perry was playing in the Harrogate Open, winning the men's doubles and mixed doubles, while his Great Britain Davis Cup colleagues Bunny Austin, Raymond Tuckey and Charles Hare were playing with Ted Avory in the Northern Command Officers' Club hard courts at Dringhouses.

Austin beat Tuckey 6-3, 2-6, 7-5, 6-4, while Hare defeated Avory 6-4, 6-4 in singles before Tuckey and Austin were leading Hare and Avory 6-3, 7-5, 7-7 in a doubles when play was suspended.

50 YEARS AGO

ROWNTREES had a busy end to the season, picking up their fourth trophy of the campaign when they defeated Selby Shipyard 2-1 in the York Senior Cup final replay at Selby Town.

Centre forward Howard Pearson got both of the Rowntrees goals, while Tony Stilgoe also missed a penalty, but this was only a prelude to their North Riding Senior Cup final against Middlesbrough Reserves.

Rowntrees were massive underdogs, but there was to be no fairy-tale as they lost 2-0 after being tormented by Irish international Bobby Braithwaite.

Leeds United lost their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup semi-final play-off match 3-1 at home to Real Zaragoza, with 43,000 fans applauding the Spaniards off the pitch at the end.

They scored all of their goals in the first 13 minutes, with Jack Charlton getting the United goal in the 78th minute.

Chelsea beat Barcelona 2-0 at Stamford Bridge to force a third tie in the other semi-final, which will be played in Spain.

York City lost 3-0 at Oldham, which could have been 6-0 were it not for the heroics of goalkeeper Harry Fallon, while the Minstermen dropped to the bottom of the table after a 2-0 setback at Walsall, George Hamstead coming closest to scoring for York when his header but the bar.

London was the centre of England's sporting world as Henry Cooper lost his world heavyweight fight to Cassius Clay in the sixth round at Highbury after sustaining a deep gash over his left eye.

Meanwhile, St Helens beat Wigan 21-2 in the Rugby League Challenge Cup final in front of a record 100,000 crowd, with towering lock Ray French and goal-kicker Len Killeen making the major difference.

20 YEARS AGO

YORK Wasps suffered a 42-16 defeat at Leigh Centurions, with their third heavy defeat of the season being characterised by shoddy handling and poor defensive work.

Half-time substitutes Dave Smith, Colin Brown and debutant Manu Fatu improved matters, and they added tries by Mark Cain and Smith to the first-half touchdown of Keith Mawer, but coach Stewart Horton was not impressed, calling the players' attitude bad.

They remedied matters with a 54-26 home win over South Wales, with Terry Smirk scoring three tries in a scrum-half masterclass.

Cain and Chris Hopcutt bagged two tries each and others came from Mick Johnson, Chris Judge and Jason Laurence, Smith increasing his tally to 26 points with seven goals.

Mickey Duff, manager of York super-middleweight Henry Wharton, had made a £500,000 offer to world champion Thulane 'Sugarboy' Malinga to defend his WBC crown at either York's Barbican Centre or Leeds Town Hall.

York City, meanwhile, finished fifth from bottom in Endsleigh Insurance League Division Two, packing more spills and thrills into the 1965-66 season than in a campaign and a half.

They knocked Manchester United out of the League Cup, winning the first leg 3-0 at Old Trafford, and beat section leaders Swindon Town, but also lost to struggling Brentford and were the last team in the whole of the Football League to win a match.