Bill Marshall recalls the Press' sporting headlines from this week...

80 YEARS AGO

IN A week when Dr Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda, told a meeting in South Hanover and Brunswick: "The German people want peace because it needs peace" and York was having its hottest weekend for many a month, injuries plagued the England rugby league tourists in Australia.

In the days before substitutes and interchanges, they had five players who were affected during their 35-8 victory over Wide Bay in Maryborough, Queensland.

Brough and McCue managed to carry on, but Edwards, Ellerington and Belshaw had to come off, the latter spending a night in hospital with concussion, meaning that they had to play the final ten minutes with only ten men!

Belshaw had earlier scored three tries, with the others coming from Risman, Atkinson and McCue, but there was a doubt whether the beleaguered tourists could even get a side together for their next match in Rockhampton.

It wasn't all plain sailing either for Yorkshire's cricket team.

With such a star-studded side, you would reckon that any setbacks would be minor, but life was not as simple as that.

Derbyshire forced them to follow-on at Chesterfield, while Essex forged a 63-run first-innings lead at Westcliff-on-Sea.

Yorkshire paid a heavy price for dropping Leslie Townsend before he had scored, the Derbyshire player going on to score 101 in two-and-three-quarter hours, including 12 fours and two sixes, and he added 136 for the fourth wicket with Stan Worthington, whose 80 included nine fours.

Derbyshire finished on 253 (Bill Bowes 5-66) and dismissed the visitors for 112 before Len Hutton (56no) and Brian Sellers (23no) saw Yorkshire to safety on 102-1 in a rain-hit draw.

Herbert Sutcliffe defied the Essex attack for two hours in making 48 of their 125, with the hosts replying with 188 (Hedley Verity 6-52, Bowes 3-59).

Yorkshire then made 327, Arthur Wood hitting two sixes and nine fours in a brisk 60, while Verity made 59 not out, Hutton 58, Whitkirk amateur George Wilson 45 and Sutcliffe 40, before Verity took 9-48 as Essex were dismissed for 127, leaving Yorkshire winners by 137 runs.

All of Verity's second-innings victims were caught, and Verity was showing his worth as a batsman as well as a bowler, being near the top of the national averages in both.

York City signed outside right Alfred Agar from Oldham.

50 YEARS AGO

PEOPLE trying to gain clues as to Alf Ramsey's squad for the 1966 World Cup were given some hints when he left out Liverpool's Peter Thompson and Gordon Milne, Keith Newton (Blackburn), Johnny Byrne (West Ham) and Bobby Tambling (Chelsea) for the tour to Scandinavia.

York City were busy in the transfer market, signing former Sunderland winger John Goodchild from Brighton and wing-half Phil Burrows from Manchester City, while they had approached the Football League for permission to make presentations to three long-serving players who had left the club – Tommy Forgan, Norman Williamson and Ken Boyes.

Ann Pleat (Queen Anne Grammar School) and David Lane (Archbishop Holgate's Grammar) were both nominated by York to represent Yorkshire in the English Schools' Athletics Championships in Blackburn on July 8-9.

David had won the intermediate boys' 440 yards in a record-equalling 51.6sec at the Yorkshire Schools' Championships in Hull, while Ann had won the senior girls' 220 yards in 26.9sec, having set a championship best of 25.6sec in her heat.

Great Britain's rugby league team lost what was in essence an unofficial test 18-13 to New South Wales in Sydney.

Facing many of the players who would be opposing them in the forthcoming first Test, the tourists could have salvaged a draw were it not for Bill Burgess mistaking the 25-yard line for the try-line and hesitating.

Meanwhile, the British Lions lost 17-9 to Otago in Dunedin, making it a hat-trick of wins for the province against the tourists (the others were in 1950 and 1959).

20 YEARS AGO

ALREADY shorn of suspended prop Rich Hayes and the injured Andy Marson, York's four-match winning run was brought to a crashing halt when they were beaten 64-0 at Swinton Lions, which showed the difference between the top and bottom of Division Two.

The tone was set when York went a try behind after 90 seconds, and Swinton ran in 10 more tries, with York never looking like replying.

Coach Stewart Horton said afterwards: "What I cannot accept is the amount that we were beaten by."

Yorkshire, meanwhile, lost an AXA Equity & Law League after being in command against Warwickshire at Headingley.

The Midlanders had made 205-9 but the Tykes were sitting pretty after a 140-run second-wicket stand between David Byas (77 off 95 balls) and Michael Bevan (89 off 106 balls). However, Yorkshire lost their last five wickets for eight runs in 13 balls to lose by five runs.

York RI made heads turn in local rugby union circles by signing former York skipper Carl Neary.

The former Morley prop, who skippered York to the North One East title in 1991-92 and to third place in North Two the following season, thus dropped down seven divisions.