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-Histories Of The Clubs- FOURTH OLDEST CLUB IN THE LEAGUE

Sheffield Wednesday Have Won The Cup Three Times

By TIM GORDON

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Sheffield Wednesday has been called the yo-yo club of modern football because it has been up and down between the first division and the second so often since the war, Throughout the years, Wednesday supporters have become accustomed to this fluctuating existence. For the club has either ridden high, or slumped. But it has never faltered in its aim to develop or buy the best football talent.

115 A

WIMBLEDON FINAL

DECIDED IN

EIGHT MINUTES

By JOHN COTTRELL

If was the most one-sided mon's final in Wimbledon history, The score was 6-1, 6-1, 6-0. The loser was so completely "overwhelmed that he asked the umpire to apologise to the

crowd on his behalf.

Yet, in its way, that match was da dramatic as any five-set duel on the famous Centre Court. For never before had a match promised so much and given so little; never had a close-fought struggle changed so suddenly into a complete landslide.

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year, lawn tennis officlals asked him to concentrato full-time on teants for a twelve-month "trial"

But von Cramm could never

The players wert Frederick This Bra was no longer a ttis fighting spirit, h John Perry, ranked Number contest. It was murder. But the elegance, and his perfect man- One in the world, and Baron crowd cheered as if it were ners made him one of the most Gottfried von Cramm, the, new magle, They were bidding fare- | popular of all tennis stars. Hồ champion of France. At Wim- | well to čne of Wimbledon's WAB

the finest can one of biedon that year they were most gallant losers,

bassadors his country has ever sreded Arst and second respec- Perry's victory climaxed one had. tively.

of the most sensational success Tho German IRG beer Sheffeld is a city fomed, for all home matches; so that the The club thus equalled its per-

All the signs pointed to un stories in sporting history; the eminently successful Ei life. He cricketers and steelworkers. | players in mid-week can study)formances of 1002-03 peuf 1903- cxhibition of classle tennis by story of a wiry Jad from д

beat most of the star players of Even today when Werkmire play the game in detall and note the 196, when it won a League 18to the two acknowledged mesters working-class family, who be his day, including Perry, Austin, county eleket matches mlatnites they made during the in consecutive sensors.

In the game. Perry almed at came the world's best in two Crawford Budge, Shields, and Bramall Lane, they attract the match. biggest crowd in the county.

McGrath. He became a wealthy It was in the late 1920's and becoming, the first man of the sports before the age of 25. twentieth century, to win the

Frod was the ven of So perhaps it is not so sur-

Magnificent dressing-room ac- 1930 that Wednesday had its Wimbledon le three years in Perry.

Sam business man. He won the hand a trade unionist and ot treatment great half-back line of Strange accession. Von

the Woolworth heiress, jeling wiler al That Sheffield comunodation und

Cramin was Member of Parliament. He bo- Barbara Hutton. Wednesday, the

world-famous rates which look like nimisture Leach and Marsden. That was nching to avenge his defent by came world table-tennis cham- football club, was formed

sueries are all part of Hills- the era of Ernie Blenkinsop, one Perry in the previous year's, plan in 1920. And the following wit the Wimbledon title. Ho hobby by a group of Victorian borough. All this became possable of England's

best-even left (nol-6-2, 6-4, 6-4. oricketers back i 1866.

because group at spérismen badia. In these years Wednesday

to had great insidó-forwarde of the} These chaps, in their white decided to take up soccer

Sec-Saw Battle Hannels

(id) and

calibre of Ronnie Starling further the Interests of crickell enution-chop

Jackie Robinson, and other prent whiskers, thrilled to the cover-

Moreover, I has been acky road for players like Catlin and Niblue.

Perry and

At a time of rapidly increasing the club, It was refused admis

Cramu had recently, met in the unemployment, Sam Perry was French final, when, in a magni- reluctant to give his son, son to the League in 1888, but

ine footballers snade leent see-saw battle, the These was admitted four years later, Wednesday,

Ger- year's leave front work. But he for a time, the

man emerged the In the early part of 1809 it was greatest rivals to

winner-0-2. | finally agreat, and his decision Arsenal's relegated to Division 11 and supremacy. In 1035

| 2-0, 6-2, 0-0. Wednesday

Opened a golden age for British

having previously won it in 1890

They came to In September 1899 a

and 1807-with famed wingers in July, 1936. New ground, known as Hillsborough, Hooper and Rimmer playing a see the great Perry, who

anking his las; appearance ut Wembley Wimbledon but in fact situated in a part of big part in the 1935

Before turning | Sheffield known as Owlerico, victory.

professional. They came to ser the suave, imantulate von gentleman" Cramm. the "first of the game. Above all, they came to see sparkling tennis.

The first game did not

dive and square-cut, Their problem? To keep their aricketers together so that other clubs did not poach them.

The solution? To form a fout- ball club where they could keep an eye on their cricketing talent s that some other over-zealous teams did not sign their best players.

Outlived Others

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period.

custed fem its headquarters at won the Cup for the third time packed to capacity for this final

So the Centre Court wils tennis.

Olive Ground.

was opened. It la the abbrevia

Chequered Career Stage then Wednesday has had

was

dis-

arc

The Cheshire Cat

was fated to succeed Every- where except at the All-England Lawn Tennis Club,

Imprisoned

In 1938, the German Lenio the star was imprisoned by Nazis, and when he returned to England the following year he was refused catry for the Wimbledon Championships. That

year the title was won by Body Riggs whom von Cram had beaten 6-1, 6-0, only two weeks

carlier.

In four years, Fred became the world's Number One. He be came the first Englishman for a At that time Sheffield hnd ation of that name which han

He did not appear at Wimble- quarter of a century to win thei dozen other soccer clubs. It was given the Wednesday its nick- Just one of those strange name, "The

Davis he went out in the first round five out of thirty-tilne Owls It has

Wimbledon title. He won thirty-don again until 1951. And then to Jaroslav Drobny, the young | Cup singles matches, Terrances of spot that the team nothing at all to do with the club a chequered enzent. in fact, just founded by cricketers should having an owl for a mascot.

after World War I, it was in

"The Cheshire Cat" he was man who, in three years' time, them. have cullived the others. These

appoint

was chamo called because he always had was to win the greatest prize in Wednesday's greatest years | danger of sliding into the third

tennis. Wednesday

pagne

with cricketers became

alla cat's head embroidered on his amateur tennis the prize that were in the late 1920's, just be division..

strokes brought into play,' and

cluded Sheffield

shirl-went on to becoise a pro- mighty Arsenal reigned The club paid big money to beautifully executed, Club,

The fessional tennis player, film star, | Cromm. supreme. The Sheffield team's buy stars. Among them were dialists fought for each point ns

big business man and an Ameri- rise is one of the most fantaste players like Eddle Quigley (later if the match depended on It.

can citizen. He how ifves in sold for £20,500 to Preston), Time ard time galri. stibly Jackle Sewell, whom I bought pleece with re-hild precision and Eddie Kishaw, for whom it chalk Bnes. poid £20,000 to Bury.

Football fore Wednesday

Where was it better

to hold their sporting meetings than at Bramoll Lane, the ground where county cricket is still played? IL

un record.

elegant style in sunny Florida.

is now the home of the city's Relegation Loomed for £34,500 from Nolta County, brought up white dust from the give Wimbledon singles finals........ |

other famous football club, Sheffield Unlled, formed 23 years aller the Wednesday

Towards the end of the 1927- 28 season the club looked сег

Perry was serving, yg eight But the man who autshone minutes, ten deuces, and three tain to be relegated to the second even these players was a local advantages to von Cramm pass- In fact the Shemeid Wednes division. With ten matches to Sheffield boy who cast Wodnesed before he settled the open day club her had to move Its headprters three times. Frimlay it was bottom of the first day nothing Derek Dooley, Ing game.

Barne-haired centre.

Bramall Lane it moved to Olive division, six points below the This

twenty-first club In the first forward with the size 12 boots, Waited In Vain

the presas

Grove in 1007. And in 1809 division. Wednesday's League acord in mid-March wns P32, W, D10, LIG, for a total of 22

Showmanship Flair

points.

witce

was

Fred Perry won three succes-

all in straight sets. Von Crumim lost three successive Wimbledon angles finals-all in straight sets. After his two defeats by Perry,

he fell in the 1937 anal to Call- folan Donald Budge-6-3, 3-4, 0-2.

Magnificent Loser

Answers To Sports Quiz

shattered the club scoring record moved again to

Rarely had there been auch with 46 gons, drut shot the club an excling Arst game in ground Hillsborough.

The Victorian cricketers who

Into Division I again in 1952. final. This

sparring with

No mah was ever døgnificent tened the club would be wide-

Wherever Dooley went, he was a the gloves off, and with the pre-in defeat. Yun Cramm, became From Tottenham Hotspur the personaty stared by the liminaries over the crowd were eyed with wonder if they could

known as the greatest player und on edge for more great things who never won Wimbledon. see the present headquarters. A Wednesday had signed Jimmy opponents for his strength bus from the city centre whink Seed-later to can even greater deadly rushes for goal.

to come. They waited in vain. fame ដន Chariton Athletic Then tragedy. struck Derek That first game was virtually gou to the groun:, past smoky

feel foundries and cutlery manager although Seed, was Dooley at Preston, He broke his the last og far as von Cramm until you arrive at an oasis of considered past his best.

leg, gangrene not in, and his was concerned. A few seconda With Seed, Wednesday picked career, ended oh the

the operating later,

blond, athletic green. This is Hillsborough, one

his leg was Hanoverian was crippled by a of the Dnest grounds in England, up 17 points from the Just ten table

matches, with a fantastic run amputated.

pulled thigh muscle. From then that carned the record of The fighting spirit of Dooley on he was fighting not to win, P10, WT, D3, L0, 17 points. On lives on with his team-mates, bu: to stay in the match. Exto Taylor, the present the last day of that season, nine] Although relegated yet again in Von Cramm had tried to do manager, is a dapper 1tle man clubs wore concerned with the 1054-55, Wednesday won back at too much, too soon. Early in who runs the club with a fair for relegation issue, and Spurs who the first attempl. Now the club the second game he had showmanship and the precision had finished their programme is bock In the first division, with damaged his jeg by puiting all of a Guards regiment. The glass the previous week with 38 chaps like Albert Quixail (nick- he had into his cannonball ser- pannelled oficca resemble some['points, went on a tour of Hol-named "Shorly-pants", because vice. After that every step plush Juxury hotel. Outside the land.

he OveRTS bidini-style shorts) brought jabbing páin as he ground six towers rear skywania It was while they were and Alan Finney, his right-wing hobbled about the court. for over 100 feet, topped by Holland, that Spurs heard they partner, two of England's bright| At one Ums Perry asked if floodlights which are considered | had been relegated with young hopes.

he was fit to continue. But von Britain's Brest,

Middlesbrough. Wednesday went Sheffield Wednesday has come Crammi waved to him to play On match

days the club on to win two consecutive, a long way since its first players on. His one aim was to είνα Alranges for ILs own flim League Championships In met in the cricket pavilions of the crowd some value, howover cameramen tu lake cine shots of i seasons 1928-29 and 1929-30. Brazitull Lärfe way back in 1880:) sanall, for their mones.

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