Post by Budleigh on Feb 17, 2010 11:52:05 GMT
One of my favourite Torquay United programmes and it doesn’t even involve a football match!
This is a pre-football league Official Programme for the annual Grand Athletics Sports meeting, both running & cycling, To Be Held at Plainmoor Ground, Torquay (In Aid of Torquay United Supporters’ League), on Whit Monday, June 9th, 1924.
What I cannot ascertain is, what does league mean in that title?
My assumption is that it is meant as in ‘club’ in the modern sense; or possibly the aid was for helping fund United’s push for a football league place; or the Torquay United Supporters had a football league of their own running.
Whatever, it really is a wonderful piece of both Torquay United’s and Plainmoor’s history.
It was obviously a serious event being held under the auspices of the Amateur Athletics Association and National Cycling Union, along with a fairly strict set of Rules & Conditions.
And what was the Dressing Tent? Were they not able to use the changing rooms?
I would imagine that this programme belonged to a local reporter as the notes on it, written in ink, seem very much an aide memoire to someone wishing to comment at a later time on the events of the day.
Not only are the results noted but the extra additions read as follows:
First page: After Plainmoor Ground, Torquay is written: (St Marychurch)
At the bottom: Ground hard, caked over. 6 laps = I mile
After Event 7: Got in front beginning of last lap
On Event 18: 3 started. Lord dropped out 1½ m. Hallet lapped Callard 2½ m. Won by 600 yds
On Event 19: All gone
(Note: Obviously two heats were abandoned and the race run as one event)
After Event 22: (given as dead heat, 1st, 2nd)
This is a pre-football league Official Programme for the annual Grand Athletics Sports meeting, both running & cycling, To Be Held at Plainmoor Ground, Torquay (In Aid of Torquay United Supporters’ League), on Whit Monday, June 9th, 1924.
What I cannot ascertain is, what does league mean in that title?
My assumption is that it is meant as in ‘club’ in the modern sense; or possibly the aid was for helping fund United’s push for a football league place; or the Torquay United Supporters had a football league of their own running.
Whatever, it really is a wonderful piece of both Torquay United’s and Plainmoor’s history.
It was obviously a serious event being held under the auspices of the Amateur Athletics Association and National Cycling Union, along with a fairly strict set of Rules & Conditions.
And what was the Dressing Tent? Were they not able to use the changing rooms?
I would imagine that this programme belonged to a local reporter as the notes on it, written in ink, seem very much an aide memoire to someone wishing to comment at a later time on the events of the day.
Not only are the results noted but the extra additions read as follows:
First page: After Plainmoor Ground, Torquay is written: (St Marychurch)
At the bottom: Ground hard, caked over. 6 laps = I mile
After Event 7: Got in front beginning of last lap
On Event 18: 3 started. Lord dropped out 1½ m. Hallet lapped Callard 2½ m. Won by 600 yds
On Event 19: All gone
(Note: Obviously two heats were abandoned and the race run as one event)
After Event 22: (given as dead heat, 1st, 2nd)
