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Glen Rovers Oust Newmarket Minor Hurlers

By the narrow margin of two points, a strong Glen Rovers team put Newmarket out of the Minor Hurling County Final at Mallow on Sunday before an attendance that was remarkably small for a semi-final game.

The All-Ireland match at Croke Park, as well as the broadcast was of course the reason for the poor attendance but, nevertheless a great following from both the Glen and Newmarket camps was expected.

The game was a close, keenly-contested struggle and if the hurling of the city boys was a little more finished and co-ordinated than that of Newmarket, the dash and determination of the latter provided an adequate counter balance.

Play opened with the exercise of Glen pressure on the Newmarket goal, but McCarthy and Scully were stout in defence and the honour of the first score fell to Newmarket when “Baxie” O’Sullivan sent over a point after the game had been five minutes in progress.

After the puck-out the Glen returned to the attack but the Newmarket defence held and though O’Sullivan in goal was sorely tried, the play went out to midfield and it was the turn of the Blackpool backs to take the brunt. Mulcahy and lynch on the 40 yards line tussled with Cronin and Quane the fast Newmarket men. Mick Madden on the left wing for Newmarket saw his opportunity and took it when Callaghan led a sortie into Glen territory and in the Tenth minute of play Newmarket were 1 goal and a point ahead.

A minute later things looked very dangerous for Newmarket as forwards and backs mixed it right in front of the goalmouth. Scully was a tower of strength for Newmarket however and must be credited with some splendid saves. When the pressure on their goal had been temporarily lifted Newmarket took play down field with a strong wide behind them but an attempt to score went wide.

After the puck-out, Glen returned to the attack and sustained the pressure until Sean O’Sullivan got home a goal.

From this stage forward the Glen appeared to waken to the fact that Newmarket would prove a hard team to beat and their initial score was followed by a period of close keen hurling with the Glen doing the attacking and Scully, Sullivan and McAuliffe standing up to repeated assaults. With an overhead the Glen forwards again goaled and Deasy some minutes later added a point. Encouraged by their lead, the Glen attempted to dominate the play but Newmarket fought back and succeeded on a number of occasions in threatening the city goal.

After a few erratic shots, Chifford on the right wing for the Glen succeeded in sending over a second point with a beautiful shot from the 70 yards line.

Newmarket tried hard to regain the lead during the last minutes of the first half, imbued, no doubt with anxiety to make the most of the very strong wind, but the half-time score found the Glen leading with 2-2 to Newmarket’s 1-1.

GLEN MAKE CHANGES

The city boys made some slight positional changes in the second half which had no sooner opened than Clifford notched up a point for Glen, Sullivan put the city team further ahead with a goal and the Newmarket sent over a point. The Glen added another point and a second later with a grand effort from nearly 40 yards. Mick Madden narrowed the gap with a goal for Newmarket. From a free Callaghan gave Newmarket a point. In a matter of seconds Deasy retaliated for the Glen with a goal and when the ball came back into play Clifford had a point for the city. For fully five minutes the Newmarket goal withstood a terrific assault and when pressure was at last relieved, Callaghan went off at the at the nose of a Newmarket drive to enable Madden to mark up a point. Again the glen attacked but Scully brought the play out field and when Quane sent down, Collins goaled for Newmarket. The Glen returned to the offensive but failed to score and the game ended on a high fast note, with the register standing at The Glen 4-4 Newmarket 3-5.

Extract from A History of Newmarket GAA:

“The Newmarket team that year was the best that ever represented the Division, when you consider that the Glen Rovers team contained eight of the Cork panel who won the All Ireland in September.”

The team on the day was as follows:

Jim O’Sullivan
Michael O’Connor		Francie McCarthy		William O’Sullivan
Maurice Ahern		Paddy Scully		Fabian O’Keeffe
	Larry O’Keeffe		Michael (Baxie) O’Sullivan (0-1)
Joe Dunne		Dan Cronin		Jack Callaghan (0-1)
Michael Quane		Mick Collins (1-0)		Michael Madden (2-1)
Subs used: Joe Murphy, Jerry Brennan.

The scorers of two points for Newmarket is unknown.

Referree W. Clancy, Mallow.