Spurs Close Gap In English Soccer

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30279, 4 November 1963, Page 5

Spurs Close Gap In English Soccer

(N.Z P.A.-Reuter —Copyright)

LONDON. Nov. 3. Sheffield United, pace-setter in the First Division of the English Football League, kept its one-point lead yesterday although held to a 2-2 draw’ by Arsenal. But the hectic jockeying for i positions among the other lead- ! ing clubs continued. Tottenham i Hotspur was tile only one of the : top six to win. and its 1-0 success against Fulham enabled Spurs to move up from fourth [place to second. Jimmy Greaves, probably the most dangerous goal scorer in the world, got the vital goal for Spurs. It was his 199th in English League football. Sheffield United has 22 points from 16 matches, while Spurs have 21 points from 15 matches Only two points separate the five leading clubs. Manchester United. Everton and Arsenal having 20. Sunderland is the new leader of Division Two after a 3-0 win over Grimsby. Second is Leeds United, which was held to 1-1 Ib> Charlton Athletic. In Division Three. Coventry City retained a two-point lead over Crystal Palace, while Gillingham continues as Fourth Division leaner. Glasgow Rangers stayed on too of the Scottish Division One table with a 4-0 win over the bottom club. Airdrie. Individual scoring feat of the day w T as George Dewars six goals for East Fife. He scored three in each half. ENGLISH LEAGUE Division One.—Aston Villa 3. Bolton 0: Blackburn 1, Sheffield Wednesday 1: Blackpool 1, Everton 1: Chelsea 2, Birmingham 3; Liveroool 0. Leicester 1; Nottingham Forest 3, Ipswich 1:: Sheffield United 2. Arsenal 2; Stoke 4. Burnley 4; Tottenham 1. Fulham 0: West Ham 4. West Bromwich 2: Wolverharnpton 2. Manchester United 0

Division Two.—Bury 1. Leyton 2; Cardiff 1. Middlesbrough 1: Leeds 1. Charlton 1; Manchester City 1, Swansea 0: Northambton 0. Preston 3; Norwich 3, Newcastle I: Portsmouth 1, Derby !: Rotherham 3. Plymouth 1: Scurf horne 1. Huddersfield 0; Sunderland 3. Grimsbv 0: Swindon 1. Southambton 2. Division Three.—Barnsley 2. Bristol City 4; Bournemouth 1 ■ Notts County 1; Bristol Rovers 1 3. Walsall 0; Colchester l.i Brentford 2: Hull 4. Port Vale 1: Millw’aH 2. Shrewsbury 2: Old- i ham 3. Reading I: Peterborough I 0. Luton 0: Queen’s Park Rangers 3. Crystal Palace 4; Southend 1. Coventry’ 2: Watford 3. Mansfield 0; Wrexham l.j Crewe 1. Division Four.-—Aidershot 4,1

Doncaster 2; Bradford City 3. Brighton 1: Carlisle 1, Chesterfield 0; Darlington 1, Workington 1; Exeter 0. Rochdale 1; Gillingham 1. York 0; Halifax 4. Stockport 2; Hartlepools 2, Oxford 1; Lincoln 3, Chester 2; Southport 3. Barrow’ 3; Torquay 6. Bradford 2: Tranmere 2, Newport 3. SCOTTISH LEAGUE Division One.—Airdrieonians 0. Rangers 4; Dundee United 3 Falkirk 1; Dunfermline 4, St. Johnstone 0; Hearts 0. Aberdeen 0: Partick 2, Hibernian 1; Queen of the South 0. Kilmarnock 4; St. Mirren 2. Dundee 1; Third Lanark 3. Motherwell 1. Division Two.—Ayr 1. : Arbroath 2: Brechin 2. Cow’deni beath I; Clyde 3, Berwick 1; ■ East Fife 8. Alloa 0: Forfar 4, • Morton 6; Hamilton 1. Dumbarton 3: Stenhousemuir 1, Raith |0; Stirling Albion 2, Albion 1; Stranraer 2. Queen’s Park 0. IRISH LEAGUE City Cup.—Ballymena 3. Clifton ville 0; Bangor 3. Glenavon 4; Crusaders 2, Glentoran 3; Derry 6. Ards 0; Distillery 0. Linfield 1; Portadown 2, Colraine 0. :