50 HURT AT SOCCER

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31755, 12 August 1968, Page 15

50 HURT AT SOCCER

(N Z.PA.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON. The British soccer season had a violent start on Saturday when 50 people were injured during the Scottish League Cup match between arch Glasgow rivals, Rangers and Celtic, at Ibrox Stadium.

Hundreds of spectators spilled on to the track under a hail of bottles and cans and police made 38 arrests. Eight of the casualties had to have hospital treatment. An all-ticket 80,000 crowd saw Celtic take a step towards winning the cup for the fourth consecutive year with a 2-0 victory over Rangers. In contrast, there was no trouble at either of the two prominent English first division clashes between Liverpool and Manchester City and Manchester United and Everton. The reigning champion, Manchester City, was beaten 2-1, by Liverpool, but United prevented a Merseyside double by beating Everton, 2-1. The big London local “derby” between Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal provided Arsenal with its first win at Tottenham’s ground for 10 years. Queen’s Park Rangers, playing in the first division for the first time, attracted a full-house of 21,500 for their match against Leicester City, which ended in a 1-1 draw. ENGLISH LEAGUE Division One: Ipswich 1, Wolverhampton 0; Liverpool 2, Manchester City 1; Manchester United 2, Everton 1; Newcastle 1. West Ham 1: Nottingham 2, Burnley 2: Queen’s Park Rangers 1, Leicester 1; Stoke 2, Sunderland 1; Tottenham 1. Arsenal 2: West Bromwich 0, Sheffield Wednesday 0; Southampton 1, Leeds 3. Division Two: Birmingham 1, Norwich 2; Blackburn 1, Derby 1; Blackpool 2. Hull 0; Bury 3, Carlisle 2; Cardiff 0, Crystal

Palace 4; Charlton 3, Millwall 4: Fulham 1. Bristol City 0; Huddersfield 0. Portsmouth 0; Middlesbrough 2, Preston 1; Oxford 1, Bolton 1; Sheffield United 3, Aston Villa 1. Division Three.—Barnsley 2, Barrow 3; Brighton 1, Mansfield 2; Bristol Rovers 1, Watford 1; Hartlepools 1, Bournemouth 1: Luton 4, Oldham 0; Orient 3, Rotherham 3; Plymouth 2, Crewe 2: Shrewsbury 0, Walsall 1: Stockport 2, Reading 2; Tranmere 2, Gillingham 0; Torquay 3, Southport 0. Division Four: Aidershot 2, Wrexham 1; Bradford 1, Swansea 1; Brentford 4, Colchester 0; Chester 2, York 0; Chesterfield 3, Port Vale 1; Doncaster 1, Bradford City 1: Grimsby 3. Newport 0: Lincoln 5. Notts. County 0; Peterborough 1, Exeter 1; Rochdale 3, Scunthorpe 2; Southend 2. Halifax 1; Workington 1, Darlington 2. SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP Airdrieonians 2, Hearts 3. Alloa 0, Stenhousemuir 1: Arb roath 2, Stirling Albion 1; Ayr 3, Cowdenbeath 1: Berwick 1, Queen of the South 1; Clyde 4, Aberdeen 1; Dumbarton 0, Albion 4; Dundee 4, Kilmarnock 0; Dunfermline 8, Dundee United 2; East Fife 2, Clydebank 0; Falkirk 1, Raith 1; Hamilton 2, Motherwell 1; Hibernian 0, St Johnstone 1; Montrose 1, St Mirren 2; Morton 1, Partick 3; Queen’s Park 4, Forfar 0: Rangers 0, Celtic 2; Stranraer 2, East Stirling 1. ULSTER CUP Bangor 1. Ards 1; Cliftonville 0, Derry 1; Coleraine 3, Distillery 0: Glenavon 1, Glentoran 2: Linfield 1, Crusaders 1.

Buying Ground.—The Otago Rugby Union, llessee of the ground since 1907, is buying Carisbrook from the Presbyterian Church Board of Property for an undisclosed sum. The purchase would be financed by a loan from the Now Zealand union.