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Position 12th out of 14

FAC

Pr

Dulwich Hamlet

2-5

AC

2q

Addlestone

3-4

LC

1st

Leatherhead

1-3

SSC

1st

Dorking

1-5

SSS

1st

Leatherhead

1-4

SCC

SF

Carshalton Athletic

1-3

First season for Epsom in Southern Combination
Cup

Home
Ground:

West Street, Ewell

Club Colours

Light & Dark Blue

Change Colours Red & White

Grand Patron

Alderman G.C.A.Mann J.P.

Moves to Grand Patron to accommodate John
Martin

President

J.R.P.Martin

(first year)

John Martin
lived on the IoM and had made his fortune by selling surplus wartime items
and was responsible for Carnation milk.

Ray Chenery recalled him as someone who was involved with
everything. "Finger in every pie". Connected with Guinness in
Holland, for which

he received
royalties, Martin's Jam, and tinned milk (Carnation). He owned a Rolls Royce
which he would turn up in occasionally.

Chairman

Derek Carpenter (4th year) but resigns in late
January and replaced by George (GL) Tarran

v-c Peter
Carpenter took over briefly after resignation.

Manager

Fred Chitty

resigns on 17/1/59

Coach

Tommy Rochester

promoted to manager-coach w.e.f. 17/1/59

Res Manager
& Asst Mgr

Ray Chenery

Secretary

Harry (H.A.) Mordan

replacing resigning Arthur Newbury.

who moves on to the Management Committee

Harry Mordan lived at 7 Prospect Place, Epsom. Tel No.
Epsom 2546 - Bill Inkpen lived at 52 Waverley Road, Stoneleigh. Tel No Ewell
6514

Asst Sec

Mrs Dorothy Lipscombe

Treasurer

W.F. (Bill) Inkpen

Asst: Len Cox

Physio

Tom Tweedy joined in early Sept 58

Press &
Programme Notes

Ken Knowlson

Grays &
Yiewsley drop out, but Leatherhead join, reducing size of League to 14

June 58 Fred
Chitty fights back against the lack of volunteers at the club. Apparently
they had lighting materials, but

no labour to
put the lights up. Epsom start a fund raising scheme for ground improvements.
Working parties on Sat

and Sun, but
not many attending. Club announces plans for a cinder track around the pitch,
and improvements to

terraces, but
these never come to fruition.

June 58 Future
player Ken Brown rejoins Carshalton Ath from Croydon Amateurs, having been
leading scorer for 2 years.

June 58 Future
player Peter Kendall joins Leatherhead from Sutton.

July 58 Epsom
AGM. Harry Hawke, ex-Secretary and now secretary of London F.A. was present
and praised committee

for getting
club back on its feet after losing many players to Athenian League clubs.

Club lost
£32.10s.5d this year. Accumulated loss £471.8s.8d.

Membership
increased from £2.2s to £2.12s.6d.

July 58
ex-player Johnny Bangs (23) leaves Carshalton Ath for Redhill where he lives
and works (travelling salesman).

July 58 +
30/8/58 prog mentions of an A side being formed, but can find no trace of it.
Due to have played at Ewell Court Rec.

Prog says that
Mr Bullen will take charge and Epsom will play in the Surrey
Combination.

July 58 Tommy
Rochester appointed as coach. Played for Epsom pre war, then Leatherhead,
Surbiton and Ashtead.

Rep Honours:
Army and Combined Service. Also played as an amateur for Southampton.

29/7/58
Training starts - Tuesdays and Thursdays.

July 58
Leatherhead not accepted for the FA Cup because the FA used a yardstick of a
1,000 gate!

July 58 Dave
Hermitage (24) says he is joining Carshalton Ath, but rejoins Epsom before
the start of the season.

Aug 58 Sid Law
(26) joins Leatherhead from Worcester Park. Was previously Carsh and W.Pk
before.

Albert
Pollington used to play for Palace (reserves or first team?)

16/8/58 +
19/8/58 Public trials.  Possibles beat
Probables 4-2 Cree (2), Howells and Morris against Weaving and Parker for
Probs.

Aug 58
Banstead's stand rebuilt

Aug 58 future player Gerry Saffery joins Ilford.Previously
at Carshalton and had played at Wembley in the 1955 Amateur Cup Final for
Hendon.

Aug 58 former player Ted Murphy fractures cheekbone at
Bromley. Would recover to be part of the club's famous FA Cup tie v
Nottingham Forest.

Aug 58 Mick Williams joins from Kingstonian (played once
last season). Also Ian McTear (Kingstonian) and Jamie Wilson (local) both
join.

Aug 58
reference to the Sutton Epsom conveyor belt. Johnny Wood and Bobby Smith join
from Sutton. Wood played with

Epsom last
year but went on holiday to Clacton with Sutton mates and joined them instead
originally.

Wood is a 22
year old printer who lives in Bishopsford Road, Rose Hill.

Bobby Smith previous brief first team player bt mostly
with Epsom Reserves/A team about 3 years ago. Actually rejoined at the end of
last season.

Aug 58 Freddie
Boultwood (24) joins from Dorking. Suffered kidney trouble early in season
and was in hospital until xmas!

Aug 58 Dave
Hermitage chosen for rest of Corinthian Lge v Maidenhead on 3/9/58. Fourth
appearance for lge.

23/8/58 Epsom
arrive late at Slough and have to change quickly.

30/8/58
Supporters mention a Football Competition at 5s per share.

Supporters
Club notes written by "B.M."

Fred Chitty
also writes in programme asking for support and tolerance.

30/8/58 Glenn
Hoddle's dad, Derek scores hat trick for Uxbridge v Epsom. Also plays
29/11/58.

30/8/58 New
club strip used with no numbers (permission granted by ref) Light blue shirts
with white v neck and

royal blue
shorts.

Aug 58 Ted Day
forced to retire - head injury. Previously with Kingstonian before Epsom.

Aug 58 Brian
Pell and Norman Dearlove selected for SSL v Sussex Lge @ Dorking on 03/09/58

Sept 58 Eric
Kateley is at K's with Reg Oakes

Sept 58 Gerry
Saffery is at Ilford

Sep 58 Ted
Murphy is at Tooting & Mitcham

Sept 58 Peter
Kenchington has cartilage op

Sept 58 Future
player Johnny Blizzard scores two in 8-0 win over Corinthian Casuals, and
then breaks leg, and misses

all of
Tooting's FA Cup run that year (3rd round home 2-2 draw with Nottm Forest
lost rep 3-0). Forest won FA Cup.

6/9/58 Malcolm
Robbins breaks nose v Dulwich in FAC at Champion Hill. Epsom unlucky to lose
by such a heavy margin.

The winners
faced Walton & Hersham or Redhill (A) in the next round of the FAC.

9/9/58 Epsom
could have had 6 v Uxbridge (SCC) settled for three though.

9/9/58 No programme was issued for this first ever
southern Combination Cup tie as programmes numbered 1 and 2 are either side
of this.

Sept 58 Tim
Higgins signs from Dulwich. Epsom Advertiser calls him Terry!

13/9/58
Programme mentions 'A' team starting with a game on 6/9/58 at Molesey.

13/9/58 Programme is numbered 2, which indicates that
9/9/58 game had no issue. However, next home programme on 20/9 is numbered 4!

Quite possible that there may have been an issue and 2
should have been 3, but I think it's more likely that there was no issue, and
they

corrected
themselves.

13/9/58 Micky
Williams injured and is passenger for rest of game.

13/9/58
ex-player John Berry takes out cinema window at Wealdstone while playing for
Sutton!

13/9/58 Prog mentions the lack of a match being considered
to commemorate 21 years of Epsom's borough charter.  Harry Mordan tells the

Epsom
Advertiser they have been left out in the cold.

13/9/58
Subscription for Supporters Club (Epsom Athletic and Social Club) is 1s.

20/9/58
programme says that Epsom helped to sponsor Leatherhead's application to the
Corinthian League.

Sept 58
Former Secretary Ernest Fletcher's (now Corinthian League Assistant
Secretary) wife passed away. She was a frequent visitor.

20/9/58 Johnny
Wood breaks leg 38th minute v Leatherhead. Hoping to be back by March.

He is released
from hospital the following Saturday and was down at the ground watching on
crutches.

20/9/58 Gordon
Cairns scored twice for Leatherhead v Epsom, while Sid Law played and got Hat
Trick.

Sept 58 Dave
Hermitage leaves for Sutton, eventually becomes Chairman in years to come.

joins John
Berry, Ray Colfar, and Ken Harris who had moved from Epsom in recent years.

Colfar then
signs for Palace as an amateur, and becomes pro there in November.

Sept 58 Billy
French joins Kingstonian.

27/9/58 Future
player Derek Evans gains his one Amateur England cap v Ireland. Also member
of PO Engineers.

Oct 58 Bob
Bell future secretary apparently went through National Service with Arsenal
centre half Bill Dodgin.

Oct 58 Gordon
Cairns hints at retirement. Started as a 15 year old for Epsom, then went
into forces for National Service.

Moved on to
Carshalton where he scored approx 250-300 goals. Also at Sutton and Walton
& H before Leatherhead.

3/10/58 Letter
from W J Kirle criticising club, appears in Herald.

Is this Jim
Keirle, future Director of Club Holding Company?

4/10/58
Chesham (A)(L) second half delayed by incessant rain for ten minutes. Jim
Morris plays for Chesham.

Oct 58 Mick Carlson joins from Wimbledon. Ron Appleby
joins from Eastbourne but then returns without making a first team
appearance.

He was living
in Tooting according to the local papers.

Oct 58 Eric
Kateley (Kingstonian), Roy Case (23) (Surbiton Town) Mick Cousins (21) (Civil
Service) all join.

In later years Eric Kateley would become brothers in law
with Trevor Wales according to Stan Williams a Reserve team player from
1954/55.

Kateley died
"about four years ago" says Stan in 2011.

Oct 58
Ex-Secretary W.R. Carpenter of Gibraltar Crescent writes to complain about
the handling of the club.

Fred Chitty
responds by saying that the remarks are "a small stone in an empty
can"

Oct 58 Epsom Advertiser reports that a Sub committee is
formed to try and swell support, including 3 from committee and 3 from
supporters club.

11/10/58 Epsom
programme mentions regular vandalism at the ground

Also refers to
having too many players right now, yet no reports of the A team any more. Are
they still going?

Oct 58 Graham
Ketcher joins from Walton & Hersham. - Also played for Devizes Town.

Oct 58 Ray
Colfar leaves Sutton United for Crystal Palace and turns professional.

25/10/58 David
Worby selected for Surrey FA who lost 6-2 to London FA @ Edgware this day - a
Tweedale player

8/11/58 Blanket collection taken for Johnny Wood raises
£14. Another at Leath v Epsom 15/11/58 raises £7 5s 6d. Required approval
from

County FA
before being able to do this!

Nov 58 Ray
Colfar joins Crystal Palace from Sutton

1/11/58 Ray
Colfar debut for Palace Reserves v Coventry - scored one and made won as they
won 4-1

Nov 58 Freddie
Boultwood in hospital with kidney trouble. Albert Pollington has skin
trouble. Neither able to play.

Nov 58 Vic
Frost (22) joins Sutton. Goal keeper John Sint (Dutch) joins club.

Nov 58
Reference to Alf Harvey in charge of the club house. Also "Chalky"
White running the raffle. Also F.A. News is on sale 1s.

Nov 58 Tommy
Millard joins club from Leatherhead. Scores in his first 5 games.

Millard had
been released by Leatherhead, but in order to play, Fred Chitty had to get
his signature but he'd gone out.

Fred found him
at about midnight, and Peter Carpenter got the details over to the League
with minutes to spare!

He had to borrow a pen from a passer by. Millard had been
out with his fiancée, and was found in East Street at the junction with Hook
Road.

Tommy Millard
actually cleaned Ray Chenery's windows at the steel company on the Longmead
Estate.

Fred Chitty
lived in Middle Lane at this time and worked in a Mitcham dry cleaners.
Described as a little dapper man.

18/11/58
Malcolm Allison (31) takes over as Sutton manager.

Brian Cook
(16) Palace junior allowed to play by Crystal Palace. Joins club in future
years.

Nov 58 Mick
Simmonds almost moves to Epsom but chooses Walton & Hersham for Athenian
football. Apologises to club.

and ends up
joining Epsom the following season anyway. Lives in Adelphi Road.

15/11/58 Law
and McLaughlin play and score for Leatherhead v Epsom.

15/11/58 MP
Denis Howell referees FAC game between Tooting & Mitcham and Bournemouth
(3-1 T&M)

17/11/58
George Holling Leatherhead manager dies suddenly after a bad two weeks with
players leaving. Previous Sutton manager.

Nov 58 Peter
Leech (21) joins from Kingstonian. Mostly their Reserves. Roger Brunwin joins
from Wimbledon after leaving RAF.

Epsom Herald
advises the player wrongly as Brian Leech.

Brunwin is to
be decorated shortly for rescuing two children from a burning building in
Tooting.

22/11/58
Papers quote that "only 600" turned up for Erith game. Produced
receipts of £21 but need £90 to cover expenses each week.

1,300 to 1,400
spectators are needed each week say the club.

Weekly costs
advised by club as Groundsman £3, Meals for players and wives £4, Coach and
Masseur £2, charabancs £7, ref and

linesman £3.10s, Travelling Expenses £5, Rent and Rates
£5, Gas and Electricity £2.10s, Kitchen equipment £1.10s, loss on programmes

£2.10s,
postage and phone 10s. Total £36.10s weekly. Last Reserve fixture took 29s on
gate. Fred Chitty is not paid.

29/11/58
Bernard Willis unavailable, as he is on night duty.

Dec 58 Reg
Carter joins from Leatherhead. Bobby Smith leaves for the final time and
joins Carshalton Athletic.

Dec 58 future
player Jim Sheehan is at Bromley

Dec 58 Epsom
Herald wrongly calls Reg, T.Carter. Also joining from Horsham is M.Blackman.

New Supporters
and Social Club formed in December 1958 - T.Smith as Chairman. Merger of the
two clubs.

Official
title is Epsom Supporters Social and Athletic Club. R Stapeley is v-c, Mr
Minter (Secretary), L Holland (Treasurer).

Dec 58 Malcolm
Robbins listed as the oldest player in the team at 25.

Also reference
to new youngsters Bert Lambert (22), David Henderson (21), and Mick Blackburn
(joining from Horsham).

Dec 58 Alan
Parker quits senior football to play for Wandgas in the Surrey Intermediate
League.

Dec 58 Ray
Watkins leaves club because he wants to turn pro. Ends up at Sutton in the
new year.

Dec 58 Ray Ellis (22) joins from Banstead. Had won SSL Cup
the previous year. Also Robby Craze, listed as Robin in Epsom Herald,
former

Dorking but
recently playing Sunday foootball.

Dec 58 former
player Brian Pell joins Dorking from Banstead Athletic.

13/12/58 Peter
Leech injured 10 minutes. Passenger. Epsom were 1-0 up at that point but lost
1-5

Ron Ruffell
scored twice for Dorking.

13/12/58 Dave Worby (17) captains Surrey Youth v Beds at
Mortlake. Also selected for Surrey Boys Clubs v Bedfordshire at Motspur
Park

on 20/12/58.
Plays for local club Tweeddale.

20/12/58 Epsom
lose 3-2 at home to Dagenham. Ian McTear scored but also mispen.

26/12/58 Roger
Brunwin injured early second half. Passenger.

Jan 59 Frank
Whitehouse, former W & H, Epsom and Yiewsley is at Wealdstone but has
applied to join Wembley

Jan 59 Glyn
Howells in goal for Farncombe

Jan 59 Frank
Whitehouse is at Wembley

3/1/59 Epsom
give away 3 penalties. Ray Ellis saves the third one. Prog 10/1/59 says this
was "unique".

10/1/59 Former player Ted Murphy scores from 35 yards but
concedes a penalty in FA Cup Third Round tie between Tooting & Mitcham
and

Nottingham
Forest at Sandy Lane. Game ends 2-2 and Forest win the replay before going on
to win the FA Cup.

Ted Murphy
ex-Epsom was at Tooting for their FA Cup run before joining Wimbledon.

10/1/59
Eastbourne had a passenger from mid first half due to injury at a "snow
white" West Street.

14/1/59 Fred
Chitty resigns with effect from the Wembley game on 17/1/59. Had been with
Epsom on and off since 1936.

Had also been
manager of junior, A, and Reserve teams in the past. He had been manager
since 1956.

Gave up
playing in 1951 and brought through players like Bernard Willis, Mick
Simmonds, and Johnny Hitchcock. Replaced

Bill Fraser in
56-57.

17/1/59 Ray
Ellis suffers double vision and moves to right wing for 40 mins in second
half. Sorensen deputises but Ellis returns.

Epsom hung on
for a 0-0 despite the injury, which broke a run of eight straight home wins
for Wembley.

19/1/59 Tommy Rochester promoted to manager coach. Had
been coach since July 58. Programme hopes Fred will not be lost to the club.

Selection to
be made by Rochester, Ray Chenery and Ken Knowlson.

Jan 59 Bill
WR Carpenter Ex-Secretary writes again saying that Fred Chitty shouldn't get
so much praise, as he inherited a strong

side from Doug
Whitehead.

Jan 59 Keeper
Peter Langley joins from Surbiton Town. Expected to make debut for Reserves
on 24/01/59.

24/1/59 Ray
Colfar makes league debut for Crystal Palace v Darlington at Selhurst Park.

24/1/59
Worthing score at West Street after 10 seconds. Epsom win 6-2.

Jan 59
Chairman Derek Carpenter resigns, quoting travel problems since he had moved
from Malden to Hammersmith.

He had actually resigned 2 weeks ago, but the club kept it
quiet, presumably due to the Chitty situation. Announced 29/1/59.

Credited with
"his industry in connection with the erection of the new dressing room
accommodation. Programme 14/2/59

states
business commitments as the reason.

Jan 59 Malcolm
Robbins (25) and Tim Higgins (23) both left for Sutton. Robbins had joined
from Tooting about a year earlier

and was
previously with Wimbledon, while Higgins was a regular Dulwixh first teamer
before joining Epsom.

31/1/59 Jock Bryson breaks collar bone after 20 minutes of
game against Leatherhead. 10 men played the rest. Ian McTear also mispen
as

Epsom lose 3-0
at Fetcham Grove.

31/1/59 Norman
Dearlove scores 7 as Banstead beat Whyteleafe 11-0.

Feb 59 Fred
Chitty joins Sutton's back room staff. He used to play for them about 20
years previously.

5/2/59
reported that George Tarran was to be the club's new Chairman. Current
Committee member and landlord of

the Red Lion
pub in East Street, Epsom.

Feb 59 Also
reported that Alderman G.C.Mann had presided at an Epsom meeting to discuss
financial affairs. The club refuted this in a

statement, stating that they just wanted his advice as an
long term member of the club, and that it was only an informal meeting
anyway.

Alderman Mann
also asked the Committee to make it clear to the papers that he no longer had
any official role

and takes no
active part in the management of the club.

Feb 59 Gordon
Cairns joins Worthing. Ray Watkins joins Sutton.

Feb 59 Derek
Westley (24) signs from Sheppey, where he had played against Epsom in the
Amateur Cup in 56/57.

Feb 59 Ron
Cowler signs from Harrow Town

7/2/59 Edgware
had a passenger for most of game.

14/2/59 Programme advises that ex-Chairman and Epsom Town
founder Charles Pettett has died "after a long and painful illness"

Programme refers to his achievements with the war time
club, but doesn't mention that he was Chairman of Epsom for ten years.

21/2/59 Derek
Westley now advised as captain, presumably replacing Malcolm Robbins.

Programme
28/2/59 states that "we are confident that the worst is now behind
us"!

Reference this day to the Supporters Club "big
draw" not being held the week before "as advertised", but they
are hoping that the deputy

mayor
Councillor Gardner will be present to preside either at half time or directly
after the game.

28/2/59 Error
from Jim Morris (Graham's dad) lets Epsom score a winner as Henderson's cross
drops straight in.

March 59 John
Matthews (25) joins from Wealdstone, and Bobby Russell (22) joins from
Finchley.

1/3/59 Epsom
stage a TV All stars XI v Camwall United
(brewery side). Papers state 5,000 were expected.

Tommy Docherty
was the referee, with Tommy Steele, Lonnie Donegan, Alfie Bass, and Pete
Murray also expected.

Actor Paul
Carpenter was on PA. Funds going to spastics fund and variety benevolent
fund.

1/3/59 All
stars beat Camwall Utd 7-6. Tommy Steele got four goals, and Andrew Ray got
the other three.

However, a
programme I have with the line ups, advises Steele got three and Bernie
Winters scored one.

Playing for
All Stars was Jess Conrad, Pete Murray, Mike Winters, Alfie Bass, Maurice
Kaufman, Harry Fowler, Tommy Steele

Ronnie
Corbett, Andrew Ray, Bernie Winters, Lonnie Donegan. Res Hugh Elton, and
Donald Houston. 3,000 attended and there was a

reception
afterwards at the Game Cock in Stoneleigh. Programme Y (x2).

According to
programme written line up Lonnie Donegan did not play and was replaced by
Donald Houston.

7/3/59 Bobby
Russell gets hat trick in first 35 minutes of debut. Scored after 2 minutes
of debut. Possible club record.

Mar 59 Roger
Boxall plays for Carshalton F.C. related to Andy and Jeremy?? Joe Hurlock
plays for Erith v Epsom. Terry's relative??

14/3/59 As
friendly is arranged very late against Clapton, only a single sheet programme
is produced. (unnumbered)

14/3/59 One
minute's silence for Sid Bristow, who was a previous captain of Epsom back in
the 20's

He had also
served on the Committee and was a life member.

Mar 59 Johnny
Weaving (24) leaves for Sutton. Albert Pollington to Whyteleafe, Alan Morris
to Leatherhead, and Mick Carlson also left.

Mar 59 Future player Dave Worby selected for England Boys
Clubs aged 17. Works at a garage in Morden. Lives in Winchcombe Road,
Carshalton.

However, he is
injured and doesn't play in the match at Halifax v Ireland Boys Clubs on
Easter Monday 30/03/59.

17/3/59 Johnny
Wood had been working in an assistant capacity after his injury. However, it
was reported in the papers that he

had been
sacked by the club. Apparently Tommy Rochester was shocked too.

In response to
this, George Tarran rang the Advertiser and provided a copy of the exact
letter sent to Johnny Wood.

Letter from Harry Mordan to Johnny Wood: At our latest
meeting it was reported by several committee members that you expressed
your

views. We
assume that you have no confidence in the committee, and that you propose to
leave the club. As you didn't attend on

Saturday March
14th, we advise if it is your wish, that you are free to join another club
and you have fulfilled your commitments.

In passing we
would like to thank you for your services, and we were always pleased to have
you as a playing member. It may be that

your views
were not fully considered. If you wish to retain your playing membership and
phone the secretary, the committee will

be pleased to
see you to deal with this matter. Tarran makes it clear that he was not
sacked.

Mar 59 future
player Bill Hawkins joins Sutton from Bromley. Previously at Walton &
Hersham.

Mar 59 Ron
Francis (28) joins from Dorking after ten years there. Roy Case (25) joins
from Sunday football (Teddington Gremlins!)

18/3/59 Tommy
Millard gets married. Picture provided. Bernard Willis, Tommy Rochester and
Jan Sorensen were in the picture too.

21/3/59 Tommy
Millard gets married. Reported that he was a jockey and had a 4 year
apprenticeship. Comes from Bellingham and

was boarding
in Epsom. Moved to Lower Court Road with wife Shirley Taylor, who had also
lived in that road. St Martin's Church.

21/3/59 Programme number 16 issued. Presume that the
unnumbered Clapton one was classed as number 15, although it is possible that
15 was

issued for the
All Star game, but unlikely.

21/3/59
Programme also thanks Mr & Mrs FV Garratt who donated a football to the
club.

21/3/59 Kilby
Edwards scores all 4 for Leatherhead v Epsom.

Collection
taken that day for Jock Bryson which raised £11.5s.0d. He will be playing
soon says programme 4/4/59

23/3/59 Dave
Worby selected for England Boys Clubs v Northern Ireland at Halifax. Injured
and unable to play.

28/3/59 Ian McTear plays in goal and keeps clean sheet in
1-0 win v Dorking. Game originally planned for Easter Monday, but brought
forward.

According to
the Dorking programme, the League Officials had no alternative but to make
the change.

28/3/59 Brian
Pell and Ron Ruffell play against Epsom for Dorking.

Apr 59 Sid Law
joins from Leatherhead. Bill Hawkins joins Sutton from Bromley.

6/4/59 Down to
9 players for 10 minutes. Westley & Drinkwater injured.

Apr 59
Charles Coughlan (25) joins from Hounslow. Listed as Coughlin in Epsom
Advertiser. Also, Peter Collins joins from Hayes.

11/4/59 No
game for first team.

18/4/59 Reg Walker, Malcolm Robbins, Brian Jenkins, Dave
Hermitage, and Ray Watkins all play for Sutton v Epsom in friendly. 3-3 draw.

Ellis saved Hermitage penalty in last 15 minutes. Poor
attendance - receipts only £18. Mainly due to weather and 2nd half Amateur
Cup

live
television coverage. Social arranged after the game, and funds went to Epsom.

Appears no
issue for this game, nor 25/4 v Ulysses or 9/5/59 v Horsham. Check!

20/4/59 GK Ray
Ellis plays on the wing at Carshalton Ath. Lost 3-1. Would have played Slough
or Redhill in the final.

24/4/59 Sutton
Olympics beat Tweeddale Old Boys 3-1 in the Mid-Surrey League Cup Final at
Sutton.

25/4/59 Epsom
started a home friendly with 10 men for a while. Under 100 attended. Receipts
£4, 10s

Epsom were
entered in the Leatherhead (Wells) Challenge Cup. Drew Walton & H in semi
final, but Walton withdrew. Kingstonian beat

Leatherhead
8-1 in other semi, but two legged final was put back to next year, and never
played.

Apr 59 due to the poor attendance v Ulysses Epsom decline
to play a match the following Saturday. It would have been an evening game.

9/5/59 Epsom
defeat Horsham 4-0 at West Street. Single sheet unnumbered programme is
produced. Y.

Reserves:

Corinthian League Reserve Section

Position

8th out of 14

Surrey Int Cup

1st

Carshalton Athletic

0-1

Neale Trophy

1st

Eastbourne

1-4

Admission for
Reserves is 9d this season.

30/8/58 Kick
off at home to Dagenham is 5.45 and follows Uxbridge home game.

6/9/58 Started slowly but got going after HT as Epsom
defeate Erith & Belvedere 4-0 at West Street. Jim Thatcher and Jan
Sorensen both score

twice and
Willis played well. Epsom Advertiser says Howells
scored one of Sorensen's goals. Check Herald report.

13/9/58 Kick
off at Leatherhead is 5.45 presumably to follow a home game of theirs.

Was this the
case and if so who were Leatherhead playing and was prog issued?

20/9/58 Jock
Bryson and Terry Wackett gave impressive displays at Uxbridge but we still
lost 3-0.

This match appears to have been brought forward from
28/03/59 - or was it? Epsom Advertiser produces two brief reports showing a
3-0 loss, one

of which took
place at Uxbridge on 20/09/58 and the other on 28/03/59. Check Herald!

4/10/58 New left back Eric Kateley played with Johnny
Weaving at centre half. Tucker, Case and Lambert all played too. Kateley
joined from

Kingstonian and Lambert was a local lad. Epsom defeat
Maidenehad 3-1 at West Street. Programme refers to a goal from Keith McTear,
but this

is Ian Keith McTear who would also play for us later and
by then was being called Ian, so I will stick with that for now. Pepper
scored one of the

goals. Was
this Micky Pepper a few years before he came into the first team? Was that
Bert Lambert, another future player?

4/10/58 Epsom
Advertiser advises that Case scored, not Canham. This is quite likely, check
Herald and programmes.

Oct 58 L.Mabey
new Reserve team player just out of the Army - represented Northern Command

also 20 year
old T.Marshall - represented English Secondary Schools - Both made debut on
11/10/58

Pat Pitt may
play on 18/10/58 - Represented RAF

1/11/58
Sorensen HT v Leatherhead. Tim Higgins and Ivor Hughes get the others in a
5-0 win at West Street.

26/12/58
Boxing Day game at Dorking kicks off at 10.45 a.m.

27/12/58
Horsham win 3-0 at West Street in a game that kicked off at 2.15.

17/1/59
Uxbridge (H) p-p. Pitch unfit.

24/01/59
Programme Line Up for this match: Peter Langley, Peter Collett, Eric Kateley,
Roy Case, Johnny Weaving, Alan Morris,

David
Henderson, Ernie Watkins, Robby Craze, Bert Lambert, Anthony Hughes

24/1/59 exempt to First round of Surrey Intermediate Cup.
Lost 0-1 to Carshalton Athletic in front of 2,110. Prog Y. Future player Ken
Brown is in

their line up.

7/2/59 We
trailed at the interval but a side with two debutants turned it around and we
defeated Uxbridge 4-1 in the end.

14/2/59 Game
is p-p.

21/2/59 Game
is p-p.

14/3/59 No
game for Reserves.

March 59 reference to Ron Francis having been a reserve at
Dorking for quite a while. Also reference to Bill Drinkwater and Micky
Williams being

there
previously.

21/3/59
Programme advises that we held a territorial advantage but lost 1-0 at
Eastbourne.

28/3/59 Epsom Advertiser says we lost 3-0 at Uxbridge this
day but records show this match was played on 20/09/58. See earlier comments.

What is going
on here?

30/03/59 Programme Line Up for this match: Ray Ellis, Jock
Bryson, T.Kendall, Roy Case, Ernie Watkins, Len Oakes, Gerard Howells,

Sid Law,
Robby Craze, Bert Lambert, Peter Leech

30/3/59 Epsom
are level at half time and at full time with a foal in each half as they draw
2-2 at Chesham United. Prog Y.

30/03/59 Programme Line Up for this match: Ray Ellis, Ron
Francis, Peter Colett, B.Wells, Bill Drinkwater, Peter Collins, David
Henderson,

Micky
Williams, Robby Craze, Bert Lambert, Tommy Millard

11/4/59 Final
game of season at Edgware results in a 5-1 win.

Apr 59 Len
Oakes listed briefly for Reserves this season.

A Team:

Surrey Combination

Position:

Probably withdrew

Due to play Molesey (A) on 6/9/58 but that is
the only detail I have.

League Cup:

Group Basis if not withdrawn

League Cup Won
by Guildford who beat Woking 4-1 on 04/05/59 to win 4-3 on aggregate.