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CL

15th out of 16

FAC

1q

Slough Town

1-3

AC

1q

Leatherhead

2-3

LC/MS

1st

Letchworth

1-4

SSC

3q

Chertsey Town

3-4+

SSS

1st

Petters Sports

0-6

Home
Ground:

West Street, Ewell

President

John Martin

Chairman

George Tarran elected to replace Peter
Carpenter at EGM on 29/11/62.

George Tarran
had previously held this post from 1959-60

Peter
Carpenter had moved house, and had not been at a meeting all season.

Secretary

Gordon Temperley

took over Treasurer position until end of
season.

Treasurer

WF (Bill).Inkpen

resigned in April 63 but would remain as
Assistant for a few years.

Match
Secretary

Ken Knowlson

Manager

L.R. (Ray) Chenery

Asst/Trainer: Ken Brown

Manager

Fred Chitty

replacing Ray Chenery in Sept who resigned for
personal reasons.

Fred resigned w.e.f. 25/5/63 and was eventually
replaced by Mr A "Gil" Gillings, a local headmaster.

N.Dearlove applied for managers position in May
63. See below re: injury

Coach

Tommy Rochester

Mr Albert
"Gil" Gillings - a qualified F.A.Coach offered his services to the
club, and will work with Fred Chitty.

Physio

Tom Tweedy replaced Alf Paine who went to
Walton & Hersham but later appears to have been replaced by Paine
again.

Tweedy never responded to letters asking him
whether he would be returning.

Res Managers
Originally Lew Tucker, and Bob Bell and Bill Carrick Caretaker capacity
afterwards.

No charge for
Reserve games this year.

'A' Team
Manager

Bill Goldswain

Played at Gibraltar Rec this season, but folded
mid way through season

Juniors played
under the Olympic Y.C. name this year.

Juniors
Manager was Chas McLaughlin, who had come over from Olympic Youth Club based
at Rose Hill

Committee

R.McAlpin, A.Harvey, R.Chenery, C.McLaughlin.

13/11/62 Mr S.Tarran co-opted

31/7/62 Fred Chitty co-opted

23/4/63 Mr D.Hooper co-opted

also
W.Goldswain joined although he had trouble attending meetings and would now
only be available to help on match days..

Groundsman Mr
C.Phillips to replace Mr J Harris. Salary £26 p.a. To be paid in July at
groundsman's request!

Mr Harris was
getting another job which meant that he couldn't also do the ground.
"Great regret" said the Committee.

Mr Harris
still did a bit of work for the club. Mr Goodenough was taken on for the
season 63/64.

Supporters
Club Chairman A.T.Hunting, Secretary Ron Jewell, S.Taylor (unknown role)

Further
details contained within OFFICIAL CLUB RECORDS

ALSO LEAGUE
MEETING MINUTES TOO.

Last Season
for Corinthian League. Absorbed with Delphian League

into bigger
Athenian League. Became Division 1

Programmes to
be printed by Graham Publicity Ltd

June 62
reported that Ray Chenery would be next manager with Ken Brown assisting with
the training.

June 62
Olympic Youth Club will form Epsom's A (and J)Team next year. North Surrey
Youth League & Sutton & District Lge.

June 62 Fred
Chitty invited by Carshalton Ath to be manager, after he left Banstead as
manager in summer 62.

Instead, he
scouted for them until Sept 62. Chitty reported as being with Epsom from 1936
- 1959 before scouting for Sutton

AGM 11th July
1962.

Training to
start on Tuesday 17/7/62 at West Street.

28/7/62 Donkey
Derby held at club. Races between 7 and 9 pm.

31/7/62 Club
Minutes advise that the club are to ask SCFA for permission to stage a public
trial on 11th August. A private trial was

suggested by
Ray Chenery for 7th August and a fair mustering attended said Epsom Herald.
Also that season tickets are to cost 35 shillings.

31/7/62 Also
advised in minutes that P.Hamminger (probable spelling) had applied to be a
playing member.

7/8/62
Permission granted for Public Trial by F.A. subject to Rule 24.

7/8/62 Ray
Chenery advises that the club's nomination for the Champions v Rest of League
match would be Ray Dowse.

New players
are Alan Earl (Sutton), Ken Simmonds (Worthing), Mick Wade (Olympic YC), and
Bert Lambert (rejoined)(Hampton)

John O'Shea
also joins from Croydon Am, while Norman Derry moved into area from Cornwall.

Aug 62, Brian
Kenyon and Glyn Howells left for Walton. Kenyon lived in Merton and continued
to train at Epsom for a while.

Aug 62 Brian
Cook joins Croydon from Selhurst Pk Ath

Leaving: Ray
Pert (Wealdstone) and John Leedham (Barking), but Leedham was signed pro by
Millwall in Oct 62, while Pert

returned in
December. Ray Dowse also left for Dorking.

South London
Press advises in October that Leedham joined Millwall from Hendon having been
at Barking briefly at the start of this season.

Leedham is
advised as living in Crescent Way, Norbury aged 19 and is 6ft and 12st 8lb.
Was a Fulham Junior originally.

Leedham would go on to make 577 appearances for Crawley
Town after a spell at Millwall, making 9 appearances before leaving for
Walsall in 1964.

Larry
Pritchard played for the first team, but requested to play for the Youths to
gain a County Youth Cap, which he got.

October
correspondence indicates that he only played in the North Surrey Youth League
and not the Sutton & District League.

14/8/62 a 29
seater coach is booked for the trip to Uxbridge on 18th August and a 14
seater to Erith on Wednesday 22nd August.

14/8/62 Mr
D.Bell to be asked to fill the role of Club Vice-Chairman. Wrongly minuted as
Vice-President. Was this Noel Bell?

14/8/62 Club
Minutes advise that there will be a selection committee consisting of the
three Managers, Mr D.Bell and Ken Knowlson.

Ray Francis
new club captain. Been with club three years after joining from Molesey.

Aug 62 Mick
Williams resigns after disagreement with the club's youth policy and goes to
Leatherhead.

Aug 62 reference to Ron Barton being a former Sutton
Olympics player. Would feature for the first team this season as would Mick
Wade and Colin Bell,

and Derek
Prowse. Wade was injured in the first game of the season and would never play
again for the first team.

Aug 62 Ray
Dowse leaves club for Dorking.

21/8/62 Bill
Mackay scores hat trick for Sutton v Carshalton Res.

Herald quotes
crowds reaching rock bottom after 200 attend for Erith game in Aug 62

25/8/62 Jim
Morris, father of the club record appearance holder Graham is selected for
the Corinthian League v Maidenhead United at

York Road. He
is a keeper at Chesham United and would occasionally come and watch his son
play in the 90s and 00s.

29/8/62 Gate
receipts from the match were £9 15s but we paid out £13 13s 7d! Only 200
attended.

1/9/62
Letchworth away. Played with 10 until half time, as Lambert and Earl lost
their way! Fined 10s. All players now have to report to

the ground
first.

1/9/62 Keeper
Jobson played as an outfield player for the game. One nil down after 30
seconds!

Sept 62 Barry
Bradstreet has a burst blood vessel in his thigh. Out for a while.

4/9/62 Club
Minutes advise that Ken Bird had resigned as a playing member.

8/9/62 gate
receipts were £16 11s 9d but after expenses and officials costs we lost £2!

11/9/62
Whyteleafe ask permission for one of their players C.Page to train with us.
It transpired that he already was and two years later

he would be
playing for us anyway!

15/9/62
receipts were £14 8s 6d but expenses ensured a loss again.

22/9/62
receipts were £16 16s 3d.

Sept 62 Epsom
sign Peter Boniface who comes from Cape Town. Tom Tweedy has now replaced Alf
Paine and Tommy Rochester

is now
assisting Fred Chitty.

29/9/62 Royal
Ordnance Factories are defeated 6-2 in Amateur Cup. Originally drawn at ROF
but they waived home advantage.

R.O.F. play in
the Kent Amateur League.

Circus visited
West Street 1st, 2nd & 3rd Oct 1962

Oct 62 League
reported the transfer of Micky Williams to Leatherhead.

D.Holland
& N.Dearlove both booked playing for Dorking in Oct 62

9/10/62 Circus
pays club £100 for use of ground

13/10/62 Len
Oakes plays v Epsom but scores an o.g. Leatherhead still win 3-2.

Oct 62 former
player Bernard Willis is Manager of Worcester Park.

20/10/62
Pritchard unavailable as he was playing for Surrey Youth v Hants at Chertsey
that day. First appearance for Surrey.

20/10/62
Jobson penalty save v Worcester Park. Bernard "Podge" Willis
(player manager W Park) and Tommy Millard also plays v Epsom

Oct 62 Bill
Mackay signs for Carshalton Ath from Sutton.

Oct 62 Tony Monk had joined club but Carshalton protested
originally, then withdrew complaint. ASCLID arbitrated. Peter Hall and Micky
Butler also affected.

Oct 62 John
Leedham turns professional for Millwall.

Oct 62 Tommy
Millard leaves for Worcester Park

Oct 62 Chelsea refuse to play under the Wimbledon
floodlights. They would eventually find their way to Epsom once Colin Bell
had dismantled them.

Nov 62 John
Chesnutt (18) leaves for Carshalton Ath, yet returns by December.

3/11/62 Ray
Francis injured 64th minute. Passenger.

Oct 62 Geoff
Roberts resigns as a paying member.

10/11/62 Taz
Arnall from Australia missing with dysentery!

Nov 62 former
player Ron Webb is Player / Coach of Banstead Athletic following in Fred
Chitty's role.

Nov 62 Steve
Dunwoody is at Dulwich

Nov 62 Dave
Farley leaves Dorking

Nov 62 reference to former player Gordon Cairns still
playing in his early forties. Has recently moved from Durrington to West
Tarring and playing for Newhaven.

Nov 62 Colin
Murphy (18) and Michael Ramsey join from Croydon Amateurs, Philip Mulford
from Tooting. Mulford related to Jimmy Hill.

Taz Arnall recommended by Alec Stock QPR manager, who has
links with Fred Chitty. Scored in his first 4 matches. Listed as Arnell in
Epsom Herald.

Alec Stock
apparently lives in Epsom.

It is likely
that Arnall's first name was Edward with Taz being short from Tasmania maybe?
I shall put Edward for now.

17/11/62
Colin Murphy debut. According to Colin Bell, this is the player that became a
very famous Manager with Derby, Lincoln,

Stockport and
others. Colin came up with this info very lucidly, but wikipedia says that
the famous Colin Murphy was born in 1950,

but I am
convinced that this is wrong and we have another Epsom gem on our hands here.

Now Wikipedia
advises in Nov 2017 that Colin Murphy was born in 1944 making him 18 at the
time of his debut. Another famous player!

17/11/62
former player Colin Grimshaw is Player / Manager at Whyteleafe.

20/11/62
Gordon Temperley advises that Peter Carpenter's resignation letter has been
received. EGM called for 29th November.

24/11/62 Alan
Morton scores 6 and is captain for Woking Schools v Farnham Schools in Wood
Cup @ Kingfield

27/11/62
Southern Combination Cup to expand from 8 to 16 clubs and we are asked if we
would like to enter but due to midweek League

commitments,
Epsom choose to decline the offer.

27/11/62 Mr
Self was about to be co-opted onto the Committee when it was advised that he
wasn't a member yet!

27/11/62 club
vote to apply for membership of London F.A. so they can enter the London
Senior Club. Not sure why seeing as we just

declined entry
to the Southern Combination Cup. More prestigious competition I suppose.

29/11/62
George Tarran elected Chairman at EGM. No minutes found from this meeting.

Dec 62 Ken
Davis joins from Chertsey Town. Referred to as Davies frequently in papers
which may be right.

Dec 62 former
player Steve Dunwoody is at Dulwich Hamlet.

Dec 62 Ray
Pert (27) rejoins club from Wealdstone.

Dec 62 Epsom
apply for Athenian League in Dec 62 following news of probable amalgamation.

03/12/62 Larry
Pritchard plays for Surrey Youth at Finchley v Middx. Lost 2-1 in County
Youth Cup.

Dec 62 Dave
Worby nicknamed Mr Walton!

1/12/62 Tim
Higgins scores for Dorking v Epsom. Also Ray Dowse, Don Hollands and George
Richardson are all in programme line up.

6/12/62 Brian
Coombes leaves for Carshalton Ath after playing two games. Returns later in
season. He is

listed as
being 19 years old and referred to in the Advertiser as Brian Combs. Check
this.

8/12/62 match
against Eastbourne nearly didn't start as there were no pegs to hold down the
nets! Ref was: R.L. Weedon (Reading)

9/12/62 Ground
was to be leased to a Speedway XI for a Charity match this day. Cost of lease
is 5 guineas.

9/12/62 Steve
Dunwoody scored twice for Morden & District League v West Fulham League
in a London Senior Cup tie. They won 4-1.

18/12/62 Club
will be sending Christmas cards this year. We didn't last year but had
received cards from almost every other club.

22/12/62
Leatherhead (H) is p-p for fog. Prog Y.

26/12/62
Leatherhead win 2-0 and we would not play again for a while. No coach for
this fixture and players travelled by cars.

The worst
winter of the 20th Century led to many postponements. First team did not play
in January, and only once in Feb.

29/12/62
Originally Dagenham (A) then switched to Dagenham (H) is p-p.

30/12/62 The
TV All Stars are scheduled to visit for a charity game against the Speedway
XI (different to game on 9th Dec),

but postponed
from 30th Dec to 24th Feb and later to 26th May

Programmes
may have been produced for both games but I don't have one. Opponents this
day were to be an International Speedway XI

Jess Conrad,
Pete Murray, Mike and Bernie Winters, Roy Castle, Bernard Bresslaw and Hugh
Elton were expected.

Another game
with a Speedway XI was played on 9/12/62

Jan 63 Alan
Earl and Albert Lambert left for Carshalton. There was a slight delay as they
both owed money for some football boots.

The debt was
£4 17s 6d each.

Tex Wiltshire,
John McNaught, Ray Fillery and Dave Fillery already there!

Jan 63
reported that Alan Earl and Ray Francis had played in the first 21 matches of
the season.

Jan 63 Albert
Pollington rejoins club from Whyteleafe.

Jan 63 former
player Jim Sheehan joins Dulwich Hamlet from Bromley.

Jan 63 Norman
Dearlove breaks cruciate ligaments and is told to retire. Back playing
eventually.

Jan 63 Tony
Rix joins from Carshalton Athletic. A centre-forward. Doesn't play though and
in fact joins Redhill in February instead.

1/1/63 and
8/1/63 Committee Meetings postponed due to the snow.

5/1/63 Horsham
(H) is p-p.

5/1/63 former
keeper Ray Watkins (27) gets married to Carole Shandler (20) at All Saints
Benhilton. Watkins is a chauffeur.

12/1/63 no
game for First team.

11/1/63
Reported that we will apply for membership of Athenian League as it is
merging with the Corinthian League at the end of the season.

Jan 63
Athenians originally announce that they will create a new Division 2, but not
taking all of the Corinthian League clubs. They will relent.

George Tarran
says that it's sad because Epsom were a founder club, but they weren't, as
Epsom Town were in 45/46.

Originally 5
clubs were going to be left behind.

In the end
Corinthian League Secretary Ingram Whittingham ensured that the whole
division went over en bloc.

19/1/63
Wokingham Town (A) is p-p.

24/1/63
reported that 9 to 12 inches of snow at West Street. Training indoors at
Drill Hall, Ewell

Jan 63 Epsom
offer their services to the TA 135 Survey Regiment by way of a friendly
match, although it is unlikely to have been played.

26/1/63 listed
in League Bulletin as "fixtures (I hope)" Horsham (H) is p-p.

Feb 63 former
player Steve Dunwoody is at Dulwich Hamlet but was cup ties in SSC as he had
already played for Malden Town this season.

Feb 63 future
player Ted Stafford is also at Dulwich as is Dave Le Grice (Legrice) aged
around 16. He would go on to have a trial for

Leicester City
in the mid sixties but would stay at Dulwich until August 1965.

Feb 63 Jock
McNicol (28) joins club. Living in Wimbledon after moving down from the
north.

McNicol's real
first name is Robin and he is living down in Worthing as of 2011.

2/2/63 Game at
Dagenham postponed but played a week later. Was a different programme issued?
NO!

2/2/63 prog
says one postponement all year, but this was number 2!

9/2/63
Dagenham installed an electric water pump to clear water after the thaw.
Paper describes it as a paddling pool!

Epsom agree to
play on 9th Feb to save further expense. Ref was going to postpone it again.

Ray Pert
injured 35th minute. Passenger for remainder of game.

Feb 63 Epsom
sign Trevor Sams from Tonbridge but he never plays for the club it appears.

16/2/63
Leatherhead (H) is p-p.

23/2/63
Dorking (A) is p-p.

26/2/63
Council grant licence for two more years for covered accommodation, club
house and refreshment hut.

26/2/63 New
boiler has been installed in the dressing rooms. Not tested yet as it could
be damaged by frost. The previous one burst in January.

26/2/63 Roy
Case resigns as a playing member as he has got a job in Jamaica!

26/2/63
Reference made to an article and photo in the Epsom Herald taken from within
the ground.

Committee were
of the opinion that the article was not favourable and had been taken without
permission. The club

decide to
write to the Sports Editor of the Herald to complain. They responded amicably
and no further action was required.

Johnny Berry
at Walton in March 63.

Mar 63 George
Richardson leaves Dorking - had joined in Aug 57 from Blyth - joins Horsham
in April 63

Mar 63 Henry
Hill a Sheerwater Secondary Schoolboy who is captain of Woking Schools u15
plays in a Southern International Schools trial at

Gosport then
selected for England v The Rest at Cambridge City on 06/04/63

2/3/63 Dorking
(A) is p-p. Prog Y.

5/3/63 vote of
thanks to Mr Harvey who had done much of the plumbing work at the ground in
recent months.

9/3/63 First
game at West Street since 8th Dec. Monsoon conditions and O'Shea got cramp,
and Dagenham player

having
exhaustion!

New entrance
gates proposed 12/3/63. They arrived during 1964/65.

12/3/63 Fred
Chitty reported that Mr A.Gillings had offered his services to the club, and
recommended this.

He went on to
be the club's next manager despite never having coached a Senior team
before..

Minutes
suggested that Fred Chitty had said "he was a very useful
man".

Also Tommy
Rochester had been ill but is now fit again and keen to assist the club
again.

Gillings
offers to go to Dorking with the Reserve side on Sunday 17th March.

March 63
reference in epsom Herald to Ernie Watkins, living at Gatley Avenue and
playing for Banstead aged 42. Intends to continue for a while.

16/3/63 Grass
cutter needs an overhaul and there is currently nowhere safe at the club to
house it!

16/3/63
Pritchard unavailable as playing for Surrey Youth v Bedfordshire at
Wallington.Scored twice in a 7-3 win.

16/3/63
B.Gogan scores all 5 at Epsom in Slough's 5-0 win.

19/3/63 Glyn
School write to thank the club for the recent use of the pitch.

19/3/63 Tommy
Breen (21) applies to be a playing member from Croydon Amateurs. A former
Crystal Palace Junior.

19/3/63 A
company offer their services should we wish to enlarge or rebuild the grand
stand.

19/3/63 Club
advise that Roger Brunwin had written to offer his services as a player in
midweek games. He is with Malden Town.

Only plays
once though at Maidenhead on 9/4/63. He is a former player who made his debut
in 1958/59.

19/3/63 Bert
Lambert has paid his existing debt to the club.

March 63 Tommy
Breen joins from Croydon Am and Bernard Smith rejoins. Previous junior and
Chris Kelly's uncle!.

Epsom Herald
advises that Smith has most recently been at Kingstonian Reserves.

30/3/63 Micky
Williams sent off for Leatherhead Res at Edgware.

He was sent
off at Edgware the year before while with Epsom!

31/3/63 135
Surrey Engineer Regiment v 5 Gloucester Regiment in QF of Territorial Army
Trophy at West Street. Admission free.

2/4/63
R.Taylor applies to join as a player from Wimbledon Y.C.

2/4/63 Croydon
Amateurs provide clearance for Tommy Breen. He played for us back on 23/3/63.

2/4/63 At the
same meeting correspondence received from Redhill who say they thought Breen
had been signed by them!

2/4/63 Albert
Pollington is cleared to join club by Whyteleafe.

2/4/63
reported at the meeting that a vehicle had done damage to the ground while
making deliveries to the Tennis club. Repair requested.

2/4/63 Bill
Inkpen is resigning. Chairman referred to great regret about this. Many
valuable years of service.

Gordon
Temperley will take over the Treasurer position until the end of the season.
Very sudden resignation,

possibly a
disagreement or maybe ill health?

Apr 63 Barry
Sargent joins from Walton & Hersham

Apr 63 Fred
Chitty is also boss of Ewell Based 135 Surrey Regiment who reach semis of TA
Cup, losing in West

Auckland to
Durham Light Infantry 2-1

6/4/63 Ray
Francis unavailable as he broke two toes at work. First games of the season
missed.

6/4/63 Gate
receipts v Wokingham are £12 7s with programme sales 19s 1d.

6/4/63 Colin
Bell makes debut in this game. He was the younger brother of Robert and the
son of Noel. Future long serving player with

144
appearances for the First Team and maybe 300 more for the Reserves up until
his last appearance in 1982.

Colin visited
me in June 2011 and is fit and well although awaiting a replacement hip
operation. He actually lives in New South Wales

as he moved
there with his job in 1985. He is now retired but comes over occasionally.

Last visited
in July 2013 and came to the Arundel friendly on 20/7/13. Aged 71 as I write
this.

Visited again
in September 2017 and watched our home match with Hanworth Villa and away
League Cup tie at Worcester Park.

9/4/63
Ex-player Roger Brunwin guests for Epsom. Malden Town player. Epsom still
lose 3-0 at Maidenhead United and John

O'Shea
mispen. A rare floodlit game arranged hastily with no mention in the League
Bulletin until the result was reported. Lowan HT.

13/4/63 Ray
Dowse, Tim Higgins, and George Richardson all scored for Dorking v Epsom.

13/4/63 Earl,
Lambert, R.Fillery, and Coombes all play in Carshalton's record defeat 11-0
at Southall

15/4/63 Jim
Morris, dad of Epsom's Graham in goal for Chesham Utd v Epsom. Epsom lost 6-0

But we did
have 6 reserves out that day in another hastily arranged Easter Monday
fixture.

Jim Morris
also selected for Representative side v Maidenhead on 25/8/62

16/4/63
Croydon Amateurs provide clearance for Roger Wallbank.

16/4/63 also
at Committee Meeting advised that we had accepted a short notice request from
Surrey F.A. to enter the Surrey Senior

Shield and
would have a midweek trip to Egham to play Petter Sports.

18/4/63 League
Bulletin advised a home fixture with Maidenhead this day but it didn't take
place until 11th May.

20/4/63
Pritchard unavailable again. Playing for Olympic YC in a North Surrey Cup
Match that evening at West Street.

20/4/63 former
player Brian Pell badly injured in this match playing for Leatherhead. Torn
ligaments and ruptured cartilage.

20/4/63 Gate
receipts v Leatherhead are £26.6s.6d with programme sales £1.13s.3d.

23/4/63 Derek
Harper is introduced to the Committee by Robert Bell and co-opted onto it.
Seconded Ken Knowlson.

23/4/63 Club
Minutes refer to him as Derek Hooper!

24/4/63 Poor
quality rushed programme printed for Chesham game. Prog Y. Epsom gain revenge
for the recent 6-0 defeat on Easter Monday

with a 3-2
victory. Jim Morris in goal for Chesham.

24/4/63 Gate
receipts v Chesham are £6.16s.

25/4/63
reported that Micky Williams has suffered a severe eye injury and is in a
Surbiton Hospital. Ray Chenery advised that Micky had

lost his eye
in an incident with a bus driver and I wonder whether this may have been it.

27/4/63 Gate
receipts v Horsham are £8.11s. 9d with programme sales 12s.9d.

27/4/63
Pritchard playing for Surrey Youth this week. Tommy Breen injured 30 minutes.
Passenger.

27/4/63 prog
advises TV All Stars XI v Speedway XI at West Street on 19/5/63. Admission by
programme 2s.6d adults 1s.6d children.

The ball from
this match was autographed and will be raffled it was advised in May.

29/4/63
Secretary Bob Bell plays because Epsom are short. Epsom start with ten, and
Ray Pert arrived for the second half.

Petter Sports
win 6-0 and will be away to Molesey or Chertsey in the next round.

29/4/63 Epsom Herald refers to Colin Bell playing, but
also advises that all except Bell were defending for the first thirty-five
minutes, so surely if it had been

Colin Bell,
he would also have been defending. I am comfortable with the fact that Bob
played in this one match. It would be his only appearance.

30/4/63 club
receive a receipt for a £1.1s donation to Mr Whittingham's Presentation Fund.
He is resigning as League Secretary.

He would go on
to become heavily involved as an Isthmian League official.

He would also live for nearly fifty more years, becoming
President of Dorking F.C. and appearing on the TV show Blind Date, eventually
dying at the age of 95!

May 63 Ex
Epsom player Dave Hermitage captains Sutton in Amateur Cup Final at Wembley.
Also Eddie Clack plays.

11/5/63 Gate
receipts v Maidenhead are £9.16s. With programmes 13s.

11/5/63 Prog
advises the All stars match is now on 26th May k.o. 3pm.

13/5/63 Three
guest players turned out for Epsom at Wokingham. Earl, Lambert, and Coombes.
All ex-Epsom

13/5/63 Epsom Herald also refers to a player by the name
of Gamble but it appeared to be Tommy Breen. Advertiser calls him Gambriel.
Why was Breen listed?

15/5/63 Epsom
are 6-0 up against Wembley after 78 minutes. O'Shea injured and had to leave
field briefly for stitches.

15/5/63 Gate
receipts v Wembley are £6.19s.

18/5/63 Gate
receipts v Letchworth are £7.3s and progammes 14s.

18/5/63
Coombes and Earl guest again.

21/5/63 Fred
Chitty resigns as Manager it is advised at Committee meeting this day to take
effect on 25th May.

It appears in
the Epsom Advertiser reported 23/04/63 that he is to become first Team
Secretary at Carshalton Athletic! Advertiser later

advises on
30/5/63 that this was First Team Manager but then reports that Chitty has
resigned a week into the job following an offer from

a
"professional club".

21/5/63
Worcester Park Reserves defeat Whyteleafe Reserves 1-0 in the Final of the
Surrey Senior League Reserve Cup Final at West Street.

28/5/63 George
Tarran advises that he had written back to Fred Chitty thanking him for all
his services.

28/5/63 club
received £52.10s from the police for damages awarded following the break ins
at the club.

28.5.63 Club
receives thanks from Surrey Senior League for staging the County Reserve Cup
Final recently.

28/5/63 Club
also receives thanks from Leatherhead for loaning our ground to the Surrey
Senior League at short notice. Maybe the

Cup Final was
due to be held at Leatherhead originally?

28/5/63
Committee advise correspondence received from Norman Dearlove applying to be
Manager. It was too

late though as
club had already decided to appoint Albert Gillings.

28/5/63
George Tarran introduces Albert Gillings (44) to the Supporters Club
Committee. A former professional war time player and if his name is

Albert, then
probably a Sutton player too.

Alf Paine
provides an invoice for his services as Masseur. £31.3s.7d.

May 63
reported that the Tea Bar was being run by a Committee since 17/11/62 and now
stood in profit. Also made £13.11s.2d from

the recent
Charity match.

Profile of
Ernie Watkins: Born Aug 1921. Played for RAF then Millwall during war. Had 14
years with Epsom

although spent
5 months at Leatherhead in between, during when he captained the first ever
Delphian League rep side.

Never capped
for Surrey but selected twice. Lives at Gatley Avenue Ewell (1963)
Electrician.

Reserves:

Corinthian League Reserve Section

Position

16th out of 16

Bob Bell and
Bill Carrick are sorting out the reserves this season after November.

Neale Trophy

Not Running this season - due to the weather

SIC

2q

North Holmwood

3-4

1/9/62 Gate
receipts from the Letchworth game were £2 but we paid out £3 17s.

6/10/62 gate
receipts from the North Holmwood game were £2 18s 6d.

17/11/62 Epsom
lose 4-1 at Leatherhead but the League table on the League Bulletin missed
the Epsom goal. It

was adjusted
correctly the following week.

24/11/62 We
lost 3-5 at Horsham.We had led 2-0 at one point. John Bullen scored a HT for
us and

Mike Ramsey
made his debut.

1/12/62 No
game for Reserves.

8/12/62
Eastbourne Res (L)(A) started a player short against Epsom and were fined
10s.

15/12/62 Home
game with Edgware Res, yet started with ten players! Originally meant to be
hosting Eastbourne but match changed.

Even Tony Monk
helped out despite awaiting a knee operation.

At the
following League meeting in January, it transpired that Epsom were also 8
minutes late and were also fined 10s.

18/12/62
George Tarran rasies the incident at Committee and says it makes the club
look bad. In future two reserves would be selected.

22/12/62 +
26/12/62 No game for Reserves.

29/12/62
originally Dagenham (H) but changed to Dorking (A) but p-p.

5/1/63
Dagenham (A) is p-p.

12/1/63
Chesham United (H) is p-p.

19/1/63
provisionally Worthing (H) but switched to Maidenhead (H) but p-p anyway.

26/1/63 listed
in League Bulletin as "fixtures (I hope)" Wembley (A) is p-p.

2/2/63
Dagenham (H) is p-p.

9/2/63
Dagenham (H) is p-p again.

16/2/63 no
fixture for Reserves.

23/2/63
Maidenhead United (H) is p-p and again on 02/03/63.

5/3/63
reference made to Maidenhead Res not fulfilling a fixture at Epsom on 2/3/63.
Epsom and the match officials were waiting.

Maidenhead
said that they were never notified of the game which was rearranged from
23/2/63 following

a weather
postponement. No further action taken against Maidenhead if they paid
officials expenses. They did.

17/3/63 Epsom
Reserves lose 4-0 at Dorking in a Sunday match, Epsom's first ever game on a
Sunday.

17/3/63 Derek
Prowse is booked at Dorking but the referee H.C.Reitz writes to advise that
he will take no further action in the matter.

24/3/63 Epsom
play a reserve game on Sunday v Chesham. Almost 150 attend. Programme issued
(very basic) Prog Y.

The programme
was "home produced" by Ken Knowlson and a duplicating machine!

First home
game ever played by Epsom on a Sunday, says Herald.

Gate receipts
were £3 12s

12/4/63 Gate
receipts v Eastbourne are £2 12s. Both Epsom Advertiser and Epsom Herald
wrongly advise that we lost 3-1 but it was actually 3-0!

13/4/63 Gate
receipts v Worthing are 17s 6d.

15/4/63 Gate
receipts v Dagenham are £1 7s.

Colin Murphy
booked v Wembley 30/3/63 and Eastbourne 12/4/63. Club minutes say the Wembley
game

was 4th April
but this was a Thursday night. League Bulletins also confirm this game was
30/3/63. A wrong minute!

Colin Bell
says this was Colin Murphy the future Football League Manager who is still
revered at Lincoln and Derby County. It was!

20/4/63 No
game for Reserves.

Originally I thought that the League table was wrong by three goals
for Epsom, as it reported a 4-0 loss to Slough Town on 9/5/63. However, the

GD for each team moved by 4-2 and this was actually the case as
Epsom Herald reports that Pritchard scored our two goals.

However, iit is still wrong by a goal.

Mark Smith at Maidenhead says that the 20/5/63 game was 1-5 not
2-5, so this is probably it, as the

official League table is actually wrong by one goal on the
Maidenhead tally as they are listed as having won 5-2 not 5-1.

The League Bulletin and consequently the League table had many
flaws in it this season. See comments on "Res" sheet.

16/5/63 Gate
receipts v Slough are 7s.

20/5/63 Gate
receipts v Maidenhead are 17s.3d.

25/5/63 Referee did not turn up for this match at home to Erith
& Belvedere and nor did the substitute referee or one of the Linesmen!
The other Linesman

refereed the game in the end with a member of both clubs as the two
Linesmen. Erith & B won 4-2.

25/5/63 Gate
receipts v Erith & Belvedere are 9s. 5.30 k.o.

Public Trial
granted by FA for 11th Aug 38 players attended.

'A'Team

Sutton & District League Division Two

Started playing as Olympic Youth Club it
appears from Epsom Advertiser

Did not finish season

10/11/62 Epsom
due to play at home to Stoneleigh Athletic but not played and moved back

24/11/62
reference to the A Team under Bill Goldswain winning 6-2 at Goblin Sports.
What was this?

Juniors

Olympic Youth Club playing in North Surrey
Youth League

North Surrey
Youth Cup

Park Albion

A

4-2

13/10/1962

League

Magdalen

H

20/10/1962

Surrey Youth
Cup

Battlebridge B.C.

A

2-1

27/10/1962

North Surrey Youth Cup

SF

Kingston B.C.

H

3-2

20/04/1963

6pm

at West Street

North Surrey Youth Cup

F

Ditton Old Boys Juniors

?

3-2

18/05/1963

Moxey, Pritchard, George