Memories
This may be the final episode of the search to confirm the youngest-ever winner of the Huddersfield Champion-of-Champions title.
Yesterday speculation on the youngest ever Huddersfield Champion of Champions strayed from a 25year-old to a 15year-old. We think that we now have the real answer.
Contributions from Dave Parkin and Alan Brown have got us this far and now I am indebted to Alan Crowther for finding and forwarding this definitive Peter Muff article from The Examiner in October 1975.
The headlines from it are:
Gary Leighton 15-years-old Doncaster schoolboy wins the 1975 Huddersfield Champion of Champions
He qualified by winning the Doncaster Merit and winning a wildcard invitation
Beating Gene Bardon in the Final at Lindley Lib by 21-16 after being 0-4 down after the first two ends.
Winner's prize was £20
He beat 3 current County bowlers on his way to the title as before Bardon he beat David Harrison and Roy Nicholson
If Gary lived in Huddersfield he wouldn't have been old enough to play in any of the qualifying competitions
How many of you can remember having a pair of flared trousers like Garys' in this picture?
I've done the best I can to enlarge the full article by chopping it down into 3 images which follow on from each other and it is definitely worth a full read.
THE FULL ARTICLE
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