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Source:
Shrewsbury local newspaper, May 1969
Kindly supplied by Shrewsbury team member, Dave Moore
Text in report: "A 'Knock-out' it was - by
the Shrewsbury Team: A Knockout performance by Shrewsbury against
Chester has 'netted' them a place in the International heat of 'Jeux Sans
Frontieres' (sic).
Cheered on by over 10,000 people, Shrewsbury's 'It's a
Knockout' team floored Chester with a 14 - 5 points win in B.B.C. TV's
popular madcap competition in the Quarry on Sunday. They were cheered on
too by the Deputy Mayor of Shrewsbury, Councillor Dennis Pursell, who
along with Borough Council officials, had a ring-side seat for the 'It's a
Knockout' encounter.
Shrewsbury started the set of eight zany games
impressively, by bringing in their 'Joker' card -- doubling points to be
gained in the game -- and winning with Chester still struggling to finish
the hard 'table leap-frog' obstacle course."
Caption: "The girls played a big part in
Shrewsbury's great 'It's a Knockout' win over Chester on Sunday and our
picture shows one sort of trick they had to perform to do it. Sixteen
years old Ruth Elcock 'turns turtle' as she swoops down from 15 feet to
slot a ball into the box during flight, and her 32-years-old 'pusher'
Charles Frank, stands by to push her back up 15 feet to collect another
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