Wigan took a break from league action to take on Batley
in the Challenge Cup. It was a bit of slog in this BBC Televised tie but
they got the job done mainly on the back of goal kicking.
Results:
1970-1971 Challenge Cup Round 1
Saturday 23rd January 1971 Barrow 11 Widnes 15 Batley 4 Wigan 13
(Second Half Live on BBC 1) Blackpool Borough 7 Huddersfield 8 Hunslet 49 Thames Board Mills (Warrington) 5
Leeds 49 Oldham 2 Swinton 13 Huyton 2 Warrington 13 Rochdale Hornets 7 Whitehaven 0 Castleford 15 Workington Town 6 St Helens 8
BBC 1 - Saturday 23rd January 1971 9:35am Square Two 10:00am Si Dice Cose (till 10:30am)
12noon Weather 12:05pm Banana Splits 12:45pm Grandstand
presented by Frank Bough
including..... FA Cup Fourth Round Preview Boxing Fight of the Week: Jimmy
Anderson v Bobby Hughes Test Cricket: Australia v England - Fifth Test (Day
3) from Melbourne 1:25pm Film: "Last of the Bad Men" (starring George
Montgomery) 2:40pm Grandstand including..... 2:40 Golf: Bing Crosby
National Pro-Am Competition 3:05, 3:35 Table Tennis: England v West Germany
from Cambridge (Max Robertson)
3:15 Fifth Test: Australia v England 1st and 2nd Day Review (Jim Laker) 3:50 Rugby League: Batley v Wigan
(Eddie Waring) 4:50 Results
Service 5:15pm Dr. Who 5:40pm News, Weather 5:50pm
Here's Lucy: Lucy and Liberace (Lucille Ball) 6:15pm It's Cliff
Richard 6:55pm Dixon of Dock Green: Mug's Game 7:40pm Cilla
(Cilla Black - Guest: Frankie Howerd) 8:25pm Film: "Kiss of Death"
(Starring Victor Mature) 10:00pm News 10:15pm Match of the
Day - The FA Cup: Derby v Wolves (Barry Davies), Portsmouth v Arsenal (David
Coleman) & Everton v Middlesbrough (Kenneth Wolstenholme) 11:15pm Braden's Week 11:50pm Weather, National Anthem,
Closedown
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