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TTiippppeerraarryy TTrroouunnccee LLuucckklleessss LLiimmeerriicckk Issue 16 17th Aug 2009 MMaarrttiinn TThhee WWhhiittee MMccNNaammeeee iinntteerrvviieeww AAwwaarrddss PPaarrtt ttwwoo Limerick goalkeeper Brian Murray after Lar Corbett scored Tipperary's fourth goal of the game in the Hurling All Ireland Senior Championship Semi-Final, Tipperary v Limerick, Croke Park, Dublin. Photo; Pat Murphy/ SPORTSFILE EDITOR’S COMMENT ISSUE 16 Aug 17th 2009 2 Dear Hurling Fans, Lar Corbett, Tipperary, shoots to score his side's fifth goal despite the attention of Damien Reale, Limerick. GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior After a dissappointing second semi-final, Tip - Championship Semi-Final, Picture: Ray Ryan / SPORTSFILE perary are back in the All Ireland final after an eight year gap. They will meet old rivals Kilkenny on the 6th of Septemeber. Justice has been done with the 2 best hurling teams over the last 2 years rising to the top. It is back to the drawing board for Limerick with the same old sporting story - Promise and Dissapointment - They have failed miserably to build on their 3-in-row U-21 successes at the start of the decade. Presumably it is a combina - tion of player dedication and board mis-man - agement. No doubt legends from the 30’s are turning in their graves again and the stars of the 70’s must be totally disgusted with the cur - rent situation. But back to this year’s final - in association with Etihad Airways we have 2 All Ireland tickets to give away over the next two weeks. Keep an eye on our website for the competition. You will also find an increased level of hurling news daily at www.hurlingworld.com as we go into the second stage of the site developement. Until next week Best wishes from the team at Hurling World. FEATURE From the heart Martin White ISSUE 16 Aug 17th 2009 3 Martin White A Hurling Centurion Part 2. Kilkenny’s Martin White has seen every senior Kilkenny All Ireland medal winner since their first winin 1904 in the flesh. He also won 3 senior medals himself in 1932, 1933, and 1935. In this interview for the Black and Amber DVD he talks about his life and times in the Kilkenny jersey. You played Limerick in the finals of 33 and 35! That was a great Limerick team. But for Kilkenny that team was capable of winning 5 or 6 All Ire - lands. With Pady Scanlon in goal and with Tommy McCarthy at full back and the half back line of Mick Cross, Paddy Clohessy and Garreth Howard and then Timmy Ryan and Mick Ryan and then the half forward line of Mick and John Mackey and John Roche and Jimmy Close Paddy McMahon and Dave Close. Something always arises after every game but in 33 Kilkenny travelled to America then in match was the last thing on our mind. You were Mick Mackey got a free. He went for a goal to win 34! having too good a time. We played in Inis Fáil Park the game instead of going for a point to draw the The boat trip going out wasn’t very good the .It was during the prohibition and was a right she - game. Mackey of course was blamed but I don’t weather was bad but the trip coming home was been place. All around on three sides of it the think he went for a goal. The ball went low and beautiful. We got a great reception. The lads at moonshine botttles were packed as high as the was saved. We won by 4 points. home were wondering did you win the match. The wall. We played in the Polo Grounds as well. It was FEATURE From the heart Martin White ISSUE 16 Aug 17th 2009 4 Lory Meagher Captain of Kilkenny in 1935 a tight pitch as broad as it was long. We were only home a week and met Dublin in the Leinster Final KILKENNY-ALL-IRELAND HURLING CHAMPIONS 1935 and it was a draw. They beat us in the replay. They Back Row: Paddy Larkin, Martin White, Tommy Leahy, Jimmy Walsh, Podge Burne, Lory Meagher (Capt.), Peter drew the final against Limerick I was at both O’Reilly, Jimmy O’Connell. matches. Charlie McMahon was the team captain. Front Row: Matty Power Locky Byrne, Johnny Dunne, Jack Duggan, Paddy Phelan, Peter Blanchfield, Eddie He broke his finger in the drawn game. Dublin Byrne. though they had the match won and they put in body it was a very satisfying match. Charlie because he was the team captain. But he final again in 1935! The heavens opened in 35. Every body got went in on the wrong man. He went in on Jackie Who did you mark in 35? O’Connell. Jackie got one of the goals and made drenched. I remember my brother Paddy - God the other. Dublin lost Tommy Treacy from Tipper - rest him - he was so wet that I gave him my pyga - I was the worst thing you can be a utility man. You ary who was playing centre forward the same day. mas and he wore it under his coat going home. are better off if you can play in one place because Dan Canniffe of Cork was centre back. When we went in at half time we were carrying so you can be left there. I started off at left half for - much water in the boots we took off the bots and ward on Mickey Cross. Mickey was a tough close Kilkenny and Limerick met in the poured the water out and yet according to every - hurler. Johnny Dunne was playing at right corner FEATURE From the heart Martin White ISSUE 16 Aug 17th 2009 5 Brian Coady and Martin White on his 100th birth - day. Photo: Sportsfile LIMERICK-ALL-IRELAND HURLING CHAMPIONS 1936 Back Row: W. P. Clifford, Martin Butler, P. O’Reilly, Paddy Mackey, Mick Kennedy, Mick Ryan, Mick Condon, Paddy O’Carroll, Mick Mackey (Capt.), Paddy McMahon, Paddy McSweeney, Charlie Holland, Sgt. Major Brown forward. Johnny got knocked out and I was shifted (Trainer). from left half to right corner forward on Mick Front Row: Dave Clohessy, Timmy Ryan, Paddy Scanlon, Tom McCarthy, Jim Roche, Garreth Howard, John Kennedy. From the frying pan into the fire! Larry Mackey, Micky Cross, Jackie Power, Paddy Clohessy, Jim McCarthy. Duggan came on for Johnny Dunne and on the stroke of halftime his brother Jack who was playing That was fiasco.The team was getting old in 37. What were Tipperary like at the time? centrefield got his wrist broken. In the dressing Lory came on but shure there was nothing he room at half time I was put in centreforward on They were very young and of course they had could do. Lory was thirty eight. Mattie Power had Paddy Clohessy and Johhny Dunne came back in Jimmy Cooney. He was a lovely hurler he played won an Al Ireland in 1922. Mattie won 4 All Ire - with a bandaged head. So the 3 men that I marked for the Carrick Swans. He was in the army. He did lands with Kilkenny and an All Ireland with that day they wern’t bad. his degree in college because my brother was in Dublin in 1927. When I was a young lad going in the class below him. I got to know Jimmy very well Limerick got revenge in 36! the pony and trap to mass Mattie Power and John afterwards. I met him – it was during the war years Roberts used to be practicing in a field along the – and he was going I think it was to Dieppe. Going I don’t like that word in sport. They got their enti - road where we came in Belch field. Mattie was no to test the sands for the invasion. Now that’s a tlement in 1936. younster Peter Reilly the same way, Padge Byrne thing that a lot of people don’t know. I met him Neddy Byrne, they were all getting on. The only below in Cathal Brugha street and we had a long You played in 37 against Tipperary in ones that survived were Paddy Phelan, Jimmy chat and he told me that was where he was going. Killarney! Walsh and Paddy Larkin. So Jimmy Cooney was one of the engineers that FEATURE From the heart Martin White ISSUE 16 Aug 17th 2009 6 tested the sands for the Allies in Dieppe. He didn’t live too long afterwards. The “Sweeper” Ryan all those were young fellows. They were a grand team. He was suspended by the GAA in 1938! He went to a rugby match and Clare told Tipperary that if they played him they would object. Tipper - ary thought they wouldn’t and they played him. Now he was only seen going to the match not at the match. Now Ned Wade had hurled his heart out for Dublin for years and Johnny Leahy got after him and he declared for Tipperary. They were twice as good as Clare but Clare got the match and they were thrown out. Dublin went on to win the All Ireland and Ned Wade never got his All Ireland medal. You were working in Cork for the 1939 All Ireland! I went to Cork on the 1st of June 1939. Kilkenny and Cork met in the 1939 Final. I used to go down to the Athletic Grounds watching them training. Jack Lynch (Cork) and Jimmy Walsh (Kilkenny) lead their teams in the 1939 parade before the final. The Cork fellows are great sportsmen and if you are a sportsman they take you to their heart.