ENGLAND WONDER BOY CARRIED OFF WITH BROKEN LEG
TRAGEDY came for Young England at Ashton Gate here last night. After only nine minutes' play Alick Jeffrey, Doncaster Rovers brilliant seventeen year-old inside right, broke his leg in two places, and was taken to hospital. There was a hush as Jeffrey and French centre half Richard Tylinski, challenged for a loose ball.
   And over that hush everyone heard the crack of the bone breaking.
Jeffrey fell heavily, clutching his leg. Almost before he hit the ground at least three England players, realising how serious it was, yelled anxiously for a stretcher. He was carried off, his young face contorted in agony. It is obvious that he will be out for the rest of this season—or even longer.
   The pity of it was that Jeffrey had already showed signs of taking over this match completely.
He was linking up perfectly with centre forward Vic Groves and was only stopped from scoring in the fifth minute by a despairing tackle from left back Marcel Novak. But even though they missed Jeffrey — Colin Booth of Wolves came on as substitute — England should have been two goals up in the next ten minutes. Blame right winger Bryan Douglas for two incredible misses after he had weaved his way through with only the goalkeeper to beat.
   Each time he delayed his shot a split second too long. BUT ENGLAND HAD THEIR ESCAPES TOO.
A minute from half-time centre forward Jean Marie Courtin had rounded centre half Trevor Smith for the first time in the match. He was poised to shoot when right back Don Howe took the ball of his toe for a corner.
England really piled on the pressure at the start of the second half. A header from Booth thudded against the crossbar, a shot from Groves trickled just wide.
    Goalkeeper Jean Taillandier injured his left arm saving from outside left Alan A'Court and was carried off with a suspected fractured right wrist.
His substitute Russell was in action right away, snatching the ball from Booth's head. But England's luck was right out and gradually the match became scrappier and scrappier. They played like men with their minds on something else—and my guess is that they were all thinking of Jeffrey. It was only in the last minute that the game flared up again. Goalkeeper Alan Hodgkinson saved England with a desperate dive to clutch and clear a shot from outside right Dorsini. And at the other end Roussel did exactly the same to smother a Bryan Douglas effort.
  

Under the floodlights at Ashton Gate, Bristol, this match was unfortunately marred by an accident to Aleck Jeffrey, whose leg was fractured nine minutes after the start. The crack was heard by most of the spectators and it seemed to take the sting out of the game. On the general run of play England should have won, although it required a daring dive by Hodgkinson to stop the little French outside-right from scoring in the final seconds. After the first 20 minutes, when the England wingers were in dashing form, defences were on top, with Smith at centre-half an outstanding success.