February 16, 2011
By Staff Reporter
The New York Leitrim Football Club will hold their annual dinner dance Jan. 27 at M’stro’s in Morris Park. The guest of honor is Paddy Gormley, a native of Aughnassheelin, Co. Leitrim, who has been a GAA player, coach, referee and administrator in his three decades with the New York GAA. Joe Taylor will receive the Joe McInerney Memorial Award.
For details, call Frank Brady at (914) 963-8729.
Millrose tickets on sale
Tickets are now available for the 94th running of the Millrose Games. The nation’s greatest indoor track meet is set for Feb. 2, 2001 at Madison Square Garden. Held annually since 1908, the Millrose Games is the second stop on the indoor leg of USATF’s "Golden Spike Tour" and is the longest running sporting event in Madison Square Garden’s history.
Tickets will be available at the Madison Square Garden box office at (212) 465-MSGI and at Ticketmaster outlets. Local ticketmaster information and Ticketmaster charge-by-phone numbers are (212) 307-7171, (201) 507-8900, (914) 454-3388 and (203) 624-0033, or visit their website www.ticketmaster.com Ticket prices are $25, $35, $50, $70.
Throughout its 93-year history, the Millrose Games have featured some of track and field’s greatest legends, including Eamon Coghlan, Jesse Owens, Jackie-Joyner Kersee, Carl Lewis, Gwen Torrence and Mary Decker-Slaney.
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Kerry F.C.
The Kerry Ladies Football Club will hold their annual general meeting Jan. 7 at 3 p.m. in the Aqueduct North Pub, Katonah Avenue, the Bronx. Details, Anne Holland, (914) 776-4359. New members welcome.
NYU running youth soccer clinics
The New York University soccer staff is running youth soccer clinics for the 2001 season at Sunnyside Gardens Park, Sunnyside, Queens, and at Balley Ellard High School in Madison, N.J. For information, call (347 581-4098.
Soccer players in Chicago
Chicago Celtic Soccer club is looking for experienced players for their Sunday morning men’s team. For more information, call John O’Sullivan at (773) 736-5391 or e-mail Josulli887@aol.com.