MIKE Barriball started his playing career in the late 1950s playing for Whitstone in the Kingsley League at the age of 16.

Mike went to play for Bude in the C.C.F.A organised Rathbone Trophy and still possesses his runners-up medal from the 1957-58 season when they lost to Truro Minors at Camelford.

He continued to play for Bude in their Plymouth & District League side as well as graduating to the East Cornwall League side in the early sixties, winning the Torridge Cup in 1962-63.

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