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Kilmarnock Cemetery
Thursday 28 Sep 1922
With thanks to EmeraldBhoy, our Man at the Mitchell, for recovering these copies. This first one is from the Observer:
From the Evening Times:
Obit for Sunny Jim in the Evening Times of September of 1922
Sunny Jim Killed
A great football player
James Young known to the footballing world in his playing days as “Sunny Jim” died in Kilmarnock Infirmary last night from injuries received in a motor accident earlier that day. Along with two Darvel men Joseph Deans and Andrew Shearer, the latter a farmer, he was proceeding to Darvel for an afternoons shooting.
When their car was passing through the Wellington Bridge on the road between Kilmarnock and Hurlford, Iit collided with a Kilmarnock corporation tramway car and young was badly injured.
A Loyal Celt
In his young days Young played with junior club Dean Park of Kilmarnock and after going to England he was persuaded to leave Bristol by the late Mr. Michael Dunbar to join Celtic. With Celtic he remained to the end of his football career in 1905 serving the Parkhead club for 16 years.
Young was an enthusiastic player whose good qualities were not recognised as they might have been. The SFA capped him against Ireland in 1906, and the league honoured him six times, but he never achieved his hearts desire of playing against England for his native country. Above all however he was a club player, and surely never was Celtic served better by a player than “Sunny Jim.”
Some years ago he became the tenant of a public house in Duke Street Kilmarnock, in succession to his old friend and club mate Bobby Templeton.
Young has left a widow and a Family of two girls and a boy. He was a Brother In Law of Alick Smith, the great left wing forward of Rangers.
