James "Bobby" Ryng (15 February 1913 – 22 August 1988) was an Irish hurler who played for the Cork senior team.
[1] In 1932 Carrig qualified for the first senior championship decider in eighteen years and Ryng was in the full-forward line.
After picking up a number of injuries in the semi-final as well as having Ryng suspended, Carrigtwohill sought a postponement of the game.
Glen Rovers "eight in a row" includes this 1935 unplayed final which in effect was won in Cook Street, where the Cork County Board meetings were then held.
By 1939 Ryng was one of the more senior members of the team as Cork made a breakthrough in the provincial championship.
Ryng roomed with Jack Lynch, a future Taoiseach, and in the early hours of Sunday they were woken with a terrible racket and they thought Dublin was being bombed.
While a draw looked likely as the hour drew to a close Paddy Phelan sent a seventy-yard free in towards the Cork goalmouth.
The sliotar was gobbled up by the defence and cleared, but only as far as Jimmy Kelly who sent it straight over the bar for a one-point lead.
Ryng was listed as a substitute for the final and came on against Dublin, however, it turned into a one-sided affair thanks to contributing goals from Johnny Quirke and Ted O'Sullivan.
He also played with Dr. Crokes, Killarney and Laune Rangers, Killorglin as his carpentry work with the railway brought him to these locations.
This was taken from a Puck Fair supplement of the Kerryman Newspaper but the accompanying photo shoes the "REAL RYNG" - BOBBY!
In 1938 he was on the Millstreet team that lost to St. Nicks in the Cork County Senior Football Championship semi-final.