England v. Scotland, Two very evenly matched teams, representing Englind and Scotland. faced each other in the first roun?? of the revived Invernational Cur [competition. played on the Shanghai Football Club's ground on Saturday afternoon, and in a game, flayed in very unpleasant weather conditions England gained the verdict by a score of one goal to nil. The English team were' lucky jin obtaining the point that gained the decision, for on the general run' of play the Scottish team were well the equals of their opponents and it was somewhat unsatisfactory that, the one and only, and deciding point, should have been registered in the final stage of the match as 2 result of a breach of the rules.
In the first half England had the wind slightly in their favour; nevertheless Scotland were the first to become aggressive, and had it not been for the sterling defence of the English backs—particularly Quayle—looked certain to score. Opportunities came to the Scottish forwards and long shots went astray—either too high or too wide—"land dribbling tactics to short range were micro than neutralized by Quayle's defence and tremendous punting. Archer, froma pass by Wilson, had a good opportunity, imt as the result of a collision fail-to score and for the remainder of the game was a "winged" bird, suffering, we are sorry to say, from an injury to his shoulder.' With Scotland still pressing several shots followed that were cleverly cleared by Wade, and then the Sassenachs tock the offensive and looked Gangerous, particularly sor whom they were awarded a free kick, which was well stopped _and cleared by Torry Wilson, Scotland- were generally the iuvaders in the latter stages of the first half, but made poor use of several opportunities, especially when Robertson failed to take ad-
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