Edinburgh, Apr. 7.
Some English readers may not agree with the description of the 'Association games between Scotland and England as. the greatest} jin the football calendar. So far as England is concerned, the Cup final the biggest game of the year. Usually the attendance at the Cup'
nal is considerably greater than it is at any In in England. jut from the Scottish point of view there cannot be any' doubt as to which is cot biggest game of the ye [contest against England. [great satisfaction in the North, therefore, when, at the Hampden ground in Glasgow, the home team won by 2 goals to 0 against England. From goal out, the Scottish team radiated courage and depor!~ ment which ultimately proved resistible. At times it was more than suggested that the clan of the Scots would be rudely disturbed. Steady nerve in the defence opposed itself to what appeared to be as at the begin. ning, and for the greater part of the contest, the play latterly developed nto pounding, grinding, and forever ruthless assault on as courageous a back and goal triumvirate as has possibly ever represented Eogland. "Ashurst, Wadsworth, and Pym for England were indeed magnificent. Pym saw what was coming to him when Gallacher scored the first goal but the ball rose from the Airdrie man's boot at such a speed, and at such an angle, that leven extraordinary agility and intuition could not have prevented it finding its billet. Pym did remarkably well even to launch himself to the post simultaneously with the ball striking the underside of the.
s-bar and glancing against the side net. And his effort to prevent the second and last.counter—also Gallacher's—was as futile. Scot land's lost efforts were without number, and only for the fact that. without permission.
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