The Archive · 1926

Second Half

The second half belonged almost, entirely to the Police. It is true that the Engineers forwards, who individually appeared to be more tricky than those of the Police, occasionally got going, but the feature of the whole period was the attacking of the Police. The Po-Vice halves played a great game, Gash being here, there and everywhere, and being well partnered by the other two halves. Quayle got the goal which brought the scores level. The Police, although they had been having by far the majority of the play, were still a goal down, and this was the state of affairs 15 minutes before the finish. Then the Police got going in an almost, irresistible manner, and before the fame ended, Hurry, Torner, Wilkin. son and Rea? each secured a goal for the Police and brought the final score to 6-2.

The teams Calder, Crawford and Madar, Wright, Begg, Sy: Bailey,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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