Form triumphed and the Arsenal won the F. A. Cup for the second time in a thoroughly convincing fashion, although the winning goal of an exciting match took a long time to achieve. Misogynists from Shetfield will temper their satisfaction at the splendid resistance offered by their Second Division Davids to the First Division Goliaths with some degree of wrathful surprise at the amazing intrusion of -matrimonial Preoccupations into the event, It is indeed disappointing for a stouthearted Yorkshireman to find that on the eve of a big match a centre half-Back can so far forget himself as fo acquire a better half for other than football purposes. The criticism is made in all good faith, for the wedding does not seem to have aroused any comment sufficient to stir the cables, but just as cricketers were Jong inclined to point to the fact that Hammond's knack of knocking up Jeenturies was temporarily halted! after he changed his "civil conche tion," so the earnest footballer will surely feel that Shemeld's Cup chances were gravely menaced by that ceremony in which Johnston was} the secondary but essential gute on Friday afternoon. Even the Arsenal's} gargantuan indulgence in tea and toast could not be expected to count: erect suck a dangerous trifling with real
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