The Archive · 1937

A. Whittaker

The Haggls Unmasked At the conclusion of the tifin Mr. W. J. Monk rose and in part said, 'Mu' the absence of our president, 'Me, Whittaker, T was asked to take the chair and lit gives me very great pleasure to welcome our friends. coupled with the names of Capt. T. W. R. Wilson and It, J. G. B. Dewar of the Shanghai Scottish and the pipers, J.' R, Wellsted and I. Mf Macrae. I also wish to thank those who contributed to the trimmings—Bwo Brewery for the beer; those who gave the biscuits and cheese and the famous "Haggls," and to Mr, Porter for that wonderful liquor "Dram-ule." It is the first time that {have had the honour of. rising to salute the Haggis whilst it piped' in, and the first time that have had the opportunity of study. wre and T have decided discarded bagpipe with the reeds pulled out.

But the interior of a Haggis is certainly more solid than the interior of a bagpipe. Although the match was between the Scots and the Sassenachs, to-day they were all one crowd and proud to be one crowd."

Capt. 'T. W. R. Wilson thanked Mr, Monk for his welcome.

At the finish of the match Mr, Monk called on Dr. A. C. Bryson, President of St. Andrew's Society, 10 resent spoons to the winning rinks. they return the compliment by presenting spoons to our winning tink." The winners were mon the Rest side—A. Harvey Gkip). F. 8, Ward, G. B. Fryer, A. Parkhill and on the Scottish, C. W. Porter (skip), R. MacFarlane, J. Henry and D. Macdonald, The Scottish this year were unfor~ tunate that they were without several of their good players, the absence of A. McGregor and'W. H. Train was certainly felt, for had these two skips been playing there might have been quite a different result, Forenoon Tae Rest v. Siuat Scorn A. Harvey (Gkip)" "Ht" Dallace (ak Harvey, Gio atic (stp)

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