By "Tse Cnasra"
Yesterday's Tyro Cup match perhaps the closest played to date and it was only the Etceteras' rally in the last chukker that wrote finis to the Durhams (C), who are now eliminated from the tournament. The Etceteras (Telfer Smollet, Arnold, H. A. White and Morkejs) played well together in a fast and thrilling game to defeat the Durhams (C) (Fox Davies, Allen, J. H. Keswick and Heslop) by five goals to three.
The players were in good form and even the heat did not seem to bother them very much during the match, but they certainly looked as if they had had enough after the final bell. The scene of action was almost continually changing—first one side of the field and then the other, and that is exactly what spectators like to see, The Durhams were dogged by bad luck on two occasions when Keswick hit the goal post in the third and fourth chukkers. Keswick was in grand form and displayed clever stickwork and it was only matter of luck that they were beaten, as they were leading early in the third chukker.
Mokrejs, with the exception of a few rather spectacular misses, was nitting well and scored two goals for his side while White scored two and Telfer Smollett one,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.