Evans, the Fulham half-back, sent off the field during the West London Derby game with Brentford on December 16, has been fined £5 by the Football Association. The sending off of Evans was the climax to much keen-edged though not ugly feeling. (Manley, the Brentford skipper asked the referee to let him stay. Both clubs protested in a well-mannered way to the F.A., that the sending-off was out of proportion to any alleged offence.
Slim, fair-haired Alee Brown, favourite for the "Daily Mail" Snooker Gold Cup, which, at thirty, he won last year, cleared the table in a run of 126 against Fred Davis, on Jan. 10 at Manchester. Score was 126-0!
It was a personal record for Alec, his first century under standard table conditions and twelve short of Joe Da world record of 138 against Brown on December 9 1938.
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