CHARITY CUP GAMES

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 71, 22 September 1919, Page 10

CHARITY CUP GAMES

INSTITUTE v. BROOKLYN.

There was a fair attendance of the public at the Association Park on Saturday afternoon, when Institute v Brooklyn played their tie in the Charity Cup competition. Brooklyn opened the game with a brisk northerly wind in their favour, and some good work was displayed by the forwards. Belhamie, i Brooklyn's full-back, rose, as usual, fully to the occasion, but on the right and left and down the centre there were periods of really good play, and the issue was momentarily in doubt —and the wind played a very important part in the negotiations. The first goal was scored by Institute, from , some interesting play down the middle of the field. Brooklyn quickly retaliated, but Porter, for Institute", who had been watching long for a, chance, got possession close to goal and shot successfully. Institute, .2; Brooklyn, 1 That was the position at halftime, chiefly for the reason that Tarrant saved cleverly a beautiful shot by Trevethick, Brooklyn's centre forward. At the opening of the second spell Brooklyn attacked heavily, and the play was quite up to standard. Then from a corner, the result of some very mixed play, M'Girr gave Belhamie no chance with a fine shot, and the score was : Institute, 3; Brooklyn, 1. Institute kept up the pressure, but the Brooklyn backs were playing a good game, though time and time again the possibilities of a score on either side "were such as to keep the onlookers speculating. Mr. A. E. Wells was the referee. MARIST v. V.M.C.A. If the term "exhibition" is to be applied to the senior grade game, Marist v. V.M.C.A., played at the Seatoun Park on Saturday afternoon, it must be qualified by the adjective poor, for neither side made a showing of football. This was mainly, if not wholly, due to the heavy northerly that swept over the field, making fine individual or combined play quite impossible, and taking charge of the leather from kick-off till the call of time. Marist opened play with the.wind behind them, and it was obvious that if they were to score a-t all they must do so in this spell. Young Men at once took play into the Green's territory but could not hold position, and for a fairly long and quite uninteresting period the game hurig about the lee side line, about mid-field. There were occasional rushes by either set of forwards, with the advantage as a rule in favour of Marist—and the wind. Well on in the spell'Y.M. conceded a comer, and the kick was taken by Thomas. He placed the ball nicely in the goal mouth, and the wind again came to the help of the Greens and carried the leather neatly between the posts. Hollis handed out, but a goal was awarded as he was over the line when he handled the ball. Lowe added another goal from a penalty kick, and the spell ended—Marist, 2; Y.M. C.A., 0. The second spell was largely a repetition of the first, except that Young Men had the advantage of the wind. Play again hung about the far side line for much of the time with occasional loose forward rushes by either side. Baker headed in two nicely placed corner lacks, and Trott, who was prominent in forward work right through, added the third goal for Y.M. All said, the game was disappointing, both to players and spectators, for as much depended upon the vagaries of the gusty wind, and lock, pure and simple, as upon real football.