WIN FOR DIAMOND.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 97, 26 April 1932, Page 16

WIN FOR DIAMOND.

The encounter between Diamond and Waterside did not provide many thrills for their supporters, and perhaps the main feature of the match was the manner in which Diamond, despite a bad secondspell lapse, pulled the match out of the nre at the last moment by 3 goals to 2. The teams were:—Diamond: Wyatt; Wotherspoon Hopper; J. . McLeod, Geddes, lodd; R. McLeod, Baker, Smith, Cunningham, Babbitt. Waterside- Melville; Pearson, Bolton; McLellan, Haines, Gummings; Hastings, Walker, McLeod, Longbottom, Johnston. Things were fairly even for a long time in the first spell, which saw Diamond facing the fair wind, but there was no score. Both sides combined in good movements, notable ones being when Hastings swung the ball to Walker," who- let McLeHan through but saw the half shoot past, another Waterside raid in which Longbottom and Johnston combined, and a 'Diamond assault which witnessed Baker and F\. JlcLcod link up a pretty movement that .resulted in a cross to Cunningbam letting the ex-Thistle man bustle the Waterside goalie. J. McLeod, Baker, R. McLeod, and Smith, then joined in a nice rush, but though Diamond were working well in midfield they could not finish off their movements. The same thing held true of Waterside when their turn came, Johnston once catching Wyatt napping and.missing a chance at an empty goal Shortly after, McLeod, the Waterside centre-forward, fell over in the effort to goal at pointblank range. The only score came a minute before the spell, when a clearance from a melee in the Waterside goal was snapped up by R. McLeod, who managed to penetrate with a ]ow shot. The second spell had barely begun when Waterside equalised, McLeod topping off a stinging attack by goaling. Following that Diamond took the upper hand for a time, and after some • good chances had been missed Baker bustled Melville and ran the ball into the net, thus ending an attack in which the Diamond right-wing had done some hard work. After that the match went to pieces and neither side seemed- able to sparkle. Diamond were having the worst of it now, and at length McLeod, the strapping centre-forward for the losers, gained his second goal from a struggle round the Diamond citadel. Diamond had been playing a very half-hearted game up to now, but the reverse spurred them to action, and almost at once Rabbitt sent the ball infield to Cunningham, who ran past a man and touched to Smith for the centre to score. The game ended shortly afterwards with the score: Diamond 3, Waterside 2. The referee was Mr. G. Jackson.