the Boys' Institute.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 108, 8 May 1937, Page 23

the Boys' Institute.

Saturday leisure. That that problem is no simple one is shown by the Government's wish for the co-operation of sports bodies in solving it. The institution of a regular weekly competition for Inter-house League teams will give to Soccer and to the Capital City a deserved leadership in the. race, towards solution of the extra' leisure puzzle,. for.. '. excepting schoolboys, it is believed that there are no organised Saturday morning- games in the major cities. : Cricket ; ; has shown to what great popularity^ mercantile competition can extend, and provided the proper organisation, isy present—and that depends I largely on keenness, which is there in

the .fourth-round Cup-ties—at Celtto Park and Douglas Park, Hamilton. It has been a disastrous seas&n for the football clubs across the border, and it is estimated that -they had" by that date lost between £'6000 and £7000.

Motherwell must be regard«d^«is one of the unluckiest clubs ever.known, says an English paper. Their thirdround Cup-tie with Duns is history. It was twice postponed through snow, and then, when finally played at Edinburgh, it drew a gate of only £260. In all, Motherwell have dropped-near-ly £900 through this remarkable Cup tangle. Another severe blow was1 struck when Celtic had to call off their Cup clash with Motherwell. A crowd sor 60,000 was anticipated, and now that the game may have to be played dn mid-week it is more than likely that receipts will be down by nearly a thousand pounds.

Hamilton are not worrying to any great extent, even though theirtie was called off. Mr. McAndrew, a Hamilton official, said: "When we played Hearts in mid-week we drew-a record crowd, and we had a clear profit of £1000. I expect we shall exceed that 'figure in the game with Aberdeen, even though it is a mid-week fixture." ' .

St. Johnstorie have been very badly hit. Having been away from home for six weeks in succession, they had brought forward a fixture with Kilmarnock. There was a snow drift of 14 inches at one'end of thi Muirton pitch, and play was impossible.