400,000 AT EIGHT CUP TIES
, / LONDON, Feb. 20. Of the 16 clubs competing-in-the fiftli round of the Football Association* Gup the two remaining London teams, Arsenal and TottenhamwHotspiir, m their respective matches, and thus qualified to bo. included among those wild will be drawn to-day for the sixth round. • ' • A total of over 400,000 spectators paid £30,754 in gate. money, the largestamount taken at any one match being £4694, at Highbury, where Arsenal beat Aston Villa, by 4 goals to 1. The smallest “gate” was £2973, at Blackburn. Ambulance : men.were kept busy inside t]io Arsenal ground at Highbury. Score* of people fainted, so dense was the crowd, and they had to be carried over the heads of the spectators to receive attention at the touch line. •--.*) -UIHUWA) V»*V«-h»4k .. '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16622, 13 April 1928, Page 3
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