The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-04-15
IRELAND's ATHLETIC VICTORIES
She Defeats England and Scotland in
Football and Wales in Hockey.

1reland's athletes have again distin-
guished themselves. Within recent
period they defeated England's an6
scotland's crack players in Rugby foot
ball matches and Wales representa-
| tiyes in hockey.
The contest with the EngIishmer
! took place on the Mardyke football
grounds, Cork, in the presence of 10 ,00C
spectators. Almost every lover of the
Rugby game in Cork and it's adjoin-
ing counties was present, and witnessed
one of the fastest and closest games
! ever played in the Green isle. The city
had a holiday appearance with its deco
I rated buildings and street cars, and
! when the contest commenced there was
unbounded enthusiasm.
The English players were the first to
appear on the field. while the band
| played Rule Britannia" and a few
| minutes later the shamrock representa-
tives made their appearance to the stir
ring strains of "Garryowen.'
In this fine football contest the rep
resentatives of the rose were beaten at
every phase of the game, and the final
score was; Ireland. goal, tries 07
points,; England, l try g points,. b.
McLear Of Cork county was the star
of the Irish players, and was pro-
nounced TO be one Of the best in the
Three Kingdoms by the many experts
present.
The fact that Scotland has some of
the best Rugby football players in the
world did not prevent the defeat of its
representative team at Edinboro re-
Gently when the invincible wearers of
the shamrock gained over the thistle
players as complete victory as they
did over the men who wear the rose.
Twenty thn11eard SDoctafnrc 1yitpoecad
this splendid contest and the victory of
Erin's sons was purely on their merits.
The Hibernians were first to appear
on the field to the strains of "St. Pat
rick's Day." and were loudly cheered
by thousands of their fellow country
men resident in Caledonia. battle
royal followed and was splendidly won
by the superiority of the Irish for
wards. Though the motto. mo one
touches me with impunity'' was some-
what tarnished, the Caledonians put up
a great contest, but were squarely de-
feated, the score being: Ireland, ! goal
and tries I'll points,; Scotland, goal
(5 points,.
The Irish team was as follows; NJ
f. Landers, II. Thrift, b. McIear J. E.
Moffatt, GA. D. Harvey, i. II. Robin
son. L. d. Caddell, J. ]. J.>Coffey, A. Ted 4
ford, II. G. Wilson. III. J. Knox, II. ].
Millar, G. Hamlet and Joseph Wallace.
The hockey match with Wales took
place in Cork. Within one minute after
bully off Ireland scored the first goal,
but the restart saw Wales away on "a
passing bout, and after a good tussle
outside the posts one of the latter's
players equaHZed. Following this Ire
land returned to the attack, and added
four more scores before the whistle
went. The Irish forwards beat the
Welsh men all over, while their passing
was in most cases faultless. On the
contrary. the Welsh passing was some
what faulty. During the second period
the Welsh men were seen to much
more advantage. Their forwards got
an opening, and after exciting play out
side the Irish net, scored a goal. Ire
land, however. returned to the attack
and did not allow Wales TO go beyond
talf way up to the time the final whis-
tie went when the score. stood: ireland,
8; Wales, 2.-The Pilot.