The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-24
SPORTING NOTES
FROM ENGLAND
Seeker Games Draw Record
Breaking Crowd in Present
Championship Series.

On Saturday. Feb. %. three OF the
eight games on the third round. English
cup. were drawn games. which were re-
played on midweek days. In these games
all records for attendance and gate re-
ceipts for midweek matches in England
went by the board. The results were as
follows:
Eyerton, 8; Bolton Wanderers, 0. At
tendance, $1,000.
Sheffield. l. Sunderland, 0. Attend
Crystal Palace, l; Brentford, O. Attend
anCe, 5000
All defeated clubs suffered humiliation
before their own supporters. as the three
winners were playing on foreign grounds.
which is another unique record The
draw for the fourth round is as follows
the ties TO be played on the grounds of
the first named club:
Barnsby VS.. WcOlwich Arsenal
Sheffield Wed VS.. Liverpool.
West Bromwich Albion VS.. Motifs
County.
Crystal Palace vs.. Everton
This leaves five first division clubs. two
second division clubs ana one Southern
league club for the fourth round The
weaker clubs have had the luck of the
draws. EvertOn won the cup last sea-
son, while w. B. Albion and NOtts COun-
~ are also eX-cup winners. Should
Crystal Palace reach the final stage the
Football association will be placed in a
dilemma, this club plays on the
Bydesham inClOsUre, the venue of all fl
mails. The law is that semi-finals and
finals must be played on neutral grounds
and in that event a new ground viii
have to be found i'm the metropolis Tile
next largest ground. that OF the Chelsea
Football club, has d holding capacity of
from $1,000 TO $1,000 persons. and with
London club on the final that ground.
though large, would be far too small tu
hold the teeming thousands who would
seek admission. The last occasion ON
which London club figured in the final
stage the paid admissions reached the
enormous total of ll0Sl2. hence the anN-
iety Of the officials of the Football as
ISOLATION.
inter-league International.
At Glasgow Saturday, March >. i'm the
presence of over 5000 spectators Scot
land played against England. Hitherto
these series Of what are called inter
league internatiOnals mot to be con-
founded for the real internationally have
Invariably resulted in sore defeats for
the cdnny Scots. but for once the Scots
put the spoke on the long run Of English
successes, and. although not securing "a
victory. she prevented the SasSenacH
scoring. The Englishmen were the clcv-
erer. faster. more methOdical ON their
passing and though the game ended iu
a draw. no goals being scored. vet theE
clearly demonstrated that there is "a
higher standard Of play in the league
clubs Of England than I'm those of her
northern neighbor-
Athletics.
The national cTOsS-coUutrE champion
ship. the great race Of the year. was he .d
in COiWel park. in the lovely ColWeI
dale. sequeStered among the Malvern hills
in Worcestershire. The weather ard
conditions were ideal. over lN5 runners
representing twenty-five barrier clubs
started. The course consisted Of turf OIL
the race course ana in the country roads.
with some stiff hill climbing then
through an apple orchard and through %
COppiCe of wood. then into the Oucu
again. with its hedges and i'm the fields
Ftve-baTred gates were some of the inn
Dement'S. also the usual quota of
plOwed land. The hill country and the
plOwe,- land thoroughly tested the STAN
amounted to few yards over ten miles.
Highgate barriers supplied the first man
home. and BiTchfield barriers carried of
the club championship. The time of the
winner @. Pearce, Of the Highgate har-
rierS, was 81 minutes and 36 seconds.
Eight men got home in 81 minutes and
under. and twenty-five under the hour.
The club placiBgs of the first four are as
follows. One or two sx-members are
now residents of this intermOuntain
country:
First Birchfied barriers 96 points: sec
ond. Highgate 12S points. third. Hallam-
shire. AZ points; fourth. Polytechnic. -1Sf
points.
Sutton barriers, last seasons northern.
national and international champions,
only finished sixth. with 2g6 points