Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-15

| The Norwich association football
 team were in top form at Sachem park on Saturday, defeating Sterling 3 to 2, | and thereby tying Captain Shorrock's s men for he league leadership. A fair | sized cro&Fd of rooters witnessed the
 game, VII Mch began at o'clock. The ga#e was brimful of exciting incidents Nom start to finish and kept
 the crowdA at fever heat Without doubt it WI the most hotly contested game whicN has been seen for a long time, as th4 Sterling men came down confident th% all they had to do was te Nang in 3 few easy goals and go home with s couple more points to their credit. tThey did their best, but got surpriSf. Doubtless the pres ence of someVof the fair sex helped inspire the wiApers with some of that desperate valoA which secured them the victory.
 The following were the teams lined out by the referee, F. Musgrave:
 Norwich-Goal, H. Finlayson; backs, J. Andrews and Ferguson; halves, Corners. Caro- n and Filling; forwards, F. Manville, Parsons, Brown, A. Fin layson and Hilton.
 Sterlin-GoaI Weary; backs, Cardi- neau and Clayton; halves, Buckley, Brundson and Osterlund; forwards, J. Brown, A. Shorrock, McGovern, Will iamson and T. Shorrock
 Brown kicked off for Norwich and passed to Hilton, who transferred to his partner Finlayson and in a flash the Norwich front rank were round Neary's charge, but the ball was sent behind. The play was fast and furi- ous, the ball travelling from goal to goal with lightning rapidity, neat movement between Brown, Par sons and Manville resulted in the lat ter beating Weary with a hot cross shot thus drawing first blood for Nor wich Sharpened by this reverse. the Sterlings, though playing hard game, put even more dash into their play and succeeded in equalizing with a long drive off Brundsen's tons which passed just below the crossbar. This was all the scoring in the first half, which ended with one goal to the credit of each.
 On the re-tsart Sterling was first to score, per McGovern. thus putting his team one up. However, this in no way disheartened the Norwich lads, who were determined to avenge their defeat of two weeks previous. and in consequence they imparted dash in- to their play which at times almost mystified the redoubtable Sterlings. Brown scored the equalizer and a number of attempts just missed the mark, Hilton and FCfnlayson both sending over the bar in their attempts to score. The winning goal came when Caron placed the ball out to the left wing and Manville and Parsons worked it down to the tSerling end and FinIayson wetting his foot on the leather drove it through the goal. No further scoring took place, the game ending, Norwich goals, Sterling 2. Linesmen were A. We're for tSerling and F. Pierson for Norwich. Referee, F. Musgrave. Time, 45-minute halves.
 For the winners, Finlayson in goal could not be, blamed for the second goal, though ne first one might have been tipped oNtr the bar. However, he brought off 4ue or two nice ones. Ferguson and Andrews played a relia- ble game at back. Caron was again the shining liant, his work as McGov- ern's guardisH being especially mo- ticeable Med overn was blocked and beaten at every turn by Caron's speed and judgmena. Filling and Corners both played Hard. The forwards, one and all exhibited a degree of dash and vim whidh it is hoped they will continue, thek combination at times being clever Ind neat.