Show SPORTING NOTES NOTS FROM ENGLAND Progress in English Socker Cup Contest Draw for Semi SemiFinal SemiFinal J Final Rounds witnessed the th re relay rela relay spectators Over lay la between 00 Everton and amid Crystal stal palace place the toffe coff boys bos being successful tui in put putting pu pUtting ting the quietus on th the nippy tans and below Is the result of the draw drawing drawIng ing lag for the all al absorbing semifinal lOMI round Semifinal English cup Everton vs ss v vet West Albion at Bolton Boiton BIU n Wool Woolwich Woolwich VoI et arsenal vs s Sheffield Wednesday Birmingham This round should draw drw out huge at attendances att t at both BoRon Bollon and Birmingham Birmingham Bolon an ham as both grounds are ar e Each capable of accommodating over spectators Everton and West Deem Brom With regard re ard to Yet wh both are winners The Te great difference eS fn In teams tams i I is that Everton being one of the richest richt professional foot football fot football ball teams in the world are arE cosmopolitan In character and their players hall hail hal from the four corners of the united unite kingdom while the West Vest Bromwich team tem is made up and in the past has been ben made up tip of o local talent bred and born brn in the district and in the tile present team nine of the eleven are natives n of Staffordshire and six of the nine of the hamlets clustering around West est h itself Isel so the West est Brom team actually actu Uy represents the lo locality 10 locality in toto tote and not in name oni only as H is If cal the case with wih the majority maJori of professional clubs However most enthusiasts pin their faith on Everton emerging sU success successfully e e fully through the semifinal With J re regard this Is 16 the gard to the tio tiC at Birmingham th first time for Woolwich to succeed W i i reaching this stage in the contest hilt last season Sheffield Wednesday were overcome eson by b Newcastle United The Lon London London London don club is playing very fine football at present and Southern hopes hope are centered on the arsenal and for the reason that they have a sounder defense defens and are slightly superior forward to th th the blades des as the are ar nicknamed nickname The arsenal are the favorites favorite for this round ron The date for the final at the Crystal pal palace pl place ace is set for or Saturday April Apri 20 The League Games At present the famous fam Newcastle Unit United United ed team tem hold a strong strom position on the th league table having to their credit 44 I points eague for thirty matches matche Everton Everto are their nearest rivals with 39 points pints for fO the same fame number of matches On the pros pres present pre Iame ent form of the leaders leders it seems sms likely that they will wi not be ho displaced and an 1 the United thoroughly deserve their position at the head of the league lea ue and an they are ar despite their exodus from the English ther cup the finest seeker socker combination In Inthe Inthe inthe the four our countries and lovers of the th game gme will be lie glad to see seo them duplicating Ia last t seasons triumph namely the capturing of or the league pennant Old lovers loers of the th game came will wi be sorry sorn to we see le that Stoke Stok one of ot the original twelve clubs club which formed forme the league and one of the time olet seeker socker teams in England is doomed domed for forthe fo forthe the second division while it Is a struggle l between Bury Bur Derby county and ami Notto county as to which club cub shall accompany the potters I Scotland vs Ireland Played at Glasgow Both countries have hv this season suffered defeat from Wale WaI al and very little interest was manifested In Inthe Inthe inthe the game gamp only 1 being present pent Af After After A Ator ter tor a poor game gme in which neither side sWe si displayed over oer ordinary talent the th Scots Se t ts won by b three goals oJ to nil ni The game gme showed that seeker socker ker talent is at the ebb north of ot the Tweed this season and that an extra number of Anglo Angl Scots ts will wili wi have to be included In th thO the Scotch team tem for them to make any showing shown against t match the in the final international Charity Football The match between Newcastle l land and the Corinthians for the Sheriff She of London Charity Charlt shield resulted in a vie vic victory C tory for the famous professionals pro I the United coming out victors in which a grand gand display of socker cocker was vae as witnessed by five goals to two The result of the game same was s also all a financial success succo us as over was handed to the London charities from the proceeds of the game gme English Team Against Holland Holand This match will wi be played at The lingua Hague Ha ue and as a the Dutchmen by b now are lre superb socker footballers foOtballer and have probably the best bet international side outside of the th British Isles the following strong ama amateur am amateur represent combination England has been be selected to t T Richardson Corinthians goal gol W Corbett Aston Villa Via and an W Old backs G Foster Ox Oxford Oxford ford for K G Blunt Bunt Oxford R H R Hawkes Hawke halfbacks R R IL A Young Cam Cambridge Cambridge bridge W V S Simpson Sheffield Wed We and I I Woodward Tottenham H A Bell Beli Beil farney and li H Hardman Everton forwards International Cross Country Race This the great race of the season will be run in the vicinity of Glasgow The Th wf English team is an exceptionally strong one Five teams are entered representing England Wales Scotland Ireland Irland and France The doings of the Frenchmen will wi be watched as their team has a member the worlds amateur champion for the hour his distance being eleven miles mies and over 1100 10 yards being but SW 00 yards short of Arthur record before the famous London Harrier Harer fell Cel under the bans of professionalism The course COUre at Glasgow is a stiff one being hilly with fully three miles mile of o heavy hevy plowed land Jand to cover The distance in inal all al is somewhat over oer ten mile miles The Erf En En Englishmen whose penchant Is long distance usual running are ere to win easily as a |