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Show IRELAND'S ATHLETIC VICTORIES. She Defeats England and Scotland in Football and Wales in Hockey. Ireland's athletes have again distinguished distin-guished themselves. .Within a recent period they defeated England's and Scotland's crack players in Rugby football foot-ball matches and Wales' representatives representa-tives in hockey. The contest with the Englishmen took place on the Mardyke football grounds, Cork, in the presence of 10,000 scectators. Almost every lover of the Rugby game in Cork and its adjoining 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 decorated deco-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 few-minutes later the shamrock representatives representa-tives made their appearance to the stirring stir-ring strains of "Garryowen." In this fine football contest the representatives rep-resentatives of the rose were beaten at every phase of the game, and the final score was: Ireland, i goal, 4 tries (17 points); England, 1 try (3 points). B. McLear of Cork county was the star of the Irish players, and was pronounced 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 recently re-cently when the Invincible wearers of the shamrock gained over the thistle players as complete a victory as they did over the men who wear the. rose. Twenty thousand spectators witnessed 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. Patrick's Pat-rick's Day." and were loudly cheereri by thousands of their fellow- countrymen country-men resident in Caledonia. A battle royal followed and was splendidly won by the superiority of the Irish forwards. for-wards. Though the motto. "No one touches me with impunity" was some what tarnished, the Caledonians put up a great contest, but were squarely defeated, de-feated, the score being: Ireland, 1 goal and 2 tries (11 points); Scotland, 1 goal (5 points). The Irish team was as follows: M. F. Landers, H. Thrift, B. Mclar. J: E. Moffat t, G. A. D. Harvey. T. II. Robinson. Robin-son. E. D. Caddell. J. J.'Coffey, A. Ted-ford. Ted-ford. II. G. Wilson, II. J. Knox, TI. J. 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 onfa passing bout, and after a good tussle outside the posts one of the latter's players equalized. Following this Ireland 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 somewhat 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 outside out-side the Irish net, scored a goal. Ireland, Ire-land, however, returned to the attack, and did not allow Wales to go beyond Half way up to the time the final whis tle went, when the score. stood; Ireland, 8; Wales, 2. The Tilot. |