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Trivia
- A boxing match has been arranged in Paris between an English amateur named Mitchell and Georges Carpentier, who will receive a purse of 2,500 Francs. Mitchell has vowed to stand up to Carpentier longer than Bombadier Billy Wells, did (73 seconds) and Carpentier wagers he won’t.
- A woman suffragette who gave her name as May Stewart, was brought before magistrate Sir John Dickinson, at Bow Street Police court after being arrested in the Oriental Sallon of the British Museum where she had broken display cases containing oriental pottery with a chopper that she had concealed on her person. Stewart refused to recognise the court and caused a disturbance by shouting and throwing paper objects at the magistrate whereon she was restrained by three police officers. She was committed for trial and as she was taken away shouted: "Rebellior against tyrany, obedience to God-if you know what God is, you whited sepulchres."
- A comprehensive Easter programme, consisting of musketry and signalling practice and ambulance and hospital work has been arranged by the Ulster Volunteer Force. There were remarkable scenes at the Belfast Railway station as hundreds of these men, dressed in khaki uniforms, armed like regular soldiers and led by ex-Boer war officers embarked on special trains transporting 2,000 men of the South Belfast UVF to Castle Upton, Templepatrick.
- The Scotsman reports from London that on Saturday, Sir Herbert Tree presented a new play in five acts by George Bernard Shaw entitled "Pygmalion". The play describes how Professor Henry Higgins, a philologist meets a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle in Covent garden and begins the process of tranforming her course Cockney accent to that of a refined lady. The Glasgow Herald headline on the same topic is: "SWEAR WORDS ON THE STAGE", and discloses that when a young man asks Eliza to walk across the park she exclaims: "Walk! not b—— likely." The adjective has never to my knowledge been used on the stage" says the Herald reporter.
Review
In a disappointing and scrappy encounter both teams struggled to come to terms with the windy conditions. Ebenezer Owers, at centre for Celtic, had a particulary poor afternoon for the Hoops and would lose his place for the replay.
Teams
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Young, Johnstone, McMaster, McAtee, Gallacher, Owers, McMenemy, Browning
HIBERNIAN:
W Allan, Girdwood, Templeton, Kerr, Paterson, Grosert, R Wilson, Fleming, Hendren, Wood, Smith.
Referee: T. Dougray (Nitshill).
Venue: Ibrox Park
Attendance: 56,000
Articles
Glasgow Herald 13th April 1914 (remainer of clipping unreadeable)
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Articles
The Scotsman, Monday 13th April, 1914
CELTIC AND HIBERNIANS DRAW AT IBROX
Pleasant weather conditions favoured the forty-first Scottish cup final, played at Ibrox, Glasgow. A strong wind blew from goal to goal, and the Hibernians were fortunate enough to get the first advantage of it, the Celtic playing under the additional disadvantage of having to face the wind.
It was the Glasgow team however, who were the first to be dangerous, and after a bout of passing on the right wing, Overs got in a great shot, which just grazed the crossbar. A few minutes later the Celtic centre again hit a hard drive, after McMenemy had tried a shot, and for some time the Celtic forwards continued to hover in the vicinity of Allan’s charge. That they did no damage was due to the sturdy defence the Hibernians put up and when the Edinburgh forwards took up the running it was only a smart clearance from Dodds that kept Hendren out.
On another occasion Wilson was about to shoot when Shaw prevented the ball finding its billet by rushing out and conceding a corner. Another chance came by the way the Hibernian winger after a scrimmage in the Celtic goalmouth, and this time he completely beat Shaw, only to find McNair, who was standing on the goal-line, knock the ball out with his knee. These were narrow saves for the Celtic, but subsequent play saw the Hibernians also getting their frights, Browning’s centres generally holding danger. But it was fortunate for the Hibs at this stage that Owers’s shooting had deteriorated, and he and his clubmates got little time to settle near goal, as a result of the keen tackling of Girdwood and Templeton, who got good support from their half-backs.
A long drive by McMenemy, which just carried over, was the finishing touch of a Parkhead attack, and then the Hibs put in an aggressive spell. First Smith and then Wood gave Shaw something to think about, and when Paterson followed Fleming with a good effort matters looked promising from an Edinburgh point of view, but to level things up a bit Celtic romped to the other end, and Owers was again unlucky to find a rasping drive skim over the bar. But lack of any great finish was responsible for the sides going in without goals, and by many it was thought that the Hibernians had lost their chance of winning.
Curiously enough, however, the Hibs played played better against the wind than they had done with it, and the opening stages of the second half saw them lay claim to the bigger share of the aggressive work. They, however, got rather a set-back when Kerr was kicked on the face, and a charge by Gallacher laid Allan out.
Both the injured soon recovered, and once more the Celtic defence were on the stretch, to be thankfully relieved by and Owers’ breakaway, which, however, Templeton brought to naught. Wood was playing his part as a defender, and playing it well, but it was left to Fleming to almost clinch matters when a free kick was awarded to Hibs close in on Shaw’s charge. He missed narrowly, but it was a particularly fine, first-time shot, and fully deserved the cheer it evoked.
Then McAtee got going and caused excitement at the other end with a rocket-like drive which Allan had to fist over the bar. The same player brought out another brilliant save on the part of Allan when he drove in a ball which looked like whizzing into the net at the base of the post. A fine effort by Owers followed, and then commenced a desperate fusillade on the Hibs’ goal, a mighty lunge by Young which struck the post and a point-blank drive by Owers being the outstanding incidents. Allan was the saviour of his side at this stage, and he come through his trying ordeal grandly.
The result was a good draw, and though there were no goals scored the game did not lack thrills.
The drawings at the gates amounted to £1,579, representing an attendance of nearly 60,000. It has been decided that the replay will take place at Ibrox, the kick-off to be at quarter to six.
Ebenezer Owers (right) closes down Templeton of Hibs
