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• . 1 . * »• 1 i . , ,The Durand challenge c/Up for football has been won this year by the Royal Dragoons, who; iri. the final match, played at Simla on the 25th ;uit., defeated the 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment by one goal to nothing. Lord! and Lady Curzon were among the spectators; and; when play was over, the Viceroy made a speech in Which he laid claim to some. experience as an old football player who hadbroken both a shoulder and an arm, in the game;___ , • * ’ , ' . , •His Excellency also had special reasons for congratulating the victorious team; as it included Captain Lambert, one of his aUli-.s-de-rainp. After a. speechfrom the Military Member, Sir Edmond Elies, who Ifor the last ten years has given a cup to the win- ,1 nib team, Lady; Curzon distributed the prizes—the' Durand Cup, which can only be held for a year; a second cup, Which can be retained if a regiment carries it off three years in succession; and. the military : members' cup. The Durand football tournament was instituted by the British Ambassador *to the United States, in 1888, when he was Foreign Secretary to theGovernment of India, and*as ardent, if not quite;sofrequent, a player as when he was at Blackheath. This is' the ninth time in eighteen years that the cup has been won by a single goal. In 1893-95 the Highland Light Infantry won three years in succession, and the same feat-.was accomplished by the Black Watcli in 1897-9. ...This year, for the: first time, on record, a cavalry regiment has not only competed, but come off a winner. ■
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London Standard
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Oct 23, 1905
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