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ROVERS TRIM NEWARXS; HUDSONS SHADETHE SCOTS; BLUES BEAT WIIBERFORCELast Year's National Champions Tied for First with the Hudsons.Newark Football Club guve I the Full Klver Rovers a hard tussle at Morris Park yesterday afternoon before the Pilgrim conquerors finally succeeded 1n downing the local aggregation by a count of a gouls to 2. The game was an Eastern League championship contest, and was fast and exciting all the way.A Yonkers man, Hume, played fullback for the Newarks, and made good. The poor shooting of the losers was the chief cause of their defeat. Several chances to win were thrown away by inaccurate try® for the rtet. Both goals were frequently In danger during the first half, but neither side hud scored at half time.In the HnaJ period of play Swords, for the Rovers, finally Succeeded hi making a score after Southerland hud assisted him in bringing the ball in position for the attempt. Murphy scored the second goal for the winners soon after with a fast shoot, uiid tl e third and final score madA by llie Full River eleven was mode by Swords. With only a few minutes to play, the Newarks rallied and came within an ace of tleing the score. Thompson put ope in the net a few minutes before the whistle blew and MacKenzle followed immediately with a second goal.As a result of yesterday's game in the National Socaer Football League, the| won three games and being credited , with •» points In the standing. The Blues, however, have lost three games, while the Hudson organization bus still to taste its first defeat. The Newarks and the Scots also figure in a tie for the second position honors, each of the teams having won two games. | Brooklyn drew up a little 6u the Jersey A. C. by winning a 2 to 0 game | irom the Skeetcr*.The excellent worty of Epslin at goal | for the Bcottlsh-Amerlcans. yesterday afternoon, alone prevented the West Hudsons from defeating the Scots by a one-sided score in an Interesting gamej of Soccer played on thA Harrison Ova! before a crowd that numbered fully 3,000. The final score was 2 to 1 in favor of the West Hudsons. A clever shot by McAllister after Knowles had dribbled the ball and passed .t to him put the West Hudson eleven In the lead, only fifteen minutes before the game ended. Previous to that time the Issue had been a deadlock, both teams having scored a goal on penalty kicks, In the first half. The visitors were the first to score. McKay was the offender, handling the ball within the penalty area, and McAllister scored the goal. A few minutes later Miller, for the Scots, committed the 'same error, and Nell tied the score on a penalty. In tin-second half the play was in the Scots' territory most of the time, but the great work of Epslin prevented the home team from scoring. After several futile attempts. McAllister finally sneaked one over for the shot that won the game.Newarks Give Rovers a Good Fight—Results of Other Games.Blues won from the Wilberforce eleven; by a count of 2 to 0. The game was fast, but wan marred by an accident to.Steve Fletcher, of the Wilberforcej eleven, who Is in the Paterson General. Hospital with a broken leg.At West Side Park, yesterday afternoon. the Jerseys were compelled to bite the dust to the tune of 2 to 0, the Brooklyn A. C. team coming out victorious. The losers were minus the* services of several of their best men. who laid off In order to be in tip top condition for the play-off of the Amen-can cup tie with the Philadelphia Hibernians next %yeek. This weakened the team and cost the Jerseys a game in tha league.The Clarks were defeated in an In-1 terstate Amateur League game on the Clark A. A. grounds yesterday by theCeltics, of East Newark, th- score at the end of the game being I to 0. The Celtics were too much for the losers on the defence, while the winners bad little trouble In penetrating the defense of the thread men.At Heidelburg Park the Birmingham Lodge eleven defeated the .Sheffield Lodge team in a St. George Soccer League game by the score of 4 to 3. itiggans made three successful shots and Denhy one for the winners, and
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Newark Star And Newark Advertiser
Newark, New Jersey, US
Mon, Nov 22, 1909
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