12.04.1913 at 15:00 Printing Works Enclosure, Tring Road, Aylesbury.
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Attendance :
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Aylesbury United
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3 - 3
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St Albans City
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Should the 2nd Coldstreams win the Spartan League Championship – and there is now every reason to believe they will – they must thank Aylesbury United for the assistance they gave them on Saturday in playing St Albans City to a draw of three goals each way and thereby robbing the City of a valuable point when every point was needed and also spoiling the appearance of their goal average. A goalless draw would have left the City with much more hope than did the actual score and their only chance of retaining the Championship lay in the Chesham Generals beating the Coldstreams on Monday.
The game was one with few redeeming features. The City were without W.B.Clark(who had not put his injured foot to ground all the week), Arthur Wiggs(absent with a poisoned hand), W.Marsh(unable to get away) and T.Hearn, A.Michell and R.S.Hammond reappeared in the eleven which had to be rearranged.
Nevertheless, the City played clever football and for the greater part of the game were far and away superior to their opponents, but towards the end they fell away and Aylesbury, attacking strongly, nearly succeeded in gaining the victory in the last quarter of an hour.
The outstanding feature of the afternoon, however, was the antagonistic behaviour of the greater portion of the crowd towards Tom Hearn who, previous to joining the City, had been, for six years, captain of the United, whom he left owing to a difference with the Club.
Reprinted from “The Herts Advertiser and St Albans Times” 19th April 1913. |
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