THERE was much to keep the sport fan engrossed, that weekend of February 14-15, 1953.
In boxing, the British heavyweight champion, Johnny Williams, suffered a ninth-round defeat in Germany; in football, an English Cup fifth-round tie at Goodison Park between Everton and Manchester United attracted 77,920 fans, a cup-tie record for the venue, while 20,000 spectators crowded into Glasgow’s Saracen Park for a Scottish Junior Cup game between Ashfield and Benburb.
Tenley Albright, a 17-year-old American, won the women’s world figure skating championship in Davos, Switzerland. A rink skipped by W.Young, of Airth, won the British Open Curling Championship for the third time. The new Scottish Cyclists’ Union had its first success in its efforts to win national independence.
Shinty was also much in evidence; the Southern League match between Glasgow University and Glasgow Skye at Garscadden (right) was a particularly fine match, according to this newspaper, producing “one of the best displays of shinty seen in Glasgow this season.”
University played very well but could not stop Skye exploiting their superiority in attack to win 4-2.
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Herald DiaryThe first-round Macaulay Cup tie between Glasgow Mid-Argyll and Glasgow Inverness-shire at Whiteinch’s Victoria Park, on the other hand, was a “big disappointment”, Inverness-shire being outplayed and losing 12-1.
The photograph shows some action from the Skye-University game. Perhaps because of the rutted state of the pitch, someone thought it advisable to mark, in pencil, on the reverse of the photograph, the exact spot where the ball could be seen.
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