HLI Chronicle 1907 - The Royal Highland Fusiliers

HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY OHRONICLE.
very strong and resolute, while the forwards
found the net thirteen times during the League
matches. "F" Company's victorious team
was as follows ;-Cassidy; Tait and Butler;
Groundwater, Sinclair, and Richardson;
CoIlins, Lees, Milne, Anderson, and Innes.
The following is the result of the H.L.I.
Inter-Company League matches
IN'l'ER·COMPANY LEAGUE.
Matches
,--·Goals··'"'\
Coy. played. \Von. Lost. Drawn. For. Against. Pts.
F 6 4 0 2 13 3 10
D 632 I IS 87
G 6222866
B 6 0 5 I 4 16 I
Since the beginning of the new year, sport
in the Detachment has been rather fiat, but
the arrival of a detachment of the 1st Middlesex
Regiment (" B" and "K" Companies)
wakened things up a bit. After several
friendly encounters of a give·and.take nature,
a six-a-side football tournament was started,
and each section had to furnish a team.
That made in all twenty teams, and several
good matches were witnessed. Of course, as
we all know, there is not much room in a six-aside
match for the display of good football, as
it is usually the man with the best staying
power who can get there; still, nevertheless,
some good individual play was put in on
several occasions. ..
Matches were of ten minutes each way, with
five minutes' interval. In three or four of the
games, this time was not sufficient to allow
of any scoring, and extra time had to be played
to decide who were the winners.
Our friends the Middlesex held their own,
and managed well in the running up. They
got one team into the final, but were beaten
by No. 1 Section, "H" Company, by two goals
to one.
Space will not permit of a description of
each of the games. Hard work was prominent
in all of them, and, judging from the applause
of the spectators, the football was keenly
criticised. The best of good feeling, however,
prevailed throughout the tournament, and,
though at times the referee's decision did not
always please everybody, still there was no
bloodshed.
We had planned to have a great many more
games of all sorts with our friends the Middlesex,
as they were expected to stay much longer
at Dum Dum. Their hurried departure, however,
upset the arrangements, and once again
we had to remark with the poet that "the
best laid schemes, etc., gang aft agley."
The following are the draws, and the results
of the matches ;­
SIX-A-SIDE FOO'(BALL TOURNAMENT.
1ST RouND.-No. 1 Section, " H " Company,
H.L.I., 1 goal; v. No. 1 Section, " B" Company,
Middlesex, nil. No. 1 Section, "K" *
Company, H.L.I., 4 goals; v. No. 1 Section,
" K " Company, Middlesex, nil. No. 1 Section,
." I " Company, H.L.I., 1 goal; v. 2nd Section,
" H" Company, a.L.I., nil. No. 2 Section,
" I" C0i,pany, H.L.I., 1 goal; v. No. 2
Section, 'B" Company, Middlesex, nil.
2ND RouND.-No. 1 Section, " H" Company,
H.L.I., 1 goal; v. No. 1 Section, " K" Company,
H.L.I., nil. No. 2 Section, "I" Company,
H.L.I., 2 goals; v. No. 1 Section, " I"
Company, H.L.L, niL No. 2 Section, "K"
Company, H.L.I., 6 goals; v. No. 2 Section,
" K " Company, Middlesex, nil. No. 3 Section,
" I" Company, H.L.I., 1 goal; v. No. 3
Section, "H" Company, H.L.I., nil. No. 3
Section, "K" Company, Middlesex, 1 goal;
v. No. 3 Section, "K " Company, H.L.I., nil.
No. 3 Section, "B" Company, Middlesex, 2
goals; v. No. 4 Section, "H" Company,
H.L.I., niL No. 4 Section, "B" Company,
Middlesex, 2 goals; v. No. 4 Section, "I"
Company, H.L.I., nil. No. 4 Section, "K"
Company, H.I,.I., 1 goal; v. No. 4 Section,
" K" Company, Middlesex, nil.
3RD RouND.-No. 1 Section,r" H" Company,
H.L.I., 1 goal; v. No. 2 Section, "I"
Company, H.L.I., nil. No. 3 Section, "'1"
Company, H.L.I., 1 goal; v. No. 2 Section,
" K" Company, H.L.I., nil. No. 3 Section,
" B" Company, Middlesex, 2 goals; v. No.
3 Section, " K " Company, Middlesex, 1 goal.
No. 4 Section, "B" Company, Middlesex,
1 goal; v. No. 4 Section, "K" Company,
Middlesex, nil.
4TH RouND.-No. 1 Section, "H" Company,
H.L.I., 1 goal; v. No. 3 Section, "I" Company,
H.L.I., nil. No. 3 Section, "B" Company,
Middlesex, 3 goals; v. No. 4 Section, "B"
Company, Middlesex, 2 goals.
5TH RouND.-No.l Section, "H" Company,
H.I,.I., 2 goals; v. No. 3 Section, "B"
Company, Middlesex, 1 goal.
ATHLETICS.
On 23rd February a cross-country race was
held. The course was a pretty stiff three miles
to the far end of the maidan and back.
Individual prizes were given, and also a
prize to the Company that scored the lowest
number of points, the first six men home
from each Company to count points, according