HLI Chronicle 1910 - The Royal Highland Fusiliers

HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY CHRONICLE.
CROSS. COUNTRY RACE.
ON Wednesday morning, 9th !:larch, at 6.30 a.m., the
teal1lll for the Cross-Country Race assembled behind
the British Infantry Butts, and were shown over the
course, with the starting point at the 8th Rajputs'
Guard Room, the run being about two miles in length
with broken ground. The following Regiments took
part :-(4th) King's Own Lancaster Regiment, Lucknow;
(15th) East Yorkshire Regiment, ;
(57th) Middlesex Regiment, Allahabad; (7lst) d
Light Infantry, Lucknow; (92nd) Gordon Highlanders,
Cawnpore. Each team was composed of one Sergeant
or Corporal and ten men (L.-Corpls. to run as Privates).
The pace from the start was a hot one, and everyone
seemed eager to take the lead at the first. After a mile
a few of the competitors showed signs of distress. Pte.
Gallagher, H.L.I., BOon forged ahead, and was.running
with a fine easy stride, closely followed by CorpI. Shaw,
Ptes. Barron and Kane, and the lead was maintained
until the winning post was in view, the four abovenamed
running abreast, with the nearest man about
twenty yards behind, receiving a thunderous cheer
from the numerous supporters who eagerly awaited
the runners, and great was their enthusiasm on observing
four tartan shirt clad warriors with a olear lead.
The finishing was a bend of about 15 yards, and Cpl.
Shaw, who was left-hand man of the above four, had
the misfortune to run on instead of turning, and lost a
lot of ground, allowing one of the Middlesex to gain
4th place, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th . gained by Ptes.
Gallagher, Kane, Barron, and aw respectively.
The first man in I eceived 55 points and last man 1 point
(most to win). Results as follow :-H.L.I., 439 points;
King's Own, 359-a clear win of 80 points, which is
considered a record achievement.
The followin¥, team represented the Battalion:­
CpL Shaw (U F' ), Ptes. Kane (H F "), Gallacher" F "),
Barron (U A"), Baddelly (H A"), Wootten (H D"),
Soott (H D "), L.-Cpls. Quinn (H D "), Gray HI"),
Champion (" F "), and Pte. Smith, (H G " Company).
MURRAY CUP.-SlilMI-FINAL.
H.L.I. V. ROYAL SCOTS.
On the same night as the Cross-Country Run a huge
assemblage was· seen on the football ground of the
King's Own to witness the Semi-Final Tie of the Murray
Cup between the Royal Scots and the Highland Light
Infantry. The game was started at 4.45 in a glaring
sun, a strong breeze blowing 9 cross the field. ~he
&yals kicked off, and at once were repelled by Scevlty,
who sent on to Marshall, and a prolonged attaok was
kept on the Scots' g' el, but Sgt. Fletcher cleared with
a. fine punt. The game in thefirst half was very fast, and
both goals had narrow escapes. Welfare with a lightning
shot from twenty yards out beat Fletcher,
but had the misfortune to see his shot strike the upright
andJglance into play again. Finlay of the Scots also
did the same, Patterson being completely beaten,
when the post saved him. A minute from half·time
M'Menemy glided through the opposing defence and
shot hard for goal, straight at the goalkeeper, instead
.of plaoing it past him. Half-time soore, 0-0.
The second half was re.sumed amid great enthusiasm
after such "a magnificent first half. The Highlanders
at""once attaoked and the Royals were sorely beset,
ll:rshall and Lawrie on the extremes dropping over
some dangerous balls. A feature of the Tie was the
splendid half-back display on both sides, Collios and
Gallagher playing a strong game for us, and the Scots'
centre-half proving a stumbling-bl03k to our forwards
time and again. The game continued on hard-and-~ast
lines, the H.L.I. gaining three corners in succeSSIOn,
which were all cleared. Mention must be made of the
safe defence on both sides, the full backs kicking
grandly, the Scots' back left and Patterson, our right
back, being stalwarts. Full time was oalled with the
score shoot blank, and ten minutes' extra each way saw
no alteration in the score. A replay being necessary,
and as time and tide wait for no man, we must forward
these notes previous to the second game, but we trust
our readers at home will have heard ere this is published
that the 7lst reaohed the Final.
Our team was as under :-Goal, L .• CpI. Patterson,
(" G "); backs, Ptes. Patterson (U D ") and Gorman
(" F "); half-backs, Pte. Gallagher (" F "), L.-Cpl.
Scevity (" H "), Bandsman Collins (" F "); forwards,
Sgt. Lawrie ("B"), Pte. Welfare ("HH), Cpl. M'!lenemy
("H"), Pte. Patterson ("DU), L.-Cpl. Marshall, ("K").
ASSAULT.AT-ARMS.
To continue our Assault-at-Arms notes, we are
pleased to stat~ that w are in the Finals f th Catch­
Weight and Llght-Werght Tug-of-War, meetmg the
Gordon Highlanders and Shropshires respectively.
and look forward with all confidence for suocess; also
Transport Loading Competition, at which" K " Coy.
are quite expert, and hope to win.
SERGEANTS' MESS NOTES.
SISCE writing last we bave gone through our
Battalion and Brigade Training, "lOtes on which
will, I expect, appear elsewhere.
The Kirtg's Own invited us to take palt in a
series of games with them, the principal of
these being football and billiards; in the
former we won by 2-0, but in the latter came
down rather heavily, only winning one match.
It was a very ,enjoyable evening.
On Wednesaay, 2nd March, some of our
members proceeded to Cawnpore to take part
in the "Ladvsmith Ball," held there by the
Gordons. They bad a splendid time there and
enj oyed themselves very much. .
The station is at present in the throes of the
Lucknow Assault-at·Arms and also the Muru~y
Cup, in which we meet the Royal Scot'! in the
semi-finaL
Some hal£-a-dozen of our members have
gone bome for the summer, and will, I hope.
return invigorated by their visit. Sergt.
Bucbanan is proceeding to Strachur to enlighten
the Highlanders on the "Advantages
of the Army."
On the morning of ~Iarch 3rd Q.-M.-Se.rgt.
Murray and Sergt. Smithson went to Balrampur
on a shooting expedition. They were
received by Mr. J ackson, who is employed by
the Maharajah of Balrampur.
They received permission from the Rajah