Scotland

This great international, played in accordance with the association rules, took place on Saturday afternoon, on the West of Scotland Ground at Partick, near Glasgow, and the weather being exceptionally fine and pleasant there was an immense attendance of spectators, computed at 8,000. Mr. Ottaway, having won the toss, Scotland kicked off about 3.30 amidst a scene of great excitement. No sooner was the ball in motion than the English carried it down to their opponents' citadel, Hubert Heron, Kingsford, and Chenery making some vigorous onslaughts, which for some time were successfully repelled. At length, however, after a desperate mélée in front of their lines, the ball being kicked on the breast of Kingsford, it bounded off and went between their posts, thus crediting England with the first goal. Ends were quickly reversed, and the Scotch, stimulated by the cheers of their partisans, renewed the strife with increased vigour, their efforts ultimately being crowned with success, as Mr. F. Anderson succeeded in equalising matters by securing a goal. Both sides fought grandly, but fortune favoured the Scotch, who shortly afterwards obtained a second goal; and notwithstanding the strenuous efforts of Ottaway, Chenery, Heron and Kingsford, who worked hard to retrieve their loss, England sustained a defeat, their opponents obtaining two goals to their one.