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A football tournament under Association rules lias this year been started 
in the Bengal Command. It is open to all batteries of lBse, field, and moun¬ 
tain artillery, and companies of garrison artillery quartered in that command. 
The initial results may be considered as satisfactory. Twenty-one batteries or 
companies have joined the Association and eighteen of these entered teams to 
compete for the challenge cup. This cup is a full-sized model in silver of an 
Association football. The winners of the tournament to hold it for the year and 
to get a money prize of Ks. 100. The 70th Field Battery, quartered at Bareilly, 
are the holders for 1898. 
Subjoined is a full return of the ties, and from the results it will be seen there 
were some very keenly contested games. 
1st TIES, 
cc C ” Battery, E.H.A. beat 15th Field Battery, E.A. 
“ FT ” Battery, E.H.A., beat 54th Field Battery, E.A. 
9tli Co., So. Divn., E.A., beat 4th Co., Wn. Div., R. A. 
9th Co., Wn. Divn., E A., beat 80th Field Bty., E.A. 
41st Field Bty., It.A., beat <£ B” Battery, E.H.A. 
Meerut. 
Meerut. 
Eoorkee. 
Jhansi, 
Lucknow, 
4 goals to love. 
1 goal to love. 
2 goals to love. 
7 goals to 3 
Eyes:-6th, 30th, 48th, 59th, 70th Field Batteries, E. A., 5 th, 11th Co’s, So. Divn. 9th 
Co., Eastn. Divn., E.A. 
2 n a T a E s. 
“ C” Battery, E.H..A, beat ££ H” Battery,E.H.A. 
91 h Co., So. Divn., E.A., beat 11th Co., So. Div., E.A. 
59th Field Battery, E. A., beat 9th Co., Wn. Div., E.A. 
70th Fiel l Battery, E.A., beat 30th Field Battery, E.A. 
Meerut. 
Eoorkee. 
Nowgong. 
Lucknow. 
9th Co., En.Div., E. A.,beat 6th Field Bty., E.A. 
Dinap ore. 
1 goal to love, 
after extra time. 
5 goals to love. 
2 goals to love. 
3 goals to love, after 
a draw 1 goal each. 
2 goals to love after 
a draw. 
Byes 41st, 48th, Field Batteries,E.A., 5th Co., So. Divn., E.A. 
3 r si T I E S . 
££ C ” Battery, E.H.A., beat 9 Co., So. Divn., E.A. 
5th Co. So. Divn, E.A., beat 59th Field Bty., E.A. 
9th Co., En. Divn., E.A., beat 48th Field Bty., E.A, 
70th Field Bty., E.A., beat 41st Field Bty., E.A. 
Meerut. 
Agra. 
Allahabad. 
Bareilly. 
2 goals to Eve. 
2 goals to 1. 
1 goal to love. 
1 goal to love. 
4 t li. T I E S . 
70th Field Bty., E.A., beat 5th Co., So. Div., E.A. Meerut. 
“ C ” Battery, E. H.A., beat 9th Co., East. Div., E.A. Meerut. 
2 goals to love. 
1 goal to love. 
F I m A L . 
70th Field Bty., E.A., beat f( C ” Battery, E.H.A. | Meerut. 
| 2 goals to !. 
