LONDON INVADED.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 73, 29 April 1929, Page 4

LONDON INVADED.

Australian Press Association.

GREAT CROAVDS COME TO TOAVN.

LONDON, April 27. The cup tie occasioned a rema rkable invasion of London by excursion trains-, of which the first arrived at three in the morning, and which brought 50,000 people from all over Britain. Portsmouth and Bolton brought tlieir own hands and hundreds of individual supporters carried mouth organs, concertinas aud -even portable grainophones. Tlie cup tie orowd is one of the noisiest and jolliest iri the world. The day broke wet and depressing, but conditions greatly improved. The Irisli Guards' hand led community. singing, terminating - with "Abide AVith Me." When the Prince of Wales arrived he was received wjth .deafening ch.eers. After the game the Prince handed the cup to Seddon, Bolton's captain, and niedals to the other players. A telegram from the King acknowr ledged the Football Association's good wishes and regretted that he was ijnable to be present. Portsmouth played the better gartie in the first half-, only Bolton's do-= fence, through the brilliaucy of Haworth. right bnek, preventing a score. Bolton rallied in the second spell, showing greater dash in team work and §cored twice near the end of the game.