Hampstead Town, who have been scoring freely this season - in no match have they obtained less than three goals - beat Yiewsley handsomely on Saturday in the Amateur Cup at Cricklewood-lane, the visitors giving away nine goals without making any response. Hampstead had their usual team, although it was doubtful until the last minute whether one of the reserve halves would not be called upon to take the place of R. Wardlaw, who had met with an accident at work.

The game started under depressing conditions, rain falling and the light being bad, but later there was an improvement, and a very good contest was witnessed, the score by no means representing the run of play. The visitors lost a goal in the first five minutes, Sweetman, one of the best players on the field, putting the ball so accurately to Wise that Hampstead's crack shot had no difficulty in beating Hart, the visitors' goalkeeper. After that play was even, A. Holding, Yiewsley's inside-left, making some good efforts, although at times his markmanship left much to be desired. A feature was the manner in which the Hampstead forwards passed the ball from one to another without trapping it, and had Seabrooke been as successful as usual in gathering the ball from the wings another half-an-hour would not have elapsed before the second goal was obtained. On one occasion Seabrooke was robbed in the mouth of goal, and a minute or two later a terrific shot from Wise just cleared the bar. Hart had a very anxious time, and his work was applauded. Following a corner, brought about by an accurate centre by Irwin, a free kick for hands was given against Yiewsley just outside the penalty line, and Sweetman scored with a beautiful shot. This appeared to lead to the undoing of the visitors. Another free kick against Yiewsley because the goalkeeper carried the ball beyond the regulation distance was cleared, but not outside the danger area, and from a pass by Sweetman Seabrooke scored No. 3. The centre-forward was also directly responsible for the fourth, the ball being placed to him by Irwin, and after the erstwhile Garden Suburb player had tested Hart with a beautiful shot, which was only cleared at the expense of a corner, Wise obtained the fifth goal.

Leading by five goals to nil at the interval, the Hampstead players had no need to be anxious, but that they were bent upon improving their already good average was evident on the restart, Wise early on improving upon an accurate centre by Irwin. Smith, at outside-left, gave Young an opportunity, which he accepted readily, of scoring No. 7, and the next goal was scored in almost identical fashion. Yiewsley worked hard to stem the tide of disaster, but for the most part good work in midfield was spoiled by a lamentable weakness in front of goal, and Goodwin was not unduly troubled. There was a dangerous moment when he was out of position with Yiewsley's inside-left in possession of the ball, but he failed to take advantage of the opening. While, of course, the majority of the spectators were anxious to see Hampstead keep a clean sheet, there was a certain amount of sympathy for the under dog, who, with an average amount of luck, might have scored two or three times. Wise obtained the ninth goal from a pass by Smith, and in the last few minutes the whole team worked desperately hard to reach double figures, but in this respect at least Yiewsley were successful.

The game, of course, lacked interest beacuse of its one-sided character, but Yiewsley commanded respect for their plucky efforts and clean play.

After the hard match against Waterlow's on Thursday it was perhaps as well that Hampstead had no stronger opponents, as some of the men were not feeling quite up to the mark.