By four goals to one (obtained from a penalty) Hampstead Town entered the second round of the Middlesex Senior Cup at the expense of Hanwell Town at Cricklewood-lane, the match attracting a large crowd. Barnet will now have to be met at Barnet.

In the Hampstead Town team two changes were made, J.A. Elderton taking the place of C. Wise (playing for his House team) at inside-left, and F.C. Iles supplanting Bloxham at right back. Hanwell brought a good team, including W.G. Harry (a former Hampstead player) at left back, and H. Pacey (late of Botwell Mission) at centre-half.

After the poor display of the Hampstead forwards against Bostall Heath, the manner in which this game started was quite refreshing. The whole line worked in harmony, Seabrooke gathering the ball nicely and the outside men being well fed. Having regard to the heavy state of the ground, particularly where the centre-forwards operated, the right course was to keep the ball as much as possible on the wing. Howe, the Hanwell goalkeeper, had a good deal of work to do, and did it excellently, but at the end of a quarter of an hour he was well beaten by S. Smith, who did not seem to miss Wise overmuch, Elderton plying him with well-timed passes. It was from them that the goal was scored. Seabrooke, with a brilliant individual effort, scored the second goal, and his success was popularly received, because luck has been against him recently. Another lucky shot from Seabrooke was almost too good for the goalkeeper, and on the run of the play the visitors were rather fortunate in crossing over with a deficit of only two goals. The lead was not so much due to Hampstead's brilliance as to the weakness of the visitors, whose forwards were distinctly poor when they got within shooting distance. Goodwin had quite an easy time, not one corner kick being taken by Hanwell in the first half.

Upon crossing over Hampstead fell off tremendously, while there was a corresponding improvement on the part of Hanwell. Hampstead's inside trio could do little that was right, Young being particularly at fault, and some fine opportunities went astray. From a penalty kick taken by Blackwell Hanwell reduced the deficit, and had it not been for the smartness of Goodwin, they would have equalised, F.W. Parkes (outside-right) and J.E. Poplett (outside-left) being smart in their movements. Harry and his partner were constantly putting the home forwards offside, and this made the game uninteresting. Towards the end Hampstead rallied and made the issue safe with a couple of goals. The first came from Smith, who had played consistently throughout, and the other followed a foul on Irwin in the penalty area. The free kick was taken by Sweetman, who shot directly at the goalkeeper, but catching the ball on the rebound he easily netted.

Hampstead deserved their win, but had the team shown the form exhibited a month or two ago Hanwell would not have got off so lightly. A big improvement must take place if Barnet, playing at home, are to be tackled successfully in the next round.