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Spens Cup 1927-28

The final was played on March 17 in the rooms of the Edinburgh Ladies' Chess Club, 4 Melville Crescent, between the Club and the Pollok Street U.F. Church Chess Club, Glasgow, and resulted in a win for the Ladies. This is the seventh time in which the Ladies Club has reached the finals, without previously having won the Cup, which includes admission next season in the Richardson Cup Competition competed for [by] the eight senior Clubs in Scotland.

Round 1
Greenock...................3½-3½ Motherwell
Greenock...................4½-2½ Motherwell (Replay)
Glasgow Ladies..........4½-2½ Polytechnic
Queen's Park..............5½-1½ Gourock
Pollok St. U.F. Church..5-2 Paisley

Round 2
Edinburgh Ladies.........4-3 Falkirk
Alloa.........................4-3
Greenock...................5-2 Glasgow Ladies
Pollok St. U.F. Church..3½-3½
Pollok St. U.F. Church..4½-2½ (Replay)

Semi-Final
Edinburgh Ladies.........6½-½ Alloa
Pollok St. U.F. Church..3½-3½ Greenock
Pollok St. U.F. Church..4-3 Greenock


Final: March 17.

Edinburgh Ladies
Pollok St. U.F. Church
1. Miss Malcolm
0
1
W. Turnbull
2. Miss Gilchrist
0
1
 T. Beattie
3. Mrs Coast
1
0
 A. Hesie
4. Mrs Ritchie
1
0
 J. Black
5. Miss Crum
1
0
 J. Crabb
6. Mrs Simpsonl
1
0
 A. Imrie
7.Mrs Hill
0
1
A. Scott
4
3
  

Source: BCM 1928, p 153 and p 204

NOTES:
The BCM mistakenly showed the board 3 for Edinburgh Ladies as Mrs Ceast on p 153, but this was corrected on p 204.
On p 153 board 7 for Edinburgh Ladies is shown as Mrs Hill, but on p 204 this is Mrs Mill.
I have corrected the spelling of Pollok (rather than Pollock).