All Europe will wait with anxiety to know whether the
Austro-German football match described in Tuesday's Times was filmed. If not, the world is very much the loser. The teams were the Gelsenkirchen Schalke (Schalke may be rendered, " toughs ") and the Vienna Admira, the match was a cup-final. Gelsenkircken led by 4—o at the interval, a situation which seems to have slightly nettled Admira. At any rate not long afterwards an Admira half- back, named Flacl, initiated a movement which The Times correspondent describes in simple and impressive language. " Flacl," he writes, " after a collision with Szepan, the Schalke captain, knocked Szepan -out with a hard right to the jaw. Szepan was carried off on a stretcher and remained unconscious for ten minutes." A little later, to adjust the balance, an Austrian player was similarly removed, this, however, being attributed merely to one of those minor mishaps incidental to the game (as played in Berlin). The Anschluss is evidently going well, with sport as a bond of friendship.
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