Christmas
Day Mens Ba' 1998 by Charles Tait
and Ken Amer
The
throw-up of the Ba at 13:00 by Archie Findlay. It was a
pleasant day for the game - crisp and dry with sunshine.
The
game never went south of the Mercat Cross and by 13:45 the scrum
was on the Kirk Green. By 13:45 it was on Palace Road and
by 13:55 it had reached the Museum.
There
was considerable fighting which is unusual. By 14:00 the
game had entered Victoria Street
The
game stopped outside William Shearer's for abour 90 minutes and
finally Kenny Garrioch was the Uppie winner shortly after 17:00.