Craigiebank reader Jimmy MacDonald responded to article featuring George ‘Pud’ Hill on October 14.
Jimmy was at the Dundee v Army game at Dens, as recalled by Perth reader Richie McAlpine.
“I was at that game and I think the score may have been around 4-2 to Dundee,” said Jimmy.
“However, the one great feature of the match was a brilliant 30-yard free-kick by Reggie Smith.
“It just flew into the net and the Army goalie the great Frank Swift never got near it.”
Turning to other subjects, Jimmy continued: “I’ve been following your column recently and am particularly interested in the ice hockey and boxing stories.
“I remember Dick McTaggart and the rest of his family frequenting the Belmont Boxing Club when I was around 12 years old.
“I played ice hockey at the same time as being in the boxing ring and was in the Tigers Cubs side alongside the likes of Marshall Key.
“A few years on, I worked as an apprentice in the Blackness Foundry and couldn’t get off for all the fights and games outwith Dundee.
“So I gave up the boxing.”
Going back to the Reggie Smith story, Jimmy concluded: “Around the same time as the match against the Army, maybe even the following night, Reggie was in the queue to get into the Green’s Playhouse cinema in the Nethergate, Dundee.
“He was standing right in front of me and I remember getting his autograph.”
Bill Greig, of Downfield, also reckons he was at that game against the Army.
However, he thinks Dundee may have won 6-0 and he was just 12-years-old at the time.
He also suggested the game was just after the war.
To further confuse matters, Norrie Price’s book ‘They Wore The Dark Blue’ gives a date of August 5, 1944, when Dundee lost 7-0 at home to the British Army in front of 14,000.
There is no other friendly listed in the book at Dens around that time involving an armed forces team.
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