15th April 1913
Scottish Football Council – Consolation Cup Problem
The Scottish Football Council met in Glasgow last night, when the chief business was the tabling of proposals of alterations in the rules for submissions to the annual general meeting fixed for May 6. Mr A.M. Robertson, of Stenhousemuir, the retiring president, occupied the chair.
The chairman asked whether the Council was prepared to drop the Consolation Cup Competition.
Mr Lindell (Queen’s Park) – Could we not make it more attractive?
Major Quirk urged that the competition be allowed to go on for another year. It would work out its own salvation.
The Chairman said that 95 per cent. of the clubs had lost money by the competition. It would lead to the ruin of many clubs.
Mr Ballantyne (Third Lanark) mved that the consolation cup be dropped.
Mr Clift (Brechin) seconded. The clubs in his district had lost money in each tie played.
Mr Kelso pointed out that a club could scratch if it did not desire to play. The consolation tie filled up a gap during the closing months, and tended to centralise the game.
The Galston delegate said that his club had drawn as much as õ8 from a consolation tie as against õ and ÷ from other matches.
Upon a decision, 15 voted for retention of the cup competition, and only two for dropping it out.
Ref: Aberdeen Press and Journal 16th April 1913

27th May 1913
Qualifying Cup Exemptions
At the first meeting of the new Council of the Scottish Football Association, held in Glasgow on Tuesday night, the following clubs were exempted taking part in next season’s Qualifying Cup competition – Celtic, Rangers, Queen’s Park, Partick Thistle, Clyde, Hibernian, Heart of Midlothian, Dundee, Aberdeen, Raith Rovers, Falkirk, Motherwell, Airdrieonians, Hamilton Academicals, St Mirren,
Kilmarnock, Third Lanark, and Morton.
Ref: Aberdeen Press and Journal 29th May 1913