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Hong Kong, 11th October, 1920.
J. HENNESSEY SETH, S. HAMPDEN ROSS,
THEA
MAIL,
THE BALL GAME
Fashionable Under The Merry Monarch
BLADDER OF BEANS
Football's Place In Early Literature
ROUGH SPORT “
With the gradual approach of the football season some thoughts upon the early history of football may not be out of place.
That football had a bad start in England is evidenced by the literature on the subject for we read that fans as late as four cen- turies ago had a good deal to contend with in order to lift their beloved sport out of the morass of ridicule and hatred into which it had sunk.
to
warn
YOUNG GENTLEMEN WARNED!
We learn that Sir Thomas Elyot in the sixteenth century felt obliged all young gentlemen Joint Liquidators. against this rough sport "wherein there is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence." Hard words were these, but no doubt, Sir Thomas had some reason for them in those days.
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AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISENS
AND SURVEYORS.
-Public Auctions
TUIE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction
ON THURSDAY, the 17th., October 1929, commencing at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Room, Duddell Strest.
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Comprising:-
A Murdering Practice When Shakespeare was a youth and living at Stratford, a Philip Stubbes wrote this very graphic, account:-
"As concerning football playing, I protest unto you it may be call ed a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation; a bloody and murdering practice than a fellowly sport or pastime. For doth not everyone lie in wait for his ad- versary, seeking to overthrow him and to pick him on the nose? ... so that by this means sometimes their necks are broken, sometimes their backs, sometimes their legs, sometimes their arms, sometimes one part thrust out of joint, some. times another, sometimes their noses gush out with blood, some times their eyes start out and some- times hurt in one place and some times in another. They have sipights to meet one betwixt two, to dash him against the heart with their elbows, to hit him under the short ribs with their gripped fists and with their knees to catch him upon the hip. and to pick him on his neck with a hundred such mur dering devices, and hereof groweth envy, malice, raneour, hatred, dis- pleasure, enmity and what not else; and sometimes fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of blood as experience dally teacheth." From so animated a description one can only conclude that the poor unfortunate Stubbes had played football and suffered from "these hundred such murdering devices."
Teak Glass Gun Stand, Chester- feld Couch and Chairs, Gramo- phones and Records, Carpets, Pic- For centuries the only eligibility turcs, Plunos, Cameras, Curios. "rules" in football were summed up Typewriters, Rugs and Ornaments, | in the saying "No gentleman plays
this low down game!" etc., etc.
Table,
Teak Dining
Dining Chairs, Crockery, Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Cooking Store, Ice Chests, Glass Ware, etc., etc.
Teak and Iron Bedsteads, Dres- sing Tables, Washstands, Cham- ber Stands, Toilet Crockery, Blankets, Linen, Wardrobes with Bevelled Mirrors, etc., etc.
and
A Quantity of
BLACKWOOD FURNITURE. On View from Wednesday, the 16th., October 1929
Catalogues will be issued, Torms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, October 14, 1929.
Head Used as Ball The story goes that organized games began in Chester, England, on a festival occasion when the
Newly Arrived From Peking CLOISONNE,
Lacquer Ware, Peking Glass, Rugs, Bronze, Beads, Mandarin Coats and Brass for Whole- sale and Retail.
Recreation Value
Apart from the recognition of the recreation value of the aport, foot- ball received the approval of only are person of social prominence before the seventeenth century. This was Richard Mulcaster, first headmaster of the famous Merchant Taylor's School and afterwards highmaster of St. Paul's.
The game was raised, to respect- ability at last under the monarchy of Charles II during the Restora- tion. In his reign football for the first time became a regular fashion- able sport at Cambridge Univer- Isity, and the public schools such as
Eton, Harrow and Rugby.
Poets have not been football stars, but some of them have caught spectacular features of the Sir Walter Scott, for in- game. stance, found this philosophy in the game:
Then strip, lads, and to it, though
sharp be the weather,
And if, by mlachance, you
should happen to fall, There are worse things in life
than a tumble on heather, And itfe Itself is but a game of
football.
head of an enemy Dane was used as the ball. That could not have In our own time, however, Sir been later than the ninth century, Owen Seaman has deplored the rise and from that time on the game of professional teams in England must have increased in popularity, and the gathering of enormous for by the fourteenth century it crowds:- had become a national problem and I know that weakly half a mil-
Hon men was prohibited by royal edict. Not that the King worried very much for the bumps and bruises of his subjects, but he saw that it was diverting the people from the practice of archery, and he needed plenty of skilled archers to cope with his enemies. Thus football became so popular that even the nation's safety was in danger!
(Who never actually played the
game),. Hustling like cattle herded in a
pen,
Look on and shout, While two and twenty hirelings
hack a ball about.
A. M. H.
STANDARD TIME.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN COLONY
However, the people wanted foot- ball and so new prohibitions were introduced periodically in the effort to stamp out the evil. The last of the royal ediets came at the end of Shakespeare's career, when James I Sunrise and Sunset is Hone
it found
necessary to debar Kong for October (Standard time of from his Court all rough and violent the 120th Meridian, East of Green-
wich), are as follow!-- exercises "as the football."
Italian Kuler
In Italy it was an elegant pastime 48 may be seen from the first book on football ever written, Giovanni de' Bardi's "Discorso Sopra ' Giuoco del Calcio Fiorentino," pub- lished in 1580. Here we see the players in a picture lined up. twenty-six in a side in one of the principal squares of Florence ready for the "kick-off." In the front rank atand the forwards in three files of five each; behind them the half-backs and, defending the goal, the sixteen backs or rearguards are standing in a line, shoulder to shoulder. T
The ball was six inches in diameter and weighed ten ounces. The halberdiers, the trumpeters on each side of the pavilions (which formed the goal-posts) and the gay costumes of the players with their plumed hats all speak of a friendly and polite encounter. Full of flour- ish but without fury,
Obviously in Italy it was a gentle- man's game, but not so in England for no rules had been drawn av as the game was a sort of jolly old scramble. For this reason football was kept on a very low level. When) the game was played in the narrow city streets we can understand how the resulting brawls and destruc- tion of property demanded strict municipal action..
Long Matches.
In Scotland the opposing teams consisted of bachelors and married men. On Shrove Tuesday the game lasted from two o'clock in the after- noon until sunset. One of thedo games is described by an eye. witness as follows:--
"The game was this: The mar-
TSUNG HING CLOISONNE STORE, ried men were to hang the ball,
17, Wyndham street, HONG KONG
PUBLIC AUCTION
THE Undersigned have
received instructions from. Messrs. SENNET FRERES to sell by Public Action on : MONDAY and TUESDAY, the 21st and 22nd October, 1929 commencing each day at 10.30 a.m.
(with an interval from 12.80 p.m.. to 2.80 p.m.)
at their Store-York Building
THE WHOLE OF THEIR SURPLUS STOCKS Comprising:-
Gold and Silver Watches, Jewellery, Silver and Plated Ware, Porcelain and Cutglass, Ware, Lady's Fancy Hand Bags, Silver Cups, Silver Photo Frames, etc, etc..
On View from Saturday, the 19th, October 1929.
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Hong Kong, October 14, 1929.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers:
URGENTLY REQUIRED
OLD BLANKETS
THE HONG KONG BENEVOLENT
SOCIETY
(Established 1869)
will be very glad to receive them at the
City Hall
Every MONDAY and THURSDAY at 10.30 am.
that is, to place it three times into a small hole on the moor. On the other hand the bachelors had to drown the ball; in other words, to dip it three times in a deep place In the river. The party who effect ed either of these objects won the game. If neither side won by sun- set the bill was cut into equal parts.
Bladder of Beans
Early in the sixteenth centurý Alexander Barclay wrote:-
The sturdie plowmen lustlie,
strong and bold,
Overcometh the winter with driv.
ing the football,··
Forgetting labour and many a
grievous fall,
And now in the Winter, when men küll the fat swine, They get the bladder and blow it
great and thin,
With many beans and peason"put
within:
It ratleth, soundeth, and shineth
clore and fayre,
While it is throwon and caste up
in' the ayre, ⠀
Esche one contendeth and both
a great delito de
With foots and, with hands the
bladder for to amitestattu
If it fall to grounde, they lift It [up ́agayne izo
And this way to labour they count
It no payne.
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