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SPORT AND ANECDOTE,
BY AN OLD FOGEY.
THE GOALKEEPER,
THE NONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, JANUARY 16TH 103
few thoughts for your consideration, because. I, well at back; and Wolverhampton have also two | to him, and in reply to a further question so saldom hear a word sail in defence of this English backs; while W. Balmor, of Evertoa, is informed him that I had not, so far, gained any much maligued man.
SOME REMARKS ON GOALXXEJEKA.
I was raked the other day to manus the best display of goalkeeping I lad ever seen. This is certainly a large subject to tackle. I have seen I often think the spectators who crowd ourenstodians carried shouldir-high off the field, Association football grounds do not award and I have seen them applauded both at this außleien: praise to the goalkeeper, who has, to time of saving and again at the interval for my mind, the most thankless office in any toum, extraordinary disphys, but I noter watched an The regular attendant sad the casual ontonker exhibition which on the whole approached that note the one thig-whether the goalkeeper of Bob Roberts, the great West Bromwich saves his charge of not. If he defies the ball Albion "gealer" of the eighties, in the Cup tie and prevents it from entering the breach the between the Albion and Preston North End at custodinu is magnitted into a hero, but if the ball | Trent Bridge in the Jubilee peer of 1887. The bunts the guardian of the net, then all the mate was the semi-dual stage of the Associu brilliant work the poor man has done before is tion Cup, and Preston were great favourites. [ontirely forgotten and nine men out of ten visit The little Thrones" were mere nobodies, him with all the sius of his side. I was having and merely an incident of the campaign to to a conversation with the chairman of one of the brushed side like a few irritating flies. During most successíni clubs of the day this weok and that match the Albion had three runs up the was very much struck by his remark that he
wing, and they scored thres goals against
TERMS OF SALE-AN Customary.
V. I. REMEDIOS, Auctioneer. Bongkong, 15th January, 1993,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Wharton, the blackman, although the coloured
qUE Undersigned will Last by Public told not be a goalkeeper for £50 per week and
Auction, ou
do not forget that we regard this player to day As the spoilt darling of the football arean, Battleman was no mean performer. Preston
MONDAY,
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ecretion of BOOTHS and MATSHEDS the Government Groasd adjoining the Race- course, Nortia of the Grand Staut Enclosure.
TEREAS:-Cash.
For Conditions of Sale, upply to-
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TUESDAY,
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a little reflection will show that my friend chirou had much weighty argument ou his side Ifa forward takes u mistake he can always comfort himself with the reflection that he will have another opportunity and will not allow it
were attacking most of the time, and they rained in shots from all angles, ut all heights, end at all paces, kun the big, buriy Bob Roberts kept his head cool, and with vicious upper cuts od straight punches, with
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That was thros y ara ago, and I have remained in good health ever since, which proves con- Frank Thorpe, of Bury, is another fins contre elusively that it is not more passing relief that half if he trains ou, while for wing mon Harryfferers from indigestion, but permanent ours. Will be glad to send STAMPS on approval Mother Saizel's Cuntivo Syrup affords to Johnson, of Sheffield United, and Ruddlesdin, of Now I am careful nover to be without a bottle to say address on receipt of satisfactory refer Sheffield Wednesday, should not be overlooked. of the Syrup on hand, as I take a dos Bat George Baddaley, of Stoke, and Ben Warren, occasionally to counteract the ill effects of my of Derby Country, are at present as worthy as sedentary occupation--for I am a bootmaker by any I know. As to the English forwards, I trade-and for this purpose I find it acts like
Lag think that Arthur Goddard of Liverpool, a Stockport boy: Arthur Turner, of Barby Country, who hails from Southampton; and even little rnold Whittaker, of Blackburn will have to be considered for ontside right
as well as William Hogg, of Sunderland.
But I should select Goldard before all just
Dow. At inside right it impossible to resist the claims of Simmona, of West Brom- wich Albion, for he is a great initiator of forward movemente, a more consistent worker then Bloomer, and a very fine shot, As to
to slip through his fingers. Should a balf-buck Parries, thrast and throws he kept repelling the centre forward, I can only say that I
or a back be guilty of a faux pas he hes generally a chance to retrieve himself, especially if he be quick on his feel--that is to say, cau turn without ffort and is blessed with an
ball, and was only once beaten in a sustained and dangerous fasade when Preston wore at their zenith, and were scoring goals with a frequotey never seen either before or size. This
have not seen even a eroditable pivot this, season. Ferlays Raybould, of Liverpool, is the most effective, but he is merely a straight rusher between the backs. I am pot infatuated
excellent furn of speed. But if the goalkeeper / display by Roberts earned him his cap against with Calvey, and I bave my denbts as to Sagar,
commits a blunder there is to ono to cover his
the last mun
fault, and he cannot overtake the bill, for he is To cross the Rubic-that white streak nour which bo plants his feet-is, beyond all recall. A supporter of the game was grumbling the other day at a math about the goalkeeper fumbling the ball, My friend the chairman happened to hear the critical growl, and he made buswer thus:--" Yes, I suppose you want a goalkeeper with a big bi of J. W. Sutcliffe, with the dash of George, with tho weight of Foulks, with the reach of Tom Fryer, with the safety of Doig, and the "gy of Baddeley and then you will be The ho was satisfied perhaps sometimca." silent. So was the true-born Englishman who DOUBLE BRASS MOUNTED End exercised his birthright-the privilege of
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Scotland, and no man over deserved it better,
though on his day he is good. We have 10 successor to G. D. Smith. Bromwich, is speedy, clever with his head, a
Little Lee, of West
shut, and a man who goes for every chance fit appar 1,000 to 1 against him. His indus try is only equalled by his seal, and if he had more weight and size, bo would be a stang candidato. As it is, a dangerous contre at ull times, but I am not convinced that be is quite
Perbaps Where can we find a better man? up to international form. The question arises: Charles B. Fry is to be the centre of the future! Who knows? He sees the opportunity, and is training and tutoring himself. Yet I was la. formed the other day by a referee in one of the Southern matches that Fry played centre like a big, ramping girl" But he is a man who, when ouca he sets himself a task, works hard for The development of his back improvement.
While Koberts was most brilliant in his day for consistent cloverures and sustained effort match after match. I shoill give the award of merit to Jimmy Trainer, of Preston North Ead, the Welshman, who was styled "The Prince of Goalkeeper." Werk in, werk out, taking one match with another, I really do not think that Irainer has ever been surpassed. I do not forget MacAulay, the addy-cheeked of one of Dumbarton, Go'rgio Gillespie, the
man. Horby Arthur, Queen's Park Blackburn Rovers, Tom Hacking, the little dentist who kept for Blackburn Clympic. and Billy Bowley, of Stoke. They hire in my memory most, but not so much as Trainer, But the goalkeepers of those distant days lund something else to look after besides the ball, for he was a mnoh bushed, broised, and banged TUS CARES OF THE CUSTODIAN.
I bare aferctime told you stories Pray, gente render, have you ever given about nan. thought for a moment to the worries, the diffi- of Hope, of Acoringtev, and of Horwin, of play is an instane of this. Among inside left- calties, and the excuses which can often by Notts. There were men who used to lay them-wing men we have a brilliant youngster in G. out of Warwick White Cross, a Leicestershire -urged for the man who has to cover eight yards selves out for the goalkeeper, and, sometimes L Hichards, of Derus County, a lad who came by night feet, no matter how many forwards may they went in a body for the poor man. The dub in the Midlami League, which is suder
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Meon, of the Old Westminsters, was a grand keeper in the late eighties, but I have also no, hesitation in saying that the brothers Walters. A. M. and P. M., of the Ok Carthusians, land a great deal to do with his success, In the first place they rarely made mistakes, they always managed to give Moon plenty of room by not playing close up to him. They trusted Moon, and
goals being scored, At night the Foresters found out when they have gone round about to entertained the overs to dinuer, and the approach some of his players. Among the Chairman of the former expressed bis pleasure Wolves," Wooldridge is not to be despised. at the drawu game, as he said they could get He is a trifle clumsy and perhaps not quite so zobody in the town to wach then play because I good as last season. but be is sure to come out they always defeated their opponents. They again in his true colours. Then Backs, th were delighted to face men as good as them-Stourbridge youth, who helps Aston Villu, mey I am afraid we do not see tau moob f yet raguin bis dribbling and shooting powers of lost season, who he was the best new for- this spirit abroad nowadays when the one
selves.
took good care that he had a clear view, and by desite of every elab is to win at all hazards, und ward of the day. Newcastle United have a
harassing the forward they often rauds him shoot at louger vango than he wanted. When backs aro leaving little room between themselves and
so bag those prosious points. But, in 1879-89 the Rovers again visited Nottingham to meet the Forest in an English Cup-tie, and they were benton 6-0, if Luemory serves me right. The chief method of getting these goals was to wrest a corner from the Forest. Tbon the ball was
'the goalkeeper, the latter is often treabled, upt la become unsighted, and taken unawared by a eharp short-range shot. the most deadly of all balls. How ofter do the public know whether a goalkeeper has had perfect sight of the flying placed not right in front as customary to the half Dowadays, but further cat leather; and after all nothing can be more eɛBEU- tial than this. Again think of the trap which the backs, those big follow-the brothers Luntley -bearded me, six feet in height. They used elever forward can lay by clanging his feet. By to send in terrific shots, something like cannon- this, I mean that an opponent is bearing down on goal, and the custodian expects a shot from the balls, and just at the right moment the forwarde right foot. Quite suddenly the ball is hanged in charged down upon the poor gonikeaper,-
clever youth is Rutherford, of Willington, but he is rather selfiek. Worton, of West Bromwich, is smart, sturdy, and dangerous. His partner, Dorseti, runs Cox very close for outside left, as he is very sptedy and persevering, and a grand shot when on the run. I have tried to reenl
the players who have impressed me most outside the known internationals of last seajon.
London, 18th December,
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It is not always an easy mufter to judge "goulies" was a facinating pastime in those one in a thousand of us is capable of sewurately shot is just out of the reach of the "goaler "au days. Now we give the custodian fair play, a estimating the worth of a picture; not more in the net before a man onsay “kuif»,“ This
little deu of his own in which he cannot be than one in a hundred the quality of a horse. is just like volleýing & ball down the ride lines charged unless he is actually holding this bail or In general, judgments imply made are of small value."Did you ever notica, recantly of laws-tenis court. The little white bit of obstructing an opponent. Thus it is not per-inquired a visitor to an English University fluff, something like a snowball, is past your missible to crash into the goalkeeper when he is town of his companion, as they sit together on opponent before he can shoot his racquet out. in action and preparing to defend the breach. u verandah, that queer-looking old flaw with Again I say what de most people who stand and And still I agree with the remark that I would the idiotic fare turned-up cout collar, and boots 1920stare know of all these little details The only not be a guardian of the goal for £50 per weak. Seven sizes too large, who pusses here every morning at eleven "Meny a time," replied point they do know is whether the ball is in the Bat we never had so many Üne goalkeepers as at the other. He is Professor of Cum arative net or out of it. Why, I saw a match the other the present boar, and we have at least half day in which the Alples were beaten, let us say, dozen men who are fit to be capped against by the Cimegas. The forward- of the Alpha club Bootland. In this respect we are certainly butter had splendid opportunities of scoring. The three off than Scotland, and when the International inside men had the chanes of a lifetime, and Belection Committee begin their work they will they missed the ball altogether. Later, the goal- be spoiled for choice in this respects; but from keeper of the Alpes had a very curious shot what I have seen this season they will not fiul with a heary, slippery, cold kal, and this it an easy matter to pick the forwards and the wriggled between his hands into the baven.half-backs. There are many men, but mediocrity Everyone blamed the custodien. They forgot is their general stamp. the three forwards, who had missed thres goats, and thus lost the game. Was it fair to throw all the lame upon the ione man who was thas bealen after Leing starv, du death with old, so much so that liis fingers were numbed and almost useless. I have thought it right to offer these
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When the friend of Mr. Michael Fitzpatrick, of 66, Forbes Street. Woolloomooloo, Beduey, N.8.W., advised him to take Mother Seigel's This leads up to the question of England's in Curative Syrup for the cure of indigestion, he tornational team for this season. One of the backed his advice with some excellent reasons- mumbersof the Balaction Committee of the Asso excellent becanes his judgment of that remedy was based upon actual experience of its merit. ciation told me the other day that he saw very Says Mr. Fitzpatrick in a letter written on the few men of the fight among the professional 20th June, 1902: "For many years I suffered teams. And yet toother gentleman who is terribly from indigestion and biliousnone, and member of the same body tells me that in the spent pounds and pounds on doctors' medicines and so-called oures; but without avail. In those South be has never had the gratification of diedays. had no appetite, and the little food I ate covering a single, high-class amuter, & Coriu turned our on my stomach, causing serere thian or a University man worthy of his cap, attacks of heartburn. I was also tranbied with This is indeed very serious, and England's only pains in the chest, violent headaches, and hope is tast Scotland is not much better off, if habitaal constipation. In fact, at one time or other I suffered from most of the symptoms any, tiun horalf. Let us look round und me if which characterise a sluggish liver and impaired any now men have come to the front. There are digestion My worst affiction, however, was s
uo fresh backs of marit if we except Herbert total inability to obtain sufficient sloop. I
would go
to bed festing worn-out and sleepy, Smith, the Oxford City gentleman and the bat as soon as my head touched the pillow my brother of Me. W. Smith, the London County brain would become unsaturally active, and I aricketer. He assists both Reading and Stoko, would think of every kind of subject, and roll is a fine kick, and a thorough enthusiust; but and toss about between the sheets, listening to the Fish Market Clook as it chimed tour after I sm afraid he is not yet an International, be-
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