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LICHFIELD

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Football's Forerunners

When the Fuehrer, visited Florence yesterday among the things which he saw there will be what is described as "the an- cient game of Florentine foot- ball, played by men in fourteenth- The lesson of the Lichfield by-century costumes, which Tuscans election, where another National claim to be the ancestor of Government seat was surrender-modern football." But an ances- ed to the Labour Party, is not tor for that game which only less pointed than that of West went as far back as the fourteenth Fulham which preceded it. West century would be itself a bit of Fulham's voters had not had a stripling or new-comer, for time to absorb the full implica- some claimants to the distinction tions of the Anglo-Italian Agree-of having provided the origins of ment Lichfield had, together football are reckoned as very with opportunity to watch its re- much more ancient than mediae- sults. Another safe presumption val Florence. The Greeks had a lis that, with West Fulham game which they played with a as a warning, the National Gov-kind of ball called the "harpas- ernment fought strenously to ton," and, according to Smith's prevent Lichfield from furnish- "Dictionary of Antiquities," "It ing the Labour Party with fur-was the game of football, played ther occasion for jubilation. Yet in much the same way as with they failed, and failed badly, hav-us, by a great number of persons ing regard to all the circumstan- divided into two parties opposed ces. Mr. Chamberlain will find it to one another." But the Romans increasingly difficult to face the had a blown-up ball called the House of Commons with the follis," and though to begin with claim of almost universal sup-that was struck by the hand, port for his policy.

some authorities say that it was What the public finds trouble-afterwards "kicked from side to some is the position that the Gov-side over boundaries." ernment's claim to successful It thus comes about that while strides in the development of its some historians say that the new foreign policy is accompanied Romans brought football into by simultaneous acceleration of Britain (a proposition that ought the re-armament

to please the Duce) others programme,

ment.

as-

plus intimations that the original sert that a kind of football which £1,500,000,000 estimated will be owed nothing to Roman influen considerably exceeded. It is not ces was played in Ireland more that the people do not accept the than two thousand years ago. On need for large increases in arma- the other hand, it must have

Any Government

been one of the that

most natural was in office now would be com- things in the world to play at mitted to a certain amount of kicking or throwing a large ball rearmament. Mr. Chamberlain of some kind, so it is not at all made one point fairly enough surprising to find that the ori- when he said that we could not gins of football have also been face the new battleships

attributed to the Maoris, the being built by other Powers with Faeroe islanders, the Philippine our "old ships." The naval trea-islanders, and the Eskimos. ties of 1922 and 1930, included neither France nor Italy, both of

now

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whom are building the most mod-Cup Finalists' Spiritual ern battleships. Germany will Home

build five of the same kind, and

to what Germany builds France will reply, and Italy to her. We even the barest fringes of the So when we come to consider. might add that for any Govern-historical problem "Who started ment, as for this, the bill must football?" it will be seen that be swoollen because the military Tuscany's claim belongs very de and naval authorities everywhere finitely to the middle period. And waver. between two opinions. yet it might be taken still far- They are convinced 'that ""mech- ther back, because some authorit- anisation" is more and more ur-ies believe that the Tuscan form gent, and therefore multiply it; of the game, which was certainly but they are not convinced that been played from the Middle Ages infantry and the rifle will not at onwards, derives from the game the finish be decisive, so they which the Roman legions used multiply them too. They are to play with their inflated "follis." not sure that battleships and. In any event, it must have cruisers will be destroyed by air-quite good enough for Il Duce to craft, so they go on building show Herr Hitler as proof that them; still, aircraft may, after those arrogant English cannot all, destroy surface ships, so they even invent one of their own build more and more aircraft. We most cherished pastimes. It are sure that we know the "les-must have been a great moment sons" of the last war, but the un-when the Duce indicated to the certainty with which we apply Fuehrer "That's where they get them shows that we have no their Wembley from!".

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