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The real has superseded the farcical. The forward who is elever in control of the ball can make the most of quick think ing and twinkling feet, for there has been a sensible adjustment of the relations be- tween "attack and defence. The backs have still to use their brains but to use them legitimately. Defence had clearly obtained the upper hand, not by superior play, as by tactics that savoured of trickery, because the means adopted were a negation of football-if within the scope

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The centenaries falling to be kept in 1096 are few of them of the first order of interest. Foremost among them may be placed those of two apostles of mercy St. Francia, who died on October ith, 1998, and John Howard, the reformer of prisons, who was born on September Sad,

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future celebrity cannot be detected in the cradle. and its early dates often elude subse quent research. The principal birthdays to be kept this year are those of Richard Cromwell, October 4th, 1696; John Hut- ton, the geologist, June 3rd, 1728; Walter Bagehot, February 3rd, 168; the Em-. press Eugenie, May 3th, 1928; Joseph Arch, November .uth, 1828; Sir Andrew Clark, the well-known physician. Octo- ber 25th, 1820; Alma-Tadema, the pain- ter, January 8th, 1996; and Lord Hailes, be revived on February 18th of Baron. October 29th, 1796. The story may also Trenck, the strange Prussian adventurer who, alter a career of eccentricity and self-assertion, was guillotined in the

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Among the deaths there is one curious Now the balance has awang in the other coincidence,-John Adams, the second direction according to the evidence which President of the United States, and the first half of the season supplies-but Thomas Jefferson, the third President, not so much as to spoil sport. Gradually both died on July 4th, 1828 January teams are discarding the fanciful formá- | 16th "is the anniversary of another tions adopted when the campaign opened. American. Lindley Murray, the gram- There is a reversion to the old disposi marian, who found in the preparation tion of forces. This was the point that of his text-books in occupation for ill- Mr. J. C. Clegg emphasised in an inter- health after he had retired from the view published in these columns during American Bar, and who died in 1623 at October, and his judgment has been con- the age of eighty. On July 5th, 1826, firmed. The old style permits the half there died Sir Stamford Raffles, the backs to keep in closer touch with the champion of British interests in the forwards, enables the inside forwards to Malay Archipelago, and also the founder retain their places, to make better use of the Zoological Society, of space and time, and gives the wing men more chance to utilise speed Of course, these are details to be thought out, but on the whole the new law has caused fewer changes than were-expect.

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The innovation which has assisted for- wards has created more 'scoring chances: There an increase in the number of goals, but, taking the whole field of League football of the severest kind-the most exacting and satisfying text of the change-there are not so many goals as the opponents of the alteration predict ed, or as the opening of the season sug. gested. There are 1,848 matches in a full season of the League, with four tourna ments, and if the increase in scoring be. represented by one goal in each match, this, of course, mesos 1,848 goals. In these four competitions 944 matches have been played during the first half of the campaign, and the total goals registered" have been 3,324, compared with $800 during the whole of 1924-25, so "that" il the present rate of scoring be maintain-| ed, about 6,500 goals can be expected. The appended tablo shows how the scor-] ing has varied in these four competitions ›

No. of No. of Aver Div. I. Matches. Goals. September 61 -324

age. 3.85

October. `€2 953

November

44

December

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4.09 3.03 4.14

Totals 247 209

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No. of No. of Matches Goals.

60 YEARS AGO

September October "November December

292

3,01

Aver-

age. *3.43

et

198

3.30

40

144

3.60

58

165

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Totals

241

799

3.31

No. of No. of

Div. III. (S.). Matches. Goals.

September

88

202

October...

60

180

Aver- age. 351 3.00

November

34

37

2.83

December

106

3.76

Totals

939

775

3.34

No. of No. of

Aver age..

September...

89

335

3.76

October

58 2 188

3.02

November

33

95

December ... 48

166

9.87 3.60

782

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The deaths of two hymn-writers come into the scaleador-Bishop Heber on April 1st, 1996, and Dr. Nicholas Brady (of Tate and Brady) on May 20th, 1796. Bishop Lancelot Andrewes died on Sep- tember 25th, 1626. Boëthius, the philo sopher, was executed on August 27th, 596, and Theodoric, whose sentence was thus carried out, survived him but three days. We have also the deaths of Edward Alleyn, the founder of Dulwich College, November 95th, 1628; Sir John Vanbrugh, the architect and dramatist, March 26th, 1726, Flaxman, the sculptor, December 7th, 1898; John Pinkerton, the Scottish antiquary, March 10th, 1826; Weher, the composer, June 5th, 1628 Jeremy -Collier, the critic, April 26th, 1726," William Gifford, the editor of thá Quarterly in the days when it was "Savage and Tartarly," December 31st, 1826; William Longsword, first Earl of Salisbury, March 7th, 1996; Talma, the tragic actor, October 19th, 1920; Boissy d'Anglas, the French Revelation figure, October 20th, 1826; and Samson, the executioner of the Terror, September 23rd, 18926.

Of impersonal centenaries, three at least are worthy of mention-St. Peter'e, Rome, was consecrated on November 18th, 1628; the Menai Bridge was opened on January 30th, 1826; and on October}}= 18th of the same year, the last English lottery was drawn. The lottery had been a popular institution in England zince the middle of the 18th century, They were usually held for the further- ance of public objects, and the first re- corded was held in 1569 at the western. door of St. Paul's Cathedral, the profits going to the repair of the harbours. A lottery was held in 1753 in aid of the British Museum" At a later date, the missing word" competitions were held to come within the scope of the Act of Parliament prohibiting lotteries.

are some who hold that the best features, the finer points of play, have been en- tirely blotted out by long-kicks and mad scurries for goal. If, those faults were prominent they are gradually disappear ing, and there is at least as much scope for a blend of judicious passing and thrustful individualism as ever there was.

An average of a goals in each League match is not stupendous, and if occa sionally the aggregate of goals in a match runs into double figures it should be re- membered that such successes were oc- casionally seen in both League matches sad Association Cup-ties under the old dispensation. 17

Last season there were 1,192 goals in On the whole players have made a the First Division, 1,168 in the Second, gallant attempt to get the best possible 1,120 in the Southern section, and 1,320 out of the change. They have realised in the Northern group of the Third,

that the now law will remain in force- The revised law has not given such and that is the most convincing proof facilities to forwards as to rob the game that its operation has been successful. of the interest that it possessed East Had they utilised the freedom bestowed season the goal average per match in upon them when throwing the ball in the First Division was 2.58, figures which from touch to the same degree there havo risen to 3,91, or an increase of 1.33 would have been less inclination to kick -clearly one goal and a third. In the the ball out of play. There are times Second Division the averago has ad- when such a move can be justfied, but vanced from 2.32 to 3.31, increase 78, backs should remember that a kick-out in the Third Division (South) from 2.42 to 3.34 (increase .02), and in the Third Division (North) from 2.85 to 3.49, in orease 84. The mean average in 1924-25 was 2.67. this season so far 3.59, an in crease of .95, which, of course, is rather less than one goal per match.

Just to see how the game has fared over the Border an examination of the premier group of the Scottish League shows that in 302 matches 702 goals have been recorded, or an average of 3.47 much the same as in England.

stops the flow of play, gives their oppon ents the throw-in, and robs their com radea of a ball which could be placed to advantage. The kicking-out nuisance is not killed, if the one-back bogey has been banished. Severer measures will have to be taken.

Bat the big blot on the Association game is the constant, importation of famous Scottish players quite a feature. of the first half of the season. This policy seems a confession that the Eng. lishman is not so good a player as the Scotsman. The deduction is that Eng. land has small bope of regaining her in ternational supremacy. Nor is this coun try likely to produce men of the requisite standard when native material is con- atantly thrust aside for the Scot armed.

There was no doubt of a diminution in scoring power since the whole game was resumed in 1919-20. It surely cannot be argued that an increase of 96 has done the least harm. On the contrary, the heavier scoring has revitalised the game, haa rendered the issue, even more un at all points. Clubs are too worried by certain, has retained the best features of play, and has almost entirely prevent ed the constant recurrence of free-kicks for infringements of being on side. There

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