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GENERAL NEWS.

Factory Fire in Edgware-road.

Damage to the extent of about $15,000, most of which, it is stated, is covered by insurance, wsa caused by a fire at the musical instrument factory of Messrs. Boosey and Co., in Frederick mowe, Stanhope-place, Edgware road. The building is 120 yards long by 60 yards in width.

A Souvenir of the Coronation.

There has been added to the Mansion House plate, in com- memoration of their Majesties Coronation, a replica in silver-gilt of the Coronation obair in West- minister Abbey. The motiol, which is exact in every particular, is about a quarter of the size of the original and weighs 200 cances. The stone beneath the seat is reproduced in granite.

Gift to the Royal Colonial Institute:

The library of the Royal Col- onial Institute, which already contains 100,000 works releting to all parts of the Empire over

MILLIONS SPENT ON FOOTBALL.

The Amazing Growth' of the

Game,

When the history of the past fifty years comes to be written the author will have performed his work very indifferently if he he fails to dwell on the extra ordinary hold Association foot ball has taken upon the British public.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1913.

hampton Wanderers. The wuccess of this League was instantaneous and electrifying.

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How the Leagues Grew, In 1801 the League was in- oreased to fourteen clubs and in 1882 the number was sixteen, while a Second Division was formed consisting of twelve clubs. In 1893 the Second Division was House St-Apply to Medical increased to sixteen. In 1897 Hall. the number of clubs was increas-Hongkong, 15th Oct., 1913. ed to eighteen in each division, and this was again increased in But a few years ago football, 1005 to twenty in each division, as far as England was concerned, this being the number at the was a game for boys to play at present day. In 1888, then, there school and a few enthusiasts were twelve League teams govorn- their schooldays were over. Today there are forty clube governed playing for a short while after ed by some half-dozen rules; to- day it is a national pastime, aby thirty most elaborate rules. huge financial enterprise, a mat- Meanwhile, fired by the success ter of vital importance to very of the League, which consisted many thousands "A little while mainly of clubs in the north and go its followers were the horny the Midlands, football enthusiasts anded sons of toil in the greatmin-in London and the south decided

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(From lat November, 1913.) of England: to-day football at this decision took form in 1894-5, tracte the keen attention of the when a Southern League consist Bungalow containing drawing, No. 1 Gough Hill, No. 103 Peak. highest in the land, and "from ing of nine clubs with a Second dining and smoking rooms and the King on his throne" to his Division consisting of seven clubs five bedrooms. With ground for humblest subject overy English under the auspices of the Foot-Tennis-Court. man seems to take the keenestin-ball Association, but with its own terest in the doings of the great rules, was formed. League teams which play under the jurisdiction of the Football King himself,

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tion in a collection of over 700 books and pamphlets relating to Cyprus, presented by Mr C. D. Cobham, O. M. G., who was for many years, Commissioner, at Larnaon. The collection includes practically everything relating to Cyprus that has been printed.

"He-Tholy City.”.

World-wide Interest. Nor is the interest in the doings of the League team confined to the British Isles. Every Satur- day the results of their contests are flashed neroes to the Conti- nent, to America, Asia, and Australia, where such teams of Aston Villa, Sunderland, and Blackburn Rovers are household

the Southern League was ineroas-' ed to ten clubs, in its third to four. tean. In 1901 the first divison consisted of sixteen clabs; this was increased in 1903-4 to sigh- teen, and three years later to twenty. Every Saturday from September 1 to April 30 hundreds of thousands of partisans watch eagerly the doings of these sixty. In choirs and placos whore

clubs in their efforts to gain the chorus singing is practised there

championships of their various has been no more popular Can-names.

leagues or to avoid those fatal The history of League football two places at the bottom of the tata for the last thirty years than Gaul's "Holy City" The com

makes fascinating reading. To tables, for each year automatically poser of this attractive and rate day there are two great bodies the two teams at the top of each common-place work who he just amely, the Football League, second division take the places of died at a ripe rue, war with its two Divisions, and the the two lowest in the first divi of Norwich, and as a boy was A

Southern League. Prior to 1888sion. chorister in the City's Catherical the principal teams used to meet Next to "The Holy City," which a haphazard kind of manner was first heard at the Birming ham Festival, bis earlier Cantata *Ratt" was undoubtedly his most popular work.

during each season, although, then as now, the English Cup was the "Blue Ribbou of the football world. In 1888, how ever, Mr William MacGregor, a Birmingham enthuejost, known until his death a year or two ago

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Money side of Football, Undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary features of League football to-day is its financial side. From a few hundreds of ponnde in the early eighties the business ball League and Football Asso- Pleasant Neighbours.

side of the great League, clubs ciation are of the value of one In face of the talk of an Anglo-

has increased to such an extent shilling each and that is unpaid. German rapprochement, it is dis- as the. Father of the Laagne," that it is ratimated that they are The money expended on football tinctly discouraging, says the suggested that a few of the most capitalised at a sum of nearly two during a season

is simply pro Globe, to find the principal speaker powerful teams abould combine and a half millions to-day! Yet digious... at the meeting of the Pau-German and arrange home-and-home though the principal olubs are To quote a few figures: Man- League declaring that "only if fixtures:

registered under the Limited chester United have spent over the national antagonism of the The scheme met with complets Liability Act not one English club £50,000 for their new ground; Boer race against the British race approval, and during the spring is allowed to pay a dividend of Everton, the wealthiest olub in

·was kept alive could the Germans of that year the League was more than 5 per cent. per an England, gave over £30,000 for hold their own against British ex-formed and the following twelve num, while the shares in the Foot their ground. while the covered pansion." We have a right to clubs were elected Accrington,

stand at Chelsea alone cost £12,-) feel offended that so unfriendly a Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers,

000. The largest ground in the 'sentiment should have come from Bolton Wanderere, Burnley, you have lost your appetitet United Kingdom is the famous

a man holding the rank of a Derby County, Everton. Notis Major-General in the Kaiser's County, Preston North End, Stoke,

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