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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches, by 
+David Drummond Bone
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+Title: Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches
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+Author: David Drummond Bone
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+SCOTTISH FOOTBALL REMINISCENCES
+
+AND
+
+SKETCHES.
+
+BY D. D. BONE
+
+_GLASGOW._
+
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+PREFACE.
+
+
+In bringing my first edition of Football Reminiscences and Sketches
+before the public, I do so with a sense of profound regard for the game
+and its players, and heartfelt gratitude to numerous friends--some of
+whom, alas! are no more--for advice and assistance. If my readers
+consider it worthy of one who has devoted a quarter of a century in
+attaining that experience necessary to criticise the players of the dead
+past and those of the living present with fidelity, I will have gained
+something to be remembered, and be amply repaid for what I have done to
+assist the spread of the Association game in Scotland. Many of my
+sketches, under different names, have already appeared in various
+journals, including the _Daily_ and _Weekly Mail_, _Bell's Life in
+London_, and the "Scottish Football Annual," but I have remodelled some
+of them very considerably, and indulge in the hope that they may while
+away an hour or so at the fireside of the Player and Spectator after a
+big Cup Tie or other interesting match.
+
+THE AUTHOR.
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+
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+
+                                                                    PAGE
+
+   I.--FOOTBALL: ANCIENT AND MODERN,                                  17
+
+  II.--THE FOOTBALL WAVE,                                             20
+
+ III.--A "SWEEP FOR THE CUP;" OR, HOW PATE BROWN KEPT HIS ENGAGEMENT, 21
+
+  IV.--FAMOUS ASSOCIATION PLAYERS--PAST AND PRESENT,                  26
+
+   V.--THE PIONEERS OF ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL IN SCOTLAND;
+     OR, "THE CONQUEROR'S FOOTBALL BOOTS,"                            63
+
+  VI.--HOW CLUBS WERE STARTED LONG AGO,                               71
+
+ VII.--THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL; OR, NED DUNCAN'S DREAM,               73
+
+VIII.--THE PATRONS, SPECTATORS, AND POPULAR PLAYERS,                  79
+
+  IX.--A DREAM OF THE PAST,                                           82
+
+   X.--THE DUEL NEAR THE FOOTBALL FIELD,                              86
+
+  XI.--THE FINAL TIE FOR THE ASSOCIATION CHALLENGE CUP--1889-90,      93
+
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+FOOTBALL REMINISCENCES.
+
+
+
+
+_I.--FOOTBALL: ANCIENT AND MODERN._
+
+    "Then strip, lads and to it, though cold be the weather,
+      And if, by mischance you should happen to fall,
+    There are worse things in life than a tumble on heather,
+      For life is itself but a game at Football."
+            --_Sir Walter Scott._
+
+
+In Scotland, so closely associated with traditional lore, and the
+acknowledged birth-place of romance and patriotic song, it would be
+almost dangerous to incur displeasure by attempting to refer to the
+early history of anything associated with the amusements or recreations
+of the people, without actually touching on tradition--a point held by
+some in far greater regard and reverence than actual fact. Under these
+circumstances, then, I do not want to run the risk of complete
+annihilation by ignoring the traditional, and even territorial, aspect
+of Football. That the game was played as early as the tenth century
+there is any amount of authentic evidence to show, and that it continued
+to be one of the chief recreations of the people there can be no doubt.
+Coming much further down, however, the game of Football is referred to,
+both by historical and romance writers. In Sir Walter Scott's "Lay of
+the Last Minstrel," we find that the English and Scotch soldiers, in a
+few hours' actual cessation from skirmishing on the eve of a battle,
+engaged in "the merry Football play." Our forefathers, however, must
+have played the game in rather a rude and undignified fashion, if we can
+believe certain authorities--actual brute force and superiority in point
+of weight being the indispensable concomitants of a successful side. The
+matches, too, must have been played utterly regardless of science. Just
+fancy a couple of crack teams meeting on a heather-covered field, with
+the "hailing spots" about a mile and a-half apart, and playing a match
+lasting four or five hours! Could any of our young men nowadays stand
+such rough-and-tumble work? Happily it is not required. It has been
+found that a match lasting an hour and a-half, with the ball ever and
+anon passing in front of one on a level field, is quite enough, even for
+the strongest back, half-back, or forward. Experience has sufficiently
+proved that, even in this age of scientific play. So much for the past,
+and I will proceed to touch briefly on the spread and popularity of
+football.
+
+To those who only know football as promoted by the Queen's Park, and
+subsequently by the Vale of Leven, Clydesdale, Granville (now defunct),
+3rd L.R.V, and lastly, though not leastly, by the Scottish Football
+Association, we are almost compelled to offer some information. A
+quarter of a century ago a Union was formed in Edinburgh to draw up a
+code of rules to encourage the game of Football, and matches were played
+between schools and other clubs. These rules were a combination of the
+present Association and Rugby, dribbling being largely indulged in, but
+the goal-posts were similar to those now in use under the latter code of
+rules, and a goal could not be scored unless the ball went over the
+posts. This game made considerable progress in Edinburgh, being
+vigorously promoted by scholastic clubs and students attending college.
+Some years later, when the number of young gentlemen sent over from
+England to be educated in Scotland, particularly Edinburgh, began to
+increase, these old rules were subjected to considerable alteration, and
+eventually assimilated to those of the English Rugby Union, and all the
+known clubs in Scotland at that time adhered tenaciously to these rules,
+and under them many exciting games were played between Eastern and
+Western clubs, the Glasgow Academicals and Edinburgh Academicals being
+the leading ones. Eventually, however, the new clubs springing into
+existence in the Western District of the country did not care to play
+these rules, and, following the example of similar clubs in England,
+adhered to what they considered an improvement on the old system of
+Football, and joined the English Football Association, formed in 1863.
+The first to do this was the Queen's Park, the mother of Association
+Football in Scotland, in 1867, and the example was soon followed by the
+Clydesdale, 3rd L.R.V., Vale of Leven, Granville, and others, a few
+years afterwards. Well can I remember witnessing several exciting
+tussles on the Queen's Park recreation ground (then the only
+meeting-place of the Premier Association Club), between the Vale of
+Leven, Hamilton, East Kilbride, Clydesdale, Granville, and 3rd L.R.V.
+Since then the spread and popularity of the Association style of play
+has been so often written about that it is, so to speak, bound up in the
+actual history of the Western District of Scotland. In Edinburgh,
+however, the new rules have not made so much headway, the Rugby code
+being there as extensively played as of yore. Some advances, however,
+have taken place, and the Edinburgh University has an Association team,
+and that city several promising clubs, including the Hibernian, Heart of
+Midlothian, and St. Bernard, and, in Leith, the Athletic, that made such
+a plucky fight with the Queen's Park in a recent cup tie.
+
+No one, except a close observer, can believe the earnestness and
+enthusiasm imparted into the game by the formation of young clubs, but
+there is one danger which should be avoided. There is such a thing as
+overdoing; and, depend upon it, if this is continued, the game will
+suffer. To those who love and appreciate everything in season, the
+advice I am about to impart will be doubly significant. Football is a
+winter game, and while it may be all right to practice in spring and
+autumn, the line is bound to be drawn somewhere, and why attempt to
+force it down the throats of cricketers, athletes, yachtsmen, and even
+lawn-tennis players, in the heart of summer? It must not be forgotten
+that some of our best and most influential football clubs have also
+cricket clubs and kindred summer recreations attached, and, in the
+interests of football, these should be encouraged; and to this end I am
+confident my remarks will be treated with some respect. I am also sure
+that no one who has taken a deep interest in the game from its
+comparative infancy, but can look back with extreme pleasure on its
+development, and even go the length of registering a vow that he will do
+his utmost to make and uphold it as an honest and manly game, despite
+isolated assumptions by a few traducers who question such earnestness,
+and I will endeavour to point them out, and draw comparisons.
+
+"What came ye out to see?" might often be asked by an uninterested
+spectator who had ventured forth to look at some of the matches. A crowd
+of young men pursuing a round object, called a ball, with great
+earnestness of purpose. To the young cad, who can think of nothing but
+the colour of his latest pair of kid gloves, or the check of his newest
+acquisition in the shape of fashionable trousers, all out-door amusement
+is considered an interminable bore, the game of Football has, of course,
+no charm. There is too much hard work for him, and the training required
+to put one in condition, fraught with all that is called self-denial, he
+could never endure. The musty old duffer, too, looks upon the game in
+the light of a deadly sin, which can never be associated in his mind
+with anything short of idiocy and the most virulent fanaticism. To some
+of his young men he remarks--"And you call that a grand game, running
+about a field trying to put a ball near a pair of upright posts, and
+knocking the first lad down who attempts to retard your progress! Do you
+call that manly, eh? Would anyone but a pure lunatic run the chance of
+getting his shins cut, or collar-bone dislocated, indulging in such
+work, and donning coloured stockings and fantastic shirt the while to
+make the matter all the more absurd!" He seems to forget that "all work
+and no play makes Jack a dull boy," and the real meaning of a dull boy
+and a dull man is irregularity and vexation in the counting-house and
+office. There are amusements and amusements, and recreations and
+recreations, but I know of none adapted for the winter months which can
+be so cheaply indulged in, with so much profit to health, as Football.
+Accidents do happen occasionally, I admit, but they are exceedingly few
+when the number of young men engaged in the game is taken into account,
+combined with the fact that, last year, some of the leading Association
+matches were played much more roughly than in previous years, it is an
+astonishing fact that no fatal accident occurred in Scotland. There are,
+of course, many, if the whole truth must be written, whom the exciting
+and manly game has failed to touch by its magic and fascinating
+influence, but they should not be courted, and fortunately their
+patronage is neither sought nor needed, for they are the men most to be
+avoided on a wintry Saturday afternoon while one is on his way to see an
+exciting "cup tie." Depend upon it, they will allure you to some haunt
+where the language is not even so choice as where the "final" is being
+played between two leading clubs.
+
+I am fully convinced that when the game was first improved and adapted
+to stand side by side with others requiring both pluck and skill, the
+thought never entered the heads of its promoters that some of the laws
+might be abused, not used. Unfortunately, such is too true, and the
+sooner these things are discouraged the better. The old precept about
+warriors feeling a stern joy when they knew they were opposed to foemen
+worthy of their steel, should never be forgotten by the biggest back,
+half-back, or the smallest forward. To put it in another way,
+gentlemanly conduct towards an opponent in the field is pleasing to see,
+and, indeed, civility is worth much, and costs nothing--only a small
+effort of self-denial. In this enlightened age, the nation who crows too
+much over a vanquished foe is naturally detested, and why should not
+this spirit regulate the game of Football? If this were carefully
+remembered during the season, there would undoubtedly be such a close
+bond of fellowship and good feeling amongst Football players that
+nothing could disturb.
+
+And again, I cannot allow the present opportunity to pass without
+protesting against a practice, now, unfortunately, too largely followed
+by a section of the spectators who turn out to all the big events--viz.,
+betting. About as long as I can remember, and it may be before
+Football, perhaps, was played, many an honest wager was made by the
+leaders in all out-door sports that they would be the victors, but the
+practice, I have been assured, never went further. Now it is quite a
+common thing to see cash dancing about a ring of spectators at a big
+match, and often the loss of cash to certain individuals means a
+proportionate loss of temper, and the practice is all the more to be
+deplored. It is for this end, it is for this avowed purpose, that one
+and all connected with its development and culture, will strive to their
+utmost to ennoble and raise Football to a higher and purer level, and
+consequently discourage, by every legitimate means, betting in all its
+phases, and the slightest tendencies amongst the players who take part
+in the various matches towards rough play, and a disposition to indulge
+in unnecessary charging.
+
+
+
+
+_II.--THE FOOTBALL WAVE._
+
+
+Like Dogberry's idea of certain kinds of novel writing, both Association
+and Rugby Football seem to come to the Scotchmen by nature. My readers
+can, perhaps, easily remember the clever _jeu d'esprit_ on the antiquity
+of the Gaelic tongue which appeared several years ago advocating the
+claims of that race as lisping the first "speech" heard in Eden in a
+manner that must have stirred the blood of Professor Blackie. As the
+history of Association Football, with which I have only to deal under
+the present circumstances, is so well-known and a thing of yesterday,
+its origin, like that of the Gaelic language, is not shrouded in
+mystery, but actually known (or should be known) to all who take an
+interest in the game. In my previous article, I tried to trace the
+origin of football in its rudest form as played by our forefathers, when
+goal-posts and bars, to say nothing of corner-flags, were unknown.
+Football now, however, has been reduced to something like a scientific
+game, and to the credit of England be it said, the Association Rules
+there first saw the light. Scotch players in the Western District soon
+emulated their Southern brethren, and from the Parent Club, which had a
+humble and unassuming origin on the recreation ground at Queen's Park,
+sprang hundreds of clubs, spreading over the length and breadth of the
+land with remarkable rapidity. The wave soon rolled all over Glasgow and
+suburbs, submerged the whole country, and eventually invaded the Heart
+of Midlothian itself, where the Rugby code had hitherto reigned supreme.
+The schoolboys who played cricket and rounders in the summertime came
+out on a wintry afternoon to see their seniors engaged in Association
+football, and soon felt the desire creep over them to be members of a
+club containing lads like themselves. The young men engaged in the city
+all day thought on the health-imparting exercise it afforded, and had
+the necessary funds raised to form a club. The artisans, too, from the
+dusky foundry, the engineer shop, and the factory, soon began to dribble
+about. The young ones, and even the seniors themselves, had many a
+collision with mother earth ere they could rely on keeping their pins
+with any degree of accuracy, and it was rare fun to see a bearded man
+turning a somersault as he missed the ball in trying to make a big
+kick. Football is easily acquired in so far as the rudimentary part is
+concerned, but a great deal of probation is required to convert one into
+a crack player. Among those who now practice football, and their name is
+legion, the superior players can be numbered in (to give it a wide
+scope) hundreds. In fact, to be able to master all the details requisite
+to win a first-class match, one has to be capable of dribbling,
+middling, heading, and passing in a way that would do credit to solving
+a complicated problem in Euclid. It is all very well to talk about brute
+force and lasting power, but unless these are accompanied by scientific
+application, they are worth little, and cost much. "The race is not
+always to the swift," says the old proverb. In at least eight cases out
+of ten, the match is to the scientific and careful, but of this more
+anon. There is one thing that can be said about football which in the
+nature of things must recommend it to all lovers of out-door exercise.
+Of late years bicycling has obtained a great deal of popularity all over
+the three kingdoms, both for its usefulness as a speedy means of
+conveyance, and exercise to the limbs, but that it has its drawbacks has
+just been made apparent by undisputed medical authority. "The bicycle
+back," the effect of hard work on the "iron horse," is beginning to
+appear on the handsome young man who thinks nothing of doing his 50
+miles a day, and while walking occasionally with the young lady with the
+"Grecian bend," the contrast in his case is amusing. To say that there
+are no dangers of any kind attached to football would be making an
+assertion which I cannot substantiate, but these are comparatively few.
+All sports, of whatever kind, have the elements of danger attached to
+their pursuit, but, with great care, these can be reduced to a minimum.
+Although I have certainly never observed the round-shoulders of the
+bicyclist in the football player, I have not unfrequently seen the
+"football leg." That is a series of cuts about the shin bone,
+administered by a vicious opponent while (as it generally happens)
+playing a "cup tie," and last season they were more plentiful than ever.
+In fact, I heard from the lips of a member of one of the crack clubs
+that in not a few of the ties they retired from the field "greatly
+impressed with the unmistakable signs of muscular ability shown by their
+opponents." This means most undoubtedly hacking and tripping, under the
+guise of tackling, and if Association football is to go on and prosper
+such disgraceful acts of tyranny on the football field must forever
+cease. These "accidents" can, of course, be avoided, and as there are
+distinct rules forbidding them, clubs would do well to see that these
+are rigidly enforced.
+
+
+
+
+_III.--A "SWEEP FOR THE CUP;"_
+
+OR,
+
+_HOW PATE BROWN KEPT HIS ENGAGEMENT._
+
+
+"What do you say, old fellow, about a 'Sweep for the Cup.' Why, a 'sov.'
+is nothing to the like of you, and there will be such fun at the
+lifting." This was said to me one morning about nine, just as I was
+preparing to get my shaving utensils into working order before turning
+out to the warehouse. Pate Brown used to make fun of me about my scanty
+hirsute appendages, and many a time caused me to blush before sundry
+members of the Druids when he emphatically declared that I was one of
+those effeminate individuals who shaved, not because they had whiskers,
+but because they hadn't. This was in September, and a more open year for
+the respective chances of the clubs in the Cup had, perhaps, never come
+round.
+
+I was unattached then. I was, in fact, neither a member of the Druids
+nor the Nomads, but simply a friend of both, and an enthusiastic admirer
+of the game. My big brother Angus, it is true, was one of the best men
+in the Conquerors, and he and I sometimes had animated discussions about
+the respective merits of the clubs. "Why, Jack, this is only September,
+it will be more sensible for us to postpone the affair till after the
+preliminary ties. A lot of chaps to whom I have spoken consider it next
+to nonsense to draw the 'sweep' so soon."
+
+After a great deal of talking and another meeting, it was agreed to go
+right ahead with the "sweep," and accordingly the necessary arrangements
+were duly made, and subscribers' names taken, as well as their cash.
+
+The warehouse of Ball & Field was the largest in the whole city. Their
+trade connection extended to every known country on the face of the
+globe. There was a decided charm about the way in which the firm did
+business, and the kindly, not to say considerate manner, in which they
+treated employés, who really deserved it. The two leading members of the
+firm, in fact, were not insignificant prototypes of Dickens' Cheeryble
+Brothers (with the exception that they were both married). I verily
+believe that in an hour's notice a couple of excellent teams could have
+been picked from the house to make a decent match of it anywhere.
+
+The senior himself was an enthusiastic admirer of the game, and one way
+or another did much to encourage it by his presence on the field at all
+the big matches, and if any of the lads, such as myself, Brown, Rose,
+Wilson, or M'Nab wanted away to play in a big affair, a hint reaching
+the governor's ears to that effect was amply sufficient. The manager,
+however, was of a different sort, he hated football like poison. He even
+relegated the grand game to a pastime suitable for pure and
+unadulterated lunatics, those, as he put it, "who were too daft to get
+into Gartnavel." Fancy that! Woe betide the unfortunate half-back or
+forward, who in a weak moment relied on the magnanimity of "Sour Plums,"
+as he was called, to let him off to a match, without first consulting
+the governor himself. Sometimes M'Nab forgot to do so, and as his club
+were frequently in great straits to get him to play, he had to steep his
+brains to think on a strategic movement to get free, and succeeded; but
+sometimes with the aid of a "crammer."
+
+Brown, for reasons best known to himself, but which will duly come out
+as my story advances, was very anxious to be at the "draw," and
+accordingly duly appeared at the Marie Stuart Hall, Crosshill. There
+were a lot of pale faces in the room when Pate drew the Queen's Park,
+Dick Wallace the "Vale," Bill Weldon, Dumbarton, and Sandy M'Bean the
+Rangers. A rosy-cheeked, country-looking lad belonging to the Q.P. drew
+Cowlairs, and a general titter ran through the august assembly when that
+same lad remarked, "he was quite satisfied with his draw, the other
+crack clubs notwithstanding." Tom Vincent got Kilmarnock Athletic, Alf.
+Grant the Clyde, Blower Fleming drew the Heart of Midlothian, and Bill
+Fairfield the Hibernian. I was unlucky enough to secure one of the many
+insignificant clubs who never survived the first round, and so my "sov."
+was a dead letter.
+
+The entire "sweep" came to a fine round sum, as the subscribers included
+a good many of the rank and file of football enthusiasts, and even two
+"football-daft" members of the upper strata of the Glasgow Police Force,
+and three of the Fire Brigade, went the length of taking a couple of
+tickets. There was also Luke Wood, the representative of the "Kick-off,"
+who knew a thing or two about the game. He was in for a pair of tickets,
+too, and drew the Invincible and Morning Star. He was thoroughly
+disgusted at the prospect (more particularly as he had been one of the
+leading hands in getting up the "sweep"); but, as the Yankees say, he
+gradually "cooled himself down," and got thoroughly reconciled to his
+loss.
+
+The Cowlairs had to play the Queen's Park in one of the ties, and a
+determined tussle it turned out to be. The "boys" bore a wild look that
+afternoon as they emerged from the pavilion at Hampden Park. You could
+read the anxious and determined character of their mission on every
+face. They had fully made up their minds to fight hard for the Cup, and
+really they did. Several of the team were big powerful fellows whom not
+a few cautious half-backs would think twice before "going for," and two
+of the forwards were very smart on their pins, but wanted that true
+mastery of the art of passing and dribbling at the proper time which
+make up the refined and superior Association player. As for endurance,
+they did not toil among iron wheels, steel axles, and brass fittings for
+locomotives, to say nothing of generating steam on the shortest notice,
+without being "hardy." No, no. They were in the best of condition for
+the game. The Queen's took them too cheaply, and nearly paid a lasting
+penalty for their carelessness. The game, in fact, was so closely fought
+that the teams were unable to overcome one another, and two goals each
+was the result. Meeting a second time, however, the Q.P. made short work
+of them, and won by nine goals to none.
+
+The evening before the memorable tussle which put the half of
+Dumbartonshire into a state of excitement, bordering on the football
+fever, "Mary, the Maid of the Football Inn," came to the door of the
+little hotel repeatedly, and after casting sundry glances at the roadway
+and scanning the passers-by, muttered something about being jilted, and
+how shamefully she had been used by Bob. Her own Bob, who was always so
+punctual, and occasionally treated her to a nice walk along the Leven,
+past Ewing's big work, and even went the length of composing verses in
+her honour.
+
+"What had become of him? Had Nancy Pringle waylaid him, as she
+positively swore she would do, on the first opportunity, and start the
+probationary stages of a drama in real life?" The fact was Bob never
+came, and no wonder. He was collared by the Dumbarton captain, and
+carried off to the field to practice for the great fight of the next
+day, under pains and penalties. He pleaded for Mary, but it was of no
+avail. "He had," he went on to remonstrate, "promised on his word of
+honour to meet her that evening and take her to Luckie M'Latchie's
+booking." Luckie and Tam M'Murtrie (an old footballer) were to be
+spliced a fortnight afterwards, and the "cries" were in.
+
+With a serious air the captain lectured Bob till he was blue in the
+face, and told him if he did not put himself in condition for the great
+battle of the morrow he would be stoned by the town enthusiasts. He
+remembered when a boy at school scribbling as best he could on his
+copybook, "Discretion is the better part of valour," and the sentence
+flashed across his heated brain with all the force of actual conviction.
+"What was he to do?" "Was it to be football first, and Mary afterwards?"
+Something whispered "yes; Mary could afford to wait, but the 'Cup' was a
+transitory article, and the splendid chance his club had of winning it
+might pass away like a dream." "Why, there was Joe Laidlay, he was in
+something like the same dilemma so far as his 'lass' was concerned, and
+if Joe, he thought, could afford to put off his sweetheart, Maggie
+Jackson, in the same way, he (Bob) considered that he should be able to
+conclude the arrangement, and make the best excuse to Mary."
+
+Quietly speaking, Bob had an ambition in his football, and it consisted
+in being a member of the eleven who would at one time or another "lick"
+the Queen's Park, and went into the practice game with his whole heart,
+and played all through in good form.
+
+Just a year or so before this the "Vale" would have given the same
+Dumbarton lot short shift and no favour on any of the grounds, but
+matters were altered. They wanted a lot of their old blood, which had in
+years gone bye carried them through many a doubtful battle. They had
+lost their grand goalkeeper, and the crack half-back had vacated his
+favourite position to keep the ball from going between the uprights in
+"time o' need."
+
+Some of the daring forwards had also bade farewell to the game, and were
+scattered over the length and breadth of the land. The match, however,
+had to be played--it would brook no delay--and the spirited captain
+resolved to make the best of it, although a score of misgivings passed
+through his mind as to the issue. There was one thing in favour of the
+"Vale," they had their own ground to play upon, and that was reckoned as
+worth a goal any day.
+
+Before the start Johnny Freer told his old chums to keep their "weather
+eyes" open for sudden rushes by the Dumbarton forward division, and
+before the game was very old, they discovered that the advice did not
+come a moment too soon. Keeping close on the touch lines till well down
+among the half-backs, Maclure and his light companion, "the Bird,"
+assuredly did not allow the grass to grow under their leather bars. The
+ground was a little sloppy from the recent rain, but, strange to say,
+the Dumbarton men seemed to keep their feet in a remarkable manner.
+M'Luckie and big Walton tried their very best to intercept the
+dribblers, but at times they were completely mastered, and Dick Wallace
+had to come away from his place at back and assist.
+
+The most of the Dumbarton lads were much faster on the ball than the
+"Vale," and this, added to a slice of luck, aided them in scoring twice,
+and they consequently won a hard battle by two goals to none, and earned
+the proud distinction of being the champions.
+
+After the great crowd had dispersed, and lots of silver had changed
+hands, a solemn silence reigned in that part of the pavilion utilised by
+the "Vale." "There is no use denying the fact, chaps," said the captain
+of the defeated team, "these fellows have beaten us on our form this
+season, and we'll have to make the best of a bad bargain."
+
+Not so, however, in the other end of the house. The victors were
+"blowing" a good deal of the bad luck they had had, and how they ought
+to have scored a dozen goals if "Sandy had not repeatedly allowed the
+ball to graze the goal-posts, instead of attempting to kick it out. They
+had, however, beaten the 'Vale,' and that was all they cared for, in
+the said tie. The Rangers they declared they did not fear, and from all
+they could hear, they were now quite able to meet the Queen's Park face
+to face."
+
+With the Rangers, however, they had just sufficient to do on their own
+ground in the first match, but in the second came off victorious by five
+goals to one.
+
+One Saturday evening we took forcible possession of Jack Cook's
+lodgings, which were situated near the Marie Stuart Hall, Crosshill.
+Jack was very fond of billiards, and sometimes pocketed several "pools"
+of an evening, when a few choice spirits congregated in "The Rooms."
+Jack's landlady had frequently threatened him with pains and penalties
+for treating anything approaching "elders' hours" with contempt, and
+once intensified it to instant dismissal, bag and baggage, for
+encouraging a lot of his chums in leading the chorus of Dickens'
+Bacchanalian song:
+
+    "We won't go home till morning,
+    Till morning, till morning,
+    We won't go home till morning,
+    Till daylight doth appear,"
+
+at four o'clock A.M., under her kitchen window after a big cup tie,
+which the Conquerors had won. Jack, as a matter of precaution warned us
+that we were to comport ourselves with decency, and not rouse the
+aforesaid lady. Our friend had something in the bottle. We were
+comfortably seated, and the room filled with tobacco smoke, when a dim
+shadow was noticed at the door, and turned out to be Willie Fairfield,
+of the Flying Blues, who had just called to let us know he had received
+a telegram from Edinburgh announcing the defeat of the Hibernian in the
+protested match with Dumbarton, by six goals to two.
+
+Willie, it may be mentioned, had drawn the Hibernian in our "sweep," and
+was, I may inform all concerned, well pleased with his luck when the
+ticket came out the bag; but now much crestfallen. Bill Weldon, however,
+who had secured Dumbarton in the same drawing, jumped off his chair at
+the success of the club he had secured, and remarked--"Look here, boys,
+Dumbarton are just about good enough to win the Association Cup, and
+I'll take evens on't." "Done," said a chorus of voices, and Mrs. Blank's
+parlour was for a few minutes transformed into a betting house on a
+small scale.
+
+We had a long chat as to the respective merits of the Rangers and
+Dumbarton, who were to play their tie over again, in consequence of some
+informality, and after draining Jack's bottle, were accompanied to the
+door with solemn injunctions not to kick up a row on the stairs.
+
+Weeks passed after this little incident, and the clubs left in our
+"sweep" were getting small by degrees and beautifully less. The Rangers,
+Partick, South-Western, Northern, 3rd L.R.V., Arthurlie, Kilmarnock
+Portland, Alexandra Athletic, Thornliebank, Heart of Midlothian, and
+even the plucky little Clyde were cleared off the list, and the Queen's
+Park had their own ado with Kilmarnock Athletic, and only beat that
+sturdy Ayrshire Club by three goals to two. All that now remained in the
+tie, in fact, were Q.P. and Dumbarton.
+
+It was Weldon and Pate Brown for it now, and both began to dream of a
+good pocketful of "sovs."
+
+Pate, who was engaged to charming little Lizzie Green, had been living
+very carefully for a time in prospect of shortly calling Lizzie his own,
+was only now a casual visitor to Cook's lodgings. One evening, on his
+way home from Ball & Field's, Pate began to reckon up his chances of
+winning the "sweep."
+
+"One hundred and five subscribers at a 'sov.' a-piece," said he, "why
+that makes £105. The odd 'fiver' will pay all the expenses, and if the
+Q.P. win the Cup, why all that will be mine. Oh! glorious Q.P.,
+invincible Q.P., you must and shall win the Cup," raved excited Pate.
+"Lizzie, my own dear lassie, I have not told you about my speculation,
+nor will I till the tie is over, and we'll get married this summer yet."
+
+I do not intend to weary my readers with a detailed account of the final
+Cup ties, for everybody knows there were two played. In the first, when
+the clubs tied, and Dumbarton had the best of the game, little Pate
+Brown nearly lost his senses with excitement, and had frequently to lean
+heavily on the shoulder of Lizzie Green to prevent him from falling
+under the grand stand.
+
+"What is it, dear, that makes you so terribly pale at a match?" she said
+to him in a gentle whisper. "You must be ill, for I have never observed
+you so excited before." Little did the young lady imagine what was at
+issue, and the cause of Pate's nervousness; but she knew afterwards, and
+had a jolly laugh over it in her own tidy little house at Govanhill.
+
+Who does not remember the real final tie on Cathkin Park? Such a match
+will, perhaps, never be seen in Scotland again. How both Queen's Park
+and Dumbarton played with all the force and dash they could command, and
+how at length the Queen's Park were the conquerors, and Pate Brown won
+the double prize.
+
+A few nights afterwards Pate received one hundred sovs. (there were no
+second and third prizes) in the "Marie Stuart," and when he told the
+young fellows assembled that he was about to get wed to Lizzie Green,
+every soul of them (not even excepting Bill Weldon himself, who had
+drawn Dumbarton in the speculation, and lost a few "sovs." on them too),
+congratulated him on his choice, and called Pate a "lucky dog."
+
+They all knew and admired the neat little girl who, among other blithe
+and gentle faces, turned out to see the leading football matches, to
+cheer the players when they won, and chaff them when they lost.
+
+They were married--Pate Brown and Lizzie Green--and in presence of his
+old club companions, whom he had invited to spend an evening at his new
+house, Pate told the simple story of how he had got married to his
+little darling a year sooner than he expected, all through drawing the
+Queen's Park in a "SWEEP FOR THE CUP."
+
+
+
+
+
+_IV.--FAMOUS ASSOCIATION PLAYERS--PAST AND PRESENT._
+
+
+Little did the comparatively small but orderly group of enthusiastic
+spectators who met around the ropes at Hamilton Crescent Ground,
+Partick, eighteen years ago, to witness the first International
+Association match, imagine the ultimate development of the Association
+style of play in Scotland, and in after years the triumphs which awaited
+her sons in contests with England. I was present, and shall never
+forget the manner in which the teams--both Scotch and English--acquitted
+themselves, and made a drawn game of it.
+
+
+~The Five Dead Internationalists.~
+
+The ranks of the past crack players are beginning to get thinned by the
+common enemy of mankind. When I think of the busy feet, blithe and happy
+faces, and merry voices that joined in the game twenty years ago, a
+sense of sadness comes over me which it is difficult to dispel. "The
+first International, sir;" yes. Five of the gallant eleven who fought
+Scotland's battle are dead. Poor Gardner, Smith, Weir, Leckie, and
+Taylor, football players, have cause to remember thee! It was a hard
+struggle to keep up football in those days, and as there were no club
+funds all the items of expenditure had to be brought forth from the
+capacious pockets of the members. They loved the game, however, those
+primitive players, and engaged in it for its own sake, without ever
+thinking of reward. In the words of a great poetess, "We shall sing
+their praise ere long;" and while it may be thousands of dribblers of
+the present never heard their names, it is but right that the young ones
+should not forget what they owe to the Association football pioneers.
+Yes, the boys of the old brigade are falling out of the ranks in which
+they served so well, never to muster again on this side the grave; while
+others, still toiling on, are "scattered far and wide, by mountain,
+stream, and sea."
+
+
+~Joseph Taylor.~
+
+The admitted chief of the five who have gone to their rest was Joseph
+Taylor. Of a quiet and unassuming disposition, blended with remarkable
+firmness, no man who captained the Queen's Park was so much respected
+both on the field and in private life. None hated unfair or rough play
+more. He could not endure it in a club companion, and this was
+particularly so if his team were playing a comparatively junior
+combination. Taught in the early school of Association football, when
+the rules were much more exacting than they are now, he had, along with
+his colleagues in the Queen's Park, to fight their preliminary battles,
+and overcome the prejudices consequent on introducing the "reformation,"
+so to speak, in football. Taylor developed into a first-class back when
+comparatively young, and was chosen to play for his club against England
+in 1872, when the Queen's Park met that country single-handed, and
+played a drawn contest. Considering his light weight, he was a fine
+tackler, returned very smartly to his forwards, and, possessing
+remarkable speed, completely astonished an opponent by clearing the ball
+away before the forwards of the opposing club were able to obtain any
+advantage. He had always a kind and encouraging word to young players,
+and in 1875 and 1876 was chosen captain of the Scotchmen, and played, in
+all, five times against England. He died in Govanhill about three years
+ago.
+
+
+~Robert Gardner.~
+
+As the first captain of the Queen's Park in the International of 1872,
+and also chosen to that post next season in London, Gardner, who has
+also joined the great majority, was the most extraordinary player of his
+day. He was so versatile that I have seen him at work in all the
+different positions of the field--goalkeeper, back, half-back, and even
+forward--but it was as a goalkeeper that he excelled. A very
+indifferent kicker out in front, when the ball came up, he sometimes
+made mistakes with the feet; but when I remember the brilliant men who
+have since stood between the posts in Internationals and final cup ties,
+each in their line famous, I must confess that none ever used their
+hands and weight to greater advantage than Gardner. Possessing a
+peculiarity of temper which had much of the Scotchmen's sturdy
+independence, he had a difference with some of his friends, and left the
+Queen's Park to join the Clydesdale, and did much to assist that club to
+attain at the time the second position in Scottish Association football.
+Members of both clubs will not easily forget the manner in which Gardner
+kept goal for his new combination against the Queen's Park in a cup tie,
+when three matches had to be completed before the senior club won. He
+retired from the game some time before his death, which took place at
+South Queensferry a year and a half ago.
+
+
+~James E. Weir.~
+
+Who could dribble and keep possession of the ball like Weir? In a
+football sense he was in everybody's mouth sixteen years ago, when crack
+forwards were few, and neat dribblers fewer. In all the contests the
+Queen's Park engaged in for ten years, none was more popular among the
+spectators, and emulated by the then young generation of players, than
+Weir. He always worked on the right side, and with William M'Kinnon,
+Angus Mackinnon, H. M'Neil, T. Lawrie, and T. C. Highet for companions,
+the exhibition of dribbling and passing, with the six forwards, was
+finer than is the case now with the five. The ball had then to touch the
+ground after being thrown in straight from the line before being played.
+Under those circumstances, heading by the forwards was never seen in the
+field, unless after a corner-flag kick. Well can I remember the match at
+Hampden Park against the London Wanderers, whom the Queen's Park
+defeated by six goals to none, when Weir, being tackled by the Hon. A.
+F. Kinnaird and C. W. Alcock, put his foot on the ball, shook off the
+two powerful Englishmen, and made a goal. The sad news only arrived
+lately from Australia, whither Weir had gone some years ago, of his
+demise. Deceased played in two Internationals, including that of 1872,
+and no finer dribbler ever toed a ball. He was, in fact, at the time
+designated the "Prince of Dribblers."
+
+
+~Joseph Leckie.~
+
+In every condition of life, no matter the sphere in which one is placed,
+he has his own peculiarities, and, in a football sense, Leckie, above
+all the gallant throng who have disappeared for ever from the field, had
+his. Comparatively short of stature and powerfully knit together, with
+splendidly moulded limbs, Leckie was one of the most tenacious forwards.
+While dribbling past an opponent with the ball at his toe, his
+peculiarity asserted itself in such a way that, once seen, could never
+be forgotten. Weir, Smith, W. M'Kinnon, H. M'Neil, and, later on,
+Fraser, Highet, and Richmond, among the army of forwards brought out by
+the Queen's Park; to say nothing of M'Lintock, M'Intyre, and Baird (Vale
+of Leven), J. R. Wilson and Anderson (Clydesdale), T. Vallance and P.
+Campbell (Rangers), and A. Kennedy and J. Hunter (3rd L.R.V.), of whom I
+will say something later on, had all their imitators in the younger
+clubs, but Leckie had none. He was, in fine, a player by himself. When
+he obtained possession of ball, he guarded his body with extended arms
+drooping from his side, with the back of his hands in front of the
+thighs, and thus formed a barrier to an opponent who attempted to tackle
+or take the ball from him. He took part in the first International. He
+died about three years ago in South Africa.
+
+
+~James Smith.~
+
+The least known, perhaps, of the original International men, but one
+whose name will ever be honoured by many of the older school of players,
+and locally Queen's Park members, is Mr. James Smith, who died some
+years ago in London. Mr. Smith was, in conjunction with his brother
+Robert, early associated with the game in Scotland, and was an original
+member of the Queen's Park. Mr. Archibald Rae, the first secretary of
+the Scottish Football Association, and at one time an active member of
+the Queen's Park (and a beautiful dribbler in his day), tells an amusing
+anecdote of Smith, while playing against the Hamilton Club, leaping on
+the top of a hedge to win a touch-down, which in those days counted a
+point in the game. This entirely coincided with poor Smith's play, as he
+was sometimes very impetuous. He played in the International of 1872 as
+a forward.
+
+
+~William M'Kinnon.~
+
+Dealing now with the past players who are with us in the body, for a
+long series of years, and, indeed, till within a short period of
+retiring from the field, no centre forward of his day, and very few
+since, have equalled M'Kinnon in that trying position. When the 3rd
+Lanark Rifle Volunteers started the dribbling game on the old drill
+ground at Govanhill, or rather when that small burgh was "No Man's
+Land," M'Kinnon was one of its most active players. It is in connection
+with his membership of the Queen's Park that I wish to recall incidents
+in his career. In 1874 I made my way over to the South-Side Park to
+witness a match between the Queen's and the Vale of Leven. Association
+football was then a very insignificant affair--the Rugby code, with such
+fine clubs as the Glasgow Academicals and West of Scotland as
+exponents--engaging all the public attention. The game was free to all.
+"Ladies and gentlemen, no charge for admission. Come and see our game.
+Kick-off, 3.30." Well, M'Kinnon, along with the rest of the team,
+emerged from the old toll-house, close by, to meet their gallant
+opponents, and Mr. Parlane, of the Vale of Leven (who kept goal so well
+for that club in many of her best matches), "chaffed" the Q.P. man in
+amusing manner about his boots (See "The Conqueror's Football Boots"),
+which were new, and differed considerably from the style then worn by
+players. All through the contest, which, by the way, was drawn, with no
+goals on either side, M'Kinnon was a little stiff, and scarcely played
+so well as was his wont. He never discarded his old companions, however,
+and those very boots in after years kicked many a goal both in
+Internationals and final cup ties. As an indication, in fact, of his
+genuine ability, he was chosen to play against England oftener than any
+man in Scotland, with the single exception of Mr. Charles Campbell, who
+was selected no fewer than ten times as a half-back. Mr. M'Kinnon was
+engaged in eight, including the first, and in these his country was
+victorious four times, and two were drawn matches. As a centre forward
+has to bear the brunt of an attack from the opposing side first,
+M'Kinnon was the very man to lead on the advance guard. His pluck was
+immense; and while he rather delighted to dodge an opponent and leave
+the charging to his backer up, he was a close and beautiful dribbler;
+could play a hard match without any outward signs of fatigue, and no man
+before or since could take a corner-flag kick like him. He used to
+practice this kick, and could place the ball within a few inches of the
+spot aimed at. Mr. M'Kinnon is still in our midst hale and hearty, and
+when a good thing in football is announced he generally turns out to see
+his favourite game, and is not afraid to criticise the form shown by his
+successors.
+
+
+~David Wotherspoon.~
+
+Mr. Wotherspoon was early associated with the Queen's Park; indeed, one
+of the original members, and did much in his day for football. When the
+senior club found it a matter of difficulty to get up an eleven to play
+in the country, some times at East Kilbride (for you must know that
+important agricultural centre had a club nearly twenty years ago),
+Alexandria, and Hamilton, Wotherspoon and Gardner were generally the
+first volunteers. There were no fares paid in those primitive days out
+of club funds, and each individual had to square up his own account,
+like the Scottish cricketer of the present. Although retired now for a
+number of years, and out of the run of the game, Wotherspoon, who is in
+business in the city, is always delighted to hear of its development,
+and proud of what he did in his youth for it. If ever a man had neatness
+of style, combined with gentlemanly conduct to an opponent on the field,
+it was Wotherspoon. Considering the fact that he was a light-weight,
+under 10st., he many a time astonished both opponents and spectators by
+his magnificent returns at half-back, and I may mention, in passing,
+that in a match at Hampden Park I actually saw him kick a ball from the
+centre of the field right through the goal--a feat that very few of our
+younger half-backs could accomplish now. As I saw him in two
+Internationals (1872-73), however, it was not as a half-back, but as an
+accomplished forward, dribbling with great judgment, and passing in a
+most unselfish way. Mr. Wotherspoon left the Queen's Park to join the
+Clydesdale a short time after his old companion Gardner, and the two
+were associated with that club when it numbered among its members such
+fine players as Messrs. F. Anderson, G. M. Wilson, J. R. Wilson, W.
+Wilson, J. P. Tennent, J. M'Pherson, W. Gibb, J. T. Richmond, and
+David's brother, J. Wotherspoon. In the first of the long string of
+matches which have been played between Sheffield and Glasgow, dating
+back to 1874, Mr. Wotherspoon was one of the players; and it may be
+mentioned that, in the same contest, the Glasgow representatives were
+made up entirely of Queen's Park and Clydesdale men, and that each city
+scored a couple of goals.
+
+
+~James J. Thomson.~
+
+No player among the half-backs of the old school was so much thought of
+in Association football as Thomson. Once seen and met by an opponent, he
+could never be forgotten. Tall and stern in appearance, he carried every
+pound of his heavy weight with the greatest ease, and, what was of more
+consequence to his club in a hard battle, used it well. He tackled with
+consummate skill, and had remarkable confidence in himself. For the
+first three years of his membership no player ever turned out more
+regularly to practice, and, for a stout man, none could show an opponent
+a cleaner pair of heels. All the time he was available in the Queen's
+Park, an International without Thomson as one of the half-backs was out
+of the question, and for three seasons (1872-73-74), he was selected for
+that post against England. In the last event, when Scotland won at
+Partick by two goals to one, the brilliant manner in which Thomson
+played will not easily be forgotten by those who witnessed the contest.
+While F. Anderson (Clydesdale), and A. Mackinnon (Queen's Park), scored
+the goals for Scotland, Thomson never worked harder in his life, and
+when the English forwards got near his side, he rarely, if ever, failed
+to take the ball away from them. Just before leaving for Manchester, Mr.
+Thomson was chosen captain of the Glasgow Eleven against Sheffield. Some
+years ago he went to Liverpool, and is now secretary of the extensive
+butcher business of Eastmans Company (Limited). In addition to his
+ability as a football player, Mr. Thomson was a splendid sprinter, and
+carried off a large number of prizes both in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
+
+
+~William Ker.~
+
+Mr. William Ker was captain of the Queen's Park when they leased their
+first private ground, and did much by his tact and ability to bring on
+our senior club to seek new conquests in England. Mr. Ker--of whose
+brother George I shall have occasion to refer by and by--was a most
+gentlemanly young fellow, and made himself respected by club companions
+and opponents alike. In the early history of the game a half-back, and
+even back, did not consider it _infra dig._ to dribble a bit and bring
+up the ball to goal, provided the match was against a much weaker club,
+and while Ker was a grand back and beautiful kicker with his left foot,
+he was also an accomplished dribbler. In a match he never lost sight of
+the ball for a moment, and when any of his team made a mistake in
+following up, Ker frequently stepped into the breach himself, and did
+his best to get the player out of a difficulty. He was too gentlemanly
+to upbraid a member of the team on the ground, like some captains
+now-a-days, but awaited an opportunity, and the advice imparted
+generally did the careless player a world of good. In the famous match
+at Partick in 1872, Ker showed some very fine play, both in clever
+tackling and returning the ball; and, if I mistake not, he was opposed
+on the opposite side by the English captain (Mr. C. J. Ottaway, since
+dead), and the manoeuvring between the pair was something to be
+remembered. Mr. Ker did not play very long after this game, as he left
+Glasgow for Canada.
+
+
+~Robert Smith.~
+
+Unlike his brother in the manner of his style, Mr. Robert Smith was not
+by any means an impulsive player, but took in the situation quietly; and
+while no man ever worked harder in the field, or did more for a club, he
+was not what could be called a brilliant forward. The brothers, however,
+did well in the International I have referred to, and considerably
+helped the eleven to make a drawn battle of it. It may be mentioned that
+both were then also members of the South Norwood Club (one of the best
+in England at that time), as they had previously left Scotland for
+London. Mr. Robert Smith, so far as I am aware, is now in the United
+States.
+
+
+~Alexander Rhind.~
+
+A rare but light dribbler was Mr Rhind. One of the old members of the
+Queen's Park, and associated with men whose names I have already
+mentioned in its early struggles, he knew, if I may be allowed to use a
+simile which is likely to force a smile, what football poverty was, for
+is it not a fact that he was a member of the Q.P. Finance Committee
+when the annual subscription was _sixpence_, the yearly income £3 9s.
+8d., and as the expenditure amounted up to £4 2s. 4d., the deficit of
+12s. 8d. had to be made up by a levy? I never remember Mr. Rhind playing
+in a match after the International. He is now in Aberdeen.
+
+
+~The First Final Cup Tie.~
+
+The First Final Association Cup Tie, on Hampden Park, I remember well.
+The clubs fated to meet each other were the Queen's Park and Clydesdale,
+and the match, considering the fact that the players were comparatively
+young in the practice of the dribbling game, proved a very fine one
+indeed. It was on a Saturday afternoon in the middle of March, 1874, and
+a crowd of fully 2000 spectators attended. The Hampden Park of to-day,
+with its splendid pavilion and accessories, and beautifully laid-off
+turf, was not then conceived in the minds of the Match Committee. It was
+the Hampden Park of yore, now cut up to form a railway embankment. Mr.
+Hon. Secy. Rae and his companions in office never for a moment imagined
+that in sixteen years afterwards the new ground, which is crowded nearly
+every Saturday afternoon with excited spectators, would be made to
+satisfy the cravings of a football public, and the exigencies of
+athletic life. There was no such thing as a pavilion then, only a kind
+of "wee house" at the gate end of the field, for all the world like an
+overgrown sentry-box, did duty instead. The grass on the field was not
+even cut in some places, and at the top corner-flag was long and turfy.
+The spectators, however, of whom a large number were ladies, enjoyed it
+very much, and the enthusiasm imparted among the youths who were present
+had a wonderful effect on the spread of the game. It was thought that a
+draw was inevitable, so well did both sides play till within twenty
+minutes of the finish, when Mr. Wm. M'Kinnon scored a goal for the
+senior club, and this was followed by a second from the foot of Mr.
+Leckie, not long before no-side was announced, leaving the Q.P. the
+winners by two goals to none. I must, however, go back a little way and
+say something about the
+
+
+~Association Challenge Cup,~
+
+which has caused a new order of things to arise in Scottish football.
+Well, during the previous year, and, in fact, not long after the first
+International at Partick, new clubs were formed in many quarters, but
+more particularly Glasgow and Dumbartonshire, and it was on March 13,
+1873, that the Queen's Park convened a meeting of representatives of
+clubs, and what is now known as the Scottish Football Association was
+formed. Eight clubs responded, and created the great Association. The
+eight, who deserve much honour at the hands of players, were:--Queen's
+Park, Clydesdale, Vale of Leven, Dumbreck, Eastern, Rovers, 3rd L.R.V.,
+and Granville, and those clubs were represented on the committee by Mr.
+Arch. Campbell (Clydesdale), president; Mr. W. Ker (Queen's Park), hon.
+treasurer; Mr. Archibald Rae (Queen's Park), hon. secretary; with the
+following committee:--Messrs. Ebenezer Hendry and Wm. Gibb (Clydesdale),
+J. Turnbull (Dumbreck), D. Macfarlane (Vale of Leven), W. E. Dick (3rd
+L.R.V.), T. Mackay (Granville), J. M'Intyre (Eastern), and R. Gardner
+(Queen's Park). Next in order came the Challenge Cup, and the
+competition for that trophy was in full swing. The necessary funds were
+soon forthcoming, and a very neat, but plain, specimen of the
+silversmith's art was brought forth. The subject for ornamentation was
+taken from a cut in the _Graphic_, representing a player in the act of
+dribbling at the first International, and made by Messrs. George Edward
+& Sons. There you have it now, gentlemen, rather dry reading and
+technical, though, but nevertheless the infant life of a great
+competition. By a strange coincidence in the respective matches, and one
+which the players of a former era will look upon with a sense of
+sadness, consists in the fact that of the twenty-two who took part in
+that game seven are dead. Of these the senior club has the misfortune to
+claim five--Messrs. J. J. Taylor, J. B. Weir, J. Leckie, J. Dickson, and
+A. Mackinnon; while the Clydesdale, so far as I am aware, has only two,
+Mr. J. R. Wilson and Mr. Robert Gardner. As I have already given short
+sketches of Messrs. Taylor, Weir, Leckie, and Gardner, under the head of
+"Dead Internationalists," and J. J. Thomson and W. M'Kinnon under
+another, I have only to deal with R. W. Neil, J. Dickson, T. Lawrie, C.
+Campbell, Angus Mackinnon, and H. M'Neil (Queen's Park), and the whole
+of the Clydesdale, with the sole exception of R. Gardner.
+
+
+~Charles Campbell.~
+
+Mr. Campbell seems to have had no real starting point in his football
+career. The love of the game and its early associations came to him as
+if by nature. I am told that when he was quite a boy he used to appear
+on the ground at Queen's Park to see his brother Edward playing with old
+club companions. He soon began to dribble about, and afterwards show
+splendid ability in long-kicking and tackling, and in 1873-74 played for
+the Queen's Park in her best matches. The final cup tie, however, was
+his first big event, and no doubt the lessons and confidence he obtained
+in that match served him well in after years, when he was destined to be
+the greatest favourite both among players and spectators that ever took
+part in any cup tie or International. Mr. Campbell has now retired from
+active duty on the field, but his love for the game, and the welfare of
+the players engaged in it, induced him to accept the presidentship of
+the Association for 1889-90, and one and all are alive to the fact that
+he discharges his duties with the greatest fidelity. As a brilliant
+tackler and neat kicker at half-back, it might honestly be said of him
+that he had no equal. Men who played against him on great occasions (for
+Mr. Campbell always rose to his best form in these) have good cause to
+remember how he could "head" the ball away from goal at a critical
+moment, and get it through quite a forest of legs. As he was not one of
+the cracks in the final cup tie of 1874, I must honestly confess I can't
+remember how he played, but as his club scored a victory, and he was one
+of the half-backs, he must have done well. Mr. Campbell rarely, if ever,
+spends a Saturday afternoon away from Hampden Park in the winter time;
+takes a lively interest in his mother club, and, what is of more
+account, can still play in his favourite position with great dash and
+precision. He has the unique distinction of playing in ten
+Internationals with England, and been an office-bearer of his club since
+1873.
+
+
+~Thomas Lawrie.~
+
+Mr. Lawrie has done much for football in connection with his club and
+the Association, both by example and precept. In the early days of the
+Queen's Park he was one of their most brilliant forwards, and in several
+of the cup ties, notably that between the Queen's Park and Renton,
+proved the best man on the field. He never shirked his work, or left
+hard tackling to the half-backs, but sprang on the ball and opponent at
+once, and generally had the best of it. Of all the fine forwards who
+received their football education under Mr. J. J. Thomson's, and later
+on Mr. C. Campbell's and Mr. Joseph Taylor's captaincy, none could keep
+his feet better on the field; and it was quite a rare thing to see
+Lawrie grassed by an opponent. Although not much above the middle
+height, he was a perfect football Hercules, and not long before retiring
+from the field opponents in some of the matches would frequently make
+earnest inquiries about whether he were to be included in the Q.P. team
+on that day. But for an accident to the knee which made him retire,
+after being chosen to play in the International against England in 1874,
+Mr. Lawrie would have then represented his club. After giving up active
+duty in the field, he has rendered noble service by being president of
+the Scottish Football Association, and loves the game as dearly as ever.
+
+
+~Harry M'Neil.~
+
+The first final cup tie brought into prominence one of the neatest
+little dribblers and passers that ever played on the left wing of any
+club. Methinks I see him now, with his quick action, short step, and
+unselfish play, gliding down the side of the field, dodging an opponent
+close on the touch-line, and causing the spectators to laugh
+immoderately. Spectators are prone to make favourites, and while Mr.
+Campbell was assuredly one at half-back, Mr. M'Neil was none the less
+loved among the forwards. While playing in the leading games he was
+always ready with his joke, and I'll back him to be the best man in the
+world to explain away a defeat and magnify a victory for the club he
+loved so well. Mr. M'Neil was chosen seven times to play against England
+and Wales, and I remember his efforts and their results with pleasure.
+The only time he was sorely beset was in the International of 1876, when
+Mr. Jarrett (Cambridge University, I think), one of the English
+half-backs--a powerful young fellow--tackled him severely. The gallant
+little Queen's Park man, however, withstood the charges well, and came
+up from mother earth smiling. That match, however, ended in favour of
+Scotland by three goals to none. Mr. M'Neil was a member of the 3rd
+L.R.V. at the start of his career, and also of the Rangers, but joined
+the Queen's Park in 1872.
+
+
+~Robert W. Neill.~
+
+Mr. Neill kept the late Mr. J. J. Taylor company at back in many of the
+most trying and critical Q.P. matches of 1876, '77, '78, and '80, and in
+all those years was a familiar figure in the Internationals against
+England and Wales. As we have previously said about the deceased Mr.
+Leckie, players have their peculiarities, and Neill had his. He was a
+really brilliant back and pretty sure tackler, but relied too much on
+his feet while defending goal, instead of using the breast and head. His
+individuality consisted in meeting the charge of an opponent with bended
+knees, and he had the knack of taking the ball away and making a
+brilliant return in a style that roused the cheers of the spectators. He
+was a very hard worker to the last, and only retired from football to go
+abroad some years ago. He has, however, returned to Glasgow, and may
+frequently be seen at some of the best matches of the season. His play
+during 1877 and 1878 was exceptionally good, and in those years was in
+the best form of any back in Scotland.
+
+
+~John Dickson.~
+
+Poor fellow! Mr. Dickson had but a short career, not only in football,
+but in everyday life. He caught a severe cold one bleak evening coming
+from Hampden Park after a practice match, and succumbed to the malady of
+inflammation of the lungs at the age of 28. He started his football life
+as a back; but when the Queen's Park lost Mr. Gardner he was tried as
+goalkeeper, and did very well. Tall and gentlemanly in appearance, with
+neatly trimmed sandy whiskers and moustache, Dickson kicked out in front
+of his goal very neatly, and was not afraid to meet the charge of an
+opposing forward. An incident in his career caused a great deal of
+amusement at the time, however, and is worth recording, just to show the
+immense faith he had in the infallibility of his old club. It was in a
+cup tie with the Vale of Leven, when that club beat the Queen's Park by
+two goals to one. Dickson appeared at goal with an umbrella, as the rain
+was falling fast, but when the Vale scored their first goal he was
+obliged to throw away his companion, and work harder than ever he had
+done before.
+
+
+~Angus Mackinnon.~
+
+A powerfully-made young fellow, above the medium height, Mr. Mackinnon
+was a very fair forward, and always played in the centre with Mr.
+William M'Kinnon, his namesake, and the pair were a "caution" to meet in
+a hot tussle. The six forwards took part in the play then, with two on
+each wing and a couple in the centre, and it was a treat to see how well
+the Mackinnons worked in their places. Mr. Angus, however, was rather
+short in the temper, and often had a "few words" with both companions
+and opponents during a game. He played a very indifferent game in the
+final tie and some of the matches previously, but was really in
+excellent form at that same year's International against England, and
+scored one of the goals. Mr. Mackinnon died about four years ago in
+Canada.
+
+
+~Frederick Anderson.~
+
+If there is one player more than another that deserves to be remembered
+by his old club, the Clydesdale, for the manner in which he brought it
+before the public by scoring one of the goals in the third International
+at Partick in 1874, it is Anderson. He was a very fine dribbler, and
+about the most difficult man in the Clydesdale forwards to get the ball
+away from after he had obtained possession. Although not one of the
+original members, he was early associated with the Clydesdale, and
+played in the best games of seasons 1874, '75, and '76. He was a bit of
+a sprinter, and very fast on the ball, with very fine staying power.
+Many of the backs who played against him during his best days were
+afraid of Anderson when he got near the sticks. He is now in Manchester.
+
+
+~John M'Pherson.~
+
+Mr. John M'Pherson, of the Clydesdale, is a much older player than his
+namesake of the Vale of Leven. When the Clydesdale went into the game
+with a dash that astonished even the Q.P., he was one of their finest
+forwards, and, possessing great speed, was not easily tackled by the
+best backs of the day. He always played on the right wing, and was a
+dangerous man at goal. Mr. M'Pherson did much both for football and
+cricket in Inveraray, and even now takes an interest in his favourite
+pastime in Rothesay, where he assists his father in the management of
+the Queen's Hotel. It may be mentioned that, in addition to his other
+qualifications, for "he was so versatile," M'Pherson has acted on more
+than one occasion as outrider to Her Majesty when she visited the
+Highlands. In 1875 he played against England.
+
+
+~William Gibb.~
+
+I am sorry to say Mr. Gibb is dead, and that the sad event severs the
+link that bound the whole of the Clydesdale eleven together, with the
+exception of the blank left by the loss of their accomplished
+goalkeeper. Mr. Gibb was a tall and powerful young fellow, and I have
+frequently seen a few of his opponents feeling rather shy before
+attempting to oppose his progress towards goal. During the winters of
+1873, 1874, and 1875, the Clydesdale forward play was good. So brilliant
+was his form in 1873 that he was taken to Landon to play against
+England, and scored one of the goals got by Scotland, who were defeated
+by four goals to two. Mr. Gibb's only fault on the field was a
+disposition to over-run the ball. He died about two years ago in India.
+
+
+~A. H. Raeburn.~
+
+In the first final cup tie Mr. Raeburn was one of the half-backs, and
+played up with great dash and pluck. If my memory serves me right, he
+was one of the original members of the Granville Cricket and Football
+Club when the ground was at Myrtle Park, about a couple of stone-throws
+from Hampden Park. He was very fond of the game, and no man in the
+Clydesdale had more enthusiasm. Mr. Raeburn was a fine tackler, and not
+easily flurried when meeting an opponent, and with such men as the
+Mackinnons to face in the centre and Weir on the right that day of the
+final, he had his own ado. He did not play very much after this game.
+
+
+~Ebenezer Hendry.~
+
+Mr. Hendry was more of a cricketer than a football player, and made many
+fine scores for his side during the early years of his career. With the
+exception of Mr. Gardner and Mr. Anderson, all the members of the
+Clydesdale could play cricket, and it was more for the purpose of
+keeping members together during the winter months that the dribbling
+game was started on Kinning Park (the old home of the senior cricket
+club of Glasgow). Mr. Hendry was a slow tackler, and took too long to
+get on the ball, but when he got a fair chance, was a very neat kicker,
+and showed good judgment.
+
+
+~J. R. Wilson.~
+
+During the past season, Mr. Wilson, who had been abroad for a number of
+years, made a visit to his native city, and was welcomed back by his old
+friends of the field with remarkable pleasure. No man in the club was
+more highly beloved and respected, and, in after years, when his brother
+Walter joined the club and played in several of the leading matches, the
+pair rarely if ever missed a practice evening. Mr. Wilson was very fast
+on the ball, and went right ahead when he got possession. In 1874 he was
+chosen to play for Glasgow against Sheffield. In the cup tie which is
+now under notice he made some very fine runs, and did much to make a
+name for the old Clydesdale. It is with much regret I have to announce
+that Mr. Wilson died in Glasgow only a month ago.
+
+
+~James M'Arly.~
+
+A hard worker and plucky tackler was Mr. M'Arly. For a long series of
+years he was one of the finest batsmen in cricket that Glasgow produced.
+Contemporary with Mr. Thos. Chalmers (Caledonian), the pair often met on
+the field for their respective clubs; but so far as football is
+concerned Chalmers played the Rugby game for the Glasgow Academicals,
+while his contemporary was half-back in the Association Clydesdale.
+About a dozen years ago he went to Manchester, where he is engaged as
+partner in a large calico printing business; and the other day I had a
+chat with him about old times, and he enjoyed it immensely.
+
+
+~John Kennedy.~
+
+Pressed into the service of his club on very short notice, Mr. Kennedy
+played in the tie as a substitute. He had only been a few weeks at the
+game when the match took place, but the young and rising generation of
+players must remember the substitutes were few in those days, and it is
+not the first time I have seen a match played with one of the clubs a
+man short. Kennedy played as a forward, but afterwards developed into a
+very fair back, and showed capital judgment in that position.
+
+
+~J. J. Lang.~
+
+Originally a member of the 3rd L.R.V., Lang left that club and joined
+the Clydesdale in 1874. He played in the final, I think, as centre
+forward, and backed up Mr. J. R. Wilson. Possessing splendid dribbling
+powers, he was a very "showy" player, but his short steps did not make
+anything like the progress with the ball one imagined at the time. He
+was a somewhat heavy charger when he got the chance, and frequently
+preferred to take his man before the ball.
+
+
+~A Final Charity Cup Tie Eleven Years Ago.~
+
+Bringing my reminiscences down to 1879, the year above all others when
+Association football was, so to speak, in a kind of transition stage,
+the clubs that earned the greatest fame, and justly so, were the Queen's
+Park, Rangers, and Vale of Leven. Who, among all the gallant throng that
+played in those clubs--and, for that part of it, the spectators--can
+forget the exciting tussles engaged in by the trio? In this year the
+Rangers met the Vale of Leven in the final tie for the Association
+Challenge Cup, and also in the final for the Charity. Party, or shall I
+say club, feeling ran as high, if not higher, than now, the excitement
+was great, and intensified by the fact that the Leven men had been
+eventually awarded the Association Cup without playing off the drawn
+match, in consequence of the Rangers not turning up. Later on, too, the
+crack Dumbartonshire eleven overthrew the Queen's Park in the semi-final
+of the charities, on Glasgow Green, by four goals to none. Well, it was
+on Tuesday evening, 20th May, that the battle came off on Old Hampden
+Park, and both the Rangers and Vale of Leven mustered in strong force.
+Lovely weather helped to swell the crowd, and some 12,000 people were
+inside the ground. The Vale of Leven scored almost at once by Mr.
+M'Dougall, and this looked like the prelude to victory. The Rangers,
+however, set their teeth, and before the contest closed vanquished their
+powerful opponents by scoring a couple of goals--one by Mr. Struthers,
+and another out of a scrimmage. Since then eleven years have come and
+gone, and with them a new generation of football players. Seeing that
+the Rangers were the victors, I shall proceed to give sketches of their
+eleven who played on the occasion, and deal with the Vale of Leven
+afterwards.
+
+
+~George Gillespie.~
+
+In connection with the dribbling game in Glasgow, it should be generally
+known that Mr. Gillespie supplies the link which binds the players of
+the dead past to those of the living present. He is still to the fore,
+and does duty as well as ever. Early in his football career Mr.
+Gillespie was not a goalkeeper, for I am certain I saw him play at back
+in some of the early matches of the "Light Blues." Nature,
+metaphorically speaking, never intended him to be anything in the game
+but a goalkeeper, and a brilliant one, too. How he kept goal in this
+great match, and dozens of others, is still fresh in the memory both of
+old players and spectators. He is the only man on the active list who
+played ten years ago, and had the distinction of appearing against
+England twice and Wales three times. From the Rangers he joined the Q.P.
+about six years ago.
+
+
+~Thomas Vallance.~
+
+The early history of the Rangers--their triumphs, misfortunes, joys, and
+sorrows--have all been shared in by Mr. Thomas Vallance, and he still
+sticks to them like the veritable leech. Who could captain a young team
+like he? When Vallance led the Rangers to victory in this final Charity
+tie, I am sure he was barely out of his teens, and I don't think would
+even yet hesitate to don the blue jersey of the club were it hard up for
+a back. Vallance was a back, indeed, and for several seasons, but more
+particularly that of 1879-80, none in Scotland showed better form. His
+returns near goal were neat and clean, and without being in any way
+rough with an opponent. Vallance's length of limb and good judgment
+often saved his club from losing goals. The whole of the Rangers "lo'ed
+him like a vera brither," and at practice his word was law. He played
+four times against England.
+
+
+~Alexander Vallance.~
+
+With quite as much pluck, but awanting in finish and style, the younger
+of the brothers, Mr. Alexander, was nevertheless a fine back. Lighter
+made and more easily tackled than Thomas, he had a way of his own in
+running out the ball before making the final shy, and when this was done
+well, as it frequently happened in a first-class match, young Vallance
+received a perfect ovation from the crowd. Alexander was in fine form in
+this tie, and some of his returns were splendidly made. Instead of going
+at an opponent with the air of an infuriated bull, as some backs are
+prone to do now-a-days, he kept close to his man, and waited for an
+opportunity, which was at once taken advantage of. Like his brother, he
+is still in the city, and takes a kindly interest in his mother club.
+
+
+~Hugh M'Intyre.~
+
+Mr. Hugh M'Intyre and Mr. J. Drinnan were the half-backs in this
+contest. No such new-fangled device as three half-backs was ever thought
+of in Scotland at that time, and you may be sure the pair had hard work.
+Of all the players sent out by the Rangers, M'Intyre was in many
+respects the most powerful. He was, however, to be outspoken, the
+coarsest. Woe betide the light and gentle forward who tried to pass Mr.
+Hugh! He pounced on his man at once, and with raised back--for he was
+somewhat round-shouldered--gave the excited spectator the idea that he
+meant to have the ball at any cost. His weight gave him an immense
+advantage in tackling, and I think old players will be at one with me
+when I say that he was the best at that kind of work in Scotland. He was
+about the first to leave Glasgow and accept an engagement in England. He
+played against Wales in 1880.
+
+
+~James Drinnan.~
+
+In the list of the Rangers' eleven who took part in the match under
+review, the name of Mr. Drinnan does not occur, and I am obliged to
+proffer an explanation. In the report of the contest one "R. Jackson" is
+credited with keeping H. M'Intyre company on the occasion. As the
+incident is past, and Mr. Drinnan no longer amenable to the laws of
+engineer apprenticeship, he did in this match what a great many men have
+done before him--viz., played under an assumed name. He was a very fair
+back, but not sufficiently brilliant to obtain notoriety, and never had
+the distinction of playing in an International. He was, nevertheless, a
+very useful all-round player, and could take his place as a centre
+forward at a moment's notice.
+
+
+~Peter Campbell.~
+
+The Rangers a dozen years ago without Mr. Peter Campbell would have been
+like the Queen's Park now with Mr. William Sellar left out. He was the
+life and soul of the forward division, and it is not too much to say of
+him that a finer dribbler and harder worker never kicked leather. Poor
+Campbell, like so many more of the old lot, is gone to his account! In a
+terrible storm in the Bay of Biscay, which left many a home desolate,
+seven years ago, the steamer in which he was chief engineer foundered,
+and not a soul was left to tell the tale. Quiet and unassuming in
+manner, Mr. Campbell was beloved by all, and his untimely death is still
+mourned by the Rangers, for whom he did so much. In 1878-79 he was in
+such good form that he was chosen to play against Wales, and in 1876 and
+1878 did duty for Glasgow against Sheffield.
+
+
+~Moses M'Neil.~
+
+The M'Neils are quite a football family, and, what is of more account,
+have gained distinction in the game. Is it not a fact that Mr. Peter was
+one of the founders of the famous club nineteen years ago, and that
+Messrs. Harry, William, and Moses kept the ball rolling on Kinning Park
+with credit for many a day? Moses is the youngest of the lot, and
+consequently what may be termed the most modern. He was quite a boy when
+this cup tie came off, and played with a dash and finish on the left
+wing that completely astonished all who were present on Old Hampden Park
+that May evening. Mr. Moses, too, was more than a mere local player, and
+through sheer force of ability was chosen to play against England in
+1880, and acted in the same capacity for Scotland against Wales in 1876.
+He is still young and active, and resides in the city.
+
+
+~William Struthers.~
+
+An original member of the Partick, when that club could boast of having
+as good a team as now, Struthers was associated with the old pioneers
+in Messrs. Boag, James S. Campbell, Love, Sutar, Bell, and Smith, and
+joined the Rangers the previous year before the tie. He was a beautiful
+dribbler, after the style of Mr. T. C. Highet; went right ahead with the
+ball close at his toe, and was the most difficult man to tackle in the
+Rangers. He left Scotland some years ago for England, where he played
+for the Bolton Wanderers. In brilliant form in the match, he made some
+fine runs in company with Mr. Campbell and Mr. Hill, and was successful
+in scoring the first goal got for the Rangers. Mr. Struthers is now in
+England, where he has settled down.
+
+
+~David Hill.~
+
+A most unselfish player was Mr. Hill. He was slow, but sure, and if ever
+a man showed an example in the field by at once passing on the ball when
+necessary, and never opening his mouth from kick-of to time call, it was
+he. One of the prominent figures all through quite a decade of seasons
+for his old club, Mr. Hill rendered the Rangers valuable service, and
+never failed to turn up when he was wanted. In the final Association
+Challenge Cup match with the Vale of Leven, played shortly before the
+one I am touching upon, and which ended in a tie, some splendid passing
+was witnessed between him and Mr. Wm. Dunlop, who, by the way, could not
+play in the Charity event in consequence of an injury sustained a week
+before.
+
+
+~Alex. Steel.~
+
+Like the other members of the Rangers, Mr. Steel was very young when he
+joined that club. His enthusiasm for the game, however, was unbounded,
+and I have been told by an old Rangers' man that he was one of the
+original "moonlighters" of the club. This phrase gentlemen, requires
+some explanation. It does not refer to Ireland and its agrarian
+grievances. No, no. It was only a few choice spirits of the Rangers who,
+determined to win all matches, used to practice at full moon, and
+frequently frightened some of the belated lieges in the vicinity of
+Kinning Park, who swore the place was haunted.
+
+
+~Charles M'Quarrie.~
+
+Although retired from active duty on the field, Mr. M'Quarrie is even
+now in football harness as the treasurer of the Partick Thistle. He did
+not play in many of the first eleven matches of the club, but being a
+promising lad was always available as first reserve forward. He was
+rather a neat dribbler and good backer-up, but a little slow in
+tackling. He was always a steady player, and did very well in this game.
+He did not play very much after this tie, but gave up football
+altogether, till his old love for the game returned some years ago, when
+he joined the Thistle, and is one of their most earnest committee
+workers.
+
+
+~Robert Parlane.~
+
+I now proceed to the Vale of Leven men who played in this tie, and
+goalkeepers, beware! and, let me tell you, don't think too much of
+yourselves nowadays! We had a great man who stood between the posts a
+dozen years ago, quite equal at all points to you, and his name was
+Parlane. Who did not know Mr. Robert Parlane a decade ago? In the early
+history of Association football some of the best players ever Scotland
+produced were also good cricketers, and Parlane was one of these, and a
+grand wicketkeeper. Without saying too much of the men who have over and
+over again distinguished themselves, I cannot help saying that a better
+goalkeeper never chucked out a ball. Mr. Parlane did very well in this
+match, his only fault being a disposition to go away too far from his
+charge. He kept goal for Scotland against England in 1879, and is now in
+Belfast.
+
+
+~H. M'Lintock.~
+
+For six years no man ever did better work for his club than Mr.
+M'Lintock. In fact, the Vale of Leven would as soon have scratched
+altogether in a cup tie as entered into a doubtful contest without him
+and their other great back, Mr. Andrew M'Intyre. M'Lintock did more than
+any of the old school now living to popularise a style of back play
+which ten years ago was emulated to a large extent all over the country.
+He had a most graceful way of turning the ball when it came dangerously
+near the goal, and running it out by dodging an opponent. He used both
+feet with equal freedom, and was decidedly the cleanest kicker that ever
+played in the Vale of Leven. It is a curious fact, and one worth noting,
+that Mr. Forbes adopted much the same style. M'Lintock played against
+England in 1875 and 1876.
+
+
+~Andrew M'Intyre.~
+
+Mr. Andrew M'Intyre was a terrible fellow to meet in a hot scrimmage,
+and no matter the forwards who opposed--and I have seen three at him in
+a close tussle in front--M'Intyre generally had the best of it and got
+the ball clear. His powerfully-knit frame served him in good stead in
+all the great matches in which he took a prominent part. In the one
+under review M'Intyre was sorely beset by the pick of the Rangers'
+forwards, but was always in the right place. No player of his day could
+work as well in so little space, and get the leather away safely. His
+only fault was to be a little demonstrative in the field with opponents,
+and tell them a bit of his mind during the game. In 1878 he was chosen
+to play against England.
+
+
+~J. Macintyre.~
+
+The play of the two namesakes was as different as the poles asunder. Of
+a fair height and good appearance, Mr. J. Macintyre was one of the most
+excitable men that ever stood in front of a goal. He generally warmed up
+at bit, however, and even showed more daring when his old club were
+playing an uphill game, and I know for certain that in the great drawn
+matches for the Association Challenge Cup, between the Vale of Leven and
+Rangers, no man ever did harder work. He was slow to get on the ball,
+and at times very erratic, but rarely if ever lost an opportunity. Very
+rough in tackling, he, above all others in the club, was severe on the
+opposing forwards.
+
+
+~J. M'Pherson.~
+
+Among the Vale of Leven back division, which was so powerful long ago,
+none was more devoted to the game than Mr. M'Pherson, who held his place
+for several years as one of the backs of whom Caledonia felt proud.
+Without the least show or fussiness, M'Pherson did his work quietly, and
+had the credit (and a good one, too) of being next to Mr. John Ferguson,
+the best-natured footballer in Dumbartonshire. He could play a
+magnificent game when he liked, and one season particularly--that of
+1883--when he was one of the Scottish Eleven against England at
+Sheffield, ably assisted his team to win a hard match by three goals to
+two.
+
+
+~J. Macfarlane.~
+
+The Vale of Leven at the time this tie was played had a rare forward
+combination, and in some of their best matches the dribbling and passing
+among them were something to be remembered. Macfarlane, however, was
+certainly not the best of the lot, but a very safe man, and could play
+equally well on the left wing or the centre, and, if I mistake not, work
+excellently as a backer-up to J. M'Gregor. Now, when I think of it, he
+was severely tackled in this match by H. M'Intyre, and was not in such
+good form as some of the other forwards.
+
+
+~R. Paton.~
+
+There are few, if any, old players in Dumbartonshire, and, I should say,
+spectators as well, who cannot remember the familiar figure of Mr.
+Robert Paton. A nicely-featured little fellow, with a joke for every
+acquaintance, he was full of vivacity, and an intense love for his old
+club, the Vale. Yes, "The Vale." Nobody ever called it anything else.
+Paton, above all the other forwards who did so much to make the Leven
+men beloved at home and feared "abroad," even to the next parishes and
+the big city of Glasgow, was a fine player, and never kept the ball
+longer than was necessary if he saw a chance. He played against England
+in 1879.
+
+
+~J. Baird.~
+
+Mr. James Baird was a fair average player, without anything very
+remarkable about him. The combination, as I have already said, was so
+good among the Vale of Leven at the time when this great contest took
+place that an inferior or selfish player would soon have found his
+level. The forwards, in fact, were all pretty much alike, but with
+clearly defined degrees of brilliancy, and Mr. James Baird was one of
+the lesser lights. He was a good runner and smart at following up, but
+his dribbling was sometimes too wide for the others when following up on
+the enemy's lines. When hard pressed he often lost the ball, but in a
+scrimmage in front of the posts he was a rare shot at goal, and scored a
+good many for his club.
+
+
+~J. C. Baird.~
+
+Of all the forwards who learned the game at Alexandria, on the old
+ground belonging to the Vale, perhaps, in many respects, Mr. J. C. Baird
+was the most distinguished, and, at the same time, the most gentlemanly.
+When the Vale of Leven beat the Queen's Park for the first time in one
+of the ties for the Association Challenge Cup, on Hampden Park, Mr. J.
+C. Baird played a perfect "demon." On the slippery ground he kept his
+feet against all comers, dribbled and passed on splendidly, and fairly
+took the breath away from John Dickson when scoring the goal which gave
+his club the victory. Mr. Baird was chosen to face England in 1876, and
+again in 1880.
+
+
+~J. M'Gregor.~
+
+If one had met Mr. M'Gregor off the football stage, so to speak, they
+would never for a moment have taken him for a brilliant and accomplished
+player at all points. He was all nerve and sinew, and always in grand
+form. His disadvantages in appearance and weight, however, were kind of
+blessings in disguise to his club, for the opposing backs sometimes
+treated him with indifference, and even contempt. This was M'Gregor's
+opportunity, and never man used it better. If ever he made his way past
+the backs, and was alone with the goalkeeper, ten to one but his team
+was a goal to the good in a few minutes. He played against England in
+1877, 1878, and 1880.
+
+
+~J. M'Dougall.~
+
+Two years previous to this final tie, Mr. M'Dougall was the most
+brilliant forward in Scotland, and he and Mr. J. T. Richmond (Queen's
+Park) were the first two forwards selected to play against England. A
+fine figure on the field, and a capital dribbler, without being showy,
+M'Dougall was always near the ball when wanted, and it sometimes took a
+couple of opponents to get the leather away from him. For three years in
+succession he was selected to appear against England. In the tie with
+the Rangers, Mr. M'Dougall was captain of the team, and scored the only
+goal made for the defeated club.
+
+
+~The Great International of 1882.~
+
+The eleven who were chosen to do battle for Scotland in this contest,
+close upon nine years ago, were considered in many respects the best
+that had ever donned International caps in any tussle before or since,
+and a better illustration of the wisdom of the Association Committee in
+their selection could not have been given than the result itself--viz.,
+Scotland, five goals; England, one. Hampden Park was the meeting-place,
+and as one of the football giants of the day (E. Fraser) is, like some
+of my dear old friends, now lying in the grave, and others who took part
+in the memorable event divided by thousands of miles from those with
+whom they fought and won for Scotland, I should like to pay a tribute of
+respect to their football ability, and let the young and rising
+generation of players know that such men appeared in the arena, and
+played the game as well as it is done now. The match took place on the
+11th March, 1882, and as England mustered a very powerful eleven, the
+issue was doubtful. About a quarter of an hour, however, after the
+start, Mr. Ker and Mr. Harrower had a fine run, and Harrower made the
+first point for Scotland but at half-time the score stood--Scotland, two
+goals; England, one--Ker having added the second, and Vaughton the one
+for England. In the last round, the Scotchmen, although playing against
+a good breeze, had it all to themselves, and scored other three points
+by Messrs. M'Pherson, Ker, and Kaye. In giving short sketches of the
+International eleven, I have only to deal with eight of the players, as
+Messrs. Charles Campbell, A. M'Intyre, and G. Gillespie have already
+been noticed in previous articles while engaged in other matches. I
+shall accordingly begin with
+
+
+~Andrew Watson (Queen's Park).~
+
+Mr. Watson did a great deal for football in the Glasgow district a dozen
+years ago, both with his ready purse and personal ability in the game.
+It was in a great measure owing to his interest and energy that the
+young Parkgrove Club obtained proper ground, and was fairly put on its
+way rejoicing. The Parkgrove had a lot of very fine young fellows in its
+ranks, and for several years made a capital record in numerous matches
+under the captaincy of Mr. Watson. In this International he played as
+right-side back in company with Mr. Andrew M'Intyre, and, as an
+indication of how he and his companion behaved, it is necessary to say
+that only one goal was got against them. Mr. Watson was a rare
+"header-out," and was famed for his fine tackling and neat kicking. He
+had one fault, however, and this consisted in kicking over his own lines
+occasionally when hard pressed by a dashing forward. In the previous
+year he was the Scottish captain against England, in London, and led his
+team to victory by 6 goals to 1.
+
+
+~Peter Miller (Dumbarton).~
+
+When Mr. Miller played in this match, the Dumbarton Club was a power in
+the land, and not easily beaten. He was left half-back, and had as his
+companion Mr. Charles Campbell, who captained the victorious eleven. Mr.
+Miller was remarkable for his magnificent tackling at close quarters,
+and possessed weight, which told against England in the contest. Again
+and again I saw him shake off both Mr. Cursham and Mr. Parry, two of the
+Southrons' ablest forwards, and once Mr. Mosforth and he had an amusing
+bit of play near the Scotch goal, in which the Sheffielder came off
+best. Mr. Miller was, altogether, a very fine back, and when he retired
+a few years ago the Dumbarton Club had considerable difficulty in
+getting a good man properly trained to supply his place. Next season
+(1883) he was also chosen to play against England and Wales.
+
+
+~E. Fraser (Queen's Park).~
+
+Lost to his club and the thousands of delighted spectators who witnessed
+his brilliant ability as a right-wing forward, but not forgotten by the
+members of the old Q.P., Fraser, "though dead, yet speaketh." I question
+very much if any forward of that time among the mediæval class of
+players, so to speak, exercised such a potent influence over the
+spectators, and no style of play was more followed by the younger
+dribblers than that of Fraser. A son of the manse, he was a highly
+cultured young fellow, and loved football so devotedly that no amount of
+hard training was ever shirked by him when under probation for the first
+eleven. Dribbling beautifully up the side of the field, he had the knack
+of "middling" the ball at the proper time, and for six years no man ever
+assisted at the scoring of more goals. He was also included in the
+following season's eleven against England, and in 1880 did duty for
+Scotland in the Welsh match. Poor Fraser died in Australia, a few years
+ago, shortly after arriving there.
+
+
+~William Anderson (Queen's Park).~
+
+In the International of 1882 Mr. Anderson and Mr. Fraser played on the
+same side, and made a very good pair. The former, although not above the
+medium height, was powerfully built, and few, if any, of his formidable
+opponents were able to bring him down to mother earth. When he did fall,
+however, he was never in a hurry to rise, and took matters easy. If one
+could imagine such a thing as an easy-going football player, it was
+Anderson, but his failing sometimes came in handy, for he would
+occasionally make a gallant spurt, and pilot his way through the
+opposing backs in a way that completely astonished his team and their
+friends. He showed very well in this match, and the manner in which he
+and his companion dodged the Englishmen, not even excepting Mr. Bailey,
+the crack Clapham Rover half-back, will be easily remembered by those
+who were present. Mr. Anderson is now abroad, and it is something to his
+credit to say that he played four times against England.
+
+
+~J. L. Kaye (Queen's Park).~
+
+Like a good many fine players of the glorious past, Mr. Kaye received
+the best of his football training in the ranks of the 3rd L.R.V., and a
+couple of years, I think, before this big event, joined the forward
+division of the black and white stripes. Of a good-natured disposition,
+and a genial fellow to meet both on the field and at the social board,
+Mr. Kaye was a great favourite all round, and much sought after outside
+the pale of his own club. He was a very fine forward; a good dribbler,
+but was much more easily tackled than Anderson, and occasionally felt
+shy at meeting an opponent who had frightened him in a previous match.
+He must have done well in this contest, as he is highly spoken about in
+the newspaper reports, and scored the fifth and last goal got for
+Scotland. He was also an old and tried hand at Internationals, as he
+faced the English division three times, and Wales also in the same
+number of matches.
+
+
+~R. M'Pherson (Arthurlie).~
+
+What might be honestly termed the illustration of a fair field and no
+favour, Mr. M'Pherson's name was added to the International players of
+that season through sheer force of ability. I saw him play in several
+matches that year, and his style and smart passing up from the left wing
+was justly admired. He was Mr. Kaye's companion in this contest, and
+ably assisted that player to bring up the ball in several splendid runs.
+Since M'Pherson's retiral from active duty, and also the fact of Mr.
+Turner, their famous goalkeeper, giving up the game, the Arthurlie have
+gone back a bit in football ability, but during two seasons they were
+able to have two nominations for International honours, as Mr. Turner
+kept goal against Wales in 1882. Possessing great speed and judgment,
+M'Pherson was a very neat and steady player, and for two seasons at
+anyrate, a star among all the Renfrewshire forwards.
+
+
+~George Ker (Queen's Park).~
+
+A sketch of an International, cup tie, or, in fact, a first-class
+contest of any kind ten years ago, would be altogether incomplete
+without some reference to Mr. George Ker, now abroad. From 1880 to 1883
+he was Scotland's best centre forward, and the originator of what is now
+known in football parlance as the "cannon shot" at goal. Many players
+have since tried it, and made fairly good attempts, but Ker alone could
+do it to perfection. In this International he gave the Englishmen a
+taste of his ability in this line. He passed Mr. Greenwood, the English
+extreme back, and when fairly in front watched how the goalkeeper (Mr.
+Swepstone) would take in the situation. Ker spun the ball hard from his
+toe at the proper moment, and sent in a "flyer," which took effect. I am
+all but certain that if a vote were taken among players and spectators
+about the place to be assigned to centre forwards, Ker would come out
+the admitted chief. International honours were his thrice against
+England.
+
+
+~W. Harrower (Queen's Park).~
+
+The Queen's Park had no fewer than five forwards in this season's
+International, and Mr. Harrower was one. He played in the company of Mr.
+Ker, and the central division of the Scottish team was unusually
+strong. In fact, I distinctly remember some remarks made at the meeting
+of the Association, at which I was present, about the combination at
+that point being the most powerful ever sent out by Scotland. Mr.
+Harrower was really a beautiful dribbler, not easily knocked off his
+pins, and the most unselfish player I ever saw. He has the credit of
+earning the first goal got for Scotland in the match under notice, and
+was in the best of form the whole of that season. He took a leading part
+in the hard work of the Queen's Park for five years.
+
+
+~A Narrow Shave in the 1885 International.~
+
+There are yet other two Internationals, which introduce new faces into
+the field of play, and the first is that of 1885 at Kennington Oval,
+London, and ended in a tie, each side scoring one goal. Kennington
+Oval--in the winter time, at anyrate--is to football in London what
+Hampden Park is to Scotland in general and Glasgow in particular. The
+weather was delightful on that afternoon (Saturday, 21st March), and the
+spectators mustered in considerable force. Not, of course, so largely as
+we can show in Glasgow, for it takes an enormous amount of attraction to
+gather a big crowd in London. There was little or no wind to interfere
+with the play, and as both teams were in the pink of condition, it was
+an illustration of Greek meeting Greek in the open. The Scotchmen,
+however, were the first to make matters exciting by scoring a smart goal
+from the foot of Mr. Lindsay, and this was all the effective work done
+in the first round. The second forty-five minutes of the play was also
+of a very give-and-take order, and once Mr. Allan hit the English goal
+bar with a hard shot, but the ball rebounded into play, and was
+eventually sent behind. Towards the close, however, the Englishmen, led
+by Messrs. Bambridge, Cobbald, and Brown made a fine run, and the former
+put the game square for England. The contest, therefore, as I have
+already indicated, ended in a tie. As in all the other events that I
+have already touched upon, many of the players are now scattered far and
+wide. Some have given the game up altogether, while others are still
+playing on, and doing football duty as well, if not better, than ever
+they did before. Taking the eleven in the order of positions, I shall
+begin with
+
+
+~J. Macaulay (Dumbarton).~
+
+Among the brilliant array of goalkeepers who have sprung up to
+distinguish themselves during the past ten years, none deserves a more
+kindly notice in any football reminiscences than Mr. Macaulay. The
+present match was the third he stood sentinel before Scotland's
+stronghold, and he also played in '86 and '87. His first was at
+Sheffield in 1883, when I saw him save several splendid shies from the
+feet of the English forwards, and it is something to add of him that he
+was included in the Scotch teams who never lost a match with England. In
+the 1885 contest he kept goal in his best form, and was frequently
+cheered for the manner in which he got out the ball and dodged the
+English forwards. Mr. Macaulay was very quiet and unostentatious in his
+manner, and did his work brilliantly. He returned to Scotland the other
+day from abroad, and may yet play for some of our leading clubs.
+
+
+~Walter Arnott (Queen's Park).~
+
+Second in the order of teams, but premier in all that pertains to back
+play, comes the name of Mr. Arnott. Out of all the fine players who
+acted as extreme backs, none has done better work for his club and, let
+me say, International matches. It is all very well to say that there
+were giants in those days, but you all know what befell Goliath, and I
+cannot help saying that if you were to ask me candidly (taking the
+question in an all-round way) who was the best back you ever saw, I
+should have no hesitation in answering that it was Walter Arnott. In the
+words of the old English ballad, "he feared no foe," and never in the
+history of football of the present time has such a brilliant man arisen.
+He has so many remarkable points that I cannot tell them in a brief
+notice, but as he is still playing well, spectators are at one in
+admitting his grand ability.
+
+
+~M. Paton (Dumbarton).~
+
+The match under review was Mr. Paton's second appearance against
+England, and he acquitted himself very well. Somehow or other the
+committee of selection in International matches, while they honestly do
+their duty, sometimes move in a mysterious way, and the selection of Mr.
+Paton to stand alongside Mr. Arnott in this contest was, at the time,
+considered somewhat risky. Not by any means because Mr. Paton was not a
+good back, but in consequence of the diversity of play shown by the
+pair. Mr. Paton was nothing if he was not allowed a little latitude, and
+in some of the matches he came off with flying colours. Arnott and he,
+however, acted well together. To give Mr. Paton his due, he was a most
+gentlemanly young fellow, and did his very best for the game.
+
+
+~J. J. Gow (Queen's Park).~
+
+It has just occurred to me, and I can't see how the illustration might
+not with equal force be applied to football as in the honest range of
+every-day life, that if a "round-robin" were sent about the clubs that
+tackled the Q.P. in their best matches in the past decade, I am certain
+that the verdict about the man who was most feared in all the elevens,
+the name of Mr. J. J. Gow would come out first. He was, in fine, a
+half-back that the Q.P. had reason to feel proud. Half-backs might come
+and go--as they undoubtedly did--but Gow seemed in his football career
+to go on for ever. The most mysterious thing about him was that he was
+always in the same form, and never had any practice. Football at
+half-back seemed to come to him by nature, and cost him no effort. He
+could return splendidly, but at close tackling, and in clearing the ball
+away, he was sometimes a little slack, and had to make it up by sheer
+force of hard work.
+
+
+~Alexander Hamilton (Queen's Park).~
+
+Not long ago, while "doing" a match at Hampden Park (I think it was Q.P.
+v. Battlefield, in the Glasgow Cup), I met my old friend in the pavilion
+looking on and enjoying the sport. Like the M'Neils, the Hamiltons are a
+football family, and while Mr. James, who is now an active member of the
+present Q.P., will come under my pen later on, I have only at present to
+deal with Mr. Alexander. Well, he was something in his day, and by no
+means to be despised as a forward. He was not a fast dribbler, but when
+hard work was required, and wasn't it just in the great match against
+the professional Preston North End, when the Q.P. were able to hold
+their own, Mr. Hamilton never played better in his life.
+
+
+~William Sellar (Queen's Park).~
+
+I have for the most part been dealing with the past, and it is no force
+of imagination to come straight to the living present, and add that a
+better left-wing player never appeared in any club or combination of
+players than Mr. William Sellar. He has a style of his own which is, to
+give the Battlefield its due, peculiar to that club's ability in the
+dribbling game. Mr. Sellar did not learn all his football in the Queen's
+Park, but really perfected his style on Hampden Park, and he is
+undoubtedly, at the present time, the most brilliant forward in
+Scotland. Gentlemanly in every sense of the word, Sellar is the fairest
+player that ever faced an opponent, and no man is more respected on the
+field. In addition to this contest, he played against England in 1886,
+1887, and 1888. It may be mentioned that in 1890, in playing against the
+3rd L.R.V., he played from the left in a style never excelled by any
+forward.
+
+
+~Joseph Lindsay (Dumbarton).~
+
+Before this date, Mr. Joseph Lindsay was what might be called an old
+hand at Internationals, as he had appeared before England in 1881 and
+1884, and Wales in 1880, 1881, 1884, and 1885. It is not too much to say
+of him that he was the most dangerous forward (to an opponent, I mean)
+of his day, and if the backs were in any way slack, Lindsay "spread
+dismay around," as he was a dead shot at goal, and rarely, if ever,
+missed a chance if he got within a dozen yards of the sticks. Lindsay
+was the best forward in many respects that ever toed a ball for
+Dumbarton. He was, however, sorely tried in the finishing year of his
+football life, and in many of the leading matches so closely watched by
+the opposing backs that he was sometimes fairly done for, and could not
+get the ball away.
+
+
+~David S. Allan (Queen's Park).~
+
+Like Sir Roger de Coverley's definition of a great ethical question to
+one of his numerous friends, "that much might be said of one point," the
+illustration holds good when applied to Mr. David Allan. Popularity has
+its duties as well as its privileges, and there is not a single forward
+in broad Scotland who is so popular and so much beloved by club
+companions and opponents alike as Mr. Allan. He is, in fine, the most
+useful man in the Queen's Park, and while all of us seem to grow older
+as each season comes round, Allan has always that juvenile look which
+undoubtedly betokens an easy and contented mind. He is not what might be
+called a brilliant and showy forward, but I'll back him to do the best
+hour and a half of heavy work in the world without any outward sign of
+fatigue. I verily believe if Allan were forced to do it, he could play
+in any part of the field with a few minutes' notice.
+
+
+~R. Calderwood (Cartvale).~
+
+In consequence of Mr. R. M. Christie, who had played in the
+International, of the previous year, meeting with an accident in one of
+the trial matches, Mr. Calderwood did duty as left-wing forward in this
+match, and played very creditably. He was by far the best man in the
+young Cartvale, and a finer country player never came under the eye of
+an International referee. He was a veritable dodger among the opposing
+backs, and in this contest gave the Englishmen, but more particularly
+the Walters and Amos, a lot of trouble. He played a fine game in
+combination with the rest of the Scottish forwards. In the same season
+Mr. Calderwood played against Wales in the Principality.
+
+
+~The Final Association Cup Tie of 1886.~
+
+The clubs left in the final tie for possession of the Blue Ribbon of
+Association football glory in this season were the Queen's Park and
+Renton. Queen's Park led off by scoring from the foot of Mr. Lambie, and
+this was all the effective work till ends were changed, when the Renton
+team made a brilliant charge on the Queen's Park goal, and forced the
+ball through in a scrimmage. The play immediately after this was so even
+that a draw looked certain, but the Queen's Park eventually assumed
+command, and scored other two goals (one by Mr. Hamilton and another by
+Mr. Allan), and won a hard contest by three goals to one. As most of the
+Renton players who took part in the match were considered famous in
+their day, and have not been already introduced to you, I shall give
+short sketches of their style of play. So far as the Queen's Park team
+are concerned, however, I have only to deal with new faces in Messrs. R.
+M. Christie, G. Somerville, and J. A. Lambie, as all the other eight
+(Messrs. Campbell, Watson, Gow, Harrower, Hamilton, Arnott, Allan, and
+Gillespie) have already been disposed of in the present volume.
+
+
+~J. A. Lindsay.~
+
+Somehow or other the Renton Club were never very strong in goalkeeping
+when the perfect form of their forward division was taken into account,
+but Mr. J. A. Lindsay was decidedly their best. He had what might be
+called his good and bad days, however, and while he was always clever
+with his feet, he sometimes misjudged the ball and allowed a "soft
+thing" to take effect. In the present contest he had hot work in keeping
+the Q.P. forwards clear. Mr. Lindsay showed such brilliant form in the
+trial matches of 1888 that he was chosen to represent Scotland on
+Hampden Park. He was somewhat unfortunate there, however, as England
+revenged Bannockburn to the extent of five goals to none.
+
+
+~A. Hannah.~
+
+Who does not remember Mr. Hannah's fine fly-kick and powerful tackling?
+In meeting and judging the ball in the air he rivalled the great Q.P.
+back himself, but wanted the ability to follow up an advantage. In
+nearly all the matches in which he took part that season, Hannah worked
+hard and earnest. He had a peculiar way of turning round to an opponent
+and taking the ball away from him with the side of the foot, and no man
+in the Renton team was more feared by an opponent than Hannah. He never
+played against England, but in 1888 was picked out to represent Scotland
+against Wales.
+
+
+~A. M'Call.~
+
+In this tie Mr. Hannah had as his companion at extreme back Mr. A.
+M'Call. In some of the earlier matches in which the latter appeared he
+was a wild tackler and erratic in charging--rather going for the man,
+and never minding the ball--but by and by he mellowed down, and
+returned the leather beautifully from a besieged goal. I remember seeing
+him in several of the leading games that same year, and he showed a
+neatness of style which won for him golden opinions. He played against
+Ireland in 1888.
+
+
+~R. Kelso.~
+
+Mr. Kelso was a tower of strength to the Renton team at half-back, and
+did his duty in this contest. Rather a shade rough on an opponent at
+times, Mr. Kelso could also be generous to the foe when he liked, and
+sometimes made a brilliant hit at half-back by clearing away the ball
+from the feet of an opponent, just when the latter was poising for a
+shot at goal. Like Mr. Leitch Keir, of Dumbarton, he was, and is, a
+magnificent half-back, and had International honours against England in
+1887 and 1888.
+
+
+~D. M'Kechnie.~
+
+In connection with Mr. M'Kechnie's name in juxtaposition with Renton's
+crack half-back, I must honestly confess I am like Cuddie
+Headrigg--"Between the deil and the deep sea." I can only remember
+seeing him twice. I come to the conclusion, then, that he must have been
+a substitute, and if I am wrong in my supposition I shall be glad to
+stand corrected. He was at any rate not sufficiently brilliant to get
+his name handed down to posterity, although it must be said of him that
+he was a fair average player, and did very well in this game.
+
+
+~J. Thomson.~
+
+Although he had a disposition to "poach" a little now and again, as some
+forwards are apt to do, for you all know it is human to err, Thomson was
+a grand player, and made the most of his speed. He never kept the ball
+longer than was necessary, and if he thought his club would benefit by
+it, shied quickly in from the touch-line no matter where his companions
+or opponents alike were stationed on the field. He was really a fine
+shier, and his dribbling powers beyond dispute.
+
+
+~J. M'Call.~
+
+The Renton team had now risen to the acme of their fame, and no player
+helped them more to attain that position than Mr. J. M'Call. Some clubs
+carry their position through sheer force of medium ability all round;
+some have rare luck with their goalkeeping and backs; but, there is no
+doubt about it, Renton was strong in front, and I question if any man
+during that season played a better game than the younger M'Call. He
+represented Scotland in the contests with England in 1887 and 1888 as
+left-wing forward, and played a fine game.
+
+
+~A. Grant.~
+
+When the Renton men carried off the Glasgow Charity Cup that same
+season, the forwards showed great ability. Mr. Grant was a very neat
+player. If my memory serves me right, he backed up Mr. Barbour in this
+game, and did it very well. He was, however, rather slow on the ball,
+and was often sent to the right-about by Messrs. Gow and Watson. Like
+Mr. M'Kechnie, he does not seem to have played in many of the Renton's
+first-class matches, and his name is not found among Internationalists.
+
+
+~A. M'Intyre.~
+
+Mr. M'Intyre was one of the best forwards in the county which has
+produced so many fine Association football exponents, and acted as
+centre forward. Like Mr. D. Gow, of the Rangers, when he got fairly on
+the ball there was no getting it from him and he excelled in hard
+tackling. Possessing considerable speed, M'Intyre used it to the best
+advantage, and he had such a liking for dodging round the backs that he
+sometimes fairly carried away the spectators, and was loudly cheered for
+his manoeuvring.
+
+
+~A. Barbour.~
+
+In this event Mr. Barbour was the best man on the Renton side, and kept
+his feet on the slippery ground in a manner that completely astonished
+all who saw the contest. He was sometimes fairly puzzled by the clever
+heading of Mr. Campbell and the terrible tackling of Mr. Arnott, but
+fought gamely to the last. In close dribbling he was the nearest
+approach to Mr. William M'Kinnon (Q.P.) I have ever seen, and while he
+was quite as tricky, wanted the tact to lead an opponent astray. He
+played against Ireland in 1885.
+
+
+~J. Kelly.~
+
+What Mr. Marshall is to the 3rd L.R.V., Mr. Berry to the Queen's Park,
+and Mr. Groves to the Celtic, Mr. Kelly was to his old club, the
+Renton--viz., a grand man. Kelly, I think, first came out as a forward,
+and played as such for his county against Renfrewshire in 1885, and also
+in this tussle on Cathkin Park, but he eventually developed into a very
+fine half-back, and played against England as such twice--in 1888 for
+his mother club, and last season for his new love, the Celtic. His
+proper place, however, is undoubtedly at half-back.
+
+
+~R. M. Christie.~
+
+Slowly but surely Mr. Christie passed all the probationary stages in the
+Queen's Park on the way to develop a brilliant player, and in 1884
+appeared in the International with England. He was in the best of form,
+and caused the strangers a deal of trouble. He was very strong on his
+legs, and about the most powerful opponent of his day to meet in a close
+match. The passing between Christie and Harrower that day was splendid,
+and fairly astonished the Renton backs and goalkeeper.
+
+
+~G. Somerville.~
+
+Mr. Somerville was a very fine all round forward, with a good deal of
+ability in backing up and middling the ball in front of goal. Mr.
+Hamilton and he used to make the spectators laugh at the way in which
+they annoyed the opposing backs by passing the leather to one another in
+a tantalising way, right in front of the uprights. He was a sturdy
+player, something of the same make as Mr. David Davidson, of 3rd L.R.V.
+and latterly Queen's Park fame, with a nerve of iron and, shall I say, a
+frame of steel. He played against England in 1886.
+
+
+~J. A. Lambie.~
+
+A comparatively short career had Mr. Lambie on Hampden Park, but it was
+fraught with much distinction. He was a grand forward among a fine
+division, and scored a lot of goals for the Queen's Park. He was,
+indeed, at it again in this match, and, as I have already said in the
+introduction, took one more for the black and white stripes. When
+nearing the keeper, if he were fortunate enough to pass the backs, he
+generally looked about for one of his companions to follow up, and was
+quite an adept at the "screw-kick." Lambie appeared against England in
+1888, and is now an active member of the Corinthians.
+
+
+~The Association International of 1887.~
+
+As the International of 1887 is, so to speak, a thing of yesterday, I
+have only introduced it here for two reasons. The first of these is to
+give me an opportunity of bringing new faces into my reminiscences, and
+shortly criticising their styles of play, and the second to show you how
+the admittedly best eleven sent out by England in all her matches with
+Scotland were vanquished on their own soil by three goals to two. The
+event came off at Blackburn in presence of some 10,000 spectators--a
+much larger crowd than ever appeared in London to see the International.
+The weather was dry overhead during the early stages of the tussle, but
+a heavy shower of hail fell later on, and this, added to a mud-covered
+ground, made matters anything but pleasant. The Scotchmen were the first
+to score, which they did through Mr. M'Call against the wind,
+half-an-hour from the start; but the Englishmen soon bore down on the
+Scottish lines, and Mr. Lindley equalised, so that at half-time both
+nationalities were on terms of equality. Not long after ends were
+changed, the Scotchmen made one of those determined charges for which
+they have been famed in many of the International games, and shoved both
+goalkeeper and ball through between the posts. No sooner, however, had
+the leather again been started than Mr. Dewhurst, the crack English
+forward, sent in a shooter, and once more squared the game. It was now
+"night or Blucher" for Scotland, and after a grand run between Messrs.
+Marshall and Allan, which was loudly cheered, even though an enemy did
+it, the young Queen's Park forward made Scotland one goal up. Till the
+close the Englishmen had several brilliant sallies on the strangers'
+goal, but the backs--Messrs. Arnott and Forbes--held their own, and
+Scotland won by three goals to two. Mr. Macaulay kept goal in fine
+style, and was the captain of the victorious team. The Englishmen chosen
+to meet the Scotchmen on the occasion were--Messrs. Roberts, A. M.
+Walters, P. M. Walters, N. C. Bailey, G. Howarth, J. Forrest, E. C.
+Bambridge, W. N. Cobbald, J. Lofthouse, F. Dewhurst, and T. Lindley.
+Besides the six who are mentioned below, Messrs. Arnott, Macaulay,
+Kelso, J. M'Call, and W. Sellar (who have already been noticed) also
+appeared against England in the same contest.
+
+
+~J. Forbes (Vale of Leven).~
+
+Like certain cricketers who can only cut, and are weak on the leg-side,
+there are several backs playing for fair medium clubs just now who can
+only return the ball properly if they have plenty of room to work, but
+Mr. Forbes, who played in this match along with Mr. Arnott, was none of
+these. You were, in fact, not five minutes in his company as a spectator
+at a match before you were captivated with the style and finish of his
+play. In the excitement of the game you imagined it was "all up with the
+Vale," when a crowd of opposing forwards were observed getting the ball
+nearer goal. All the time, however, Forbes was maturing his mode of
+attack, and like the unsuspecting animal that darts upon its prey, the
+crack Vale of Leven back dashed in, and you were sure to see the ball
+flying away down the field, with a magnificent return. While kicking he
+always got his toes well under the ball, and it was quite a rare thing
+to see Forbes kicking high into the air. A great favourite with his club
+and opponents as well, Mr. Forbes first appeared against England in
+1884, when Scotland won by one to none, so that in both Internationals
+in which he took part his team were on the winning side. He is now in
+business in England.
+
+
+~L. Keir (Dumbarton).~
+
+When in the spring of 1887 Mr. Leitch Keir was chosen as companion to
+Mr. Kelso (Renton), and Mr. Auld (3rd L.R.V.), in this great event at
+Blackburn, almost everybody had confidence in them as half-backs, and I
+am happy to say that this confidence was not misplaced, for no better
+trio ever did duty in an International at that important position in the
+field. For good, even-down tackling, and hard work, both in heading and
+clean kicking, Keir was one of the very best men who ever played
+football. So proficient was he at a "free kick," that when a "hand" was
+given against the opposing team, in most of the Dumbarton matches, Keir
+was invariably intrusted with the ball; and when the infringement took
+place near the goal, the opposing team always dreaded his shot. He was
+also a very fine dribbler for a half-back, and could run out the ball in
+fine style from a hotly-pressed goal, and send it spinning down the
+field. In the succeeding year he was chosen to appear against England on
+Hampden Park, but, like the rest of the Scottish representatives in that
+fatal contest, he did not show to the best advantage.
+
+
+~J. Auld (3rd L.R.V.).~
+
+During the past four or five years, Mr. Auld has been one of the best
+half-backs in Scotland, and was a decided success in this contest. No
+club in Britain has produced a string of better backs and half-backs
+than the 3rd Lanark Rifle Volunteer Athletic and Football Club. Long
+ago, many of their most brilliant victories were won by back play alone,
+and this means preventing their opponents from scoring, and keeping what
+they had got in the earlier stages of a contest. Among these old and
+tried hands I must remember poor John Hunter (who is dead), Mr.
+Alexander Kennedy, who still goes out to see his old club, and delights
+to give the young ones an advice; Mr. William Somers, the gigantic
+high-kicker, now in America, and many more, whose names shall long be
+remembered in football history: but to Mr. Auld. He is yet a brilliant
+half-back, and while by no means a heavy kicker, one of the most
+judicious men in front of a hard-pressed goal I have ever seen. He is a
+terrible tackler, and sometimes hugs an opponent so tenaciously that he
+forces the ball away and saves his side. The 1887 match was the only one
+in which he played for Scotland against England, but he appeared that
+same season against Wales.
+
+
+~J. Marshall (3rd L.R.V.).~
+
+For two seasons, at any rate, and, I think, I might almost say three,
+Mr. Marshall has maintained the honoured position of being about the
+best right wing forward on any field. Gifted with an amount of speed,
+which he uses to the best advantage, combined with rare dribbling
+powers, he is the pride of the 3rd L.R.V. forward division, and no man
+is more missed from a match. In connection with the last observation,
+the Volunteers had to play the Rangers in the third round of the Glasgow
+Cup without Mr. Marshall, and at the committee meeting before the
+contest, when this became known, it was like a funeral lodge of
+Freemasons--nobody cared to speak except the R.W.M. and M.C. Mr.
+Marshall and Mr. Robertson (Dumbarton) were the right wing forwards on
+the occasion, and several brilliant runs were made from their side. At
+the present time he is about the best at middling the ball in front of
+goal of any player going, and is one of those forwards who never seem to
+get into a fagged state near the close of a match.
+
+
+~W. Robertson (Dumbarton).~
+
+Some players are fortunate in easily securing their positions among
+crack teams, while others have to struggle on before their genuine
+ability is properly recognised. Long ago, ability in selecting a team
+went for very little, and positions, like kissing, by favour. Mr.
+Robertson, however, received no favour from any combination, and was
+selected on his merits. In that same season, I am almost positive, I saw
+him play in brilliant form in the Final cup tie, when the Hibernian
+overcame the Dumbarton on Hampden Park by two goals to one, and several
+of the other matches about the same time. He was a very fine backer up,
+possessing first-rate dribbling powers, and although a little shy in
+meeting his opponent when he saw a charge inevitable, rather preferring
+to use stratagem, was by no means afraid to go into the heart of a
+scrimmage and face up to much heavier men than himself. This was Mr.
+Robertson's first game against England, and he has no reason to be
+ashamed of the way in which he helped Scotland to obtain victory. On the
+Monday following this match he played against Wales at Wrexham.
+
+
+~J. Allan (Queen's Park).~
+
+When Mr. Allan made his appearance in the first match of any consequence
+for the Queen's Park, he did so well that both club companions,
+opponents, and spectators were completely astonished at his beautiful
+dribbling and speed. In Ayrshire, when he played for the Monkcastle
+Club, he was looked upon as a very fair young forward, but a few
+practice games on Hampden Park seems to have had a remarkable effect on
+him, and in one short season he was such a good man that International
+honours were given him at once. In this tussle, which was one of the
+most trying of the meetings between Scotland and England, Allan played a
+grand game, and scored the third and winning goal for his country. The
+run that resulted in the score was started by Mr. Marshall, and was one
+of the finest ever seen in any contest. In a football sense, however, to
+use a simile, Mr. Allan was like Octavian's prosperous star, but with
+this difference, he vanished from the scene as quickly as he came, so
+far as first-class matches were concerned, and only re-appeared on Ibrox
+Park recently against the 3rd L.R.V. and his old club, Queen's Park.
+
+
+~Glasgow Charity Cup Final Tie of 1888.~
+
+The Renton Eleven are to-day in the proud position of winning the
+Glasgow Charity Cup four times in succession--from 1886 down to season
+1888-89, and even now the holders of that handsome trophy. In these
+finals they polished off the Vale of Leven in 1886 by three to one; next
+season the same club by one to none; in 1888 (the year which I have
+singled out for review) vanquished the Cambuslang by four to none: and
+last spring overcame the Queen's Park by three goals to one. In 1888 the
+Renton men held both cups, and what was of more account, won them by
+long odds against precisely the same opponents, viz., Cambuslang. In the
+final for the Association Challenge Cup the victory was one of six goals
+to one, and in the Glasgow Charity Cup four to none. This was, indeed,
+the largest score made in the former, and was equal in the latter to
+that made in 1877 (the first year of the competition) by the Queen's
+Park, when they defeated the Rangers. Cambuslang, however, were at this
+time a power in the land, and had previously carried off the Glasgow
+Challenge trophy in its first season. In addition to this, they are also
+credited with the record of fast scoring--having taken four goals from
+the Queen's Park in the last ten minutes of the fifth round of the
+Scottish Challenge Cup in 1886, but as the Queen's Park had five points
+on previously, they saved the game by one goal. The event of which I
+have presently to deal came off on Hampden Park on the 12th May, 1888,
+and ended in favour of the Renton, as has already been indicated, by
+four to none. The Cambuslang men played well at the start, and a close
+match was expected. Through some cause or other, however, they fell away
+considerably as the game advanced, and J. Campbell scored the first goal
+for Renton, and this was soon followed by a second from the foot of J.
+M'Call, the record at half-time being two goals to none in favour of the
+crack Dumbartonshire club. The second round, strange to say, was also
+well contested at the outset, but the grand forward combination of the
+Renton told the tale of defeat to the Cambuslang men, and other two
+goals were added. As none of the Cambuslang team have previously come
+under my pen, I give them first, and will include three of Renton who
+have not been noticed.
+
+
+~Mr. Dunn.~
+
+More genuine progress has been made in goalkeeping among the Scottish
+Association clubs during the last decade than the average spectator
+cares to admit, but it is nevertheless a fact. Mr. Dunn played in most
+of the best matches of that year, and while he did very creditably in
+some of the ties, had the misfortune to lose four goals in this contest.
+The Renton forwards, however, were too smart for the bulk of the
+Cambuslang backs, and woe betide a goalkeeper when he is not properly
+supported there! Mr. Dunn had a lively time of it in the contest, and
+saved some splendid shies from taking effect.
+
+
+~J. Smith.~
+
+The Cambuslang team were never famed for the brilliancy of their back
+play. It was what the forward division had done for that club in some of
+the most severe and uncertain of their matches that forced them to be
+looked upon in Scotland as one of the crack elevens. Mr. Smith was
+rather of the quiet and unassuming order of players, who thought much
+but said little, and did his work well. He was a fine kicker with either
+foot, and his tackling was severe, but honest and clean. With a good
+wind in his favour, few backs could equal him in a long kick, but he
+sometimes made mistakes near goal when he was hard pressed.
+
+
+~Mr. M'Farlane.~
+
+The best back in the Cambuslang eleven that season was undoubtedly Mr.
+M'Farlane. He reminded me very much of the style of Mr. A. H. Holm
+(Queen's Park), who captained the Scottish team against England at
+Sheffield in 1883. He had rare ability in close tackling; used to get
+the ball away by clever heading, and was the most plucky young fellow to
+go to the assistance of a half-back one could see anywhere. His only
+defect--and it was a very bad one--consisted in getting up to an
+opponent and trying to take the ball away from him in the rear.
+Sometimes it came off well, but at others his club had to pay the
+penalty with a free kick.
+
+
+~Mr. Russell.~
+
+In the present contest Mr. Russell was one of the three half-backs, and
+in no match during that season had a trio such terrible opponents to
+encounter as the two Campbells, M'Call, and M'Callum, who were perfect
+demons among the Renton forwards. Russell held out bravely for a time,
+but was eventually cornered, and, in the second half particularly, "lost
+his head," and allowed the Renton men to get up to Dunn too often. In
+some of the smaller matches of the club he played brilliantly, but did
+not really rise to the occasion in this memorable cup tie, and in most
+of the tackling came off second best.
+
+
+~John Gourlay.~
+
+It has often been said about Cambuslang that it was a club of three
+names! Those names, however, both individually and collectively, were
+fearless opponents to meet in any tussle, let alone a cup tie, and to
+the credit of Cambuslang be it said, no combination of players ever
+served a club so well, and had such pleasure in their hard work, as the
+Buchanans, Gourlays, and Smiths. They were more feared than admired by
+the members of the clubs twenty miles around, than the Elliots, and
+Armstrongs, or, shall I say, the Græmes, of the "debatable land" long
+ago. Both Mr. James and Mr. John Buchanan were famous players in their
+way, but the back was decidedly the best man, and was selected to play
+against Wales the same season.
+
+
+~A. Jackson.~
+
+Cambuslang's style of play, with their fast following up and jerky
+kicking, suited, or, I might say, favoured the old style of six forwards
+and only two half-backs, but they insisted on being in the fashion. The
+three half-backs, however, were only names to conjure with, but nothing
+in real practice, for Mr. Jackson was always made the kind of "flying
+man" of the team, and was nothing more or less than a forward. He always
+joined the latter division when they were attacking an opponent's goal,
+and retired well up among the backs when his club were pressed at the
+lines. In 1886 Mr. Jackson played against Wales, and was also included
+in the team against Ireland in 1888.
+
+
+~John Buchanan.~
+
+Although Mr. John Buchanan developed into a very fair half-back, and was
+selected to appear against Ireland last spring, he was included in the
+present match under notice as a forward, and I think he then played on
+the right. He was the fastest dribbler in the team, and a capital
+tackler. The combination among the Cambuslang forward division, however,
+on the occasion was completely spoiled by the superior tactics of the
+Renton eleven, and that fine passing for which the village team were so
+justly famed was awanting that afternoon on Hampden Park.
+
+
+~James Buchanan.~
+
+Although similar in name, the play of the other Buchanan was quite
+different from that of Mr. John. He was always cool and collected, and
+had a fine style of dribbling and passing which sometimes rose to
+perfection itself, but in his runs he was fond of showing off, and was
+easily tackled in consequence. But for this fault he would have been
+chosen to play in one of the Internationals the previous year. No
+player, however, loved the game and his old club so much, and practised
+more self-denial to attend the field on the eve of a big match, and do
+his best for victory.
+
+
+~J. Plenderleith.~
+
+Every club undoubtedly has its own ideal type of player, and I am almost
+sure that Plenderleith was the favourite among the Cambuslang forwards.
+He had speed--and rare speed, too--and with a kind of long kick that he
+followed up in a style of his own, made great progress down the field.
+He kept too close on the touch-line, however, and his great fault was
+kicking out--a dangerous thing when too near goal in this age of smart
+throwing in--for I notice a great improvement in this art during the
+past few years. We are, however, still behind the Englishmen in this
+respect, as most of them play cricket in the summer, and are
+consequently good shiers.
+
+
+~G. Smith.~
+
+Mr. George Smith was what I might honestly term a fair forward, not
+brilliant, but steady, and a good backer up. He was, however, always
+getting too near the line, and often had to submit to the indignity of
+being pressed into touch, and thereby losing the leather. The fact was
+he took too much room to work in, and was slow in following up an
+advantage. To give him his due, however, he was a very earnest worker,
+could stand a deal of tear and wear during a season, and was always
+available when wanted in a hurry by his club.
+
+
+~James Gourlay.~
+
+There is not a more steady player going at the present day than Mr.
+Gourlay. He showed remarkable ability in passing and middling, and his
+fast shies at goal were really splendid. In this event he was at his
+very best. Once or twice he started well with the ball at his toe, and
+made tracks for the Renton goal, but was badly supported in the
+following up, and often got collared by the opposing half-backs. He
+possessed great speed, like most of the other Cambuslang forwards, and
+scored a lot of the goals for his club that season in their best
+matches.
+
+
+~H. Campbell (Renton).~
+
+The two Campbells were young players in the Renton team three years ago,
+and in this match were considered sufficiently good to be included in
+the forward division that did so well against Cambuslang. Mr H. Campbell
+was a very fine dribbler and passer, and good at close tackling. The
+passing in this tie between Mr. J. M'Call and he was splendid, and went
+a long way in winning the match. He was also a veritable dodger when he
+got up to the opposing half-backs, and the partisans of the clubs who
+played Renton in 1888 used to hold their breath when they saw Campbell
+in front.
+
+
+~J. Harvey (Renton).~
+
+Unknown to fame as a regular player in the Renton eleven until the
+season when this event took place, or it may be the preceding one, Mr.
+Harvey was one of the victorious forwards. He showed fair judgment, and
+middled the ball very neatly to the Campbells and M'Call. His dribbling,
+however, was a shade too wide, and as he had excellent speed, sometimes
+he over-ran the ball at a time when the other forwards were following
+close up, and lost chances to score.
+
+
+~J. Campbell (Renton).~
+
+Of all the young forwards who graduated in the dribbling game at the
+village of Renton, there never was a better shot at goal than Mr. J.
+Campbell. Smart on his legs, with a good appearance, he dribbled
+splendidly, and half-backs caught a perfect Tartar when they came close
+up and attempted to take the leather away from him. His style near goal
+reminded me very much of Dr. John Smith, who scored so many goals in the
+half-a-dozen Internationals in which he took part against England.
+Campbell never waited a second before making his parting shot, and
+sometimes the goalkeeper failed to get the ball before it went spinning
+through.
+
+
+~The Final Association Cup Tie of 1889.~
+
+This tie was decided at Hampden Park on the 9th February, 1889, between
+the 3rd L.R.V. and Celtic, and ended in favour of the 3rd L.R.V. by two
+goals to one. The same clubs, however, had previously met to decide the
+contest, but both played under protest in consequence of the weather.
+This naturally caused that additional excitement, which culminated at
+the final meeting on Hampden Park that Saturday afternoon. The 3rd
+L.R.V. had long worked for possession of the coveted prize, and twice it
+was within their grasp, for they played and were defeated in the final
+ties on two previous occasions--viz., in 1876 by the Queen's Park, who
+scored two goals to none, and again in 1878 by the Vale of Leven, who
+overcame the warriors by one to none. If ever a team deserved victory in
+this event it was the 3rd Lanark Rifle Volunteers. The Celtic were more
+than foemen worthy of their steel, and considering the fact that the 3rd
+L.R.V. had come through the ties so creditably, and had that season
+vanquished the crack English professional combination, the victory was a
+most popular one all round. As for the Celtic, they are a young and
+powerful club, and can afford to wait a season or so for victory, for
+you know "everything comes to those who wait." The crowd was large, the
+weather fair, and the enthusiasm great. The Volunteers played with the
+wind, and made their first point out of a scrimmage about twenty minutes
+from the start, and this was all the scoring in the first round. The
+play after this was very even, and the Celts were showing off some grand
+combined efforts, but were unfortunate at goal. At length, however, the
+Irishmen made a brilliant sally on the Volunteers' stronghold, and Mr.
+M'Callum put the ball between the posts. After this the play was so even
+that a draw seemed inevitable, and it was only by the determined play of
+the Cathkin Park team that at length the Celtic goal was taken for the
+second time by Mr. Oswald, junior, who was ably assisted in the
+successful run by Messrs. Marshall and Hannah. The Cup--that trophy
+which had cost some kind hearts (now silent for ever), an unsatisfied
+longing, and a constant anguish of patience--was safe to the old club at
+last! I accordingly give the players who took part in the tie, and start
+with the 3rd L.R.V.
+
+
+~Downie (3rd L.R.V.).~
+
+Mr. Downie deserves credit for the manner in which he has kept goal for
+the "warriors" during the past two seasons, when his club played and
+defeated some of the best in Scotland and England. In this event he had
+terrible work to perform, and got through it with much credit. So far as
+I can remember--and it is, indeed, no stretch of imagination--the goal
+got by Mr. M'Callum could not have been saved by any keeper, as it came
+out of a scrimmage from the Celtic man's foot like a rocket. Mr. Downie
+is a very neat kicker-out in front, and shows fine judgment with his
+hands in clearing the ball away from a crowd of opposing forwards.
+
+
+~A. Thompson.~
+
+Mr. Thompson is one of the best backs that last season produced, and had
+it not been that the two Queen's Park men--Messrs. Arnott and
+Smellie--had played together so well, and pleased the Committee of
+Selection in most of the best matches, Mr. Thompson would have been in
+the great International. As it was, he got the next best position, being
+chosen to play against Wales. He is a rare tackler, sometimes a little
+rough, but the finest kicker in front of a besieged goal I have ever
+seen. Sometimes in the heat of a scrimmage he loses the ball, but has
+the knack of recovering himself in an instant.
+
+
+~J. Rae.~
+
+The Volunteers were remarkably well served with their backs in this tie,
+and Mr. Rae made a capital companion to Mr. Thompson. He is scarcely
+such an accomplished tackler, but for neat kicking and feeding the
+forwards when they are playing an open game, I know none better. He is a
+splendid man for judging distances, and if he is certain the ball is
+nearer one of his companions than himself, gets close behind and backs
+up at once. To see Mr. Rae placing the leather in front of his forwards
+in a good match is a treat of no ordinary kind, and it may be mentioned
+that he played against Wales last season.
+
+
+~A. Lochhead.~
+
+The three half-backs in the present tie with which I have to deal were
+Messrs, Auld, Lochhead, and M'Farlane. Mr. Lochhead has been long one of
+the "shining lights" of the 3rd L.R.V., and while in some respects
+inferior to Mr. Auld, has one grand virtue to recommend in a football
+player--viz., patience. His perception is keen and decisive, and if he
+imagines a daring forward on the other side can be successfully met
+without close tackling, he never fails to out-manoeuvre him, and let
+the spectators see some rare half-back play. Mr. Lochhead took part in
+the Welsh International in the spring.
+
+
+~Mr. M'Farlane.~
+
+The 3rd L.R.V. were in perfect training condition in the tie, and well
+can I remember both Auld and M'Farlane coming in for a large share of
+hugging by excited partisans as they made their way up the steps towards
+the pavilion of the Queen's Park Club that memorable Saturday afternoon.
+Mr. M'Farlane is really a fine all-round player, and this season is
+keeping up his form in a way that both astonishes and delights his old
+friends. His "heading" in front of goal is very fine, and has saved many
+a shot from taking effect.
+
+
+~J. Oswald, Junior.~
+
+No better pair of dribblers ever served a club than the two
+Oswalds--senior and junior--last season, and had more genuine success in
+the games in which they played. The forward combination, with these two
+men at their best, was decidedly the most powerful in Scotland, and
+undoubtedly won the match for the Volunteers against the Celtic. Mr.
+Oswald, junior, however, was the better of the two, and the manner in
+which he scored the second goal, which gave the Third the victory, was
+quite a treat to all who saw the tie that day on Hampden Park.
+
+
+~J. Oswald, Senior.~
+
+The senior Oswald, as he was called, to distinguish him from his
+companion of the same name, played against England in the spring, and
+was as good a dribbler, but not so fine a judge of a goalkeeper's
+ability to get at the ball when the forwards were crowding round, and
+sending in shots thick and fast. The passing among the forwards of the
+3rd L.R.V. that day was so good as to defy criticism, if that were
+possible, and Oswald, senior, was no exception to the others. The pair,
+however, loved the loaves and fishes of England better than the 3rd
+L.R.V., and are now "o'er the Border and awa'."
+
+
+~J. Hannah.~
+
+In some of the best games of the 3rd L.R.V. last season the passing and
+following up between Mr. Hannah and Mr. Johnstone were not to be beaten
+anywhere for splendid judgment and properly matured forward play. There
+are what is known to the player as certain degrees of pluck and
+endurance, and while I have in my mind's eye some forwards in other
+clubs, including Mr. William Berry, the Queen's Park light-weight, who
+must of necessity come under the first, I am inclined to rank Mr. Hannah
+among the second. He is, however, a first-rate man.
+
+
+~W. Johnstone.~
+
+Last in order of forwards, but by no means lacking in genuine ability,
+with rare dribbling powers, comes the name of Mr. W. Johnstone. He
+played a very steady game all through this tie, and was as fresh as
+paint after the whistle sounded the finish. Although not such a
+determined tackler as some of the other forwards not only in his own
+team, but in the Celtic as well, he is the most earnest worker in the
+whole club, and in his probationary days would practice unceasingly to
+attain perfection in certain points of the game in which he was
+deficient. He played against Wales in 1889, and in 1887 against Ireland.
+
+
+~J. Kelly (Celtic).~
+
+Although Mr. Kelly is, so to speak, unknown to the game as a goalkeeper,
+he promises to become a good man below the bar. The ability of the
+Celtic goalkeeper, however, is certainly not equal to the back and
+half-back play; and, while Kelly did very well in this match, his duties
+were rendered less difficult by the splendid defence shown at back by
+Mr. M'Keown, and the grand half-back efforts of Mr. M'Laren. He has
+several good points, including the clever fisting-out of the ball, but
+is not a strong kicker, and sometimes goes too far away from his
+charge.
+
+
+~P. Gallacher.~
+
+When the Celtic were hard pressed on several occasions, Mr. Gallacher
+always fell back on his goal, like the prudent general who covers his
+retreat, and no man did more heading and breasting in running the ball
+out that day. He wants the judgment of his companion in the same
+position, but makes up for it by fearless and unceasing work. He was
+hard pressed several times by Marshall and Oswald, sen., and had the
+worst of the tackling, but he generally came up smiling, and renewed
+hostilities with Spartan bravery.
+
+
+~M. M'Keown.~
+
+Mr. M'Keown was decidedly the best back on the losing side that day, and
+his defence near goal splendid. He is not, however, particularly careful
+in his returns, and sometimes kicks over his own lines when hard
+pressed, but there can be only one opinion as to his genuine ability in
+close tackling--he can do it to perfection. During the game, even
+Marshall, who is not afraid of anybody, sometimes steered clear of
+M'Keown by passing up the ball to Johnstone instead of keeping
+possession to the last. He played against Ireland the same year.
+
+
+~W. Maley.~
+
+The Celtic had as their three half-backs in the contest under review
+Messrs. W. Maley, J. M'Laren, and J. Kelly (the latter of whom has
+already been mentioned in a previous article). Mr. W. Maley, if I am not
+mistaken, is a young member of a very young club that has made a name
+for itself in a couple of seasons. He has, however, a deal to learn
+before he can be classed alongside Kelly and M'Laren. He is kind of
+slipshod in his mode of tackling, wanting finish, but nevertheless a
+dangerous man to meet in a charge.
+
+
+~J. M'Laren.~
+
+The finest half-back of the Irish combination is undoubtedly Mr. J.
+M'Laren, and in this tie his play was really magnificent. When the
+Volunteers' forwards again and again got near the Celtic goal, he was
+the first to checkmate them, and, not contented to work his own place
+successfully, frequently went to the assistance of some of the forwards
+when he thought they had more than enough to do. He played for his old
+club, the Hibernian, against Wales in 1888, and in 1889 against England
+for the Celtic.
+
+
+~M. Dunbar.~
+
+Mr. Dunbar was one of the most active men in the Celtic forward division
+in this match, and showed very good dribbling, but was easily tackled
+when getting near goal, and more than once "removed" off the ball by
+Auld and Lochhead. He is, however, a steady worker, and most reliable
+when backing up. Mr. Dunbar, if I am not mistaken, was at one time a
+member of the Cartvale, and played for Scotland against Ireland for that
+club in 1886.
+
+
+~R. M'Callum.~
+
+In his general style of play Mr. M'Callum was not unlike Mr. William
+M'Kinnon (Dumbarton), who flourished from 1881 to 1885, and was one of
+the best forwards in that county. He was not such a tricky and cunning
+tackler, however, but faced up to his man with a confidence that
+betokened superiority. He was, like the rest of the Celtic forwards, a
+good dribbler, and possessed considerable speed. For a young player he
+was also very judicious in passing the ball, and during this contest he
+helped to start some of the best runs of the day. He played against
+Ireland, at Belfast, in 1888, and is now located in Blackburn, where he
+partners Harry Campbell on the right wing of the Rovers.
+
+
+~W. Groves.~
+
+It was in the final tie for the Scottish Challenge Cup between the
+Hibernian and Dumbarton in 1887, which the crack Edinburgh team won by
+two goals to one, that brought Mr. Groves into special notice, and it
+may be, for aught I know, caused him to be carried off by the Celtic
+later on. Like a good many other players, he varies a bit in his style.
+Some days he is easily tackled; while at others not a single back or
+half-back on the field has a chance with him, and it must be said of him
+that he is one of the neatest dribblers of the day. He played against
+Wales in 1888.
+
+
+~J. Coleman.~
+
+Among the forward division of the Celtic, Mr. Coleman was a decided
+acquisition, and during that same season scored a lot of goals for the
+new Irish combination, which came to the front with something like the
+rapidity of "Jonah's gourd." A beautiful dribbler and runner, he made
+several grand spurts towards the 3rd L.R.V. goal, but had a weakness for
+keeping the ball too long, and was often tackled by the sure feet of Rae
+and Thomson. In speed and general play he reminded me very much of Mr.
+William Miller (3rd L.R.V.), an International against England as far
+back as 1876.
+
+
+~T. Maley.~
+
+When the whole of the Celts were at their best, and this happened pretty
+often last season in their Challenge Cup ties, Mr. T. Maley generally
+rose to the occasion, and led his team brilliantly. His steady-going
+style is much liked, not only by his colleagues, but spectators, and it
+is quite a rare thing to see him grassed by an opponent. When
+approaching the goal with the ball, he is like the priest who had a
+"wonderful way wid him"--slipping through the backs in a manner that is
+sure to make the goalkeeper gnash his teeth, and wish Maley was far
+enough away.
+
+
+
+
+_V.--THE PIONEERS OF ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL IN SCOTLAND;_
+
+OR,
+
+_"THE CONQUEROR'S FOOTBALL BOOTS."_
+
+
+My football boots are getting what might be called shabby genteel now,
+and no wonder. If they could speak they would tell you many a strange
+episode in the life of an Association football player, and how he kept
+his place in a leading club for nearly a dozen years. They have been old
+and dear friends, those well-worn boots, and although now somewhat
+curled up at the toes, have kicked many a good goal out of a hot and
+exciting scrummage in front of an opponent's upright posts, and even in
+an International tussle; but now that they, like myself, have retired
+from active duty, and may reasonably be supposed not to be encumbered
+with existing prejudices, which in the nature of things might more or
+less interfere with expressing an honest opinion about the Association
+football player of the past or his colleagues and successors, I will
+introduce them to you, and in figurative language allow them to tell
+their own unvarnished tale. My last advice, however, to you, my old
+friends, before leaving you to the tender mercies of a scribbler, is not
+to answer all the questions he thinks proper to put. Please don't tell
+him what you heard or saw after leaving the football field clinging to
+my sole and instep, of my love intrigues, my stolen interviews with
+blue-eyed Annie, and when she jilted me and got married to Charlie
+Quilter, who played "left wing" in the Flying Blues. Charlie must have
+regretted what he did more than once.
+
+The Blues used to play us a couple of games in the year, and not long
+before Charlie got married he was, as a matter of course, one of their
+eleven. On that occasion I felt nettled to think that a big,
+broosy-faced, lisping fellow like Charlie should have "put my eye out,"
+and could not resist the temptation of frequently crossing to his side
+during the game, and "going" for him. Oh! how my old companions, my
+boots, behaved on the occasion--the very laces almost burst with
+indignation; but Quilter, poor soul, never gave a winch, and bore it
+with becoming fortitude. He has now, like myself, got settled in life (I
+am a confirmed bachelor), and we are still the best of friends, for that
+"blue-eyed Annie loved him, too," was one of those things I could never
+forget. It is too bad, however, in me to block the way with this
+dissertation, and not allow Mr. Boots to begin. I shall leave the rest
+to him with confidence.
+
+Well, once upon a time (began Mr. Boots), I was a combination of
+circumstances. That is to say, I went through many processes even before
+I became mature leather, and one afternoon I was brought to a small
+shoemaker's shop in Crosshill tied up in a bundle. There were lots of
+cuttings in that bundle--butt, ben, wrapper, cordivan, kid, calf-skin,
+and even sheep-skin--but I was then a shapeless piece of wrapper, kipp,
+and calf-skin. When I was trysted there were few, if any, football boots
+made, and the old man who was entrusted with my construction was a
+strange old "cove." He could make a pair of ordinary boots with any one,
+but was not so sure about me. I was ordered by a genteel, nice-looking
+lad, with red cheeks and clear black eyes. He addressed the
+representative of St. Crispin in a musical voice, but I then formed an
+opinion of my future master, that he would be a little conceited and
+arrogant at times, and this has proved correct. The instructions about
+covering my soles with bars was specially impressed on the old man's
+memory, and every detail was carried out to the letter. When we were
+completed, my brother and I, you would have admired us. If it were
+possible to have anything handsome in the boot line, except, perhaps, a
+tiny, fur-lined lady's slipper, it was us. We were sewed with
+substantial rosen-end, the division between the inseam and soles was
+filled up with real leather skivings, and not the trashy "jump" which
+makes up the bulk of the soles of football boots nowadays. The more, in
+fact, I think of it, the more I am convinced that the present make of
+football boots is a new-fangled device in the shoemaking trade, for are
+they not now got up of American leather, brass nails, and other
+abominations, free of import duty! My master, I remember, came for me
+(please consider that I am also representing my brother, for, like the
+Siamese twins, the one can do nothing without the other) on a Saturday.
+He told the old man that he was going to play a match with the Leven
+Crowers that very afternoon, and must have me. I was barely finished,
+but Tate's son got the bars put on all right, and I was handed over to
+the tender mercies of my new master. He was quite delighted with my
+appearance, and looked with pride, and even satisfaction, on my
+well-polished uppers and wrapper soles. There was even a half-'un going
+at the paying.
+
+The Leven Crowers were a young and powerful club, possessing more speed
+in running than any real football ability at the time. The club to which
+my master belonged was the first to introduce the new ideas in the game,
+as they were then called, in Scottish soil, and as there were only three
+clubs in existence at the time of which I am referring, the contests, as
+a matter of course, were few and far between, and, consequently, looked
+forward to with more than ordinary pleasure. The other two clubs were
+the Greenvale and the Kilback, but they were not of much account (so my
+master had often said, and he was supposed to be a good judge). I heard
+him say the Conquerors had "licked" these clubs over and over again, and
+that they weren't in the same street. When I was being laced up,
+however, for the fray that afternoon in the old toll-house on the road
+to Battlefield (the Conquerors had no such modern requisite as a
+pavilion then), I heard Bob Gardens express quite a different opinion
+about the Greenvale, and even go the length of saying that they had a
+draw with them on the previous evening after a hard fight. This
+demonstrated a fact that was useful to me in my subsequent career, viz.,
+never to credit what other folks (especially football players) said
+about the ability of opponents in the heat of a tussle. Talking about
+the Leven Crowers, they were not to be despised. Although the haughty
+Conquerors had given them their first lesson in Association football,
+they were fast coming up on them in some of the points of the game. I
+heard my owner say that the first lesson was given at Alexandria, and on
+that occasion the Crowers, who were then crack shinty players, arranged
+themselves in the field as if for a match at that ancient Scottish game.
+That they had not forgotten their first game with the Conquerors was
+amply illustrated in the present, which, I might again repeat, was my
+first outset in public life. I was stiff at first, and pressed my
+master's instep rather hard shortly after the kick-off. The contest was
+played on the Recreation Ground, and was witnessed by very few
+spectators. True, there were certainly many choice spirits residing near
+the spot, who came out to see us and enjoy a quiet outing, and have a
+friendly crack.
+
+Little did these club companions imagine that that small but
+enthusiastic gathering of spectators was the harbinger of crowds
+composed of thousands of excited spectators who now assemble to witness
+big Association matches every Saturday, not only to see the Conquerors,
+but other clubs, very slightly removed from them in ability, playing
+"Cup ties." The Crowers' forwards showed great pace, and one of them,
+Will Cumming, repeatedly got past me, despite the smart manoeuvring of
+my master. Will, however, was somewhat wild in his dribbling, and could
+not keep the ball close enough to his toes. Jim Wild was my master's
+backer up on the occasion, and as Jim was decidedly the finest dribbler
+that ever toed a ball, and kept his place for ten years against all
+comers, afterwards the pair managed to intercept Cumming before he got
+close enough on goal to make a shot. The Crowers' goalkeeper was a good
+one, and could clear his place of defence with great ability, but the
+backs were not of much account. Pate M'Wherry and Luke M'Tavish did the
+work at half-back, but their kicking was somewhat feeble when compared
+with those of the Conquerors, Tom James and Willie Keith. The Conquerors
+were far too anxious to score, and for some time kept up a close
+cannonade at their opponents' goal without effect. Bob Prentice used his
+hands cleverly, and, though the goal was again and again endangered, not
+one of the forwards on my master's side could get the ball under the
+tape. A fine run was made by Wild, Lucky, Grind, Short, and my master,
+and the ball brought up to within a few feet of the Crowers' goal, but
+at the last second, Johnny Forrester, one of their centre forwards,
+kicked it behind. This gave the Conquerors the corner flag-kick. My
+master, who was quite an adept at corner flag-kicks, was sent to the
+spot, and placed the ball in a good position, but Bob Prentice got it up
+in his hands at a critical moment, and threw it clear. Good runs were
+eventually made on both sides, and once the Crowers nearly lowered our
+colours, but nothing was got by either, and the game was drawn. In those
+days the rules observed were somewhat different from those in vogue now.
+The game was far prettier. There was none of that heading which forms
+such important factors in the style of modern playing. When the ball was
+thrown in from the touch-line the rule insisted that it had first to
+land on the ground before being touched, and consequently head play was
+unnecessary, and dribbling was, as a matter of course, considered the
+most important point, combined with taking smart possession of the ball
+as soon as it touched the ground after being thrown in. My master was
+smart at getting on the leather, and, next to Jim Wild, he was the most
+accomplished dribbler in the Conquerors. If there is anyone capable of
+telling what he could do, 'tis I. How he used to keep my toes in a
+circle as he left the grass behind his heels, piloting the ball past the
+opposing backs, I know to my loss, and a very great depreciation in tear
+and wear. He was a veritable "dodger," this owner of mine. Never afraid
+of a charge, he would, in order either to secure the ball or keep it,
+attack the biggest man in an opposing team, aye, and knock him over,
+too. Sometimes he lost his temper when things went against him, and,
+while his remarks to an adversary were somewhat cutting and at times
+verging on impertinence, they were always within the scope of
+"Parliamentary." In after life, however, my master found several foemen
+worthy of his steel amongst backs and half-backs in the Flying Blues,
+the Crowers, the Cedargrove, Red Cross, and North Western, and he
+sometimes came off second best.
+
+It is all very well to say that there were "great men in those days." So
+there were, but the same remark can be made equally applicable now, for
+they are even more common, and you find them scattered over the length
+and breadth of the land. It would decidedly weary you, my friend and
+reader, were I to detail all the games in which I have taken an active
+part, and you will at once admit that I may succeed in pleasing you
+better if I give a short sketch of the leading clubs and players who
+have wrought so hard and done so much to make the Association game so
+popular. Jim Wild has been mentioned in connection with his club (the
+Conquerors), but it is necessary to give him a line or two more. There
+was no other Association club in Scotland when the Conquerors were put
+into ship-shape order, and consequently no opponents to play. They could
+not challenge themselves to mortal combat, and there were none but Rugby
+clubs, whose members treated the new order of things in football as
+childish amusement, and unworthy of free-born Britons. "Give us," they
+said, "the exciting runs, the glorious tackling, the manly maul, and the
+beautiful dropped goal, and we will meet you a bit of the way, but not
+otherwise. We don't believe in loafing about the field at times, when
+only one or two of the side are engaged; we want to be active." "Well,"
+said the Conquerors (one of whom had been offered a place in the Twenty
+in the Rugby match between Glasgow and Edinburgh), "you don't know
+Association rules, or you would never make such absurd assertions about
+the new game. If there is really any inactivity in football while being
+played, that inaction is clearly shown in a Rugby maul, where the one
+half of the side are merely spectators. Besides, your game is only half
+football; in fact, a combination of football and handball knocked into
+one. Your run with the ball under the arm is only a display of speed; it
+has nothing whatever to do with football. We want the grand dribbling
+run with the ball at the toe, the smart passing and middling of the
+Association, and we will enjoy it." Such good-natured banter went on at
+first between two opposing interests, but by and by the difference
+culminated into something more.
+
+As a sort of _quid pro quo_ for the courtesy extended to an Association
+player by the Rugby contingent in the Inter-city match, Tom Chaloner,
+the very _beau ideal_ of a Rugby player, was asked, and promised to play
+in the first International Association match at Partick in 1872. Tom
+even came out to the Recreation Ground at Crosshill, and practised with
+the Conquerors as goalkeeper, and promised well in that position, but
+through some cause or other he did not play when the eventful day came.
+If ever a man could handle a ball and kick a goal as a quarter-back in a
+Rugby game, it was Chaloner. He was the pride of all the Rugby clubs in
+the country side, and was as well, indeed, if not better known in his
+brilliant career as a cricketer. Who in Scotland could bat like Tom? He
+was not a hitter to a particular side of the wickets; all was alike to
+him. He could cut, drive, hit to long and square-leg, and oh! how far!
+He would have made a grand Association football player, but he preferred
+to stick to the Rugby style, and was equally successful, at least to his
+club's satisfaction. The first match between England and Scotland at
+Partick, nineteen years ago (which, by the way, is worthy of note, was
+played by members of the Queen's Park exclusively), did a great deal to
+spread Association rules in Glasgow and district, and, in fact,
+eventually all over Scotland. Hitherto there used to be a couple of
+months of interval between the end of the Rugby football season and the
+starting of athletics and cricket, lasting from March till May, and as
+the football players of the old dispensation were still in trim, but
+with exhausted fixtures, not a few of them, belonging to two of the
+leading clubs, did not consider it _infra dig._ to have a "go" at the new
+rules, "just to see how they could stand it."
+
+The outcome of this hastily-formed notion was that a sort of Nomadic
+team, calling themselves the Western Pilgrims, was formed, and three or
+four matches, and good ones, too, were played between them and the
+Conquerors and also the Cedargrove. The Pilgrims showed themselves no
+mean opponents in the new game, and, after holding their own with the
+Cedargrove in a drawn game, had a good tussle with the Conquerors on the
+recreation ground at the Park, and were only beaten by a goal to none,
+the goal, I remember, being made in the last five minutes by Bob Gardens
+(who could dribble and play forward as well as keep goal). A few of the
+Pilgrims took kindly to the Association rules, and while that season
+lasted two of the leading forwards joined the Cedargrove, and turned out
+capital players. Another joined the Druids, and became a famous
+goalkeeper, even going as far as playing for his country in the
+International match, and the fourth turned out a leading man in the
+Holyrood Crescent. Talking about the above goalkeeper, Aleck M'Gregor
+was one of the finest fellows that ever stood with his back to a goal.
+There was the cheerful disposition, the gentlemanly demeanour to
+opponents or associates whenever he appeared on the field. His knowledge
+of the Rugby game made him a most useful man at goal, where the keeper
+of that charge is the only man under Association rules who is allowed to
+touch the ball with his hands. With the ordinary goalkeeper the punt-out
+kick, when dexterously executed, was considered the most effective mode
+of saving the ball from going under the tape, when the use of the hands
+to knock it out was not deemed necessary, but Aleck preferred the
+drop-kick, which is one of the redeeming features in the Rugby style of
+play, and this he could do almost to perfection. I have seen him (for I
+have, by-the-bye, taken part against him in several matches) lift a ball
+after it had come pretty smartly from my right toe, and dropping it on
+the ground before him, kick it as it rose, bounding away over the heads
+of the Conquerors' forwards as they besieged the goal like a hive of
+bees on a June morning. He had decidedly the advantage over the modern
+"punter," inasmuch that the leather was always sure to go higher out of
+reach when the place of defence was besieged, and farther out of the way
+of lurking backs and half-backs, who, as a matter of course, crowd down
+behind the forwards when an attack is made on an opponent's stronghold.
+
+There were other instances which came to my knowledge (that is, if my
+reader can imagine anything so queer as a pair of boots possessing such
+an immensely human gift) of converts from Rugby to Association style of
+play, or rather perverts, as they were designated, but enough has been
+said to show how Association football gained a hold on the young and
+rising generation, and how it spread all over the western and
+north-western portion of the country, and, like the proverbial Eastern
+magician's wand, caused goal-posts and corner-flags to spring up in
+every village and hamlet with remarkable rapidity. Close to the shores
+of several Highland lochs, where a big kick by a stalwart half-back
+endangers the ball being swept away by the tide, one can see the game
+played of an evening by the village youth with great earnestness of
+purpose. By and by the new rules made remarkable progress, and as the
+public liked the game, and deserted the Rugby matches to see what they
+considered the most easily understood rules, the breach between the
+rival contingents widened, and eventually the Jews had no dealings with
+the Gentiles, and so they both continue playing the games they consider
+the best.
+
+What changes have taken place in clubs and players during the last few
+years! Faces, blithe, happy faces, now gone forever, can be remembered
+by the old spectators, although the present scarcely ever heard their
+names; but I will not go very far back. Poor Dixy (for he is dead
+now)--well can I remember his first introduction to the Conquerors. My
+master had been indulging, in company with Bob Gardens, Jim Wild, Willie
+Keith, and others, in a punt about on the evening preceding a match with
+the Red Cross, and, after shaking hands and passing the usual
+compliments, the practice game was started, and in it the newcomer
+showed well, and kicked cleverly with both feet. He was, however, just a
+shade too slow, and I frequently tackled him, and secured the leather,
+giving it a deal of "toe" after passing close in on goal. The club were
+badly off for a goal-keeper after Willie Keith left for America, and, as
+John was not backward in making a display of his ability, he offered to
+act as goal-keeper. It would take too long to recount the games in which
+he and I were engaged in the subsequent career of the Conquerors, but an
+incident or two will not be considered out of place. If Dixy had one
+weakness more than another it consisted in a lively sense of his own
+importance as a crack goalkeeper, and the supposed invincible qualities
+of his club, which he often declared could not be beaten. He improved
+wonderfully in his new position, and, while playing some of the junior
+clubs, which were by this time beginning to spring up, it was positively
+amusing to see how John would advance quietly from his goal when it was
+besieged, and punt the ball contemptuously away with quite a crowd of
+young ones close up, awe-stricken at the agility shown by such a bulky
+form.
+
+A few of the Red Cross and Cedargrove forwards sometimes gave him a
+fright, and in one match with the Leven Crowers he was fairly outwitted
+by Boyd and Ned M'Donald in a cup tie. I fought hard in that memorable
+battle myself, and never got such a saturation with water and mud in my
+career; but we were beaten. I will not easily forget Dixy as he came to
+the field on that occasion, carrying his umbrella to the goal-posts, and
+laying it against the left one. He, poor fellow, expected his club would
+have an easy victory, and this belief was shared in by not a few of the
+eleven besides, including my master, who had, by the way, emerged into a
+centre forward since the last match with the Kilmarackers, and as a
+consequence he gave me a deal of extra work as a backer-up to Mat.
+Angus. In fact, not long after I was carefully laced and ready for the
+fray that wet afternoon, the Conqueror's eleven had a confab about the
+tactics they should pursue, and Joe Sayler, our captain (who is now no
+more, and lost to his club for ever), remarked it would take them all
+their time to beat the Crowers. He had, I could see by his anxious
+looks, grave doubts on the issue. At the outset of the game the rain
+poured down in torrents, and as most of the play was on the Crowers'
+portion of the field, the umbrella was put up, amid the laughter of the
+partisans of John's contingent and the pent-up indignation of the
+followers of the Crowers, who mustered strong on the occasion, and
+demonstrated a strength of lungs truly astonishing. John, by and by,
+when the battle became hot, had to discard his old friend and comforter,
+and work in front of his fortress in a way that he had never done
+before, and when the terrible tussle ended, the Conquerors were beaten
+by two goals to one. When chaffed on the "umbrella incident" ever
+afterwards Dixy was silent, and declared that in using it he did not
+hold his opponents too cheaply, but simply with a desire to save himself
+from a ducking. John was also a capital oarsman, and when he was
+suddenly cut away in the pride of his manhood, he was barely 30 years of
+age. He was greatly lamented, and his handsome figure is missed from the
+football field.
+
+John's death reminds me of a young and promising forward named Smith,
+who used to play on the left wing of the Cedargrove in company with a
+smart companion named Seward. Young Smith was a very enthusiastic
+football player, and missed few, if any, practice games. Poor lad, I met
+him twice in one season in matches with the Cedargrove, and it took all
+my master knew to prevent him from getting clean past the Conquerors'
+backs and scoring. He was a nice dribbler, and like Fred Adamson (an old
+member of the same club), went straight ahead with a splendid hold of
+the leather. Talking about Fred, I remember that player, in company with
+Johnny M'Phedran and James Wilton, going for big Thomas, who was then
+the Conquerors' captain, and played at half-back. Thomas was an awful
+fellow to meet in a charge, and a hundred to one was sure to send his
+opponent to grass. Johnny, however, who was a little bandy-legged, held
+tenaciously to the ball, and while Thomas was eagerly watching his
+opportunity, Fred sent him flat on his back, and the ball was close on
+goal in an instant. There was a hard scrummage, and in the nick of time,
+Joe Sayler (who was then the crack sprinter of the Conquerors), dashed
+up and got the ball clear before it reached the keeper. Poor Smith, he
+caught a severe cold one evening, and eventually succumbed to a painful
+malady. The Cedargrove were at one time hard to beat. In fact, in the
+early history of the Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup, they
+pressed my master's club hard for the trophy, and were only
+vanquished--after three games--by one goal to none.
+
+The Red Cross were also dangerous opponents, and possessed not a few
+capital players. There were John Huxter, Sandy Kenneth, Jack Williams,
+Joe Drummond, and Bill Millins. They were not easily beaten. Sandy
+Kenneth, though rather a quiet-looking customer to meet in the street,
+developed into one of the finest half-backs that Scotland ever produced.
+He was always cool and collected, and, although by no means a very hard
+kicker, could judge the ball to a hair-breadth. Sandy was especially
+clever in tackling, which he could manage without deliberate charging.
+If the ball got up close on the goal which he defended, he would follow
+the dribblers, and with a clever manoeuvre on the left foot, obtain
+possession, and after nursing the ball for a few minutes, would, amid
+the applause of the spectators, send it spinning down the field. Then
+there was Bill Summons. He was rather a volatile customer, and a perfect
+football coquette. There was scarcely a club of any pretensions in
+Glasgow but what Bill had wooed. He, however, stuck well to the Red
+Cross, and did some splendid service in their best matches, but
+eventually left them and joined the Conquerors, who, by the way, were
+just a shade too ready to take over the best men of other clubs by
+holding out tempting baits in the shape of big matches. Bill, with all
+his faults, was a grand back, and I question if anybody in Glasgow could
+make a finer kick when he set his mind to it. He had his failing, to be
+sure, and who hasn't? He was sometimes most erratic while playing
+important matches, and, especially on a windy day, would make grave
+mistakes with too heavy kicking.
+
+Jack Huxter, too, of the Red Cross, was a very fine player, and a
+"caution" to get past at back (poor fellow, he, too, like Dixy, has gone
+to his account). He was a dangerous man to meet in the heat of a tussle
+near the goal-line, and woe betide the daring forward who would attempt
+to take the ball from Jack there. His only weakness was a frequent
+desire to "go" for the man instead of the ball, and charging rather
+heavily. Although a back, he was by no means an inferior dribbler, and
+possessing good speed, sometimes astonished the members of his own club
+by the smart runs he would now and again make in company with the
+forwards when the leather was in an opponents' territory. He stuck like
+a veritable leech to the Red Cross, and turned out most faithfully to
+all their important matches. I must not forget Willie Millins, who was
+one of the neatest dribblers of his day. He has given up football now.
+Getting a clear start, many an exciting and clever run he made for the
+Red Cross. I heard my master say that in a match for the Association Cup
+between his club and the Cedargrove, he once made a goal after dribbling
+the ball almost the entire length of the field.
+
+Then there was a lot of smaller fry, including good players belonging to
+the Dumbrook, North-Eastern, Gallowgate Rovers, the Locomotive Slashers,
+Thornians, Northern Jumpers, Edinburgh Irishmen, Partick Unfortunates,
+and last, though by no means least, the Flying Blues. There was no club
+in Scotland, except, perhaps, the Vale Crowers, that had made so much
+progress in the game as those Flying Blues, and few, if any, were gifted
+with the same amount of self-confidence. The Blues, nevertheless, had
+good reason to feel proud of some of their members, for they were young
+and active, and the very ideal of smart football players. It was a lucky
+thing for them when they migrated from the north and established
+themselves in the old ground vacated by the Cedargrove. Had it not been
+for that lucky arrangement, they might have wasted their football lives
+in obscurity, and gone down to Association posterity "unhonoured and
+unsung." Their success was as remarkable as it was swift and decisive.
+Possessing any amount of pluck, they tackled all and sundry in the
+district, and the second year, after gaining something like a
+first-class reputation, won nearly every game they played. Their
+captain, Tom Vincent, was a grand back, and, indeed, one of the crack
+men in that position, of whom Scotland has now so many to select from;
+and then there was Bentback, Bill Donoup, Jack Drummer, and Mat Neil,
+all fine players at their respective positions. Never shall I forget the
+match between the Blues and the Conquerors for the Association Cup a
+dozen years ago, about the last big match in which I took an active
+part. My master's team had had bad luck though, for after pressing the
+Flying Blues till within a few minutes of the game, the Blues beat the
+Conquerors by one goal to none, Bill Donoup sending the ball under goal
+at the last minute, although the story goes that he had a bet of a
+"sov." that the Conquerors would win, and it was even admitted that he
+was heard to say, when kicking the goal, "Here goes my blooming
+sovereign!"
+
+Although now stowed away in the corner of a large chest, side by side
+with jerseys, caps, knickerbockers, and other football requisites, as a
+remnant of the glorious game, my master sometimes visits me to think
+over the past, and I often hear him say that, although he does not play
+now, he still goes to see some of the leading contests, and at them
+picks up many queer stories of the modern players. Last year's crack
+men, as he sees them crowding in his "mind's eye," are not, he says,
+unworthy representatives of those of the past.
+
+
+
+
+_VI.--HOW CLUBS WERE STARTED LONG AGO._
+
+
+When the summer game of cricket was far more extensively played in
+Glasgow and District than it is now, those who understood the feelings
+and aspirations of young men engaged in it repeatedly considered the
+question in all its aspects, and a combination of circumstances have
+occurred within the last decade which had seriously affected that game.
+The City of Glasgow could not, of course, afford to remain in a
+stationary condition to suit the convenience of a few thousands of
+cricketers. New streets had to be formed, new houses built all round,
+and with this advance upon civilisation came the deadly blow to
+cricket--at least juvenile cricket--and those clubs soon disappeared
+from the field. Ground after ground was swallowed up, and on the scene
+of many a hot and exciting match blocks of houses, railway stations,
+churches, and public works may now be seen. The Scotch youth, and for
+that part of it (just to give the sentence greater weight), the British
+youth, loves some kind of manly sport. Cricket he could no longer play
+for want of good and level ground, but then there was another game
+which, at least, could be played or learned under easy circumstances,
+even on a quiet street or big "free coup," and that was Association
+football. They soon took to it kindly, and many of them struggled hard
+and procured a ground. Not one, of course, like that on which they used
+to have their cricket matches long ago, but one on which Farmer Lyon
+grazed his cows and sheep, and they had it for a trifle. What did they
+care about ridges and furrows, or that it was a difficult matter to see
+the lower goal-posts when you were at the east end? Not a straw. The
+only matter which annoyed them (and this only happened occasionally) was
+Lyon's bull. Their club colours were red jerseys, with a small white
+stripe, and "Jock" (that was the animal's name), used to scatter the
+lads about on the Friday evenings when they were engaged in a big side.
+The players generally managed to clear out in time, but the infuriated
+animal once goared the best ball the club had, and next morning, as they
+had to play the "Invincible" of Glasgow Green, a subscription had to be
+raised for a new one. Football can thus be played under much more
+favourable conditions than cricket, or almost any other out-door game,
+at less expense, and this, in a great measure at least, is the secret of
+its popularity amongst the masses. It can also be played under nearly
+every condition of the atmosphere. Nothing seems to frighten the Scotch
+Association football player. Rain, hail, snow, and even frost, is
+treated with cool indifference. In England the ball is quietly laid
+aside with the advent of April and forgotten till the Autumn leaves are
+yellow and sear, but in Scotland Association football seems to have no
+recognised season at all, so far as the younger clubs and even a few of
+the seniors are concerned. With the sun making one's hair stick to his
+head with perspiration, and the thermometer at 90 degrees in the shade,
+they play away in the summer-time, and at Christmas attempt to dribble
+in half-a-foot of snow. Meantime the question about football being
+blotted out can, I think, be easily answered in the negative, and upon
+these will depend the future prospect of Association Football in
+Scotland. There are, in fact, "breakers ahead," and a strong and
+determined hand will have to take the wheel. The greatest of these is
+the "professional" football player, and the next the "greed of
+gate-money." "O! we never heard of a professional football player in
+Scotland," exclaims a chorus of voices; "there is no such thing. It's
+only in England." My remark, of course, is only beginning to be
+realised. The definition of professional in athletics "is one who runs
+(plays) for gain." Everybody knows what that means. If you receive any
+money whatever, directly or indirectly, from your club (except out of
+the private purses of the members), you are a professional. Are there
+not clubs, with great reputations, who have such members? If these are
+allowed to continue on the club books simply because they are good
+players, the committee are doing a great injustice to the other members,
+it may be under a mistaken notion. Now, as football has always been
+looked upon as a purely amateur game, and played by young men for their
+own amusement, it is to be hoped that the day is far distant when the
+professional football player, or even worse, the professional football
+"loafer," who does not work, but preys upon his fellow-members, will
+appear in a general form. In all conscience, if the public wish to see
+professional football (and I know from experience they don't), what
+would they think of the All-Scotland Eleven against the Champion Eleven
+of England? That might sound all right, but with the recollection of how
+professional athletics of all kinds (with the remarkable exception of
+cricket) are now conducted, and their low associations, woe betide
+football when the professional element is introduced. It will assuredly
+be the signal for its decline and fall. As for the greed of gate-money,
+of which some clubs are so fond, much might be said. When I refer to the
+clubs who try to gather as much cash as they can during the season in
+order to pay their legitimate obligations and meet the heavy item of
+ground rent, I show up an honourable example, and one worthy of
+imitation; but when I hear of clubs who have gathered ten, yea twenty
+times more than is required for such purposes, and even get handsome
+donations besides from their patrons, deep in debt at the end of the
+season, I begin to wonder where all the money has gone. I ask a young
+gentleman who has only lately become a member, and he tells me he knows
+nothing about the finance committee, but throws out grave hints about
+sordid motives and bare-faced applications for pecuniary assistance. In
+this respect clubs must be above suspicion, if they want the delightful
+game to hold its own and prosper. As a _quid pro quo_ for this vicious
+practice, however, there is no game whose players are so charitable as
+those connected with Association Football. There is not a club in the
+Association that is not ready to play a "Charity Match," and far more
+has been given to the funds of charitable institutions by the actions of
+Association football clubs than all the other games in Scotland put
+together.
+
+
+
+
+_VII.--THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL;_
+
+OR,
+
+_NED DUNCAN'S DREAM._
+
+
+~Scotland v. America, 1901.~
+
+While on holidays, enjoying myself at a quiet and beautiful sea-side
+village on the shores of the Firth of Clyde, I received a note from a
+friend reminding me that an old football chum was still on the sick
+list, and making little or no progress towards recovery. In fact, his
+life, which had recently been enfeebled by an incurable malady, was
+slowly but surely drawing to a close. Last time I saw him he referred to
+the fact that he had some MS. which he wished Mr. John M'Dowall, his
+successor in the secretaryship of the S.F.A., and myself, to read over,
+and when this came into my mind I resolved to repair to Glasgow at once,
+ere it might be too late.
+
+It was just as well that I did, for poor Ned Duncan was fast sinking
+when I got permission from his widowed mother to visit the bedside. Ned,
+I may mention, was one of the most enthusiastic players of his day that
+ever kicked a ball, but was obliged to give up practice in consequence
+of the unfortunate circumstances I have just mentioned, and of late had
+only been a spectator at the leading games. He received me that evening
+with a kind smile of recognition, and his pale face beckoned me to come
+near. I was certainly much touched with my old friend's appearance, and
+tried as much as possible to cheer him, but it was of no use.
+
+He said he knew he was going to the silent land. The doctor, in fact,
+had told him he had only a few days to live, and he was glad I had come
+to bid him farewell, and take over some straggling notes he had compiled
+last summer about the football of the future. "Going home one evening,"
+he continued, "after an International match, I fell into a deep sleep,
+and had a remarkable dream. I thought I saw a great match between
+Scotland and America. Real genuine players glided past, scrimmaging with
+each other for the ball; thousands of spectators, new and beautiful
+youthful faces, graced the area allotted to spectators; the hum of
+thousands of excited voices greeted my ears, and"----Here poor Ned's
+voice failed.
+
+After a few minutes repose, the old player gasped, "But what need I tell
+you more. Here is the MS., and make what use of it you like."
+
+My dear old friend is now under the turf he loved so well to play on
+when in the zenith of his fame.
+
+Having eventually opened the packet, the first sentence which met my
+eyes was "Ned Duncan's Dream; or, The Great International of 1901."
+
+I will, therefore, leave poor Ned to tell his own tale, and what he saw
+in his vision, which at any rate has the merit of originality about it.
+As more extraordinary dreams have come to pass, there is no saying what
+the beginning of the twentieth century may bring forth, for
+International football matches with Australia, America, and Canada have
+been talked of, and some of them even played, during the past year or
+two, and may become accomplished facts.
+
+I must, however, return to the MS., which reads after the following
+style:--
+
+"It was in April, 1901, on a Saturday afternoon, that the Yankees came
+to Scotland to play a match with our crack Eleven. The Universal Postal
+Service, which scattered letters all over the world at the rate of one
+half-penny per ounce, conveyed a formal challenge from the Americans to
+Scotland that the Yankees would be delighted to meet an eleven of that
+country in an even game of football. The New World men of course meant
+business, and our secretary, who was a capital fellow, much liked by the
+Scottish Football Association for his kind and obliging disposition, was
+instructed to accept the challenge and welcome the strangers to Glasgow.
+
+"Previous to the time I speak of, the Americans had beaten the
+Australians and Canadians, and were considered by their own friends
+invincible even to the extent of a couple of goals. The Canadians, by
+the aid of the Electric Express Line's fast steamers, had been able to
+leave Montreal in the morning and return in the evening from New York,
+defeated but not disgraced. The Australians were a little longer on the
+way, as the improved appliances for driving ships had not yet attained
+that perfection there which had been shown in most of the ports and
+rivers of the British Isles. They were experimenting, however, and some
+good in that direction was looked for daily, and a new Express Company
+floated. The Americans had also beaten the Englishmen the previous year
+at New York, and, as their own newspapers had it, 'came over to crow in
+the Land o' Cakes.' The great shipping trade of the Clyde ere this was,
+so to speak, causing a new order of things to arise all over the world.
+Large and beautifully-built steel and bronze vessels left the Clyde
+every day for all parts of the earth.
+
+"They had annihilated space and bridged the Atlantic in earnest, and the
+'electrics' (once called steamers) could go from Glasgow to New York in
+little over twenty-four hours. Yes. 'Daily to New York, Montreal,
+California, and New Mexico. Splendid accommodation for first-class
+passengers: 120 knots per hour, and no vibration.' So read the
+advertisement in the leading Glasgow newspapers. Why! what did it all
+mean? One hundred knots per hour--3000 in twenty-four hours! To New York
+in a day! I had certainly heard of the swallow taking an early breakfast
+at the uttermost part of England and picking up a late dinner on the
+shores of Africa, all in one day; but 120 knots an hour with an
+'electric,'--it was just enough for flesh and blood to comprehend at
+once.
+
+"'Well,' said a friend of mine with some experience in the marine
+engineering line, 'I have long thought on electricity as the great
+motive power of the future, provided it could be properly stored, and
+now you see what it has come to.'
+
+"In fact, our coal supply--one of the sources of Britain's
+greatness--was getting exhausted, and electrical appliances had become
+an absolute necessity. The strain could no longer be borne of one huge
+vessel consuming 500 tons of coal in twenty-four hours, and those
+blessed electrics were not introduced a moment too soon.
+
+"The learned men of France, who had long been working earnestly to solve
+the problem of electric economy, were beaten in the race, and a perfect
+system of stored electricity introduced and successfully applied to the
+propulsion of ships, patented by Professor Scotland Thomson, nephew of
+the late Sir William Thomson, of blessed memory.
+
+"Lots of other remarkable events had been occurring in our history, but
+none so marked as the introduction of the 'electrics.' The people of
+Scotland had very nearly lost their individuality. Old Caledonia was to
+be simply a name. Englishmen invaded Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, and
+even _Ultima Thule_, and overran the country with their ideas of social
+life. They made slow progress at first, but came in hordes, and the
+invasion was irresistible. They, of course, introduced all their
+newfangled ideas about games and pastimes, and compelled us to submit.
+
+"Parliament had got so mixed up and thoroughly disgusted with the
+question of Irish Home Rule, which cropped up every session, that in an
+evil mood it had threatened puir all Scotland with assimilation of the
+Law of Jurisprudence, but failed. King Albert the First, however, had,
+out of respect to the great city of Glasgow--the Second City in the
+Empire--created his third son Duke of Glasgow, for you must know the
+House of Peers was still extant, but greatly reformed and limited in
+power. It could only veto a law passed by the Commons once, and there
+was no more about the matter.
+
+"The match, you may be sure, was the general topic of conversation all
+over Scotland several weeks before it came off, and on the Friday
+evening, when the Americans arrived and put up at the Express Hotel,
+Glasgow, the excitement was great. The preparations and arrangements for
+the struggle were on a grand scale, and good weather alone was wanting
+to make it a success. That evening several of the Scotch team strolled
+into the billiard-room of the Express Hotel to welcome the young
+Americans, and had a chat with them about football in general, and the
+spread of the rules all over the world.
+
+"The eventful day at last dawned, and a finer April morning could not
+have been desired. Play was announced to begin at 3.30 p.m., and long
+before that time Bruce Park, Cathcart Road, was half-filled with
+spectators, and presented a fine sight.
+
+"The crowd around the field was certainly the most remarkable that had
+ever gathered together in Glasgow. As the game was no ordinary one, they
+flocked from all quarters. Most of the towns in Scotland supplied their
+quota to swell the multitude, and as railway travelling was cheap and
+convenient now compared to the original football days of the Queen's
+Park, Clydesdale, Vale of Leven, Rangers, Dumbarton, Granville, 3rd
+Lanark Volunteers, Partick, Clyde, Alexandra Athletic (of which poor
+Duncan was hon. secy.), and a host of other clubs, a two-hundred-mile
+journey, which was easily accomplished in an hour, was considered next
+to nothing. They were there--young men and maidens from London,
+Manchester, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Blackburn, Darwen, Bolton, and
+Sheffield--all bent on making a day of it. The road to Bruce Park,
+indeed, was a sight to see, despite the fact that the Cathcart Railway
+carried its thousands that afternoon to the south-side. There were not a
+few buxom country girls in the crowd, enticed thither by no great love
+of the game--which, of course, they did not understand--but by their
+sweethearts, just to let the young persons of the place see that they
+had lads as well as their neighbours. There was one winsome lassie among
+them, however, who would have done credit to Burns' incomparable 'Queen
+o' the Glen.'
+
+"Emma was the only sister of a young farmer in the district. It is a
+mistaken notion to suppose that farmers in Scotland are by far too
+plodding a class to indulge themselves in anything savouring of English
+games and pastimes, particularly football, but this is a mistake. I know
+several farmers in the country who love the dribbling game dearly, and
+do their best to promote its interests in the way of supplying ground to
+not a few young clubs dotted over the country. In fact, Emma was the
+beauty of the whole parish, and all the young men for miles around were
+well aware of it. No one could deny it, and even the most unreasonable
+of fellows, Charley M'Gowan, the schoolmaster, and Alfred Walker, the
+lawyer's clerk, were forced to acknowledge it.
+
+"'Talk about Sydney's heavenly Geraldine,' said young M'Gowan to me one
+afternoon on the road to practice, 'she beats her hollow.' M'Gowan,
+however, was a bit of a cynic, and Emma soon cast him off for Walker. He
+was a fine singer, and in after years, when he became a confirmed
+bachelor, delighted to sing songs about the inconstancy of the fair sex.
+He used to hum out Goethe's 'Vanatos,' and more particularly that
+verse with reference to the fickle fair ones, which ran
+
+    "'I set my heart upon woman next--
+              Hurrah!
+    For her sweet sake was oft perplexed;
+              But ah!
+    The false one looked for a daintier lot--
+    The constant one wearied me out and out--
+        The best was not easily got.'
+
+The Yankees, however, had a high opinion of our feminine beauty, and the
+impressions made on the gallant youths that Saturday afternoon were of
+the most favourable order. The Romans, in fact, were not more captivated
+with the beauty of the Sabean maidens than were the young Americans with
+the lovely Scottish girls who gave them such a hearty reception at Bruce
+Park in April, 1901.
+
+"Walt Vanderbilt, their captain, was a fine-looking young fellow, about
+25 years of age. Ere this the young Americans had completely discarded
+whiskers, and Walt formed no exception to the rule, with his
+closely-shaven cheeks and well-formed moustache. Good work in the field
+in the way of practice had made Walt's form show complete development,
+and I am inclined to think that a finer specimen of a football player
+never toed a ball. The goalkeeper of the team, too, young Lincoln, was
+rather a nice-looking fellow, nearly six feet high, and
+well-proportioned, with eyes sparkling with humour, but he lacked the
+fine open countenance of his captain.
+
+"The other members of the team were much of the ordinary type of
+humanity, just like our average football club men, with any amount of
+nerve and energy. If they felt excited at the magnitude of the work they
+had in hand they concealed it well, and looked as if they were merely
+entering the field to do a little practice. They wore the sign of the
+American eagle, dotted over with the emblematical stars and stripes. Our
+fellows had also an imposing appearance, with the lion-rampant on their
+jerseys, and, although looking rather douce and uncertain about the
+game, determination was depicted on every face.
+
+"The names of the gentlemen who entered the field were as under:--
+
+"_Scotland._--F. Wallace (South-Side Swifts), goalkeeper; T. Glen
+(Queen's Park), D. Smollet (Vale of Leven), backs; W. M'Millan
+(Dumbarton), F. M'Neil (Rangers), half-backs; K. M'Geake (Pollokshields
+Athletic), P. Livingstone (Kilmarnock), K. Watt (Edinburgh Rovers), T.
+Stewart (Volunteer A.C.), T. D. Coats (Paisley Combination), and G. F.
+Turnbull (Clyde), forwards.
+
+"_America._--W. R. C. Lincoln (New York Caledonian), goalkeeper; V. H.
+Grant (Texas Rovers), W. C. Vanderbilt (Hamilton State Swifts), backs;
+J. H. Armstrong (Chicago Association), D. Steel (Nebraska Electric),
+half-backs; D. C. Bramey (Victoria Boys), R. S. Chandler (Utah
+Gentiles), P. Whitehouse (Newhaven), J. S. Bryan (Alaska Pilgrims), W.
+D. Bangle (San Francisco Racers), and T. Lawrence (Washington House),
+forwards.
+
+"_Umpires._--J. W. Marindin (South Australia), and D. Y. Jones (Canadian
+Association). _Referee._--W. H. Littleton (English Association).
+
+"Before the game began, the Yankees offered to bet level money, and some
+of their red-hot plungers even went the length of two to one on their
+chances; but they were promptly told that the days of betting and
+wagering at football matches, cricket, horse-racing, and all genuine
+sport, were now numbered with the past in the United Kingdom.
+
+"Gentlemen, in fact, who loved and enjoyed sport for its own sake, and
+for that part of it, ladies too, had voted betting 'low and unmanly,'
+and even degrading, and as Parliament had been repeatedly petitioned on
+the subject, a bill was almost unanimously passed in the dying year of
+the nineteenth century abolishing betting.
+
+"The Loyal Irish Party (late Home Rulers), and the Rado-Toro Democratic
+Party (led by Lord Randy Chapel-Mountain), whose hair was beginning to
+get silvery-grey, and his long moustache to match, did not even oppose
+the bill, and it passed. Never did a legislative enactment work such
+improvement among the masses as this bill. It completely banished all
+needy souls and black-legs from the arena of honest sport, and left the
+field to those who came out of an afternoon and evening to enjoy
+themselves in an honest way.
+
+"The coarse language, too, of which our forefathers justly complained
+twenty years ago, had almost disappeared, whether through the effects of
+the School Board, I would not like to say, but one could now take
+sweetheart or wife to enjoy themselves, provided always, of course, the
+weather was at all suitable.
+
+"As for professional football players, no such thing had been heard of
+for years. They certainly died hard, but eventually no club would have
+anything to do with them.
+
+"'What is that?' 'Oh, it's the bell to begin.'
+
+"Well, the game did begin in earnest, immediately after a fair lady had
+thrown out the leather ball from the Grand Stand at the right-hand side
+of the field. There was no tossing for choice of ends, for a new rule
+had been just added to the revised code enacting in a most chivalrous
+way that strangers or visitors be allowed to select the side of the
+ground they preferred to play on for the first half-hour--for you must
+know, my readers, the term now allowed for the game was one hour, and
+that when the ball was kicked into touch, there was no throwing back
+into play with the hands, but it was kicked from the touch-line straight
+out before play was again resumed.
+
+"For some time the forwards kept the leather close to themselves, and
+the Yankees on the left wing, by a fine piece of manoeuvring, were
+successful in getting it away, amid tremendous cheering. Chandler, who
+was one of the fastest sprinters in the world, and had beaten the record
+in San Francisco in the fall of last year, got through his men in
+brilliant form, and came down on the goalkeeper like 'winkum.' Just as
+he was poising himself, however, for a final shot, M'Neil deliberately
+crossed the field from the opposite side, and after dodging about the
+young American, rushed in and took the leather away, and keeping it
+between his feet for a couple of seconds, kicked it clear of the Scotch
+goal. A good deal of heading afterwards occurred near the home goal--the
+ball getting close on the lines several times, and even passing them.
+Many considered before the game began that the Americans would never
+have a 'look in' at all, and great was their dismay when they actually
+beheld their champions hotly pressed on their own ground, and look like
+losing the day. With a brilliant charge the Yankee forwards crowded
+round the Scotch sticks like a hive of bees on a June morning, and a
+straight shot from the foot of D. Steel, who rushed in from his place at
+half-back, caused the ball to glide past the Scotch goalkeeper like a
+rocket.
+
+"This was the signal for tremendous excitement. Crowds of partisans and
+friends who had come over with the strangers, and many enthusiastic
+lovers of the game and fair play, raised a loud cheer, again and again
+renewed, at this piece of grand play on the part of the Yankees. The
+intensely interested Scotchmen, however, while they certainly admired
+the pluck and fine play of the visitors, and cheered in a mild kind of a
+way, even though an enemy wrung it from them, kept very quiet, and not a
+few white faces might have been seen about the wire fence which kept
+spectators and players apart on Bruce Park on that memorable day. They,
+however, kept their own counsel, and quaintly said to the Yankees who
+chaffed them on the point, that howling was a very good thing in a way,
+but it should not be indulged in till people were out of the wood.
+
+"The teams then faced each other in midfield, and the ball had no sooner
+left the Scotch captain's foot than it was taken away, and dribbled down
+the centre by Bryan, Whitehouse, and Lawrence, and when half-time was
+called the latter was just finishing a good shy, which sent the ball
+over the bar. According to the new rules a quarter of an hour was
+allowed as an interval, and during that time speculation ran high as to
+what was destined to be the final issue.
+
+"To indulge for a moment at the idea of the Americans beating the Scotch
+on their own ground in the great International was a sore point for the
+bulk of the spectators with Scotch faces, but they said very little.
+They had a secret hope that their champions would eventually pull off
+the game, even though they had a goal to make up, and only half-an-hour
+to do it. They had, it was remembered with pride and satisfaction,
+pulled through many a doubtful match before, and Scotchmen, it was well
+known, were not easily beaten.
+
+"The young lady again threw up the ball, and Tam Glen, getting a good
+hold of it at his left foot, made one of the finest fly-kicks ever seen
+in a match, and the forwards on the Scotch side following well up,
+completely puzzled the Yankee backs and half-backs by their brilliant
+passing. Before you could say Jack Robinson, M'Geake shied for the
+American goal, and the ball knocked off the cap of the goalkeeper, and,
+hitting the bar, bounded back into the field of play. A hard and
+exciting scrimmage followed, and amid breathless excitement the Yankees
+cleared their goal. Five minutes of very even play followed, and then
+the Scotchmen set their teeth and made a desperate effort for victory.
+
+"Only ten minutes of the game now remained to the good, and there was,
+you may be sure, no time to lose. One goal behind, and at the great
+International, too! It would never do to allow America to whip creation,
+even at football! One final effort; no, two final efforts, and it was
+done.
+
+"The Scotch captain was seen to whisper something to his team, and in a
+few minutes the grandest run which was probably ever witnessed since
+football became a scientific sport in the world, was started, and,
+before the American backs, half-backs, and goalkeeper could realise
+their position, the Scotchmen bore down on the visitors' goal, and
+literally dribbled the ball clean through. This was, you may be sure,
+the signal for an outburst of cheering, which must have been heard over
+the half of the big city of Glasgow, which now contained over a million
+of inhabitants.
+
+"The game, however, was not yet won--it was only a tie--and when the
+representatives of Brother Jonathan again started the ball only four
+minutes remained, but it proved a bad four minutes for the
+representatives of the stars and stripes. Another run, backed up by a
+shooter from the left foot of Turnbull, settled the great International
+for that year at anyrate. Those who had hitherto viewed the game in
+moody silence began to come out of their shells (talking piscatorially)
+and join in the universal huzzah.
+
+"The Yanks were now fairly cowed, and when another grand piece of play
+by Stewart, backed up at the proper moment by Watt, put a third goal to
+the credit of the Scotchmen, the visitors, in the most gentlemanly way,
+heartily joined in the cheering for the victors. When the referee's
+whistle was sounded, the Scotchmen were declared the winners of a
+hard-fought field by 3 goals to 1. The crowd completely besieged the
+pavilion at Bruce Park at the close, and cheered lustily as the Scotch
+champions made their way up the steps. Nor were the vanquished Americans
+forgotten. They came in for a round of hearty cheers for their pluck.
+
+"There was a dinner given to the distinguished strangers in the evening,
+and the usual complimentary toasts proposed and duly acknowledged; but,
+as I was not present, I am unable to say who spoke best and gave the
+most enjoyable song.
+
+"At anyrate, a happy evening was passed, and, after spending a day in
+Glasgow, the Yankees sailed on the following Monday morning for New
+York, where they duly arrived without any mishap, after the fastest
+passage on record, having covered the distance from Greenock to Sandy
+Hook in twenty-three hours fifty-nine and three-quarter minutes."
+
+Such is "NED DUNCAN'S DREAM; OR, THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL."
+
+
+
+
+_VIII.--THE PATRONS, SPECTATORS, AND POPULAR PLAYERS._
+
+
+They are to be found in all ranks and conditions of life, from the lord
+of the manor down to the apprentice-artizan and newly-fledged young man
+from shop and warehouse. Like love, football, for the time, at least,
+levels all distinction; and albeit I know, for that of it, many a
+well-matched pair, who have met for the first time on the grand stand at
+Hampden Park, looking back with feelings of intense pleasure to the time
+when their "infant love began." Were it not, in fact, that Caledonia is
+at times so "stern and wild," and that football and frost can never
+flourish together, the game would be far more extensively patronised by
+the fair sex. At a cup tie or an International match, it is quite a
+common thing to see the Convener of an adjacent county,[A] the city
+magnate, the suburban magistrate, the Free Kirk minister, and the
+handsome matronly lady, standing side by side with the horny-handed
+mechanic, the office-boy, the overgrown schoolboy, and the Buchanan
+Street "swell." They all watch the game and surroundings in their own
+particular way. I once heard a quaint, but nevertheless true, idea of
+how some of the more familiar visitors give way to a certain failing,
+which in itself can scarcely be called such, but is not unfrequently
+looked upon with amazement by the stranger. The Scotchman, it is said
+somewhere, is not so much respected for the manner in which he goes
+about a thing as the way in which he does it, and the remark, when
+applied to this particular case, will be all the more potent. Here it
+is:--"Where are you going to howl to-morrow (the query is put on
+Friday), Jack?" "Oh! the Queen's and Vale, of course; they will have a
+close thing of it, and there will be rare fun," says Jack. "Old Anderson
+was very indignant last Saturday, and declares that he will never stand
+near me again at any such matches. He was quite ashamed of my howling,
+and positively charges me with digging my thumbs into his ribs, and
+nearly strangling his youngest son at every scrimmage near each goal."
+"It serves you right, Tom. I was always afraid something of that kind
+would happen; you shouldn't be so demonstrative." Tom was silent. He was
+as jealous of his own propriety and good behaviour as anybody could be,
+but being of a most excitable nature, he did things in the heat of a
+tussle for which he was afterwards very sorry, and many ignored the fact
+that he was an old Rangers man, who scored the first goal for that then
+young club in a close and exciting game with the once powerful
+Clydesdale. As the Association rules are very easily learned in theory,
+the great bulk of the spectators show an acquaintance with them which is
+pleasing to see, and when an assumed infringement takes place, it is
+generally heralded from some part of the field by a partisan of the
+contending elevens. The only apparently unintelligible point to them is
+the "off-side" rule, and I have seen a goal kicked in this way hailed
+with deafening cheers and waving of hats and handkerchiefs. These
+manifestations, however, were turned into low growling when the leather
+was sent away by a free kick. The ladies, too, talk about "free kicks,"
+"corner-kicks," "heading," "hands," "beautiful passing and dribbling,"
+as if to the manner born. I cannot, however, dismiss the subject of
+spectators without referring to the use and abuse of a free and
+unrestrained vent to pent-up feelings. There is the low, vulgar fellow,
+whose collarless neck and general coarseness of exterior and language
+indicates that he possesses all the vices but none of the virtues of the
+"honest working man." Work he will not, except he is compelled, and
+although to "beg he is ashamed," he would be the first to do a mean
+action if he had the opportunity. It is he who, by his foul tongue and
+very breath, contaminates the atmosphere he breathes, and brings some of
+the matches into disrepute. Unfortunately he has paid his money at the
+gate (sometimes he gets over the fence), and you can't turn him out; but
+he makes hundreds miserable. He is, in fact, one of the "unimproving and
+irresponsible," and moral suasion has no power over his hard and stony
+heart. Sometimes in an evil moment his vulgar remark is challenged by
+one of the players on the contending sides, and this gives him an air of
+importance. There is nothing, however, which shows a want of gentlemanly
+bearing in a team more clearly than paying the least attention to
+exclamations from excited spectators. They should treat them with silent
+indifference, and if needs be, contempt, and play away as if there were
+nobody present at all. It is sometimes, nevertheless, very hard for
+country clubs to come to Glasgow and play for the city charities, and
+get howled at by this class of spectators at certain stages of the game.
+The great bulk of those around, however, are indignant at such conduct,
+and regret it all the more on account of being utterly unable to prevent
+it. There is another spectator, too, who not unfrequently forgets
+himself, and he is to be found on what might be termed the "touch-line"
+of society. He is the fast young man, who considers you a perfect
+nonentity if you don't bet. I don't mean betting on football pure and
+simple, for he only lays a few "bobs" on it, but on the latest
+quotations for the Derby, the St. Leger, the Waterloo Cup, or the
+University boat race. His "screw" is not very big at the best, but he
+can always lay "half a sov." on the event, whether his landlady's bill
+is paid or not, and touching that little account of Mr. Strides, the
+tailor, why, he'll pay it when he "makes a pile." He thinks too much of
+himself ever to get married, and the young ladies of his acquaintance
+may indulge in a sigh of relief at escaping from the toils of such a
+consummate fool. When he has something "on" a match, and sees that it is
+lost, he not unfrequently opens out, and is not over choice in his
+language. The game, however, goes on, and is greatly enjoyed by the
+general spectator, despite such drawbacks, and if you happen to go to
+the same locality on a similar occasion, you are all but sure to see old
+and familiar faces crowding round the stand and area.
+
+    [A] The late lamented Mr. A. B. Stewart, Convener of the County
+    of Bute, was an enthusiastic admirer of the game, and many will
+    miss his handsome firm and kindly remark when future matches are
+    played on the leading grounds in Scotland.
+
+The modern Association football player is a man of some ability. As a
+rule he is temperate in his habits, with a good appetite, and sound in
+limb. Long before he knew what football was, he was blessed with a large
+share of health. When a boy at school he used to be remarkable for
+punctuality, but occasionally got into trouble from neglected lessons,
+in consequence of a weakness for indulging in out-door sports. He loved
+the rude style of football, then played, dearly (he knew of nothing
+better), although goal-posts, touch-lines, corner-flags, and other
+modern appliances were totally unknown. As for "hacking," it was endured
+by all and sundry with the air of martyrs. Why, if you had not nerve
+enough to "give and take" in that line, your chance of getting near the
+"goal score" was remote indeed, and you were looked upon as a coward and
+the verriest noodle. He, of course, grows older, and by and by joins an
+average club, and gets on very well. The crack football players,
+however, have many maturities. They generally come slowly, but surely,
+and leave behind them powerful impressions. They are like the occasional
+planets, not the stars which are seen every evening if you care to look
+towards the "milky way." They are mostly fine-looking fellows, with
+pleasant countenances and grandly-moulded limbs. They have just passed a
+severe course of probation in the football field, without even an
+outward trace of anxiety. The vagaries of the game admit of no
+distinction of class. The crack player is, in fine, found among all
+classes--in the gentleman's son, in the clerk at the desk, and the lad
+in the workshop. There may be different ways of working out the latent
+ability, but sooner or later it begins to show itself. Some thought it
+was scarcely fair in the Duke of Wellington to say that "Waterloo was
+won at Eton." There is not the least possibility of doubt such a remark
+might be misunderstood, and many feel inclined to charge the "Iron Duke"
+with ignoring the services rendered by the non-commissioned officers and
+men of the British army, for everybody knows that none but the sons of
+the opulent class can ever gain admittance to Eton. It looked, in fact,
+very like the credit being given to the officers for winning that great
+battle. Wellington, however, had his eye on the football and cricket
+grounds when he spoke these words, and no doubt intended to convey the
+idea that these games went a long way in bracing up the nerve which
+served so well on the battle-field. Close adhesion to the practice of
+any game really and sincerely creates fresh possibilities of that
+perfection and discipline. And why should this not be so in football,
+particularly as it is a game regulated by sharply-defined maxims?
+Everyone can't be the captain of an eleven; and as for Wellington's
+remarks, the most humble member of the team may show the greatest
+ability. You may belong to the most "swellish" of clubs, and have a fair
+reputation, but you are not chosen to play in the International. Your
+father may be the "Great Mogul" himself, but that has no effect. The
+coveted place can only be attained by merit, and this is one of the most
+successful and meritorious traits in Scotch Association Football. You
+don't, as a rule, even get a place now by reputation, and so much the
+better. When clubs were few and good players fewer, you were not
+unfrequently favoured with one, whether you deserved it or not, but now
+the matter is different, and justly so, since we cannot go into a single
+town or village in Scotland without seeing the practice ground and
+goal-posts of the now omnipresent football club.
+
+
+
+
+_IX.--A DREAM OF THE PAST._
+
+
+I am getting old and stiff now, at least in a football sense, but have
+seen and played in, perhaps, more big matches in my time than many will
+be inclined to give me credit for now. Somehow or other the modern
+player does not seem to go into the game for the pleasure it affords
+nearly so heartily as his representative of yore, but it may be that the
+Compulsory Clause in the Education Act has made him more refined, or, if
+you like it, a good deal more cunning in hiding his animal spirits and
+exuberance of innocent fun. Be that as it may, the Association Football
+of to-day does not really possess the same charm to me as it did ten
+years ago.
+
+I was once a very fair player, but never considered sufficiently
+brilliant to get my name handed down to posterity as the crack half-back
+of the "Invincible Club" of bygone days, or proclaimed aloud in the
+secret recesses of the great "houf" where football players now retire to
+spend a social hour after finding themselves the victors of a
+hard-fought field. I must admit, however, that I did some clever things
+which the newspapers of that era ought to have at least given me a
+"puff" for, but they didn't; in fact, I never, like Byron (Lord Byron, I
+mean), awoke one morning to find myself famous, because my football was
+that of days long ago, in an obscure (to football, at least) country
+town; and, besides, the game then was conducted in rather a rude and
+undignified fashion. Talk about rules, we had those which might, for all
+I know, have been framed by the "Chief Souter of Selkirk" himself to
+suit the peculiar mode of playing on the streets at Shrovetide (a
+practice still in vogue near that Border land). Our captain knew nothing
+of such new-fangled devices as the Rugby code, and far less of the
+Football Association. Ours, in brief, was a sort of combination of both
+styles of play. To win a "hail," as it was termed, the opposing side,
+with shoving, hacking, and other descriptions of horse-play, had only to
+pass the ball over the line, and it was won. Touch-lines, corner-flags,
+twenty-five flags, and even upright posts, and the usual concomitants of
+the scientific game of to-day, were unknown. This leads me, then, to the
+point of tracing the rise and progress of the game in Scotland during
+the past dozen years, leaving its antiquity and origin, about which
+there are mere surmises, an "open question." That it was played,
+however, in Edinburgh and Glasgow at least twenty years ago, under rules
+somewhat similar to those now adhered to by the followers of the Rugby
+Union I can well remember, and this was the only kind of football known
+by the young athletes of that time. Over a dozen years ago many were the
+exciting contests engaged in by not a few of the clubs still in
+existence.
+
+The oval ball, with its historical associations, has a charm for them.
+They then talked about the Association style of play with something akin
+to contempt. "What," they might have been heard to say, "is the fun of
+looking at people 'bobbing' a ball about with their heads, and the half
+of a team doing nothing, while a couple or so of the players are engaged
+at a time? Give us the closely-packed maul, the exciting individual run,
+with the ball under the arm, the gallant struggle to ground it over the
+opposing line, and, above all, the beautifully dropped goal." "But
+nobody goes to see your matches now," remarks a newly-fledged convert to
+the Association style of play, who has come to see the "Inter-City,"
+"they got disgusted with your never-ending mauls and shoving matches,
+preferring to witness scientific manipulation of the ball in dribbling,
+and passing with the feet." "Pshaw! do you imagine we care a straw for
+gate-money? We play the game for the love of it, and the genuine
+exercise it affords," retorts the old Rugby adherent, "and respect it
+all the more on that account." "Oh! it is all very well to tell one
+that, but don't your leading clubs still charge for admission to their
+matches?" "Yes; but this is more in the way of keeping out the roughs
+from the field than for gain." Such conversation I have overheard
+myself, and none of the sides made much by it.
+
+Well can I remember the birth of Association Football in Scotland, and
+look back to the time when there was not as many clubs as I could count
+on the fingers of one hand. In 1870, a semi-International contest, under
+Association rules, was played in London between Scotch men living in
+England and an English Eleven, and continued till 1872, when, on
+November 30th, the first real International match between England and
+Scotland took place in Glasgow. In that same year, early in the season,
+the celebrated Queen's Park Club (to whom Scotland owes the introduction
+of the game), entered the lists for the English Challenge Cup, and were
+drawn against the London Wanderers. It was at that point that the
+matches which had hitherto been played in London between London
+Scotchmen and Englishmen were given up in favour of an annual match
+between Scotland and England, to be played alternately in London and
+Glasgow, and, if possible, so to arrange the contest that the
+Association match might be played in England the same season that the
+Rugby match would be played in Scotland, and _vice versa_. It might be
+as well here to say that the celebrated Scotch club and the Wanderers,
+then in the zenith of their fame, played a drawn game with no goals on
+either side, but finding it too difficult a job to meet the Englishmen
+again, they scratched. Since then, however, the Rugby and Association
+Internationals take place regularly as each season comes round, in
+Scotland and England alternately. It is a curious fact, and one worthy
+of record, that the Scottish Rugby Football Union and the Scottish
+Football Association were both constituted in the same year--viz., 1873.
+The Union was formed after the International Rugby match at Glasgow, Dr.
+J. Chiene, of Edinburgh, being in the chair on the occasion. The
+Scottish Football Association was formed under the presidency of Mr.
+Robert Gardner, the once famous goalkeeper.
+
+The annual competition for the Association Cup, when the clubs who
+entered for it the first year only numbered 16, were proceeded with in a
+much more gentlemanly way than is the case now, but the reason is
+obvious. Hitherto young and inexperienced clubs never dreamt of entering
+against opponents with whom they knew they had no chance, and,
+consequently, the competitions were left to be fought out among the
+cream of exponents of the dribbling game. As each year came round,
+however, and young clubs began to multiply exceedingly, many of them
+considered they should have a shy at the "Cup," and as the entry-money
+for membership to the Association was only a nominal sum, they competed,
+and were never heard of after the first tie. No one who has watched the
+progress of Association Football in Scotland can for a moment deny the
+fact that the Challenge Cup has been the chief factor in assuring its
+popularity and rapid development all over the Western District of
+Scotland, and when its original promoters inaugurated the competition,
+it was done with the honest conviction of spreading a knowledge of the
+Association rules, together with generating a spirit of friendly rivalry
+amongst clubs.
+
+That it has been eminently successful in the former respect is admitted,
+but I can't say the same thing so far as "friendly rivalry" is
+concerned, and one has only to remember the manner in which some of the
+ties are conducted to point out that the term "questionable conduct"
+would be more appropriate. When I hear of men and lads deliberately
+kicking one another, and charging wildly when the ball is about ten
+yards away in front, I begin to consider that the time has positively
+arrived when the Scottish Football Association, if it wishes to retain
+its hold, should interfere, and make a selection of clubs to compete for
+the "blue ribbon" of Association glory. Quadruple the subscriptions to
+the Association if necessary, and, above all, revise the bye-laws in
+such a way that what is known as a "rough game" would be impossible. It
+is but fair, however, to the Scottish Football Association to state that
+they have long been alive to the fact, and have since taken the matter
+up while deciding protests.
+
+The Association Rules, however, are immensely popular with the people,
+and in some of the big matches it is quite a common thing to see 10,000
+or 15,000 spectators. I have heard of such people as those who actually
+hate cricket and football, and make it a constant aim to prevent those
+over whom they have some influence from engaging in the manly sport.
+They occasionally flit across one's path like an evil spirit, and
+disappear as rapidly, but leave behind a chilling effect on the
+imagination, far more intense than the terrible nightmare after a
+disastrous defeat. They cannot see the fun of spending valuable time in
+such a way. If you follow one of those gentle "cads," however, at the
+close of an evening, he may be seen, cue in hand, earnestly engaged at
+the billiard table. He is not in a happy mood, for he is one of the
+losing side, and there is a wild look about his eyes. He sometimes gets
+home rather early in the morning, and is not particularly careful of his
+choice of companions at times. They are childish amusements, these games
+at cricket and football, "and none but silly people," he continues,
+"would ever think of engaging in, or even encouraging, them any way."
+
+And another thing. There is a sort of prejudice to football, and, in
+fact, to a lot of healthful out-door exercises, in Scotland, among the
+older people, who can scarcely endure the thought of spending time under
+any circumstances; and parents are often the cause of degenerating a
+kind of deception more common than one would believe--viz., playing
+under assumed names. Surely it is much better for the young men to spend
+a spare afternoon on the football field, enjoying the fresh air, than
+being, perhaps, engaged in questionable "time-smashing," in the way of
+playing cards, draughts, or drinking. On asking a well-known dribbler
+the other day how it came about that he played under a _nomme de
+guerre_, "Was he afraid to let his real name be known?" The answer was
+conclusive. The governor was sometimes inexorable, and treated him to a
+lecture on filial obedience and the inevitable consequences of
+neglecting business. He positively debarred him from playing again, but
+Tom was not to be done. Taking advantage of the old fellow's absence
+from home, he yielded to the solicitations of his captain, and played
+under an assumed name, dribbling and passing in such beautiful form that
+thousands of spectators applauded his efforts, and his side won in a
+canter. As the non-indulgent parent did not observe Tom's name in the
+papers, his little deception was never found out, and he continued doing
+duty for his club in this way for a couple of seasons. And of the yet
+fine player who thinks he will retire as each season comes round,
+something must also be said. His eye has not yet lost the gleam of
+honest rivalry, and he snorts like the war-horse as each season comes
+round to be in the thick of the fight. He retired, it may be, last
+season, for good, as he thought, but the fascinations of the goal-posts
+and flying corner-flags was too much for him as a spectator at the first
+big game, and he yielded for another year, but it will be his last, for
+Maud, his beloved and beautiful Maud, will claim him as her own before
+June. "We have been long engaged," he is heard to say to an old club
+companion, "but this blessed football, of which I am very fond, has been
+the cause of putting off the marriage."
+
+I once knew a fine young fellow, a crack half-back, who was so anxious
+to play in an "International," that he positively swore he would never
+get married till he was one of the chosen team. He kept his word. He
+played twice for his country, got married, and, as the "unexpected does
+not always happen," is now the father of what may some day prove a race
+of stalwart football players. His handsome, though now slightly-bent
+form, is still often seen when a great event is being decided,
+accompanied by his wife and children, and woe betide the captain of his
+former club if he allows it to be beaten. "Well played; keep him off the
+ball, can't you!" he is heard to exclaim, till he is red in the face,
+and he goes home to dinner with something like an appetite.
+
+None but those who have positively come through all the grades of
+football probation really know what amount of labour, to say nothing of
+self-denial, is needed to make a crack back, half-back, or skilful
+forward. Sometimes one has to be contented with a place in the Second
+Eleven for years, before some incident, it may be, brings him to the
+front, and reveals true merit. In football, of course, as in other
+things, I have found that the best men were not always in their best
+places, and when this was the case, what is known as favouritism came in
+bold relief, but in the end the club in which such stupidity was rampant
+suffered very severely. It did all very well when the club were engaged
+in ordinary contests with weaker opponents, but it came out in some of
+the big events, in which the guilty club predominated in the selection
+of men to represent a city, a university, and even a country.
+Fortunately, however, I can honestly say that during the last few years
+there has been little of this practised, and Scotch football under both
+rules is all the better in consequence.
+
+While every enlightened mind is willing to go a long way in advocating
+equality, the line must be drawn somewhere, and I am inclined to think
+at that stage where gentlemanly feeling and courtesy are absent. A very
+obscure individual may, by his conduct on the field, show that he at
+least can be a gentleman. In all such manly sports social distinction
+ought to be sunk, and that great and noble equality--that equality and
+love of honest worth which is so dear to the Scotch (and let me also say
+English heart) be ever remembered, when team meets team on the football
+field. We are shown noble examples of how in days gone by, peer mingled
+with peasant on the cricket field, strove with each other on the curling
+pond, and why should not such things exist in football? Let me hope that
+as each succeeding season comes round the noble winter game will in
+proportion show greater improvement, both in club and individual
+integrity, as well as higher scale of moral worth.
+
+
+
+
+
+_X.--THE DUEL NEAR THE FOOTBALL FIELD, AND THE CAUSE OF IT._
+
+
+"And you tell me, Frank, that the old ground is at last cut up to form a
+railway embankment?" said Bob Smith to Frank Green (whose sister, by the
+way, had got married to Pate Brown last season), as they met one evening
+at Crosshill.
+
+"They will be long in finding a ground like Hampden Park, I'm thinking,"
+replied Green, with the recollections of pleasant games and glorious
+victories for the Black-and-Whites, to say nothing of numerous gains to
+Scotland in matches with England and Wales.
+
+Since this meeting of Bob and Frank, however, the said Black-and-Whites
+have got pretty far forward with a new ground quite close to Hampden
+Park, and it is now being levelled up and put into condition. The
+railway embankment referred to is part of the Cathcart Railway, which
+will assist very considerably in opening up rapid communication between
+Glasgow and the whole of the suburban burghs lying south.
+
+While referring to the Southern Suburbs, which, it may be mentioned, are
+closely associated with the rise and progress of Association Football,
+I cannot refrain from alluding to several genial souls who have helped
+to make them what they are. None, however, is entitled to claim more
+consideration and credit than Provost Goodfellow, of Suburbopolis, whose
+official life, so to speak, has been spent in the cause of suburban
+organisation, accompanied, of course, with a due regard for Association
+Football.
+
+You must know, my brave Scotch readers, and those hailing from South of
+the Tweed, that the Provost of a Scotch burgh or town occupies the exact
+position of the English Mayor. He is the head of the municipality, and
+is, in fact, a kind of ruler of all he surveys, but about his "right to
+dispute," particularly when the November election comes on, why that is
+purely a matter of opinion.
+
+Well, the ruler of Suburbopolis was not a despotic man. He was certainly
+a little pedantic, and who, I should like to know, would not be inclined
+to lean that way if they had taken part in a great annexation fight with
+the chiefs of the big bouncing city of Glasgow, and beaten them too?
+
+Some years ago, it may be briefly explained, the Glasgow authorities
+devised a scheme, whereby all the suburban burghs were to be taken under
+the wing of Glasgow and lose their entire independence, and
+Suburbopolis, being close on the touch-line, was to be attacked first.
+Glasgow, in fact, was to act as the veritable annaconda, and swallow it
+up, but she didn't.
+
+Scotch Radicals, talking politically, had not hitherto much faith in
+what they considered an effete hereditary legislature, such as the House
+of Lords, but if there was one thing more than another calculated to
+bring about a Conservative reaction among the Glasgow suburban
+authorities, it was the attention paid to their vested interests by the
+Peers.
+
+The Commons had spurned their entreaties to maintain independence with
+scorn, and even relegated them to Bumbledom, but their lordships, to
+whom the case was appealed, literally strangled the said annaconda
+before she began to devour, and Suburbopolis, along with other five
+thriving burghs, were saved from municipal death, and still retain their
+Provosts. Provost Goodfellow was a most genial soul, and particularly
+fond of Association Football.
+
+He could talk about dribbling, passing, and backing-up, as if to the
+manner born. The only thing, in fact, which he did not fully understand
+was the "off-side rule," and many of greater pretentions were as far at
+sea regarding that said rule as the worthy Provost. He was the life and
+soul of Charity Cup Ties, and never failed to turn out to patronise
+them. Even the charming young ladies of the family (for you must know
+his honour had three handsome daughters) knew a good deal about the
+rules, and had several excited discussions with their brother Archie
+(who was a member of the Camphill), and Bob Lambert (of the
+Black-and-Whites), as to the respective merits of sundry clubs.
+
+These young ladies, too, had a long string of admirers, and no family
+acquaintance was more eagerly sought after than that of the Goodfellows.
+Suburbopolis, however, was by no means devoid of a galaxy of feminine
+beauty and well-developed male forms, who might have been seen of an
+evening leaving the handsome villas and terraces around the Park (for
+which the inhabitants were not taxed).
+
+There were, of course, the families of Colonel Black (an old warrior,
+who had been through the Crimea and Indian Mutiny), the Redpath girls,
+whose mother was a widow, the Snodgrass young ladies (three in number),
+the Misses Bland, residing at Jessimine Lodge, and, of course, many more
+lesser luminaries. The Colonel's daughters, or "Golden Slippers," as
+one of them was called by several members of the Camphill, who had
+caught her in the act of watching a practice game on the eve of a big
+Cup Tie, wearing a pair of fur-lined slippers, and had her heart set on
+the Camphill beating the Black-and-Whites, was, indeed, the most
+handsome girl in the burgh.
+
+I would not dare to attempt a pen-and-ink sketch. It would fail in its
+effect. It's all very good for you fellows who have no soul for feminine
+loveliness to talk about girls, like babies, being all pretty much
+alike, but you are wrong--entirely wrong. Jenny was, in fine, a "bonnie,
+bonnie lass," and scores of young fellows, I know, would have gone
+considerably out of their way to have received "ae blink o' her bonnie
+black e'e." Emma, although scarcely so tall, was very like her sister,
+only shorter in the temper.
+
+After sundry matches at the field, Jack Black used to take a few of his
+companions up to the Hillhouse, and the young ladies received them
+graciously--congratulating them when they won their matches, and
+"chaffing" them unmercifully when they lost.
+
+There were at least three suitors for the hand of Jenny, but one of them
+resided in London, and the other at Skyview Villa, a couple of hundred
+yards from Hillhouse. It can be easily imagined that the local man had
+the advantage in the courtship, being, as the special correspondent
+always prides himself in adding to his communications, "on the spot."
+
+Bob Lambert was, to be sure, a welcome visitor at Jenny's residence, and
+a fast companion of her brother Jack, and what was more, Bob was quite a
+favourite with the old Colonel, who admired his fine appearance in the
+football field, and the brilliant manner in which he could "back-up"
+when that was needed to win a game. Bob, I must confess, was really a
+nice-looking fellow, with black curly hair, and a good broad chest. His
+features were well formed, and he possessed penetrating dark grey eyes.
+There was one thing, however, which told against Bob in many ways, and
+that was his hasty temper. He could brook no rival in his position as
+the best forward in the Black-and-Whites, and a word or two from the
+captain at a practice game was sure to upset him. He sometimes, in fact,
+took the pet altogether.
+
+Once, when playing a Cup Tie with the Athletic Park, he met his match in
+Charlie Walker (another of Jenny's sweethearts), who played at
+half-back, and the work done all through that eventful match was seen
+between the pair. Talk about coming in contact with "mother earth," why
+that was positively child's play when the two met.
+
+Walker was also a powerful fellow, and it was a case of Greek meeting
+Greek. "Bumping at Oxford," to use an aquatic term, why it was nothing!
+At one time Bob was seen tossed up in the air as if from the horns of an
+infuriated bull, and at another Charlie was observed lying on the field
+at Bob's feet. What did they care about the ball being fifty yards off?
+Not a straw, so long as they tackled and kept each other away from it.
+"That's not football," says one, "it is horse play." "Never mind about
+football in a Cup Tie," says another, "let the heaviest team win; go
+into the fellow." "Oh! gentlemen, gentlemen, fie, fie, Association
+Football is an amateur game, and as long as I play it," said the
+captain, "there shall be no cruelty done on either side."
+
+Little did the spectators know the real cause of the inordinate tackling
+done by Bob and Charlie, but the secret soon came out. The pair had
+previously been rivals for the hand of Jenny Black, and Bob was looked
+upon as the winner. At least Charlie had not been seen at the Black's
+Villa for two or three months, and before this he always made it his
+house of call. But what about Harry Carts, Jenny's English sweetheart?
+Why, I had almost forgotten him.
+
+A team of Cantabs had played the Black-and-Whites just a year
+previously, and Harry was one of them. He had been invited to spend an
+evening at the Colonel's house, and had fallen desperately in love with
+the bonnie Scotch lassie. Bob was also specially invited and was present
+that evening, and although trying to be as affable as possible to the
+friendly stranger and opponent, could barely hide his jealousy when the
+gallant English forward kissed the lovely girl's ruby lips in a game at
+forfeits.
+
+Bob said nothing about it to Jenny, but Emma, the youngest sister,
+whispered to her brother Jack that Bob's eyes had a wild look that
+evening. The matter, however, was soon forgotten, as Harry Carts left
+Glasgow the next evening for London, after his gallant team had played a
+drawn game with the Scotch Black-and-Whites--the first one ending in
+that way, be it observed, that had ever been played between them and an
+English team on Scottish ground in the memory of the proverbial "oldest
+inhabitant."
+
+Harry Carts, to give him his due, was one of the best Association
+football players ever England produced. When Mr. C. W. Alcock and a few
+choice spirits in London, it is true, first opened the eyes of many
+football players to the value of the Association rules, and inaugurated
+the Football Association in 1863, Harry was a mere child. Appearing at
+college, however, he soon showed a liking for the dribbling game, and
+never lost a moment in doing his best to acquire everything he was
+likely to know about it.
+
+Just the season before our story opens, he had been chosen from an
+imposing array of names sent in by his club, and also the branch
+Associations, for an honourable place in the "Great International." His
+superiority, in fact, put his place beyond doubt, and he stood to
+represent his country first, and club afterwards, in a tussle which
+proved disastrous to England; but it was admitted by all who witnessed
+the match that Harry was one of the best men on the Field, and, in
+company with his half-back, showed the best form and pluck--the
+victorious Scotchmen notwithstanding. How the pair above mentioned
+tackled and passed up, to say nothing of backing and nursing the ball, I
+know full well, for I saw the game. Harry and his companion, in fact,
+were again and again cheered for their magnificent dribbling, and when
+the eventful game was over Harry was carried shoulder-high, in real
+Scotch form, to the Black-and-White's pavilion.
+
+The incident did not escape Jenny and her sister, who were standing on
+the gravelled walk in front of the pavilion. Jenny was sympathetic when
+she saw the handsome young Englishman cheered by the excited crowd, and
+when the excitement culminated into carrying him shoulder-high to the
+pavilion, a brilliant flash from her eye told the tale of regard. The
+young lady, despite assertions to the contrary, must have at least
+admired the young Englishman; and among the blithe and gentle faces who
+swept their cambric handkerchiefs over their heads, none were more
+demonstrative than the Black girls. They saw, with something akin to
+pride, Harry let gently down at the pavilion door, followed by their
+brother Jack, Jim Wallace, and Bill M'Clelland, all of whom had done
+great work in the big match.
+
+Harry did not lose sight of the handsome face which had haunted him all
+the previous summer, notwithstanding his flirtation with the Italian
+girls in Venice. Venice, beautiful Venice! It was in thy classic city,
+close to the scene of the great Italian poet's labours and triumphs,
+that poor Jack Vincent (who used to play left wing in the Swifts) was
+found drowned, after attending a ball. Poor Jack, I think even now I can
+see his handsome, but withal, comical face, when he used to dodge sundry
+half-backs while playing for his club. Poor fellow! grave hints were
+held out at the time that he had met with foul play, but nothing more
+was ever heard about the matter, and Jack's friends never got any
+satisfaction.
+
+I am, however, going off the line with my brief story. Carts, in fact,
+felt Jenny's face haunting him wherever he went, and on the earliest
+opportunity came back to Scotland, asked the dear little girl to be his
+wife, got the crusty old Colonel's consent, and the pair were all but
+apparently engaged to be married at an early date. Harry was splendid
+company either on the field, at the Black-and-White's room in
+Battlefield Hotel, or at the villa. He could sing a good song, tell a
+good story, and crack a wild joke. Harry used to sing a new song about
+football, the chorus of which jingled out:
+
+    "In measured blow, the dancing feet,
+    Now moving slow, now galloping fleet;
+    With a leap and a curl,
+    With a sweep and a twirl."
+
+He declared that the song was original, but Archie, who was a bit of a
+book-worm, and never neglected taking in the "Monthlies," expressed
+grave misgivings about having seen something like it applied to a skater
+in "Scribner's Magazine."
+
+Bob Lambert and Charlie Walker, the other two young fellows who were
+looked upon as Jenny's admirers, were terribly shaken in heart and
+spirit when they heard of her flirtation with the handsome young
+Englishman; but such a thing as an engagement between them was never for
+a moment entertained. Bob was too much a man of the world to suppose
+that Jenny would ever give him up for another; and poor, soft-headed
+Charlie, why, he was sure the Colonel's favourite daughter loved him
+still.
+
+Matters went on in this way for some time. The football season was now
+about closed, as the month of May was at hand, and all the big matches
+had been lost and won, including the Challenge Cup Tie, which Dumbarton
+had carried off. For several evenings Bob and Charlie had not come
+across one another (although Charlie was also a member of the
+Black-and-Whites, as well as the Athletic Park). Bob had blamed Charlie
+for telling some stories about a fine young girl whom the former had
+promised to make his wife a year previously. The poor girl, it was
+hinted, had been jilted to such an extent by Bob, that she had broken
+her heart, and pined away and died.
+
+One evening the pair met at the entrance to the pavilion on Hampden
+Park, where a lot of the players were lounging about smoking, after
+having done with their sides. Most of the club fellows knew that Lambert
+and Walker had not spoken to each other for a long time, even to the
+extent of exchanging the usual salutations about the weather. They were,
+therefore, much astonished to see them in earnest conversation. Menacing
+looks were exchanged, and something like curses--not deep, perhaps, but
+loud--were heard from the rivals' lips.
+
+The fact was, the men had arranged to settle their "little difference"
+with swords. What do you think of that, my nineteenth century
+intelligent reader, with all your boasted approach to civilisation and
+sacred respect for life? Why, a cold-blooded duel with swords, and in
+the French fashion, too! Both hot-headed youths knew comparatively
+little about the handling of the chosen weapons, nothing more, indeed,
+than what they received while training in the Volunteers; but it was a
+"point of honour," and they would do their best.
+
+Several of the Black-and-Whites, who had heard about the proposed
+"meeting," had a secret consultation with Ned M'Gill and Davie Merricks,
+who, it was whispered, had taken the friendly job of "seconds," and the
+whole affair was "adjusted." With swords this was impossible, and they
+resolved to resort to the respectable and honourable weapon, the
+revolver.
+
+The two men who were to face each other in terrible earnest, you may be
+sure, slept little or none during the preceding night. "Four o'clock
+sharp, mind, at the grass field, near Hagg's Castle," said the brave
+seconds, "and it will be all over in a few minutes." Charlie shuddered
+when he heard the last words (which, by the way, were deliberately
+intended for him).
+
+"_A few minutes, and all will be over_," Charlie muttered; "what if I
+should be killed?" His very teeth (which he used to whiten with cigar
+ashes, and was so proud about), were chattering. Thousands of ideas
+floated across his heated imagination. He saw his past life before him,
+and the only consolation, if it could be called one, lay in the thought
+that, should it come to the worst, Jenny Black's eyes would be dimmed
+with tears at his misfortune. He felt sure the dear lassie loved him,
+and he would brave death a thousand times rather than endure the anguish
+of seeing her married to a useless fellow like Bob Lambert.
+
+Bob, on the other hand, was really a cool and determined fellow; and
+while Charlie was in the throes speculating about probable dissolution
+before the morrow's sun should rise, Bob was actually priding himself on
+superior ability in handling a revolver. He was, in fact, far too
+arrogant a man to imagine that _he_ could be shot by a silly boy like
+Walker. He had made up his mind to shoot straight when the signal fell,
+and indulged in the devilish pleasure it would afford him to read a
+"true and particular account" of the duel in the Glasgow evening papers,
+if good luck would favour him in escaping to the Continent.
+
+"These fellows are not going to come up to the scratch," said Ned M'Gill
+to the other honourable gent--as they passed the Clydesdale Cricket
+Ground a few minutes to four o'clock on that memorable morning. Ned,
+however, was wrong. Through the grey dawn a muffled figure was observed
+crossing the Pollokshields Athletic Club's Park, and making direct for
+the old castle. Almost simultaneously came a second individual from the
+vicinity of Crossmyloof, smoking a cigar. There was no doubt about it,
+for on closer inspection the figure was that of Lambert, who generally
+indulged in a good cigar, as he had a friend in the Anchor Line who was
+always supplying him with "weeds."
+
+A very short time sufficed to measure the distance, but the would-be
+_murderers_, no doubt, considered it an age. When the seconds advanced
+along with their men to the fatal spot, and placed them twenty paces
+apart, Charlie put one in mind of the poor misguided boy in "The
+Rivals." His hand shook, and his knees almost touched one another.
+
+_The signal was given_, and bang went the revolvers from both sides.
+None of the young men, however, seemed to have been hit; and while
+Charlie was almost sinking on the ground from excitement, Bob might have
+been seen examining his weapon with suspicion, at the same time casting
+a glance at his rival and wondering why he did not fall. A second or two
+more, and the latter fired another shot, and this time poor Charlie
+dropped his pistol and fell back on the grass.
+
+Bob was satisfied he had done the business now, and taking the advice of
+Davie Merricks, he fled for his life; getting the early train for
+Greenock and thence per steamer "Golden Eagle," to the Isle of Man.
+
+The "seconds" (and a few strange figures that were seen lurking about)
+of course, lifted the supposed dying man from the grass, and as his
+"life's blood ebbed away," they whispered about being willing to fill a
+last request. Poor Charlie's brow was covered with blood, and as he
+himself expressed the terrible sensation of "feeling a pistol ball
+bobbing about in his brain," arrangements were hastily made for having
+him consigned to relatives. Accordingly his lodgings were sought after
+and easily found by the excited hansom driver who had taken them near
+the fatal spot.
+
+All the time the affair was going on the driver threw out grave hints
+about reporting the whole matter to the police. When they reached
+Greenfield Avenue, however, there was still some life in Charlie, but he
+said he "knew he was dying," and forgave everybody who had taken part in
+the rascally business.
+
+Higgins, the hansom driver, was as good as his word, and after leaving
+the place, went direct to the Suburbopolis Police Office, and got the
+whole matter reported. Not very long after the police surrounded the
+house in Greenfield Avenue, and Provost Goodfellow (who, it may be
+remarked, was the only magistrate at home when the affair took place,
+and had to be aroused for the purpose), came in all haste to take the
+"dying deposition." Meanwhile Dr. Barrister, one of the best of the
+local surgeons, was in attendance.
+
+The doctor, however, suspecting something soon after feeling the
+supposed wounded man's pulse, and judge of the surprise, to say nothing
+of indignation, when the doctor, and then the Provost, began to indulge
+in a hearty fit of unrestrained laughter. The "seconds" knew their
+business well, for they had _loaded the weapons with blank cartridges
+and a few drops of bullock's blood_, and some of the contents of Bob's
+pistol had hit Charlie on the brow.
+
+Poor Charlie, he was so terribly shaken and nervous after being hit that
+he was long in getting the better of the fright. Like the French
+prisoner whom the cruel authorities of the "Inquisition" determined
+should be experimented upon as a victim of imagination in the way of
+supposed bleeding to death, Charlie, although he had not received a
+scratch, thought he was dying fast, till the doctor informed him of the
+imaginary wound.
+
+A few days afterwards the affair was "hushed up," and nobody was better
+pleased when he heard the true state of matters than Bob Lambert
+himself. His friend Jim Campbell had sent a letter to Douglas Post
+Office, to be called for, under a fictitious name, and Bob soon returned
+to Glasgow.
+
+When little Jenny Black was told the same morning of the duel, that
+Charlie Walker had been shot by Bob Lambert, she fainted clean away, and
+afterwards refused to be comforted. "To think that she, a poor weak
+girl, should have been the cause of such a terrible tragedy," she was
+heard to say to her sister, "I'm afraid I'll never get over it." When
+the true state of matters, however, was revealed, and the whole affair
+brought up in its real light, it afforded immense merriment all over
+Suburbopolis, and when football players met to spend a social hour, the
+duel between Bob Lambert and Charlie Walker is, of course, alluded to as
+a standard joke.
+
+A few months afterwards there was a nice wedding at Colonel Black's
+villa, and strange as it may seem, both Lambert and Walker were there,
+together with quite a crowd of football players and their sweethearts.
+
+The reader will, of course, easily make out who wore the bridal dress,
+and looked lovely in it, too. Surprise, however, not, it is to be hoped,
+altogether unmixed with satisfaction, will be expressed, when the
+bride-groom appears in the person of Charlie Walker, Jenny's own love.
+Harry Carts, the handsome Englishman, she certainly admired, but did not
+actually love sufficiently to make a husband of. He, in fact, seemed to
+have been too fond of company, and in correspondence a coldness had
+sprung up between them, and ended in two parting letters.
+
+Jenny loved Charlie Walker best, and accordingly gave him her heart and
+hand. "What he had suffered for her sake," the young lady was heard to
+express to a confidant, "no one but himself knew." They are, however,
+now a happy pair, and when Cup Ties and big matches are being played
+near Suburbopolis, you will be sure to see Charlie and his handsome wife
+on the field.
+
+As for Bob Lambert, who was forgiven, he became more of a man in
+subduing his temper and general disposition, and one evening told his
+old rival that he would never forget till his dying day--"THE DUEL NEAR
+THE FOOTBALL FIELD."
+
+
+
+
+_XI.--THE FINAL TIE FOR THE ASSOCIATION CHALLENGE CUP--1889-90._
+
+_TWO MEMORABLE MATCHES._
+
+
+A couple of matches had to played before the final tie for the
+Association Challenge Cup was decided, and at the earnest request of
+numerous friends I have reproduced my articles on both games, which
+appeared in the Daily Mail, and trust they will be considered worthy a
+place in the volume. The following is the
+
+
+~First Match.~
+
+This important contest, which had to be postponed the previous Saturday
+in consequence of the dense fog which enveloped the city and suburbs in
+semi-darkness, came off at Ibrox Park, and resulted in a draw--each side
+scoring a goal. Early in the forenoon the weather in every particular
+looked like a counterpart of the previous Saturday, and it was not till
+well on in the day that the Association Committee finally decided to go
+on with the match. Even with this short notice, combined with the fact
+that heavy rain came on and continued till well on in the second half,
+the attendance of spectators was large, about 11,000, and this is borne
+out by the cash lifted at the gate, some £500. Of this the Association
+gets a third, and the other two-thirds are equally divided between the
+contending teams. The proceeds of the stand, however, went to the
+Rangers' funds, as that club gave their ground free of charge to the
+Association to play off the tie. Paisley Road and Govan Road presented a
+scene to be remembered from two o'clock till well on for 3.30 P.M.,
+being thronged with vehicles of every kind, from the carriage and pair,
+the hansom and cab, down to the modest van. Pedestrians, too, were
+numerous, and on the Govan Road the Vale of Clyde Tramway Company, with
+extra cars, reaped a good harvest. On the way down, and in the field
+itself, the usual good-natured banter was largely indulged in, and as
+football enthusiasts, like the rest of impatient spectators, are only
+human, they were in better temper at the start of the contest than was
+the case at the finish. The meeting of the Queen's Park and Vale of
+Leven, in fact, revived old times among the once brilliant players of
+both clubs, many of whom were present on Saturday to "fight their
+battles o'er again." "Dae ye ken," said an old man as the game
+proceeded, "I wis present at old Hampden Park on the wet Hogmanay
+afternoon long ago, when the Vale licked the Queen's by two to one in a
+Cup tie, and I wish'd ye'd a' seen the Queen's Park committee men and
+their supporters that day when the bare fac' wis kent. I'm thinkin' they
+didna craw sae crouse, and maybe they'll get a fricht the noo." When the
+Vale scored their goal a wag, primed with a fair-sized pocket pistol, no
+doubt containing the best--well, every public-house salesman will tell
+you at anyrate, it is the "best," and charge for it, too, as
+"special"--began to lilt a verse of the popular pantomime song, "Their
+funeral's to-morrow," hinting heavily about the decline and fall of the
+Queen's Park. Many saw the point, and laughed; while others gave the
+jolly fellow a look that betokened contempt and dismay. "Wait till the
+second half," said a quiet supporter of the senior club, "and ye'll see
+what they can dae; they're only making some fun." In pressing forward,
+leaning against the pailings, were not a few critical rivet boys and
+iron-workers, whose running comments were amusing in the extreme. Of
+some young fellows who came down from the city dressed up in style, one
+of the "black squad" was heard to say, "Don't they look blooming
+'swells,' with their gloves and G.O.M. collars, and you wid think that
+the whole landed property about is theirs, even to Ibrox Park itself.
+Crush up, Bob. We've paid our money as well as the lot, and must get
+share of the view. Crush up." "Man, jock, they've got a new ile for
+training and rubbin' up the fitballers noo. It's whit they ca'
+herbuline, and it keeps out the cauld and warms ye unca' much; but the
+smell's sae strong that it nearly blin's ye." No doubt some kind of
+specific was required on such a trying day as Saturday, for it was
+indeed a clear case of illustrating the old adage, when exclusively
+applied to man, about the survival of the fittest. There is this about
+Ibrox Park, however, which certainly recommends it to the impartial
+spectator--fine even turf, without a flaw, and no advantage even to the
+home club itself when playing matches. It is well sheltered, and the
+arrangements for the big crowd were ample, and well carried out by the
+Rangers' committee and the Scottish Football Association, for whom Mr
+John M'Dowall, the secretary, acted with much credit. The Govan
+policemen (at least most of them) love a good game at football as dearly
+as the old Highland landlady lo'ed a lord, and what is more, their
+respected chief shows them a good example, as he is generally to be
+found at Ibrox Park, in company with other burgh officials, when there
+is a good thing on. The early editions of the evening papers were
+largely in request, not by any means for the purpose of reading, as all
+attention was directed to the game, and in the anxiety to see the
+players before the contest began, but for the sole purpose of being "sat
+on." The supply was soon exhausted, and one speculative newsboy, taking
+in the situation at a glance, disappeared for a short time, but came up
+smiling towards the grand stand ten minutes afterwards with a bundle of
+brown paper wrappers, which he disposed of like penny pies at twopence
+per sheet. The judges of the game had very difficult duties to perform,
+and to their credit be it said they did the work without fear or favour,
+and we are quite certain gave general satisfaction to the players. The
+spectators, however, treated the unfavourable conditions of the
+atmosphere with indifference, and even contempt, and long before the
+time announced for the kick-off they crowded around the pailing and
+surroundings to get a good view of the game. In consequence of the wet
+weather very few ladies were present compared with what has turned out
+at previous finals. The Vale of Leven emerged from the pavilion first,
+and were well received. A few minutes afterwards came the Queen's Park,
+who were also loudly cheered with cries of "Good old Q.P." The toss
+between the two captains was watched with much earnestness, and when the
+Leven team ranged themselves in front of the ball from the gate end, it
+became apparent that they had won. The Queen's Park, by Hamilton, kicked
+off against the wind, and a short run by Berry was successful in sending
+the ball so near the Vale of Leven goal that one of the strangers put it
+behind, and gave the Queen's Park a corner-flag kick. This was followed
+by a close scrimmage, in which the ball came near Whitelaw, who sent it
+down the field. A "foul," however, by Paton gave the Queen's Park a
+lift, and in a second scrimmage the ball was again put behind the lines.
+Another corner-flag kick was the consequence, and it took the Queen's
+Park well in on goal, where the tackling was very severe. The ball again
+bobbed about the posts, but the Vale men showed splendid back play on
+the slippery ground, and sent it clear. After this Bruce and M'Millan
+had a good run on the left for the Vale of Leven, and the former had a
+shy that went past the left post. The kick out by Gillespie was followed
+up by a steady run on the part of Allan, Berry, and Gulliland, and the
+former shied wide past the right post. After the kick out, the Queen's
+Park kept up the pressure, and it was some time before the ball emerged
+from Vale of Leven territory, which it did from the foot of Rankin. Some
+even play ensued, and then the Vale had a run by the right forwards,
+and, in kicking clear, Arnott slipped a bit, and the ball, getting the
+upper of his boot, rolled over the lines and gave the Vale of Leven a
+corner-flag kick. It was taken by M'Lachlan, but he cut the distance too
+fine, and the ball rolled harmlessly over the bar. In turn, Gillespie's
+kick-out was followed by a run on the part of Sellar and Hamilton, and a
+"hand" by one of the Vale of Leven backs gave Smellie a chance of doing
+something with a free kick. It was very hard work, however, for both,
+and the opinion began to gain ground that the team who could keep up
+their stamina longest would be the winners. The ground, in fact, was a
+bit treacherous, and in some cases when the ball landed, after a long
+kick, it bounded clean over the heads of the backs, and some mis-kicks
+now and again occurred. Seven minutes from half-time, the Vale men made
+a smart spurt, and, after some clever passing, the ball was taken
+possession of by M'Lachlan, who jumped in and headed it between the
+posts--just a few inches from the right side--amid cheers and counter
+cheers. The teams then faced up in the centre, and, from a good start,
+the Queen's Park got up to their opponents' lines, and Berry just missed
+the goal by a foot. After this the Vale of Leven had a good run down on
+the Queen's Park lines, and a fast shy by Osborne was caught up and
+punted out by Gillespie, and another immediately afterwards, from the
+foot of Bruce, was cleared by Smellie. The half-time signal, however,
+was given, leaving the Vale of Leven one goal ahead. The strangers had
+now the kick-off, and made considerable use of it, for the forwards
+backed up well, and a slip by one of the half-backs of the Queen's Park
+gave the Vale of Leven a corner-flag kick. The ball was fairly managed,
+but Bruce, who had it at his toe, was tackled by Smellie, and sent down
+the field. The Queen's Park had now a brilliant turn at the Leven goal,
+and several hard shies at the posts were cleverly returned by the backs.
+The Queen's men, however, kept pressing on, and had a corner-flag kick,
+which was taken by Sellar, and splendidly sent out by Wilson. The play
+after this was straggling a bit, and falls were frequent in Vale of
+Leven territory, but the Queen's men were very unlucky at goal, and
+could not get the ball through--Gulliland, with a hard shy, only missing
+by a shave. The ball eventually passed the Leven lines in a scrimmage
+not long afterwards, and as it was put over by one of the defenders,
+another corner-flag kick was the consequence. Time was now wearing on,
+and do all they could, with hemming in their opponents and making
+innumerable shies at goal, the Queen's Park could not score, and a
+corner-flag kick did not mend matters. After this the Vale team improved
+very much in their forward play, and M'Lachlan and Bruce again had a
+fine run up the field, and as Arnott, in tackling, let the ball go over
+the lines, the Leven team had a corner-flag kick. The shot from the
+pavilion end was very well taken by one of the half-backs (M'Nicol), and
+the Queen's Park goal had a narrow shave, as the ball was caught by
+Robertson in the nick of time and cleared. The Queen's Park were soon at
+it again, however, and not only drove their powerful opponents off, but
+completely invaded their stronghold. Crowding round Allan, Berry,
+Gulliland, Sellar, Hamilton, and even the Queen's half-backs had shies
+at the Leven goal, but Wilson saved brilliantly. When time was drawing
+to a close the excitement became very intense, and while the friends of
+the Vale of Leven were jubilant and hopeful about the issue, the
+partisans of the senior club, who came to see their favourites conquer,
+were proportionately sad and crest-fallen. "They cannot do it now," said
+a chorus of voices well up on the stand, "but see this, boys," remarked
+an old football follower, as Arnott rolled up the sleeves of his jersey
+with a determination which gave new life to the game; and as it has been
+said frequently before that the Queen's Park can rise to a great
+occasion, assuredly they did on Ibrox Park on Saturday. One minute or so
+more and all would be over. Pressing their opponents very hard with
+shots at goal, corner-flag kicks, scrimmages almost under the
+goalkeeper's feet, they were again and again repulsed by grand work on
+the part of Wilson, and as the ball emerged out of the pack after a free
+kick it was sent a bit down the field towards the Queen's Park
+half-backs. Here Bruce, the most prominent forward of the country club,
+got possession, and was about to beat Stewart, when Arnott and Smellie
+came to the rescue, and the ball was immediately sent back to the Vale
+goal, where, after a terrible scrimmage, from a "free kick," it was put
+between the posts by Smellie. The vision of a glorious victory for the
+Q.P. had by that time faded away like a dream, and a crowd of the senior
+club's followers had actually left Ibrox Park in disgust, when a
+tremendous cheer burst forth from the ground signalling a point for the
+Queen's Park, who had "turned" the doubtful day again. The scene which
+followed was truly exciting. The Q.P. followers gave vent to their
+strained feelings with an outburst of cheering which must have been
+heard in some of the neighbouring police burghs, including Partick on
+the other side of the river, while those of the Vale kept quiet in
+disappointment. The teams then began the struggle anew, and from the
+kick off the Vale of Leven men made a grand run up on the Queen's Park
+goal, and had a couple of corner-flag kicks in succession, but the
+Queen's Park backs sent the ball clear, and a few seconds afterwards the
+whistle sounded, leaving one of the most remarkable games ever played in
+the final tie for the Association Challenge Cup drawn, with one goal
+all. The following are the teams that played in both games:--Queen's
+Park--Goal, Gillespie; backs, Arnott and Smellie; half-backs, M'Ara,
+Stewart, and Robertson; forwards, Gulliland, Berry, J. Hamilton, Allan,
+and Sellar. Vale of Leven--Goal, Wilson; backs, Whitelaw and Murray;
+half-backs, Osborne, M'Nicol, and Sharp; forwards, M'Lachlan, Rankin,
+James Patton, Bruce, and M'Millan.
+
+
+~Second Match.~
+
+The destiny of the Challenge Cup has at length been decided for the
+season, and the Queen's Park are the conquerors after one of the finest
+games ever seen on Ibrox Park--the victory being the narrow one of two
+goals to one. The game, it may be remembered, was drawn on the previous
+Saturday, when each side had scored a goal, and, strange as it may seem,
+the Queen's Park only saved themselves then, as they have done now,
+towards the close of the contest, and converted what looked like a
+defeat into a victory. Between 12,000 and 13,000 spectators were
+present, and as the weather was fine the match was a most enjoyable one.
+The cash drawn at the gate amounted to fully £600, and, as on the
+previous meeting, will be equally apportioned among the two clubs and
+the Association. The city cabbies made a day of it, and pocketed a good
+round sum. They handled the ribbons with a dexterity which in some cases
+was really alarming, and threatened the lieges with accident. "Drive us
+to Ibrox Park, mind, in ten minutes, or we'll be late for the kick-off,"
+and the promise of an extra sixpence did the business, although Jehu's
+old friend and brother must be passed on the road. In some cases this
+was overdone, and a horseless machine with only one wheel might have
+been seen near Bellahouston Academy, awaiting "alterations and repairs,"
+and on the same road some "spills" also occurred. The remarks round the
+pavilion, stand, and approaches were, as usual, both instructive and
+amusing, and let the impartial spectator know how the land lay, and the
+kind of company he was for the moment keeping. All sorts and conditions
+of men and boys were there to see the match. A hasty glance, in fact,
+revealed the astonishing fact that nearly all classes in the country
+were represented--city magnates, iron-masters, shipbuilders, ministers
+of religion, doctors, schoolmasters, clerks, mechanics of all kinds, and
+a much larger contingent of ladies than we have seen on any previous
+occasion. From the cheers and counter cheers which greeted the
+goal-scoring by the senior club it was apparent that their followers
+were in the majority, but when the young Vale of Leven got the first
+point, the cheers which followed showed that they had also a large
+number of partisans, who honestly believed in the club's ability to win
+the cup. In the first round, indeed, the Vale players showed much better
+combination all over than the Q.P., and reminded many of the Vale of
+yore. The second half, however, revealed the senior club at their best,
+and from the manner in which they acted together and kept up their
+staying powers, they really deserved to win. As we have already said,
+the gossip among the spectators was both bright and original. A
+demonstrative supporter of the senior club was rather personal with his
+remarks, and was asked by a lover of the game, but not a partisan of
+either club, to keep quiet "and not let everybody know he was a born
+fool." "Oh! yes; it's all very fine, but the band at Alexandria 'ill no
+play at the station yet: the Vale canna' win noo," said he, as the
+Queen's team put the ball through a second time. A well dressed young
+fellow on the stand near the press table was very funny, and if ever a
+man enjoyed the game it was he. In the exuberance of his joy at the Q.P.
+scoring, he danced on the little spot allotted to him on the stand, and
+in doing so nearly overbalanced himself. "Ye'll be the better o' a half
+yin after that narrow escape," said one of his friends, handing him a
+bottle. After he had swallowed a fair amount of the liquor he stole a
+hasty glance at the bottle, and found to his disgust he had been
+drinking "The Vale of Leven blend." "It's a' richt," said his country
+friend, "ye'll maybe need it a' yet; the Vale are not beaten the noo;
+the Queen's man tak' anither goal before that occurs," and so they did.
+"Oh! a' say," remarked a born East-Ender, for whom we are perfectly
+certain the Clyde and Thistle, according to his self-importance at any
+rate, had played their best on Barrowfield and Beechwood, "look at that;
+it's no' fair to gie the Vale a free kick for that; it's the auld way;
+gie't ta the yin that mak's the maist noise." "Yes," said another, who
+looked every inch a dyer from the celebrated football county of
+Dumbarton, and maybe the Vale of Leven district itself, "did ever ye see
+the likes o' that, and frae sic a swell club, tae?" as Robertson bowled
+over Bruce on the grass, and cleared the ball away. Wilson, the Vale of
+Leven goalkeeper, came in for a fair share of praise; and so did Arnott,
+Smellie, Sellar, Gulliland, and Gillespie for their brilliant play, but
+many were in ecstacy about young Wilson. "His mither 'ill be a proud
+woman the day when she kens how well he kept goal for the Vale; there's
+nae doubt about it, Wilson's the coming man between the sticks for the
+International on Hampden Park on 5th April next," said a red-faced man,
+wearing a glengarry. Old and respected members of both clubs were again
+present to cheer on their successors to victory, and we observed several
+original members of the once-famous Clydesdale, including two who took
+part in the first final tie for the cup on old Hampden Park. Several old
+Rangers were present, too, who remembered well the series of exciting
+matches played by them against the Vale of Leven, when no fewer than
+three hard battles had to be fought before the destiny of the cup was
+settled for the year. The sad news, too, was announced in the papers of
+the sudden death of another famous forward (Mr. J. R. Wilson), who took
+part in the first final tie between the Queen's Park and Clydesdale on
+behalf of the latter club. Many of the "Old Brigade" viewed the contest
+with mixed feelings. "You seem excited, Bob," said a friend to an old
+Q.P., and no wonder; time is fleeting fast; the game will be done in a
+quarter of an hour, and, dear me, the Queen's have not even scored. "Not
+at all, not at all," said the Q.P. old player, tearing at his moustache
+in a manner that threatened that hirsute appendage with instant
+annihilation, "I think they will, at anyrate, make it a draw, for see
+how they press the Vale now. Oh! they've done it; see that," as Hamilton
+sent the ball between the posts. "The extra half-hour is sure to be
+played now," said another, as the Vale of Leven men brought down the
+ball to mid-field, and kicked off. There was, indeed, great excitement,
+and as the Queen's Park again and again pressed their opponents, and
+finally scored a second goal, it was a dozen times intensified, and the
+subsequent play made the Q.P. men more bold and determined. The Vale of
+Leven, as on the previous occasion, appeared in the field of play first,
+and had a punt about with the ball for a few minutes, when their
+opponents emerged from the pavilion and had some practice round the
+upper goal, while the umpires and the referee were arranging the
+preliminaries. The visitors won the toss, and played with what little
+wind there was in their favour. Hamilton kicked off, and Berry followed
+his forward companion, but Murray turned the ball, and M'Millan and
+Bruce had a nice run, and caused the ball to get near the Queen's Park
+goal, but Smellie caught it on the rise and sent it down the field. It
+was taken up on the left side, and Sellar ended a brilliant run by
+passing the leather fairly across the goal to Gulliland, and that player
+made a rare shot at goal, but Wilson was on the alert, and caught the
+ball very smartly, and sent it out. Here a close scrimmage was followed
+by another shot on the part of Allan, but the ball went over the lines.
+After the kick-out, the Vale of Leven men made a fine run up on the
+Queen's Park goal, and M'Lachlan had a long shy that caused Gillespie to
+throw away the ball in a hurry. The strangers played well together, and
+had by far the best of it, and made the Q.P. backs work about as they
+had never done before. Paton had another shy, and then the left outside
+forward had one that came so close on the bar that Gillespie had again
+to chuck out in double quick time. After this, Gulliland had a fast run
+down the field, and ended the run with a parting shot that went past on
+the right post. Some even play then occurred, but the Leven forwards
+manoeuvred together better than those of the Queen's Park, and a fine
+piece of passing by Sharp, Osborne, and Bruce ended by the latter making
+a shy that touched the tips of Gillespie's fingers and went through the
+goal, close to the post. The point was so smartly made that it fairly
+took away the breath from the Queen's Park friends, and caused the faces
+of the supporters of the country club to beam with delight, while the
+cheering for the then successful team was long and loud. The players
+then faced up in mid-field and renewed the battle, and not very long
+thereafter the Queen's Park gained their first corner-flag kick, but it
+was a poor one for Sellar, and the ball was soon cleared away by the
+Vale of Leven backs. The Queen's team, however, kept well in front of
+their opponents' goal, and another corner-flag kick was succeeded by an
+exciting scrimmage, and then a shy by Gulliland was cleverly cleared
+away by Wilson. When half-time came, however, the Leven men were
+swarming round the Q.P. posts. The contest was then renewed in terrible
+earnest, and the Queen's Park, with one goal against them, had the wind
+in their favour now. The Vale of Leven, however, had the kick-off, but
+the ball was at once returned by M'Ara, and the Queen's Park found
+themselves right in front of the Leven goal, where one of the backs
+fouled the ball close on the right post. The shy was taken by Allan,
+and the ball hit the bar, but after an exciting scrimmage it was cleared
+by the Vale backs. The Queen's Park, however, were soon on it again, and
+the next five minutes' play was nearly disastrous to the Leven team, as
+no fewer than five corner-flag kicks were given to the Queen's Park, in
+consequence of kicking behind on the part of Leven men. The defence,
+however, was excellent, and by slow degrees the ball was worked clear,
+and M'Lachlan had a run down on the Glasgow club's goal, where the
+whistle of the referee told the spectators that the dashing forward was
+off-side. He did not seem to hear the whistle a bit, but coolly went up
+to the Queen's Park posts and kicked the ball through without the least
+opposition. The kick-out in front was followed by a fine run on the part
+of Gulliland and Berry, but Whitelaw managed to tackle the Q.P. young
+forward, and the ball was soon sent back. It did not go far, however,
+for the Q.P. forwards kept it among them for a time. The Leven men had
+now a good run on the left by Sharp, and Stewart sent the ball behind
+his own goal. Rankin took the corner-flag kick, but Arnott got on the
+leather in an instant, and sent it spinning up the field by one of his
+famous returns. From this point till the call of time the Queen's Park
+were fairly in it, and played, perhaps, as they had never done before.
+Defeat stared them in the face, and the game was fast drawing to a
+close. Barely a quarter of an hour and the destiny of the cup would be
+settled. As on the previous Saturday, however, the Queen's men played
+worthy of a great occasion, and won the trophy. Pressing their opponents
+up on the goal, they kept them there for a time, and although the ball
+was seen to go out and in among the shoal of busy feet a few yards from
+the posts, Wilson and the backs cleared brilliantly. At length, however,
+Allan had a corner-flag kick, which was managed so neatly that Hamilton
+got the ball in a good position and headed it through. This gave new
+life to the senior club and their supporters, and the cheering was again
+renewed when a few minutes after the next kick-off the Queen's Park
+drove the Vale team before them, and again had hot work near Wilson. The
+Queen's half-backs, who had hitherto not acted so well together in the
+earlier stages of the game, metaphorically speaking, "came out of their
+shells," and, along with the forwards, took an active part in the siege.
+Shots were aimed thick and fast at the goalkeeper, and at length
+Stewart, with a shooter, sent the ball spinning through, making the
+second goal for the Queen's Park. The teams then faced up in the centre,
+and the tremendous cheering which greeted the scoring of the second goal
+had scarcely died away when the Vale team made one last but brilliant
+effort to equalise, but they were driven on by Smellie and Arnott, and
+at length the whistle sounded, leaving the Queen's Park the winners of a
+match in every way worthy of the final tie for the Challenge Cup by two
+goals to one. Although the strain now and again was pretty heavy on the
+players when at close quarters, the contest all through was conducted in
+the most friendly way, and showed a marked contrast to some final ties
+played a few years ago. It may also be mentioned that the premier club
+have not held the trophy since 1885-86, when they defeated Renton by
+three goals to one; but of the seventeen matches played in the final the
+Queen's Park have carried off no fewer than nine, while the Vale come
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+Title: Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches
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+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 273px;">
+<img src="images/illus001a.jpg" width="273" height="386" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>RECOGNISED ATHLETIC WAREHOUSE</p>
+
+<p style="font-size: x-large;" class='center'>ALEXANDER DUNCAN, Wholesale Jeweller</p>
+
+<p class='center'>GOLD AND SILVER BADGES.</p>
+
+<p>Holds the Largest Stock of Prize
+Specialities and Presentation Goods
+in the City.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>NEW DESIGNS IN BADGES.<br />
+UNIQUE AND ARTISTIC.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>All Government Stamped.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>AT WHOLESALE PRICES.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>FOOTBALL AND OTHER CLUBS</p>
+
+<p>Supplied at Prices considerably
+less than any other House in
+the Trade.</p>
+
+<p>Patronised by all the Leading Clubs
+throughout the country.</p>
+
+<p>Specimens and Prices Post Free on
+Application. In ordering say
+whether Football or Golf Badges
+are wanted.</p>
+
+<p>Special Designs to Order.</p>
+
+<p>Over 100 Cups always In Stock, 10s.
+to £30.</p>
+
+<p>Over 200 Gold and Silver Badges in
+Stock at Wholesale Prices.</p>
+
+<p>Compare with others.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>(One Stair Up.) 75 BUCHANAN STREET, GLASGOW. (One Stair Up.)</p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 126px;">
+<img src="images/illus001b.jpg" width="126" height="290" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>COMFORT FOR THE FEET.</p>
+
+<p>Corns and Bunions may be removed, and Enlarged Toe
+Joints reduced, by using <b>Thompson's French Corn
+Plaster</b>.</p>
+
+<p>"It is as thin as silk, and comfortable to the foot. Since
+using thin Plaster I can walk almost any distance." Lady
+Maude &mdash;&mdash;.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>Packets 1s. 1½d. each; post free, 14 stamps.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>ASK FOR THOMPSON'S PLASTER.<br />
+&#9755; AND SEE YOU GET IT.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p class='center' style="font-size: x-large;">"GOOD NEWS."</p>
+
+<p>Thousands of sufferers will welcome the "Good News" that
+<span class='smcap'>Nervetonine</span> is a positive, permanent, and safe cure for
+all nervous affections, nervous exhaustion, nervous debility,
+mental depression, loss of memory, sleeplessness, and weakness of all kinds.</p>
+
+<p><span class='smcap'>Nervetonine</span> will also cure indigestion, constipation,
+and piles. Nerve pains, neuralgia, sciatica, lumbago, rheumatism,
+etc., instantly relieved and permanently cured with
+<span class='smcap'>Nervetonine</span></p>
+
+<p>Bottles 1/9, 2/9 and 4/9, post free, from <i>Sole Proprietor</i>,</p>
+
+<p class='center'>
+<b>M. F. THOMPSON</b>, Chemist,<br />
+17 GORDON STREET, GLASGOW.<br />
+97 PRINCES STREET, EDINBURGH.<br />
+</p>
+
+<p>CAUTION. Each Genuine Bottle of <span class="smcap">Nervetonine</span> has M. F. THOMPSON'S
+name on label.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>Sponges, Bath Gloves, Friction Gloves, Flesh Brushes, Tooth, Nail, and Hair
+Brushes, and every Toilet Requisite at the above address.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p class='center' style="font-size: large;">The Trainer of the Rangers Football Team writes:</p>
+
+<p>"<span class="smcap">Sir</span>,&mdash;I use HERBULINE extensively, and find it of great value. I
+have never been disappointed in my results from using it. It is superior
+to any preparation I have hitherto tried, and I strongly advise those in
+want of a safe, reliable liniment to give it a trial.&mdash;I am, yours respectfully,</p>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 10em;">"<span class="smcap">Ibrox</span>, <i>February 6th, 1890</i>.<br /></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 20em;">JOHN TAYLOR."<br /></span>
+</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align='left'>Neuralgia and Tic</td><td align='center'>cured</td><td align='center'>by</td><td align='center'>HERBULINE</td><td align='left'>in 20 Minutes.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Lumbago</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='left'>24 Hours.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Toothache</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='left'>Momentary.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Cold Feet</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='left'>5 Minutes.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Rheumatism</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='left'>24 Hours.</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p>HERBULINE is superior to Mustard for Poulticing. Salient
+points&mdash;clean, easily applied, a more endurable heat. No liability to
+chill after using. It is a wonder to those who use it, and never
+disappoints in its results.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>Of Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors</i>&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class='center'>Price 1s. 1½d. Net. If Posted, 3d. Extra.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p class='center'>
+The HERBULINE Manufacturing Coy.,<br />
+67 RENFIELD STREET.<br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p class='center' style="font-size: x-large;">WATERPROOFS.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 80px;">
+<img src="images/illus002a.jpg" width="80" height="164" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Gentlemen's Coats in all the Newest
+Styles and Patterns. Inverness
+Capes, Sleeveless Coats, etc.
+Waterproofs for Tourists, Cyclists,
+etc.</p>
+
+<p>
+Travelling Requisites.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Fishing Requisites.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Shooting Requisites.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<p class='center'>LAWN TENNIS, Cricket, Footballs, Shin-Guards,
+etc.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>Lists on Application.</i> <i>Prices strictly moderate.</i></p>
+
+<p class='center'>
+NORTH BRITISH RUBBER Co., Ltd.,<br />
+106 BUCHANAN STREET,<br />
+Glasgow.<br />
+<br />
+Works: Castle Mills, Edinburgh.<br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 100px;">
+<img src="images/illus003.jpg" width="100" height="270" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class='center' style="font-size: x-large;">
+ASK FOR<br />
+<br />
+Henry<br />
+<br />
+Thomson<br />
+<br />
+&amp; Co.'s<br />
+<br />
+OLD<br />
+<br />
+IRISH<br />
+<br />
+WHISKY.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>AS SUPPLIED TO<br />
+H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES,<br />
+H.R.H. THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT,<br />
+AND THE<br />
+HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>SOLE AGENT FOR SCOTLAND&mdash;<br />
+ROBERT BROWN, 17 Hope St., GLASGOW.<br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p class='center'>
+<span style="font-size: x-large">THOMAS COOK &amp; SON,<br /></span>
+<br />
+GENERAL RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP<br />
+<br />
+PASSENGER TICKET OFFICE,<br />
+<br />
+FOREIGN MONEY CHANGERS, &amp;c.,<br />
+<br />
+(Tickets for Personally-conducted Parties and Independent<br />
+Travel issued to all parts of the World).<br />
+<br />
+<span style="font-size: x-large">162 ARGYLE STREET,<br />
+GLASGOW.<br /></span>
+</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+<p class='center'>
+<span style="font-size: x-large">ALLAN &amp; STEWART,<br /></span>
+<br />
+163 &amp; 165 ARGYLE STREET.<br />
+<br />
+<i>OUR SPECIALTIES IN GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTING DEPARTMENT<br />
+ARE&mdash;<br /></i>
+<br />
+HAWICK MADE HOSIERY,<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">In all Weights and Sizes</span>,<br />
+<br />
+GENT.'S KNICKERBOCKER HOSE, GENT.'S WHITE<br />
+and FANCY SHIRTS, and<br />
+<br />
+<i>OUR FAMOUS SERGE CLOTHING.</i><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+CORNER OF ST. ENOCH SQUARE,<br />
+GLASGOW.<br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+
+<p class='center'>
+<span style="font-size: x-large"><b>THE EMPORIUM</b><br /></span>
+<br />
+For Portmanteaus, Bags, Trunks, and all kinds of Travelling<br />
+Requisites. Lawn Tennis, Cricket, Football.<br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 150px;">
+<img src="images/illus005a.jpg" width="150" height="112" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>
+GLADSTONE BAGS, warranted Cowhide, 16", 13/4; 18", 15/; 20", 16/8; 22", 18/4; 24", 20/.<br />
+<br />
+SADDLERY, HARNESS, HORSE CLOTHING.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">FOREIGN SADDLERY A Speciality,<br /></span></p>
+<p class='center'>
+Highland Dress Sporrans, Dirks, Skene Dhus, Brooches, etc.<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Price Lists on Application.</span><br /></p>
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+<p class='center'>
+LECKIE, GRAHAM &amp; CO., 116 Union St., Glasgow.<br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p class='center'>
+IMPORTANT TO CLUB OFFICIALS AND PLAYERS.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span style="font-size: x-large"><b>GEORGE BELL,</b><br /></span>
+<br />
+PHOTOGRAPHER,<br />
+<br />
+<b>57 ARGYLE STREET,</b><br />
+<br />
+GLASGOW.<br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p class='center'>
+Every description of Portrait and Group Work executed in
+the best style, and on the shortest notice.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p class='center'>
+Copies of the 3rd Lanark and Renton (record) teams can be had
+on application. Price, 3s. plain; 3s. 6d. enamelled.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p class='center'>
+NOTE THE ADDRESS&mdash;<br />
+<span style="font-size: x-large"><b>57 ARGYLE STREET.</b><br /></span>
+</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p class='center' style="font-size: x-large"><b>H. &amp; P. M'NEIL</b></p>
+
+<p class='center'>CRICKET AND LAWN-TENNIS.</p>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align='left'>Shirts, White,</td><td align='right'>3/6, 4/6, 5/6, 7/6, and 10/6 each.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Shirts, White, Laced Fronts,</td><td align='right'>5/6, 7/6, and 10/6.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Shirts, Silk Stripes,</td><td align='right'>8/6 and 10/6 each.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Trousers, White Serge,</td><td align='right'>7/6, 10/6 and 12/6.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Caps, Velvet and Flannel,</td><td align='right'>6d., 9d., 1/, 1/6, and 2/.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Belts, all Colours,</td><td align='right'>6d., 9d., 1/, and 1/6.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Racing Knickers,</td><td align='right'>2/, 2/5, 3/6, 4/6, and 6/6.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Racing Shirts,</td><td align='right'>1/, 1/6, 2/, 2/6, and 3/6.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Racing Shoes,</td><td align='right'>7/6 and 9/6.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Flesh Gloves, Lawrence's,</td><td align='right'>5/ per pair.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Boxing Gloves,</td><td align='right'>7/6, 8/6, and 10/ per set.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Swimming Pants and Costumes.</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p class='center'>SEND FOR PRICE LISTS.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p class='center'>FOOTBALL.</p>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align='left' colspan='2'>Celebrated Footballs, Buttons and Buttonless, Guaranteed best Cow-Hide, 16/6 each.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Free.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>M'Neil's Celebrated Footballs,</td><td align='right'>8/6 each.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>M'Neil's Match Footballs,</td><td align='right'>7/6 each.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>M'Neil's Practice Footballs,</td><td align='right'>6/6 each.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Boys'</td><td align='right'>1, 1/11; 2, 2/11; 3, 3/11; 4, 4/11.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Knickers, White,</td><td align='right'>1/6, 2/, 2/6, 3/6, and 4/6.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Knickers, Blue,</td><td align='right'>2/6, 3/6, and 4/6.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Shin Guards,</td><td align='right'>1/, 1/6, 2/, 2/6, and 3/6.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Football Boots,</td><td align='right'>8/6, 10/6, and 12/6.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Football Bags,</td><td align='right'>4/6, 5/6, 6/6, and 7/6.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Jerseys, all Colours,</td><td align='right'>1/, 1/6, 1/11, 3/6, and 4/6.</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p class='center'>SEND FOR SAMPLES.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p class='center'>91 UNION STREET, GLASGOW (Opposite "Mail" Office).</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p class='center'><span style="font-size: large">FOOTBALL SPECTATORS<br /></span>
+<br />
+Should wear nothing in STYLISH HATS<br />
+<br />
+BUT THE<br />
+<br />
+<span style="font-size: x-large">PURE FUR FELTS,<br /></span>
+<br />
+which never CRACK OR BREAK, no matter how many
+times they are taken off to assist the Cheering when<br />
+<br />
+<span style="font-size: large">A GOAL IS SCORED.</span></p>
+
+<p class='center'>Sold at 4s. 6d., 5s. 6d., and 6s. 6d.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>They are admitted to be the best Value ever offered
+to the Public.</i></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p class='center'>
+<span style="font-size: x-large"><b>THOMAS STEWART,<br /></b></span>
+THE POPULAR CITY HATTER.<br />
+71 ARGYLE STREET (Near Dunlop Street).<br />
+Sign of the Clock Hat.<br />
+Branches&mdash;73 TRONGATE (Tron Steeple), and at<br />
+Temporary Premises, 134 NORFOLK STREET.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h1><span class="smcap">Scottish<br />
+<br />
+Football Reminiscences</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="font-size: x-small">AND<br /></span>
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Sketches</span>.</h1>
+
+<p class='center'><span class="smcap" style="font-size: large;"><br />By D. D. BONE</span></p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>GLASGOW</i>.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><br /><br />
+GLASGOW:<br />
+JOHN MENZIES &amp; CO., 15 DRURY STREET.<br />
+HAY NISBET &amp; CO., 25 JAMAICA STREET.<br />
+EDINBURGH: JOHN MENZIES &amp; CO., HANOVER STREET.<br />
+1890.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/illus008.jpg" width="400" height="172" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'><span style="font-size: x-large;">Union Billiard Rooms,<br /></span>
+<br />
+<span style="font-size: large;">42 ARGYLE STREET,<br /></span>
+<br />
+GLASGOW.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p class='center'>LARGEST BILLIARD ROOM IN THE KINGDOM.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>20 Full-Sized Billiard Tables. 1s. per Hour.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>POOL EVERY EVENING</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p class='center'><b>Handicaps.</b></p>
+
+<p class='center'>During the season, Handicaps, open only to frequenters of
+the Rooms, will be held, and Handsome Prizes in Cash will
+be given. NO ENTRY-MONEY.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p class='center'><b>Football Rendezvous.</b></p>
+
+<p>Results of all important matches received by telegram.
+Secretaries of Clubs are invited to forward these.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="PREFACE" id="PREFACE"></a>PREFACE.</h2>
+
+
+<p>In bringing my first edition of Football Reminiscences and
+Sketches before the public, I do so with a sense of profound
+regard for the game and its players, and heartfelt gratitude to
+numerous friends&mdash;some of whom, alas! are no more&mdash;for
+advice and assistance. If my readers consider it worthy of
+one who has devoted a quarter of a century in attaining that
+experience necessary to criticise the players of the dead past
+and those of the living present with fidelity, I will have gained
+something to be remembered, and be amply repaid for what
+I have done to assist the spread of the Association game in
+Scotland. Many of my sketches, under different names, have
+already appeared in various journals, including the <i>Daily</i> and
+<i>Weekly Mail</i>, <i>Bell's Life in London</i>, and the "Scottish Football
+Annual," but I have remodelled some of them very considerably,
+and indulge in the hope that they may while away an
+hour or so at the fireside of the Player and Spectator after a
+big Cup Tie or other interesting match.</p>
+
+<p style="text-align: right;"><span class="smcap">The Author.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p class='center' style="font-size: large;">WATERPROOFS.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 10%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 75px;">
+<img src="images/illus010b.jpg" width="75" height="171" alt="THOROUGHLY WATERPROOF" title="" />
+<span class="caption">THOROUGHLY WATERPROOF</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 75px;">
+<img src="images/illus010a.jpg" width="75" height="163" alt="THOROUGHLY WATERPROOF" title="" />
+<span class="caption">THOROUGHLY WATERPROOF</span>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+
+<p class='center'><b>CAOUTCHOUC.</b></p>
+
+<p class='center'>
+<i>We are Noted for</i><br />
+Superior Quality,<br />
+Moderate Prices,<br />
+Unrivalled Selection.<br />
+<br />
+Every Garment Guaranteed.<br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p class='center'>
+<span style="font-size: large;"><b>CURRIE, THOMSON &amp; CO.,<br /></b></span>
+(LATE THORNTON, CURRIE. &amp; CO.).</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align='right'>43}</td><td>JAMAICA STREET,</td><td align='left'>{43</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>45}</td><td></td><td align='left'>{45</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>47}</td><td align='center'>GLASGOW.</td><td align='left'>{47</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>No. 56.</td><td align='center' class='bl br'>BUCHANAN STREET BRANCH</td><td align='left'>No. 56.</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Ladies' Saloon.</span> (Opposite <i>Herald</i> Office,)</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Telegraphic Address&mdash;"Moses," Glasgow.</span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 100px;">
+<img src="images/illus010c.jpg" width="100" height="48" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 100px;">
+<img src="images/illus010d.jpg" width="100" height="69" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>
+<i>The old-established Booking
+Office for Tourists, Travellers, &amp; Emigrants.</i><br />
+<br />
+<b>Through tickets issued to all parts of the
+World, by best Lines and at Lowest Rates.</b><br />
+</p>
+
+<p>AGENCY for "Guion," "National," "Cunard," "White Star,"
+"American," "Inman," "Dominion," "Anchor," "Allan" Liners,
+etc., for the United States and Canada at special low rates; also,
+"Currie," "Orient," and other Lines, for South Africa, Australia,
+New Zealand, India, and South America.</p>
+
+<p>Through Railway Tickets issued at reduced fares to the principal
+Cities and Towns in Canada and the United States. Free Land
+Warrants of £20 value granted to Queensland passengers.</p>
+
+<p>List of Sailings, Dates, Fares, and all Particulars on application to</p>
+
+<p class='center'>
+<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>MOSES BUCHANAN,<br /></b></span>
+62 BUCHANAN ST., GLASGOW.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></a>CONTENTS.</h2>
+
+
+
+<div class="center smcap">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align='left' colspan='2'></td><td align='left'>PAGE</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>I.&mdash;</td><td align='left'><a href="#I_FOOTBALL_ANCIENT_AND_MODERN">Football: Ancient and Modern,</a></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>II.&mdash;</td><td align='left'><a href="#II_THE_FOOTBALL_WAVE">The Football Wave,</a></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>III.&mdash;</td><td align='left'><a href="#III_A_SWEEP_FOR_THE_CUP">A "Sweep for the Cup;"<br />
+or, How Pate Brown kept his Engagement</a>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>IV.&mdash;</td><td align='left'><a href="#IV_FAMOUS_ASSOCIATION_PLAYERSmdashPAST">Famous Association Players&mdash;Past and Present,</a></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_26">26</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>V.&mdash;</td><td align='left'><a href="#V_THE_PIONEERS_OF_ASSOCIATION">The Pioneers of Association Football in Scotland;<br />
+or, "The Conqueror's Football Boots,"</a></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_63">63</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>VI.&mdash;</td><td align='left'><a href="#VI_HOW_CLUBS_WERE_STARTED">How Clubs were Started Long Ago,</a></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_71">71</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>VII.&mdash;</td><td align='left'><a href="#VII_THE_GREAT_INTERNATIONAL">The Great International; or, Ned Duncan's Dream,</a></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_73">73</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>VIII.&mdash;</td><td align='left'><a href="#VIII_THE_PATRONS_SPECTATORS">The Patrons, Spectators, and Popular Players,</a></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_79">79</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>IX.&mdash;</td><td align='left'><a href="#IX_A_DREAM_OF_THE_PAST">A Dream of The Past,</a></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_82">82</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>X.&mdash;</td><td align='left'><a href="#X_THE_DUEL_NEAR_THE_FOOTBALL">The Duel near the Football Field,</a></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_86">86</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>XI.&mdash;</td><td align='left'><a href="#XI_THE_FINAL_TIE_FOR_THE_ASSOCIATION">The Final Tie for the Association Challenge Cup&mdash;1889-90,</a></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_93">93</a></td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p class='center'><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">AERATED WATERS<br /></span>
+<span style="font-size: large">(CORRY &amp; CO.'S).</span></b></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p class='center'>Medal&mdash;PARIS, 1878.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>
+Gold Medals&mdash;LONDON, 1873; PARIS, 1875.<br />
+Medals and Diplomas&mdash;<br />
+PHILADELPHIA and BRUSSELS, 1876.<br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/illus012a.jpg" width="300" height="191" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Since offering to the Public in 1850 these delicious and
+unrivalled Aerated Beverages, the sole and lasting aim to
+which Messrs. <span class="smcap">Corry &amp; Co.</span> have directed all their efforts has
+been, not to force sales by venturesome and questionable efforts,
+but by the real fact of the superiority of the Beverages they
+offer to merit universal patronage. Judging from the world-wide
+favour, which they find yearly increasing, and the unprecedented
+success which has attended their efforts at all the
+Universal Exhibitions, or wherever they have competed, this
+aim (so far attained, and which their experience has proved to
+be a fundamental principle of success) will be steadily pursued.
+Since 1850 many mere imitators have come and gone, and
+many still remain; but the Public are requested to insist on
+having <span class="smcap">Corry's</span> Waters, not imitations.</p>
+
+<p>To be had at all the First-class Hotels, Restaurants, and
+from Family Grocers, Wine Merchants, Chemists, also on board
+all First-class River and Ocean-going Steamers, etc., etc.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p class='center'><span style="font-size: x-large">JOHN MERCER &amp; CO.,<br /></span>
+<span style="font-size: large">16 ANN STREET, GLASGOW,<br /></span>
+AGENTS FOR SCOTLAND.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p class='center' style="font-size: x-large;"><b>WALLACE,</b></p>
+
+<p>The <span class="smcap">Only large Maker</span> of <span class="smcap">Sausages</span> in Glasgow who has
+always used First Quality only of Beef and Pork. Certified,
+but <span class="smcap">NOT</span> by Dr. <span class="smcap">Clark</span>, City Analyst.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p class='center'>
+NOTE ADDRESSES&mdash;<br />
+273 ARGYLE STREET, 19 BRIDGE STREET,<br />
+19 WELLINGTON ARCADE, 123 CROWN STREET,<br />
+And 77 PAISLEY ROAD (West).<br />
+</p>
+
+<p class='center'>ESTABLISHED 1843.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+
+<p class='center'><span style="font-size: x-large">JOHN WALLACE,<br /></span>
+(Late THOMAS BARR),<br />
+<span style="font-size: large">PROVISION MERCHANT,<br />
+<b>271 ARGYLE STREET.</b></span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p class='center'>ESTABLISHED 1835.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p class='center'>
+<i>Telegraphic Address&mdash;"Football," Glasgow.<br />
+Connected by Telephone.<br /></i>
+</p>
+
+
+<p class='center'><span style="font-size: x-large"><b>GEORGE GILLESPIE,</b><br /></span>
+<br />
+<span style="font-size: large">WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANT,</span></p>
+
+<p class='center'>170 Dumbarton Road,<br />
+242 Berkeley St., and 9 Stobcross St.,<br />
+<span style="font-size: large">GLASGOW</span>.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p class='center'><span style="font-size: x-large"><b>BROWN BROS.,</b></span></p>
+
+<p class='center'><b><span style="font-size: large">New Central Hat Warehouse,</span></b></p>
+
+<p class='center'><b>195 ARGYLE STREET</b></p>
+
+<p class='center'>(A FEW DOORS EAST OF JAMAICA STREET), ONE STAIR UP.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p class='center'><span style="font-size: large"><b>FELT HATS,</b></span></p>
+
+<p class='center'>
+The very Latest Shapes and Shades to
+suit Gents., Youths, and Boys.<br />
+<br />
+<b>Prices,      3/6, 4/6, 5/6, 6/6, and 7/6<br /></b>
+</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 10%;" />
+
+<p class='center'><b><span style="font-size: large">SILK HATS,</span></b></p>
+
+<p class='center'>Newest London and Paris Shapes,</p>
+
+<p class='center'><b>8/6, 10/6, 12/6, 15/6, and 18/6</b></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p class='center'><b>Also at 25 MAIN STREET,<br />
+ANDERSTON CROSS, GLASGOW.</b><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">{17}</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h1>FOOTBALL REMINISCENCES.</h1>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<h2><a name="I_FOOTBALL_ANCIENT_AND_MODERN" id="I_FOOTBALL_ANCIENT_AND_MODERN"></a><i>I.&mdash;FOOTBALL: ANCIENT AND MODERN.</i></h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Then strip, lads and to it, though cold be the weather,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And if, by mischance you should happen to fall,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There are worse things in life than a tumble on heather,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">For life is itself but a game at Football."<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">&mdash;<i>Sir Walter Scott.</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<p>In Scotland, so closely associated with traditional lore, and the acknowledged
+birth-place of romance and patriotic song, it would be almost
+dangerous to incur displeasure by attempting to refer to the early history of
+anything associated with the amusements or recreations of the people,
+without actually touching on tradition&mdash;a point held by some in far greater
+regard and reverence than actual fact. Under these circumstances,
+then, I do not want to run the risk of complete annihilation by ignoring
+the traditional, and even territorial, aspect of Football. That the game was
+played as early as the tenth century there is any amount of authentic
+evidence to show, and that it continued to be one of the chief recreations of
+the people there can be no doubt. Coming much further down, however,
+the game of Football is referred to, both by historical and romance writers.
+In Sir Walter Scott's "Lay of the Last Minstrel," we find that the English
+and Scotch soldiers, in a few hours' actual cessation from skirmishing on
+the eve of a battle, engaged in "the merry Football play." Our forefathers,
+however, must have played the game in rather a rude and
+undignified fashion, if we can believe certain authorities&mdash;actual brute force
+and superiority in point of weight being the indispensable concomitants of a
+successful side. The matches, too, must have been played utterly regardless
+of science. Just fancy a couple of crack teams meeting on a heather-covered
+field, with the "hailing spots" about a mile and a-half apart, and
+playing a match lasting four or five hours! Could any of our young men
+nowadays stand such rough-and-tumble work? Happily it is not required.
+It has been found that a match lasting an hour and a-half, with the ball
+ever and anon passing in front of one on a level field, is quite enough, even
+for the strongest back, half-back, or forward. Experience has sufficiently
+proved that, even in this age of scientific play. So much for the past, and
+I will proceed to touch briefly on the spread and popularity of football.</p>
+
+<p>To those who only know football as promoted by the Queen's Park, and
+subsequently by the Vale of Leven, Clydesdale, Granville (now defunct),
+3rd L.R.V, and lastly, though not leastly, by the Scottish Football
+Association, we are almost compelled to offer some information. A quarter
+of a century ago a Union was formed in Edinburgh to draw up a code of
+rules to encourage the game of Football, and matches were played between
+schools and other clubs. These rules were a combination of the present<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">{18}</a></span>
+Association and Rugby, dribbling being largely indulged in, but the goal-posts
+were similar to those now in use under the latter code of rules, and a
+goal could not be scored unless the ball went over the posts. This game
+made considerable progress in Edinburgh, being vigorously promoted by
+scholastic clubs and students attending college. Some years later, when
+the number of young gentlemen sent over from England to be educated in
+Scotland, particularly Edinburgh, began to increase, these old rules were
+subjected to considerable alteration, and eventually assimilated to those of
+the English Rugby Union, and all the known clubs in Scotland at that time
+adhered tenaciously to these rules, and under them many exciting games
+were played between Eastern and Western clubs, the Glasgow Academicals
+and Edinburgh Academicals being the leading ones. Eventually, however,
+the new clubs springing into existence in the Western District of the
+country did not care to play these rules, and, following the example of
+similar clubs in England, adhered to what they considered an improvement
+on the old system of Football, and joined the English Football Association,
+formed in 1863. The first to do this was the Queen's Park, the mother of
+Association Football in Scotland, in 1867, and the example was soon
+followed by the Clydesdale, 3rd L.R.V., Vale of Leven, Granville, and
+others, a few years afterwards. Well can I remember witnessing several
+exciting tussles on the Queen's Park recreation ground (then the only meeting-place
+of the Premier Association Club), between the Vale of Leven,
+Hamilton, East Kilbride, Clydesdale, Granville, and 3rd L.R.V. Since
+then the spread and popularity of the Association style of play has been so
+often written about that it is, so to speak, bound up in the actual history of
+the Western District of Scotland. In Edinburgh, however, the new rules
+have not made so much headway, the Rugby code being there as
+extensively played as of yore. Some advances, however, have taken
+place, and the Edinburgh University has an Association team, and that city
+several promising clubs, including the Hibernian, Heart of Midlothian,
+and St. Bernard, and, in Leith, the Athletic, that made such a plucky fight
+with the Queen's Park in a recent cup tie.</p>
+
+<p>No one, except a close observer, can believe the earnestness and
+enthusiasm imparted into the game by the formation of young clubs, but
+there is one danger which should be avoided. There is such a thing as
+overdoing; and, depend upon it, if this is continued, the game will suffer.
+To those who love and appreciate everything in season, the advice I am
+about to impart will be doubly significant. Football is a winter game, and
+while it may be all right to practice in spring and autumn, the line is bound
+to be drawn somewhere, and why attempt to force it down the throats of
+cricketers, athletes, yachtsmen, and even lawn-tennis players, in the heart
+of summer? It must not be forgotten that some of our best and most
+influential football clubs have also cricket clubs and kindred summer
+recreations attached, and, in the interests of football, these should be
+encouraged; and to this end I am confident my remarks will be treated
+with some respect. I am also sure that no one who has taken a deep
+interest in the game from its comparative infancy, but can look back with
+extreme pleasure on its development, and even go the length of registering
+a vow that he will do his utmost to make and uphold it as an honest and
+manly game, despite isolated assumptions by a few traducers who question
+such earnestness, and I will endeavour to point them out, and draw
+comparisons.</p>
+
+<p>"What came ye out to see?" might often be asked by an uninterested<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">{19}</a></span>
+spectator who had ventured forth to look at some of the matches. A crowd
+of young men pursuing a round object, called a ball, with great earnestness
+of purpose. To the young cad, who can think of nothing but the colour
+of his latest pair of kid gloves, or the check of his newest acquisition in the
+shape of fashionable trousers, all out-door amusement is considered an
+interminable bore, the game of Football has, of course, no charm. There
+is too much hard work for him, and the training required to put one in
+condition, fraught with all that is called self-denial, he could never endure.
+The musty old duffer, too, looks upon the game in the light of a deadly sin,
+which can never be associated in his mind with anything short of idiocy
+and the most virulent fanaticism. To some of his young men he remarks&mdash;"And
+you call that a grand game, running about a field trying to put a
+ball near a pair of upright posts, and knocking the first lad down who
+attempts to retard your progress! Do you call that manly, eh? Would
+anyone but a pure lunatic run the chance of getting his shins cut, or collar-bone
+dislocated, indulging in such work, and donning coloured stockings
+and fantastic shirt the while to make the matter all the more absurd!" He
+seems to forget that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," and the
+real meaning of a dull boy and a dull man is irregularity and vexation in
+the counting-house and office. There are amusements and amusements, and
+recreations and recreations, but I know of none adapted for the winter
+months which can be so cheaply indulged in, with so much profit to health,
+as Football. Accidents do happen occasionally, I admit, but they are exceedingly
+few when the number of young men engaged in the game is taken
+into account, combined with the fact that, last year, some of the leading
+Association matches were played much more roughly than in previous years,
+it is an astonishing fact that no fatal accident occurred in Scotland. There
+are, of course, many, if the whole truth must be written, whom the exciting
+and manly game has failed to touch by its magic and fascinating influence,
+but they should not be courted, and fortunately their patronage is neither
+sought nor needed, for they are the men most to be avoided on a wintry
+Saturday afternoon while one is on his way to see an exciting "cup tie."
+Depend upon it, they will allure you to some haunt where the language is
+not even so choice as where the "final" is being played between two
+leading clubs.</p>
+
+<p>I am fully convinced that when the game was first improved and adapted
+to stand side by side with others requiring both pluck and skill, the thought
+never entered the heads of its promoters that some of the laws might be
+abused, not used. Unfortunately, such is too true, and the sooner these
+things are discouraged the better. The old precept about warriors feeling
+a stern joy when they knew they were opposed to foemen worthy of their
+steel, should never be forgotten by the biggest back, half-back, or the
+smallest forward. To put it in another way, gentlemanly conduct towards
+an opponent in the field is pleasing to see, and, indeed, civility is worth
+much, and costs nothing&mdash;only a small effort of self-denial. In this
+enlightened age, the nation who crows too much over a vanquished foe is
+naturally detested, and why should not this spirit regulate the game of
+Football? If this were carefully remembered during the season, there
+would undoubtedly be such a close bond of fellowship and good feeling
+amongst Football players that nothing could disturb.</p>
+
+<p>And again, I cannot allow the present opportunity to pass without
+protesting against a practice, now, unfortunately, too largely followed by a
+section of the spectators who turn out to all the big events&mdash;viz., betting.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">{20}</a></span>
+About as long as I can remember, and it may be before Football, perhaps,
+was played, many an honest wager was made by the leaders in all out-door
+sports that they would be the victors, but the practice, I have been assured,
+never went further. Now it is quite a common thing to see cash dancing
+about a ring of spectators at a big match, and often the loss of cash to
+certain individuals means a proportionate loss of temper, and the practice is
+all the more to be deplored. It is for this end, it is for this avowed
+purpose, that one and all connected with its development and culture, will
+strive to their utmost to ennoble and raise Football to a higher and purer
+level, and consequently discourage, by every legitimate means, betting in
+all its phases, and the slightest tendencies amongst the players who take
+part in the various matches towards rough play, and a disposition to
+indulge in unnecessary charging.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="II_THE_FOOTBALL_WAVE" id="II_THE_FOOTBALL_WAVE"></a><i>II.&mdash;THE FOOTBALL WAVE.</i></h2>
+
+
+<p>Like Dogberry's idea of certain kinds of novel writing, both Association
+and Rugby Football seem to come to the Scotchmen by nature. My
+readers can, perhaps, easily remember the clever <i>jeu d'esprit</i> on the
+antiquity of the Gaelic tongue which appeared several years ago advocating
+the claims of that race as lisping the first "speech" heard in Eden in a
+manner that must have stirred the blood of Professor Blackie. As the
+history of Association Football, with which I have only to deal under the
+present circumstances, is so well-known and a thing of yesterday, its
+origin, like that of the Gaelic language, is not shrouded in mystery, but
+actually known (or should be known) to all who take an interest in the
+game. In my previous article, I tried to trace the origin of football in its
+rudest form as played by our forefathers, when goal-posts and bars, to say
+nothing of corner-flags, were unknown. Football now, however, has been
+reduced to something like a scientific game, and to the credit of England
+be it said, the Association Rules there first saw the light. Scotch players
+in the Western District soon emulated their Southern brethren, and from
+the Parent Club, which had a humble and unassuming origin on the
+recreation ground at Queen's Park, sprang hundreds of clubs, spreading
+over the length and breadth of the land with remarkable rapidity. The
+wave soon rolled all over Glasgow and suburbs, submerged the whole
+country, and eventually invaded the Heart of Midlothian itself, where the
+Rugby code had hitherto reigned supreme. The schoolboys who played
+cricket and rounders in the summertime came out on a wintry afternoon
+to see their seniors engaged in Association football, and soon felt the
+desire creep over them to be members of a club containing lads like themselves.
+The young men engaged in the city all day thought on the health-imparting
+exercise it afforded, and had the necessary funds raised to form
+a club. The artisans, too, from the dusky foundry, the engineer shop, and
+the factory, soon began to dribble about. The young ones, and even the
+seniors themselves, had many a collision with mother earth ere they could
+rely on keeping their pins with any degree of accuracy, and it was rare fun
+to see a bearded man turning a somersault as he missed the ball in trying<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">{21}</a></span>
+to make a big kick. Football is easily acquired in so far as the rudimentary
+part is concerned, but a great deal of probation is required to convert
+one into a crack player. Among those who now practice football, and
+their name is legion, the superior players can be numbered in (to give it a
+wide scope) hundreds. In fact, to be able to master all the details
+requisite to win a first-class match, one has to be capable of dribbling,
+middling, heading, and passing in a way that would do credit to solving a
+complicated problem in Euclid. It is all very well to talk about brute
+force and lasting power, but unless these are accompanied by scientific
+application, they are worth little, and cost much. "The race is not
+always to the swift," says the old proverb. In at least eight cases out of
+ten, the match is to the scientific and careful, but of this more anon.
+There is one thing that can be said about football which in the nature of
+things must recommend it to all lovers of out-door exercise. Of late years
+bicycling has obtained a great deal of popularity all over the three kingdoms,
+both for its usefulness as a speedy means of conveyance, and exercise
+to the limbs, but that it has its drawbacks has just been made apparent by
+undisputed medical authority. "The bicycle back," the effect of hard
+work on the "iron horse," is beginning to appear on the handsome young
+man who thinks nothing of doing his 50 miles a day, and while walking
+occasionally with the young lady with the "Grecian bend," the contrast in
+his case is amusing. To say that there are no dangers of any kind
+attached to football would be making an assertion which I cannot substantiate,
+but these are comparatively few. All sports, of whatever kind,
+have the elements of danger attached to their pursuit, but, with great care,
+these can be reduced to a minimum. Although I have certainly never
+observed the round-shoulders of the bicyclist in the football player, I have
+not unfrequently seen the "football leg." That is a series of cuts about
+the shin bone, administered by a vicious opponent while (as it generally
+happens) playing a "cup tie," and last season they were more plentiful
+than ever. In fact, I heard from the lips of a member of one of the crack
+clubs that in not a few of the ties they retired from the field "greatly
+impressed with the unmistakable signs of muscular ability shown by their
+opponents." This means most undoubtedly hacking and tripping, under
+the guise of tackling, and if Association football is to go on and prosper
+such disgraceful acts of tyranny on the football field must forever cease.
+These "accidents" can, of course, be avoided, and as there are distinct
+rules forbidding them, clubs would do well to see that these are rigidly
+enforced.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="III_A_SWEEP_FOR_THE_CUP" id="III_A_SWEEP_FOR_THE_CUP"></a><i>III.&mdash;A "SWEEP FOR THE CUP;"</i><br />
+<br />
+<span style="font-size: small">OR,<br /></span>
+<br />
+<span style="font-size: smaller"><i>HOW PATE BROWN KEPT HIS ENGAGEMENT.</i></span></h2>
+
+
+<p>"What do you say, old fellow, about a 'Sweep for the Cup.' Why,
+a 'sov.' is nothing to the like of you, and there will be such fun at the
+lifting." This was said to me one morning about nine, just as I was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">{22}</a></span>
+preparing to get my shaving utensils into working order before turning
+out to the warehouse. Pate Brown used to make fun of me about my
+scanty hirsute appendages, and many a time caused me to blush before
+sundry members of the Druids when he emphatically declared that I was
+one of those effeminate individuals who shaved, not because they had
+whiskers, but because they hadn't. This was in September, and a more
+open year for the respective chances of the clubs in the Cup had, perhaps,
+never come round.</p>
+
+<p>I was unattached then. I was, in fact, neither a member of the Druids
+nor the Nomads, but simply a friend of both, and an enthusiastic admirer
+of the game. My big brother Angus, it is true, was one of the best men
+in the Conquerors, and he and I sometimes had animated discussions about
+the respective merits of the clubs. "Why, Jack, this is only September,
+it will be more sensible for us to postpone the affair till after the preliminary
+ties. A lot of chaps to whom I have spoken consider it next to nonsense
+to draw the 'sweep' so soon."</p>
+
+<p>After a great deal of talking and another meeting, it was agreed to go
+right ahead with the "sweep," and accordingly the necessary arrangements
+were duly made, and subscribers' names taken, as well as their cash.</p>
+
+<p>The warehouse of Ball &amp; Field was the largest in the whole city.
+Their trade connection extended to every known country on the face of
+the globe. There was a decided charm about the way in which the firm
+did business, and the kindly, not to say considerate manner, in which they
+treated employés, who really deserved it. The two leading members of
+the firm, in fact, were not insignificant prototypes of Dickens' Cheeryble
+Brothers (with the exception that they were both married). I verily
+believe that in an hour's notice a couple of excellent teams could have been
+picked from the house to make a decent match of it anywhere.</p>
+
+<p>The senior himself was an enthusiastic admirer of the game, and one
+way or another did much to encourage it by his presence on the field at all
+the big matches, and if any of the lads, such as myself, Brown, Rose,
+Wilson, or M'Nab wanted away to play in a big affair, a hint reaching the
+governor's ears to that effect was amply sufficient. The manager, however,
+was of a different sort, he hated football like poison. He even relegated
+the grand game to a pastime suitable for pure and unadulterated lunatics,
+those, as he put it, "who were too daft to get into Gartnavel." Fancy
+that! Woe betide the unfortunate half-back or forward, who in a weak
+moment relied on the magnanimity of "Sour Plums," as he was called, to
+let him off to a match, without first consulting the governor himself.
+Sometimes M'Nab forgot to do so, and as his club were frequently in
+great straits to get him to play, he had to steep his brains to think on a
+strategic movement to get free, and succeeded; but sometimes with the
+aid of a "crammer."</p>
+
+<p>Brown, for reasons best known to himself, but which will duly come out
+as my story advances, was very anxious to be at the "draw," and
+accordingly duly appeared at the Marie Stuart Hall, Crosshill. There were
+a lot of pale faces in the room when Pate drew the Queen's Park, Dick
+Wallace the "Vale," Bill Weldon, Dumbarton, and Sandy M'Bean the
+Rangers. A rosy-cheeked, country-looking lad belonging to the Q.P.
+drew Cowlairs, and a general titter ran through the august assembly when
+that same lad remarked, "he was quite satisfied with his draw, the other
+crack clubs notwithstanding." Tom Vincent got Kilmarnock Athletic,
+Alf. Grant the Clyde, Blower Fleming drew the Heart of Midlothian, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">{23}</a></span>
+Bill Fairfield the Hibernian. I was unlucky enough to secure one of
+the many insignificant clubs who never survived the first round, and so my
+"sov." was a dead letter.</p>
+
+<p>The entire "sweep" came to a fine round sum, as the subscribers
+included a good many of the rank and file of football enthusiasts, and even
+two "football-daft" members of the upper strata of the Glasgow Police
+Force, and three of the Fire Brigade, went the length of taking a couple of
+tickets. There was also Luke Wood, the representative of the "Kick-off,"
+who knew a thing or two about the game. He was in for a pair of tickets,
+too, and drew the Invincible and Morning Star. He was thoroughly disgusted
+at the prospect (more particularly as he had been one of the leading
+hands in getting up the "sweep"); but, as the Yankees say, he gradually
+"cooled himself down," and got thoroughly reconciled to his loss.</p>
+
+<p>The Cowlairs had to play the Queen's Park in one of the ties, and a
+determined tussle it turned out to be. The "boys" bore a wild look that
+afternoon as they emerged from the pavilion at Hampden Park. You
+could read the anxious and determined character of their mission on every
+face. They had fully made up their minds to fight hard for the Cup, and
+really they did. Several of the team were big powerful fellows whom not
+a few cautious half-backs would think twice before "going for," and two
+of the forwards were very smart on their pins, but wanted that true
+mastery of the art of passing and dribbling at the proper time which make
+up the refined and superior Association player. As for endurance, they
+did not toil among iron wheels, steel axles, and brass fittings for locomotives,
+to say nothing of generating steam on the shortest notice, without
+being "hardy." No, no. They were in the best of condition for the
+game. The Queen's took them too cheaply, and nearly paid a lasting
+penalty for their carelessness. The game, in fact, was so closely fought
+that the teams were unable to overcome one another, and two goals each
+was the result. Meeting a second time, however, the Q.P. made short work
+of them, and won by nine goals to none.</p>
+
+<p>The evening before the memorable tussle which put the half of Dumbartonshire
+into a state of excitement, bordering on the football fever,
+"Mary, the Maid of the Football Inn," came to the door of the little hotel
+repeatedly, and after casting sundry glances at the roadway and scanning
+the passers-by, muttered something about being jilted, and how shamefully
+she had been used by Bob. Her own Bob, who was always so punctual,
+and occasionally treated her to a nice walk along the Leven, past Ewing's
+big work, and even went the length of composing verses in her honour.</p>
+
+<p>"What had become of him? Had Nancy Pringle waylaid him, as she
+positively swore she would do, on the first opportunity, and start the probationary
+stages of a drama in real life?" The fact was Bob never came,
+and no wonder. He was collared by the Dumbarton captain, and carried
+off to the field to practice for the great fight of the next day, under pains
+and penalties. He pleaded for Mary, but it was of no avail. "He had,"
+he went on to remonstrate, "promised on his word of honour to meet her
+that evening and take her to Luckie M'Latchie's booking." Luckie and
+Tam M'Murtrie (an old footballer) were to be spliced a fortnight afterwards,
+and the "cries" were in.</p>
+
+<p>With a serious air the captain lectured Bob till he was blue in the face,
+and told him if he did not put himself in condition for the great battle of
+the morrow he would be stoned by the town enthusiasts. He remembered
+when a boy at school scribbling as best he could on his copybook, "Discretion<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">{24}</a></span>
+is the better part of valour," and the sentence flashed across his
+heated brain with all the force of actual conviction. "What was he to
+do?" "Was it to be football first, and Mary afterwards?" Something
+whispered "yes; Mary could afford to wait, but the 'Cup' was a transitory
+article, and the splendid chance his club had of winning it might pass
+away like a dream." "Why, there was Joe Laidlay, he was in something
+like the same dilemma so far as his 'lass' was concerned, and if Joe, he
+thought, could afford to put off his sweetheart, Maggie Jackson, in the
+same way, he (Bob) considered that he should be able to conclude the
+arrangement, and make the best excuse to Mary."</p>
+
+<p>Quietly speaking, Bob had an ambition in his football, and it consisted
+in being a member of the eleven who would at one time or another "lick"
+the Queen's Park, and went into the practice game with his whole heart,
+and played all through in good form.</p>
+
+<p>Just a year or so before this the "Vale" would have given the same
+Dumbarton lot short shift and no favour on any of the grounds, but
+matters were altered. They wanted a lot of their old blood, which had in
+years gone bye carried them through many a doubtful battle. They had
+lost their grand goalkeeper, and the crack half-back had vacated his
+favourite position to keep the ball from going between the uprights in
+"time o' need."</p>
+
+<p>Some of the daring forwards had also bade farewell to the game, and
+were scattered over the length and breadth of the land. The match, however,
+had to be played&mdash;it would brook no delay&mdash;and the spirited captain
+resolved to make the best of it, although a score of misgivings passed
+through his mind as to the issue. There was one thing in favour of the
+"Vale," they had their own ground to play upon, and that was reckoned
+as worth a goal any day.</p>
+
+<p>Before the start Johnny Freer told his old chums to keep their "weather
+eyes" open for sudden rushes by the Dumbarton forward division, and
+before the game was very old, they discovered that the advice did not come
+a moment too soon. Keeping close on the touch lines till well down
+among the half-backs, Maclure and his light companion, "the Bird,"
+assuredly did not allow the grass to grow under their leather bars. The
+ground was a little sloppy from the recent rain, but, strange to say, the
+Dumbarton men seemed to keep their feet in a remarkable manner.
+M'Luckie and big Walton tried their very best to intercept the dribblers,
+but at times they were completely mastered, and Dick Wallace had to come
+away from his place at back and assist.</p>
+
+<p>The most of the Dumbarton lads were much faster on the ball than the
+"Vale," and this, added to a slice of luck, aided them in scoring twice,
+and they consequently won a hard battle by two goals to none, and earned
+the proud distinction of being the champions.</p>
+
+<p>After the great crowd had dispersed, and lots of silver had changed
+hands, a solemn silence reigned in that part of the pavilion utilised by the
+"Vale." "There is no use denying the fact, chaps," said the captain of
+the defeated team, "these fellows have beaten us on our form this season,
+and we'll have to make the best of a bad bargain."</p>
+
+<p>Not so, however, in the other end of the house. The victors were
+"blowing" a good deal of the bad luck they had had, and how they ought
+to have scored a dozen goals if "Sandy had not repeatedly allowed the
+ball to graze the goal-posts, instead of attempting to kick it out. They
+had, however, beaten the 'Vale,' and that was all they cared for, in the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">{25}</a></span>
+said tie. The Rangers they declared they did not fear, and from all they
+could hear, they were now quite able to meet the Queen's Park face to
+face."</p>
+
+<p>With the Rangers, however, they had just sufficient to do on their own
+ground in the first match, but in the second came off victorious by five
+goals to one.</p>
+
+<p>One Saturday evening we took forcible possession of Jack Cook's
+lodgings, which were situated near the Marie Stuart Hall, Crosshill.
+Jack was very fond of billiards, and sometimes pocketed several "pools"
+of an evening, when a few choice spirits congregated in "The Rooms."
+Jack's landlady had frequently threatened him with pains and penalties for
+treating anything approaching "elders' hours" with contempt, and once
+intensified it to instant dismissal, bag and baggage, for encouraging a lot
+of his chums in leading the chorus of Dickens' Bacchanalian song:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"We won't go home till morning,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till morning, till morning,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We won't go home till morning,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till daylight doth appear,"<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>at four o'clock <span class="smcap lowercase">A.M.</span>, under her kitchen window after a big cup tie, which
+the Conquerors had won. Jack, as a matter of precaution warned us that
+we were to comport ourselves with decency, and not rouse the aforesaid
+lady. Our friend had something in the bottle. We were comfortably
+seated, and the room filled with tobacco smoke, when a dim shadow was
+noticed at the door, and turned out to be Willie Fairfield, of the Flying
+Blues, who had just called to let us know he had received a telegram from
+Edinburgh announcing the defeat of the Hibernian in the protested match
+with Dumbarton, by six goals to two.</p>
+
+<p>Willie, it may be mentioned, had drawn the Hibernian in our "sweep,"
+and was, I may inform all concerned, well pleased with his luck when the
+ticket came out the bag; but now much crestfallen. Bill Weldon, however,
+who had secured Dumbarton in the same drawing, jumped off his
+chair at the success of the club he had secured, and remarked&mdash;"Look
+here, boys, Dumbarton are just about good enough to win the Association
+Cup, and I'll take evens on't." "Done," said a chorus of voices, and
+Mrs. Blank's parlour was for a few minutes transformed into a betting
+house on a small scale.</p>
+
+<p>We had a long chat as to the respective merits of the Rangers and
+Dumbarton, who were to play their tie over again, in consequence of some
+informality, and after draining Jack's bottle, were accompanied to the door
+with solemn injunctions not to kick up a row on the stairs.</p>
+
+<p>Weeks passed after this little incident, and the clubs left in our
+"sweep" were getting small by degrees and beautifully less. The
+Rangers, Partick, South-Western, Northern, 3rd L.R.V., Arthurlie,
+Kilmarnock Portland, Alexandra Athletic, Thornliebank, Heart of Midlothian,
+and even the plucky little Clyde were cleared off the list, and the
+Queen's Park had their own ado with Kilmarnock Athletic, and only beat
+that sturdy Ayrshire Club by three goals to two. All that now remained
+in the tie, in fact, were Q.P. and Dumbarton.</p>
+
+<p>It was Weldon and Pate Brown for it now, and both began to dream of
+a good pocketful of "sovs."</p>
+
+<p>Pate, who was engaged to charming little Lizzie Green, had been living
+very carefully for a time in prospect of shortly calling Lizzie his own, was
+only now a casual visitor to Cook's lodgings. One evening, on his way<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">{26}</a></span>
+home from Ball &amp; Field's, Pate began to reckon up his chances of winning
+the "sweep."</p>
+
+<p>"One hundred and five subscribers at a 'sov.' a-piece," said he, "why
+that makes £105. The odd 'fiver' will pay all the expenses, and if the
+Q.P. win the Cup, why all that will be mine. Oh! glorious Q.P.,
+invincible Q.P., you must and shall win the Cup," raved excited Pate.
+"Lizzie, my own dear lassie, I have not told you about my speculation,
+nor will I till the tie is over, and we'll get married this summer yet."</p>
+
+<p>I do not intend to weary my readers with a detailed account of the final
+Cup ties, for everybody knows there were two played. In the first, when
+the clubs tied, and Dumbarton had the best of the game, little Pate Brown
+nearly lost his senses with excitement, and had frequently to lean heavily
+on the shoulder of Lizzie Green to prevent him from falling under the
+grand stand.</p>
+
+<p>"What is it, dear, that makes you so terribly pale at a match?" she
+said to him in a gentle whisper. "You must be ill, for I have never
+observed you so excited before." Little did the young lady imagine what
+was at issue, and the cause of Pate's nervousness; but she knew afterwards,
+and had a jolly laugh over it in her own tidy little house at Govanhill.</p>
+
+<p>Who does not remember the real final tie on Cathkin Park? Such a
+match will, perhaps, never be seen in Scotland again. How both Queen's
+Park and Dumbarton played with all the force and dash they could command,
+and how at length the Queen's Park were the conquerors, and Pate
+Brown won the double prize.</p>
+
+<p>A few nights afterwards Pate received one hundred sovs. (there were no
+second and third prizes) in the "Marie Stuart," and when he told the
+young fellows assembled that he was about to get wed to Lizzie Green,
+every soul of them (not even excepting Bill Weldon himself, who had
+drawn Dumbarton in the speculation, and lost a few "sovs." on them too),
+congratulated him on his choice, and called Pate a "lucky dog."</p>
+
+<p>They all knew and admired the neat little girl who, among other blithe
+and gentle faces, turned out to see the leading football matches, to cheer
+the players when they won, and chaff them when they lost.</p>
+
+<p>They were married&mdash;Pate Brown and Lizzie Green&mdash;and in presence of
+his old club companions, whom he had invited to spend an evening at his
+new house, Pate told the simple story of how he had got married to his
+little darling a year sooner than he expected, all through drawing the
+Queen's Park in a "<span class="smcap">Sweep for the Cup</span>."</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="IV_FAMOUS_ASSOCIATION_PLAYERSmdashPAST" id="IV_FAMOUS_ASSOCIATION_PLAYERSmdashPAST"></a><i>IV.&mdash;FAMOUS ASSOCIATION PLAYERS&mdash;PAST
+AND PRESENT.</i></h2>
+
+
+<p>Little did the comparatively small but orderly group of enthusiastic
+spectators who met around the ropes at Hamilton Crescent Ground,
+Partick, eighteen years ago, to witness the first International Association
+match, imagine the ultimate development of the Association style of play
+in Scotland, and in after years the triumphs which awaited her sons in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">{27}</a></span>
+contests with England. I was present, and shall never forget the manner
+in which the teams&mdash;both Scotch and English&mdash;acquitted themselves, and
+made a drawn game of it.</p>
+
+
+<h3>The Five Dead Internationalists.</h3>
+
+<p>The ranks of the past crack players are beginning to get thinned by the
+common enemy of mankind. When I think of the busy feet, blithe and
+happy faces, and merry voices that joined in the game twenty years ago, a
+sense of sadness comes over me which it is difficult to dispel. "The first
+International, sir;" yes. Five of the gallant eleven who fought Scotland's
+battle are dead. Poor Gardner, Smith, Weir, Leckie, and Taylor, football
+players, have cause to remember thee! It was a hard struggle to keep up
+football in those days, and as there were no club funds all the items of
+expenditure had to be brought forth from the capacious pockets of the
+members. They loved the game, however, those primitive players, and
+engaged in it for its own sake, without ever thinking of reward. In the
+words of a great poetess, "We shall sing their praise ere long;" and while
+it may be thousands of dribblers of the present never heard their names,
+it is but right that the young ones should not forget what they owe to the
+Association football pioneers. Yes, the boys of the old brigade are falling
+out of the ranks in which they served so well, never to muster again on this
+side the grave; while others, still toiling on, are "scattered far and wide,
+by mountain, stream, and sea."</p>
+
+
+<h3>Joseph Taylor.</h3>
+
+<p>The admitted chief of the five who have gone to their rest was Joseph
+Taylor. Of a quiet and unassuming disposition, blended with remarkable
+firmness, no man who captained the Queen's Park was so much respected
+both on the field and in private life. None hated unfair or rough play
+more. He could not endure it in a club companion, and this was particularly
+so if his team were playing a comparatively junior combination. Taught in
+the early school of Association football, when the rules were much more
+exacting than they are now, he had, along with his colleagues in the
+Queen's Park, to fight their preliminary battles, and overcome the prejudices
+consequent on introducing the "reformation," so to speak, in
+football. Taylor developed into a first-class back when comparatively
+young, and was chosen to play for his club against England in 1872, when
+the Queen's Park met that country single-handed, and played a drawn contest.
+Considering his light weight, he was a fine tackler, returned very
+smartly to his forwards, and, possessing remarkable speed, completely
+astonished an opponent by clearing the ball away before the forwards of
+the opposing club were able to obtain any advantage. He had always a
+kind and encouraging word to young players, and in 1875 and 1876 was
+chosen captain of the Scotchmen, and played, in all, five times against
+England. He died in Govanhill about three years ago.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Robert Gardner.</h3>
+
+<p>As the first captain of the Queen's Park in the International of 1872, and
+also chosen to that post next season in London, Gardner, who has also
+joined the great majority, was the most extraordinary player of his day.
+He was so versatile that I have seen him at work in all the different positions
+of the field&mdash;goalkeeper, back, half-back, and even forward&mdash;but it was as<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">{28}</a></span>
+a goalkeeper that he excelled. A very indifferent kicker out in front, when
+the ball came up, he sometimes made mistakes with the feet; but when I
+remember the brilliant men who have since stood between the posts in
+Internationals and final cup ties, each in their line famous, I must confess
+that none ever used their hands and weight to greater advantage than
+Gardner. Possessing a peculiarity of temper which had much of the
+Scotchmen's sturdy independence, he had a difference with some of his
+friends, and left the Queen's Park to join the Clydesdale, and did much to
+assist that club to attain at the time the second position in Scottish Association
+football. Members of both clubs will not easily forget the manner in which
+Gardner kept goal for his new combination against the Queen's Park in a
+cup tie, when three matches had to be completed before the senior club
+won. He retired from the game some time before his death, which took
+place at South Queensferry a year and a half ago.</p>
+
+
+<h3>James E. Weir.</h3>
+
+<p>Who could dribble and keep possession of the ball like Weir? In a
+football sense he was in everybody's mouth sixteen years ago, when crack
+forwards were few, and neat dribblers fewer. In all the contests the
+Queen's Park engaged in for ten years, none was more popular among
+the spectators, and emulated by the then young generation of players, than
+Weir. He always worked on the right side, and with William M'Kinnon,
+Angus Mackinnon, H. M'Neil, T. Lawrie, and T. C. Highet for companions,
+the exhibition of dribbling and passing, with the six forwards,
+was finer than is the case now with the five. The ball had then to touch
+the ground after being thrown in straight from the line before being played.
+Under those circumstances, heading by the forwards was never seen in the
+field, unless after a corner-flag kick. Well can I remember the match at
+Hampden Park against the London Wanderers, whom the Queen's Park
+defeated by six goals to none, when Weir, being tackled by the Hon. A.
+F. Kinnaird and C. W. Alcock, put his foot on the ball, shook off the two
+powerful Englishmen, and made a goal. The sad news only arrived lately
+from Australia, whither Weir had gone some years ago, of his demise.
+Deceased played in two Internationals, including that of 1872, and no finer
+dribbler ever toed a ball. He was, in fact, at the time designated the
+"Prince of Dribblers."</p>
+
+
+<h3>Joseph Leckie.</h3>
+
+<p>In every condition of life, no matter the sphere in which one is placed,
+he has his own peculiarities, and, in a football sense, Leckie, above all
+the gallant throng who have disappeared for ever from the field, had his.
+Comparatively short of stature and powerfully knit together, with splendidly
+moulded limbs, Leckie was one of the most tenacious forwards.
+While dribbling past an opponent with the ball at his toe, his peculiarity
+asserted itself in such a way that, once seen, could never be forgotten.
+Weir, Smith, W. M'Kinnon, H. M'Neil, and, later on, Fraser, Highet,
+and Richmond, among the army of forwards brought out by the Queen's
+Park; to say nothing of M'Lintock, M'Intyre, and Baird (Vale of Leven),
+J. R. Wilson and Anderson (Clydesdale), T. Vallance and P. Campbell
+(Rangers), and A. Kennedy and J. Hunter (3rd L.R.V.), of whom I will say
+something later on, had all their imitators in the younger clubs, but Leckie
+had none. He was, in fine, a player by himself. When he obtained possession
+of ball, he guarded his body with extended arms drooping from his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">{29}</a></span>
+side, with the back of his hands in front of the thighs, and thus formed
+a barrier to an opponent who attempted to tackle or take the ball from
+him. He took part in the first International. He died about three years
+ago in South Africa.</p>
+
+
+<h3>James Smith.</h3>
+
+<p>The least known, perhaps, of the original International men, but one
+whose name will ever be honoured by many of the older school of players,
+and locally Queen's Park members, is Mr. James Smith, who died some
+years ago in London. Mr. Smith was, in conjunction with his brother
+Robert, early associated with the game in Scotland, and was an original
+member of the Queen's Park. Mr. Archibald Rae, the first secretary of
+the Scottish Football Association, and at one time an active member of the
+Queen's Park (and a beautiful dribbler in his day), tells an amusing anecdote
+of Smith, while playing against the Hamilton Club, leaping on the
+top of a hedge to win a touch-down, which in those days counted a point
+in the game. This entirely coincided with poor Smith's play, as he was
+sometimes very impetuous. He played in the International of 1872 as a
+forward.</p>
+
+
+<h3>William M'Kinnon.</h3>
+
+<p>Dealing now with the past players who are with us in the body, for a
+long series of years, and, indeed, till within a short period of retiring from
+the field, no centre forward of his day, and very few since, have equalled
+M'Kinnon in that trying position. When the 3rd Lanark Rifle Volunteers
+started the dribbling game on the old drill ground at Govanhill, or rather
+when that small burgh was "No Man's Land," M'Kinnon was one of its
+most active players. It is in connection with his membership of the
+Queen's Park that I wish to recall incidents in his career. In 1874 I made
+my way over to the South-Side Park to witness a match between the
+Queen's and the Vale of Leven. Association football was then a very
+insignificant affair&mdash;the Rugby code, with such fine clubs as the Glasgow
+Academicals and West of Scotland as exponents&mdash;engaging all the public
+attention. The game was free to all. "Ladies and gentlemen, no
+charge for admission. Come and see our game. Kick-off, 3.30." Well,
+M'Kinnon, along with the rest of the team, emerged from the old toll-house,
+close by, to meet their gallant opponents, and Mr. Parlane, of the
+Vale of Leven (who kept goal so well for that club in many of her best
+matches), "chaffed" the Q.P. man in amusing manner about his boots
+(See "<a href="#V_THE_PIONEERS_OF_ASSOCIATION">The Conqueror's Football Boots</a>"), which were new, and differed
+considerably from the style then worn by players. All through the contest,
+which, by the way, was drawn, with no goals on either side, M'Kinnon
+was a little stiff, and scarcely played so well as was his wont. He never
+discarded his old companions, however, and those very boots in after years
+kicked many a goal both in Internationals and final cup ties. As an indication,
+in fact, of his genuine ability, he was chosen to play against
+England oftener than any man in Scotland, with the single exception of
+Mr. Charles Campbell, who was selected no fewer than ten times as a
+half-back. Mr. M'Kinnon was engaged in eight, including the first, and
+in these his country was victorious four times, and two were drawn matches.
+As a centre forward has to bear the brunt of an attack from the opposing
+side first, M'Kinnon was the very man to lead on the advance guard. His
+pluck was immense; and while he rather delighted to dodge an opponent
+and leave the charging to his backer up, he was a close and beautiful<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">{30}</a></span>
+dribbler; could play a hard match without any outward signs of fatigue,
+and no man before or since could take a corner-flag kick like him. He
+used to practice this kick, and could place the ball within a few inches of
+the spot aimed at. Mr. M'Kinnon is still in our midst hale and hearty, and
+when a good thing in football is announced he generally turns out to see
+his favourite game, and is not afraid to criticise the form shown by his
+successors.</p>
+
+
+<h3>David Wotherspoon.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Wotherspoon was early associated with the Queen's Park; indeed,
+one of the original members, and did much in his day for football. When
+the senior club found it a matter of difficulty to get up an eleven to play in
+the country, some times at East Kilbride (for you must know that important
+agricultural centre had a club nearly twenty years ago), Alexandria,
+and Hamilton, Wotherspoon and Gardner were generally the first volunteers.
+There were no fares paid in those primitive days out of club
+funds, and each individual had to square up his own account, like the
+Scottish cricketer of the present. Although retired now for a number of
+years, and out of the run of the game, Wotherspoon, who is in business
+in the city, is always delighted to hear of its development, and proud
+of what he did in his youth for it. If ever a man had neatness of
+style, combined with gentlemanly conduct to an opponent on the field, it
+was Wotherspoon. Considering the fact that he was a light-weight, under
+10st., he many a time astonished both opponents and spectators by his
+magnificent returns at half-back, and I may mention, in passing, that in a
+match at Hampden Park I actually saw him kick a ball from the centre of
+the field right through the goal&mdash;a feat that very few of our younger half-backs
+could accomplish now. As I saw him in two Internationals (1872-73),
+however, it was not as a half-back, but as an accomplished forward,
+dribbling with great judgment, and passing in a most unselfish way. Mr.
+Wotherspoon left the Queen's Park to join the Clydesdale a short time after his
+old companion Gardner, and the two were associated with that club when
+it numbered among its members such fine players as Messrs. F. Anderson,
+G. M. Wilson, J. R. Wilson, W. Wilson, J. P. Tennent, J. M'Pherson,
+W. Gibb, J. T. Richmond, and David's brother, J. Wotherspoon. In the
+first of the long string of matches which have been played between Sheffield
+and Glasgow, dating back to 1874, Mr. Wotherspoon was one of the
+players; and it may be mentioned that, in the same contest, the Glasgow
+representatives were made up entirely of Queen's Park and Clydesdale
+men, and that each city scored a couple of goals.</p>
+
+
+<h3>James J. Thomson.</h3>
+
+<p>No player among the half-backs of the old school was so much thought of
+in Association football as Thomson. Once seen and met by an opponent,
+he could never be forgotten. Tall and stern in appearance, he carried
+every pound of his heavy weight with the greatest ease, and, what was of
+more consequence to his club in a hard battle, used it well. He tackled
+with consummate skill, and had remarkable confidence in himself. For the
+first three years of his membership no player ever turned out more
+regularly to practice, and, for a stout man, none could show an opponent a
+cleaner pair of heels. All the time he was available in the Queen's Park,
+an International without Thomson as one of the half-backs was out of the
+question, and for three seasons (1872-73-74), he was selected for that post<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">{31}</a></span>
+against England. In the last event, when Scotland won at Partick by two
+goals to one, the brilliant manner in which Thomson played will not easily
+be forgotten by those who witnessed the contest. While F. Anderson
+(Clydesdale), and A. Mackinnon (Queen's Park), scored the goals for
+Scotland, Thomson never worked harder in his life, and when the English
+forwards got near his side, he rarely, if ever, failed to take the ball away
+from them. Just before leaving for Manchester, Mr. Thomson was chosen
+captain of the Glasgow Eleven against Sheffield. Some years ago he went
+to Liverpool, and is now secretary of the extensive butcher business
+of Eastmans Company (Limited). In addition to his ability as a football
+player, Mr. Thomson was a splendid sprinter, and carried off a large
+number of prizes both in Glasgow and Edinburgh.</p>
+
+
+<h3>William Ker.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. William Ker was captain of the Queen's Park when they leased
+their first private ground, and did much by his tact and ability to bring on
+our senior club to seek new conquests in England. Mr. Ker&mdash;of whose
+brother George I shall have occasion to refer by and by&mdash;was a most
+gentlemanly young fellow, and made himself respected by club companions
+and opponents alike. In the early history of the game a half-back, and
+even back, did not consider it <i>infra dig.</i> to dribble a bit and bring up the
+ball to goal, provided the match was against a much weaker club, and
+while Ker was a grand back and beautiful kicker with his left foot, he was
+also an accomplished dribbler. In a match he never lost sight of the ball
+for a moment, and when any of his team made a mistake in following up,
+Ker frequently stepped into the breach himself, and did his best to get the
+player out of a difficulty. He was too gentlemanly to upbraid a member of
+the team on the ground, like some captains now-a-days, but awaited an
+opportunity, and the advice imparted generally did the careless player a
+world of good. In the famous match at Partick in 1872, Ker showed some
+very fine play, both in clever tackling and returning the ball; and, if I
+mistake not, he was opposed on the opposite side by the English captain
+(Mr. C. J. Ottaway, since dead), and the man&oelig;uvring between the pair
+was something to be remembered. Mr. Ker did not play very long after
+this game, as he left Glasgow for Canada.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Robert Smith.</h3>
+
+<p>Unlike his brother in the manner of his style, Mr. Robert Smith was not
+by any means an impulsive player, but took in the situation quietly; and
+while no man ever worked harder in the field, or did more for a club, he
+was not what could be called a brilliant forward. The brothers, however,
+did well in the International I have referred to, and considerably helped the
+eleven to make a drawn battle of it. It may be mentioned that both were
+then also members of the South Norwood Club (one of the best in England
+at that time), as they had previously left Scotland for London. Mr. Robert
+Smith, so far as I am aware, is now in the United States.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Alexander Rhind.</h3>
+
+<p>A rare but light dribbler was Mr Rhind. One of the old members of
+the Queen's Park, and associated with men whose names I have already
+mentioned in its early struggles, he knew, if I may be allowed to use a
+simile which is likely to force a smile, what football poverty was, for is it<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">{32}</a></span>
+not a fact that he was a member of the Q.P. Finance Committee when the
+annual subscription was <i>sixpence</i>, the yearly income £3 9s. 8d., and as
+the expenditure amounted up to £4 2s. 4d., the deficit of 12s. 8d. had
+to be made up by a levy? I never remember Mr. Rhind playing in a
+match after the International. He is now in Aberdeen.</p>
+
+
+<h3>The First Final Cup Tie.</h3>
+
+<p>The First Final Association Cup Tie, on Hampden Park, I remember
+well. The clubs fated to meet each other were the Queen's Park and
+Clydesdale, and the match, considering the fact that the players were
+comparatively young in the practice of the dribbling game, proved a very
+fine one indeed. It was on a Saturday afternoon in the middle of March,
+1874, and a crowd of fully 2000 spectators attended. The Hampden
+Park of to-day, with its splendid pavilion and accessories, and beautifully
+laid-off turf, was not then conceived in the minds of the Match Committee.
+It was the Hampden Park of yore, now cut up to form a railway
+embankment. Mr. Hon. Secy. Rae and his companions in office never
+for a moment imagined that in sixteen years afterwards the new ground,
+which is crowded nearly every Saturday afternoon with excited spectators,
+would be made to satisfy the cravings of a football public, and the
+exigencies of athletic life. There was no such thing as a pavilion then, only
+a kind of "wee house" at the gate end of the field, for all the world like
+an overgrown sentry-box, did duty instead. The grass on the field was
+not even cut in some places, and at the top corner-flag was long and turfy.
+The spectators, however, of whom a large number were ladies, enjoyed it
+very much, and the enthusiasm imparted among the youths who were
+present had a wonderful effect on the spread of the game. It was thought
+that a draw was inevitable, so well did both sides play till within twenty
+minutes of the finish, when Mr. Wm. M'Kinnon scored a goal for the
+senior club, and this was followed by a second from the foot of Mr. Leckie,
+not long before no-side was announced, leaving the Q.P. the winners by
+two goals to none. I must, however, go back a little way and say something
+about the</p>
+
+
+<h3>Association Challenge Cup,</h3>
+
+<p>which has caused a new order of things to arise in Scottish football. Well,
+during the previous year, and, in fact, not long after the first International
+at Partick, new clubs were formed in many quarters, but more particularly
+Glasgow and Dumbartonshire, and it was on March 13, 1873, that the
+Queen's Park convened a meeting of representatives of clubs, and what is
+now known as the Scottish Football Association was formed. Eight clubs
+responded, and created the great Association. The eight, who deserve
+much honour at the hands of players, were:&mdash;Queen's Park, Clydesdale,
+Vale of Leven, Dumbreck, Eastern, Rovers, 3rd L.R.V., and Granville,
+and those clubs were represented on the committee by Mr. Arch. Campbell
+(Clydesdale), president; Mr. W. Ker (Queen's Park), hon. treasurer;
+Mr. Archibald Rae (Queen's Park), hon. secretary; with the following
+committee:&mdash;Messrs. Ebenezer Hendry and Wm. Gibb (Clydesdale), J.
+Turnbull (Dumbreck), D. Macfarlane (Vale of Leven), W. E. Dick (3rd
+L.R.V.), T. Mackay (Granville), J. M'Intyre (Eastern), and R. Gardner
+(Queen's Park). Next in order came the Challenge Cup, and the competition
+for that trophy was in full swing. The necessary funds were soon
+forthcoming, and a very neat, but plain, specimen of the silversmith's art<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">{33}</a></span>
+was brought forth. The subject for ornamentation was taken from a cut
+in the <i>Graphic</i>, representing a player in the act of dribbling at the first
+International, and made by Messrs. George Edward &amp; Sons. There you
+have it now, gentlemen, rather dry reading and technical, though, but
+nevertheless the infant life of a great competition. By a strange coincidence
+in the respective matches, and one which the players of a former era
+will look upon with a sense of sadness, consists in the fact that of the
+twenty-two who took part in that game seven are dead. Of these the senior
+club has the misfortune to claim five&mdash;Messrs. J. J. Taylor, J. B. Weir, J.
+Leckie, J. Dickson, and A. Mackinnon; while the Clydesdale, so far as I
+am aware, has only two, Mr. J. R. Wilson and Mr. Robert Gardner.
+As I have already given short sketches of Messrs. Taylor, Weir, Leckie,
+and Gardner, under the head of "Dead Internationalists," and J. J.
+Thomson and W. M'Kinnon under another, I have only to deal with
+R. W. Neil, J. Dickson, T. Lawrie, C. Campbell, Angus Mackinnon, and
+H. M'Neil (Queen's Park), and the whole of the Clydesdale, with the sole
+exception of R. Gardner.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Charles Campbell.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Campbell seems to have had no real starting point in his football
+career. The love of the game and its early associations came to him as if
+by nature. I am told that when he was quite a boy he used to appear on
+the ground at Queen's Park to see his brother Edward playing with old
+club companions. He soon began to dribble about, and afterwards show
+splendid ability in long-kicking and tackling, and in 1873-74 played for the
+Queen's Park in her best matches. The final cup tie, however, was his
+first big event, and no doubt the lessons and confidence he obtained in that
+match served him well in after years, when he was destined to be the
+greatest favourite both among players and spectators that ever took part in
+any cup tie or International. Mr. Campbell has now retired from active
+duty on the field, but his love for the game, and the welfare of the players
+engaged in it, induced him to accept the presidentship of the Association
+for 1889-90, and one and all are alive to the fact that he discharges his
+duties with the greatest fidelity. As a brilliant tackler and neat kicker at
+half-back, it might honestly be said of him that he had no equal. Men
+who played against him on great occasions (for Mr. Campbell always rose
+to his best form in these) have good cause to remember how he could
+"head" the ball away from goal at a critical moment, and get it through
+quite a forest of legs. As he was not one of the cracks in the final cup tie
+of 1874, I must honestly confess I can't remember how he played, but as
+his club scored a victory, and he was one of the half-backs, he must have
+done well. Mr. Campbell rarely, if ever, spends a Saturday afternoon
+away from Hampden Park in the winter time; takes a lively interest in his
+mother club, and, what is of more account, can still play in his favourite
+position with great dash and precision. He has the unique distinction
+of playing in ten Internationals with England, and been an office-bearer of
+his club since 1873.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Thomas Lawrie.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Lawrie has done much for football in connection with his club and
+the Association, both by example and precept. In the early days of the
+Queen's Park he was one of their most brilliant forwards, and in several of
+the cup ties, notably that between the Queen's Park and Renton, proved<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">{34}</a></span>
+the best man on the field. He never shirked his work, or left hard
+tackling to the half-backs, but sprang on the ball and opponent at once,
+and generally had the best of it. Of all the fine forwards who received
+their football education under Mr. J. J. Thomson's, and later on Mr.
+C. Campbell's and Mr. Joseph Taylor's captaincy, none could keep his
+feet better on the field; and it was quite a rare thing to see Lawrie grassed
+by an opponent. Although not much above the middle height, he was a
+perfect football Hercules, and not long before retiring from the field
+opponents in some of the matches would frequently make earnest inquiries
+about whether he were to be included in the Q.P. team on that day. But
+for an accident to the knee which made him retire, after being chosen to
+play in the International against England in 1874, Mr. Lawrie would have
+then represented his club. After giving up active duty in the field, he has
+rendered noble service by being president of the Scottish Football Association,
+and loves the game as dearly as ever.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Harry M'Neil.</h3>
+
+<p>The first final cup tie brought into prominence one of the neatest little
+dribblers and passers that ever played on the left wing of any club. Methinks
+I see him now, with his quick action, short step, and unselfish play,
+gliding down the side of the field, dodging an opponent close on the touch-line,
+and causing the spectators to laugh immoderately. Spectators are
+prone to make favourites, and while Mr. Campbell was assuredly one
+at half-back, Mr. M'Neil was none the less loved among the forwards.
+While playing in the leading games he was always ready with his joke, and
+I'll back him to be the best man in the world to explain away a defeat and
+magnify a victory for the club he loved so well. Mr. M'Neil was chosen
+seven times to play against England and Wales, and I remember his
+efforts and their results with pleasure. The only time he was sorely beset
+was in the International of 1876, when Mr. Jarrett (Cambridge University,
+I think), one of the English half-backs&mdash;a powerful young fellow&mdash;tackled
+him severely. The gallant little Queen's Park man, however, withstood
+the charges well, and came up from mother earth smiling. That match,
+however, ended in favour of Scotland by three goals to none. Mr.
+M'Neil was a member of the 3rd L.R.V. at the start of his career, and
+also of the Rangers, but joined the Queen's Park in 1872.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Robert W. Neill.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Neill kept the late Mr. J. J. Taylor company at back in many of the
+most trying and critical Q.P. matches of 1876, '77, '78, and '80, and in all
+those years was a familiar figure in the Internationals against England and
+Wales. As we have previously said about the deceased Mr. Leckie,
+players have their peculiarities, and Neill had his. He was a really
+brilliant back and pretty sure tackler, but relied too much on his feet while
+defending goal, instead of using the breast and head. His individuality
+consisted in meeting the charge of an opponent with bended knees, and he
+had the knack of taking the ball away and making a brilliant return in a
+style that roused the cheers of the spectators. He was a very hard worker
+to the last, and only retired from football to go abroad some years ago. He
+has, however, returned to Glasgow, and may frequently be seen at some of
+the best matches of the season. His play during 1877 and 1878 was exceptionally
+good, and in those years was in the best form of any back in
+Scotland.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">{35}</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>John Dickson.</h3>
+
+<p>Poor fellow! Mr. Dickson had but a short career, not only in football,
+but in everyday life. He caught a severe cold one bleak evening coming
+from Hampden Park after a practice match, and succumbed to the malady
+of inflammation of the lungs at the age of 28. He started his football
+life as a back; but when the Queen's Park lost Mr. Gardner he was tried
+as goalkeeper, and did very well. Tall and gentlemanly in appearance,
+with neatly trimmed sandy whiskers and moustache, Dickson kicked out
+in front of his goal very neatly, and was not afraid to meet the charge of an
+opposing forward. An incident in his career caused a great deal of amusement
+at the time, however, and is worth recording, just to show the immense
+faith he had in the infallibility of his old club. It was in a cup tie with
+the Vale of Leven, when that club beat the Queen's Park by two goals to
+one. Dickson appeared at goal with an umbrella, as the rain was falling
+fast, but when the Vale scored their first goal he was obliged to throw away
+his companion, and work harder than ever he had done before.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Angus Mackinnon.</h3>
+
+<p>A powerfully-made young fellow, above the medium height, Mr.
+Mackinnon was a very fair forward, and always played in the centre with
+Mr. William M'Kinnon, his namesake, and the pair were a "caution" to
+meet in a hot tussle. The six forwards took part in the play then, with
+two on each wing and a couple in the centre, and it was a treat to see how
+well the Mackinnons worked in their places. Mr. Angus, however, was
+rather short in the temper, and often had a "few words" with both
+companions and opponents during a game. He played a very indifferent
+game in the final tie and some of the matches previously, but was really in
+excellent form at that same year's International against England, and
+scored one of the goals. Mr. Mackinnon died about four years ago in
+Canada.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Frederick Anderson.</h3>
+
+<p>If there is one player more than another that deserves to be remembered
+by his old club, the Clydesdale, for the manner in which he brought it
+before the public by scoring one of the goals in the third International at
+Partick in 1874, it is Anderson. He was a very fine dribbler, and about
+the most difficult man in the Clydesdale forwards to get the ball away from
+after he had obtained possession. Although not one of the original
+members, he was early associated with the Clydesdale, and played in the
+best games of seasons 1874, '75, and '76. He was a bit of a sprinter, and
+very fast on the ball, with very fine staying power. Many of the backs
+who played against him during his best days were afraid of Anderson when
+he got near the sticks. He is now in Manchester.</p>
+
+
+<h3>John M'Pherson.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. John M'Pherson, of the Clydesdale, is a much older player than
+his namesake of the Vale of Leven. When the Clydesdale went into the
+game with a dash that astonished even the Q.P., he was one of their finest
+forwards, and, possessing great speed, was not easily tackled by the best
+backs of the day. He always played on the right wing, and was a
+dangerous man at goal. Mr. M'Pherson did much both for football and
+cricket in Inveraray, and even now takes an interest in his favourite pastime<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">{36}</a></span>
+in Rothesay, where he assists his father in the management of the Queen's
+Hotel. It may be mentioned that, in addition to his other qualifications, for
+"he was so versatile," M'Pherson has acted on more than one occasion as
+outrider to Her Majesty when she visited the Highlands. In 1875 he
+played against England.</p>
+
+
+<h3>William Gibb.</h3>
+
+<p>I am sorry to say Mr. Gibb is dead, and that the sad event severs the
+link that bound the whole of the Clydesdale eleven together, with the
+exception of the blank left by the loss of their accomplished goalkeeper.
+Mr. Gibb was a tall and powerful young fellow, and I have frequently seen
+a few of his opponents feeling rather shy before attempting to oppose his
+progress towards goal. During the winters of 1873, 1874, and 1875, the
+Clydesdale forward play was good. So brilliant was his form in 1873 that
+he was taken to Landon to play against England, and scored one of the
+goals got by Scotland, who were defeated by four goals to two. Mr.
+Gibb's only fault on the field was a disposition to over-run the ball. He
+died about two years ago in India.</p>
+
+
+<h3>A. H. Raeburn.</h3>
+
+<p>In the first final cup tie Mr. Raeburn was one of the half-backs, and
+played up with great dash and pluck. If my memory serves me right, he
+was one of the original members of the Granville Cricket and Football
+Club when the ground was at Myrtle Park, about a couple of stone-throws
+from Hampden Park. He was very fond of the game, and no man in the
+Clydesdale had more enthusiasm. Mr. Raeburn was a fine tackler, and
+not easily flurried when meeting an opponent, and with such men as the
+Mackinnons to face in the centre and Weir on the right that day of the
+final, he had his own ado. He did not play very much after this game.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Ebenezer Hendry.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Hendry was more of a cricketer than a football player, and made
+many fine scores for his side during the early years of his career. With the
+exception of Mr. Gardner and Mr. Anderson, all the members of the
+Clydesdale could play cricket, and it was more for the purpose of keeping
+members together during the winter months that the dribbling game was
+started on Kinning Park (the old home of the senior cricket club of
+Glasgow). Mr. Hendry was a slow tackler, and took too long to get on the
+ball, but when he got a fair chance, was a very neat kicker, and showed
+good judgment.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. R. Wilson.</h3>
+
+<p>During the past season, Mr. Wilson, who had been abroad for a number
+of years, made a visit to his native city, and was welcomed back by his old
+friends of the field with remarkable pleasure. No man in the club was
+more highly beloved and respected, and, in after years, when his brother
+Walter joined the club and played in several of the leading matches, the
+pair rarely if ever missed a practice evening. Mr. Wilson was very fast on
+the ball, and went right ahead when he got possession. In 1874 he was
+chosen to play for Glasgow against Sheffield. In the cup tie which is
+now under notice he made some very fine runs, and did much to make a
+name for the old Clydesdale. It is with much regret I have to announce
+that Mr. Wilson died in Glasgow only a month ago.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">{37}</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>James M'Arly.</h3>
+
+<p>A hard worker and plucky tackler was Mr. M'Arly. For a long series
+of years he was one of the finest batsmen in cricket that Glasgow
+produced. Contemporary with Mr. Thos. Chalmers (Caledonian), the
+pair often met on the field for their respective clubs; but so far as football
+is concerned Chalmers played the Rugby game for the Glasgow
+Academicals, while his contemporary was half-back in the Association
+Clydesdale. About a dozen years ago he went to Manchester, where he
+is engaged as partner in a large calico printing business; and the other day
+I had a chat with him about old times, and he enjoyed it immensely.</p>
+
+
+<h3>John Kennedy.</h3>
+
+<p>Pressed into the service of his club on very short notice, Mr. Kennedy
+played in the tie as a substitute. He had only been a few weeks at the
+game when the match took place, but the young and rising generation of
+players must remember the substitutes were few in those days, and it is not
+the first time I have seen a match played with one of the clubs a man
+short. Kennedy played as a forward, but afterwards developed into a
+very fair back, and showed capital judgment in that position.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. J. Lang.</h3>
+
+<p>Originally a member of the 3rd L.R.V., Lang left that club and joined
+the Clydesdale in 1874. He played in the final, I think, as centre forward,
+and backed up Mr. J. R. Wilson. Possessing splendid dribbling powers,
+he was a very "showy" player, but his short steps did not make anything
+like the progress with the ball one imagined at the time. He was a somewhat
+heavy charger when he got the chance, and frequently preferred to
+take his man before the ball.</p>
+
+
+<h3>A Final Charity Cup Tie Eleven Years Ago.</h3>
+
+<p>Bringing my reminiscences down to 1879, the year above all others when
+Association football was, so to speak, in a kind of transition stage, the
+clubs that earned the greatest fame, and justly so, were the Queen's Park,
+Rangers, and Vale of Leven. Who, among all the gallant throng that
+played in those clubs&mdash;and, for that part of it, the spectators&mdash;can forget
+the exciting tussles engaged in by the trio? In this year the Rangers met
+the Vale of Leven in the final tie for the Association Challenge Cup, and
+also in the final for the Charity. Party, or shall I say club, feeling ran as
+high, if not higher, than now, the excitement was great, and intensified by
+the fact that the Leven men had been eventually awarded the Association
+Cup without playing off the drawn match, in consequence of the Rangers
+not turning up. Later on, too, the crack Dumbartonshire eleven overthrew
+the Queen's Park in the semi-final of the charities, on Glasgow
+Green, by four goals to none. Well, it was on Tuesday evening, 20th
+May, that the battle came off on Old Hampden Park, and both the Rangers
+and Vale of Leven mustered in strong force. Lovely weather helped to
+swell the crowd, and some 12,000 people were inside the ground. The
+Vale of Leven scored almost at once by Mr. M'Dougall, and this looked
+like the prelude to victory. The Rangers, however, set their teeth, and
+before the contest closed vanquished their powerful opponents by scoring
+a couple of goals&mdash;one by Mr. Struthers, and another out of a scrimmage.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">{38}</a></span>
+Since then eleven years have come and gone, and with them a new generation
+of football players. Seeing that the Rangers were the victors, I shall
+proceed to give sketches of their eleven who played on the occasion, and
+deal with the Vale of Leven afterwards.</p>
+
+
+<h3>George Gillespie.</h3>
+
+<p>In connection with the dribbling game in Glasgow, it should be generally
+known that Mr. Gillespie supplies the link which binds the players of the
+dead past to those of the living present. He is still to the fore, and does
+duty as well as ever. Early in his football career Mr. Gillespie was not a
+goalkeeper, for I am certain I saw him play at back in some of the early
+matches of the "Light Blues." Nature, metaphorically speaking, never
+intended him to be anything in the game but a goalkeeper, and a brilliant
+one, too. How he kept goal in this great match, and dozens of others, is
+still fresh in the memory both of old players and spectators. He is the
+only man on the active list who played ten years ago, and had the distinction
+of appearing against England twice and Wales three times. From the
+Rangers he joined the Q.P. about six years ago.</p>
+
+<h3>Thomas Vallance.</h3>
+
+<p>The early history of the Rangers&mdash;their triumphs, misfortunes, joys, and
+sorrows&mdash;have all been shared in by Mr. Thomas Vallance, and he still
+sticks to them like the veritable leech. Who could captain a young team
+like he? When Vallance led the Rangers to victory in this final Charity
+tie, I am sure he was barely out of his teens, and I don't think would even
+yet hesitate to don the blue jersey of the club were it hard up for a back.
+Vallance was a back, indeed, and for several seasons, but more particularly
+that of 1879-80, none in Scotland showed better form. His returns near
+goal were neat and clean, and without being in any way rough with an
+opponent. Vallance's length of limb and good judgment often saved his
+club from losing goals. The whole of the Rangers "lo'ed him like a vera
+brither," and at practice his word was law. He played four times against
+England.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Alexander Vallance.</h3>
+
+<p>With quite as much pluck, but awanting in finish and style, the younger
+of the brothers, Mr. Alexander, was nevertheless a fine back. Lighter
+made and more easily tackled than Thomas, he had a way of his own in
+running out the ball before making the final shy, and when this was done
+well, as it frequently happened in a first-class match, young Vallance received
+a perfect ovation from the crowd. Alexander was in fine form in this
+tie, and some of his returns were splendidly made. Instead of going at an
+opponent with the air of an infuriated bull, as some backs are prone to do
+now-a-days, he kept close to his man, and waited for an opportunity, which
+was at once taken advantage of. Like his brother, he is still in the city,
+and takes a kindly interest in his mother club.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Hugh M'Intyre.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Hugh M'Intyre and Mr. J. Drinnan were the half-backs in this
+contest. No such new-fangled device as three half-backs was ever thought
+of in Scotland at that time, and you may be sure the pair had hard work.
+Of all the players sent out by the Rangers, M'Intyre was in many respects<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">{39}</a></span>
+the most powerful. He was, however, to be outspoken, the coarsest. Woe
+betide the light and gentle forward who tried to pass Mr. Hugh! He
+pounced on his man at once, and with raised back&mdash;for he was somewhat
+round-shouldered&mdash;gave the excited spectator the idea that he meant to
+have the ball at any cost. His weight gave him an immense advantage in
+tackling, and I think old players will be at one with me when I say that he
+was the best at that kind of work in Scotland. He was about the first to
+leave Glasgow and accept an engagement in England. He played against
+Wales in 1880.</p>
+
+
+<h3>James Drinnan.</h3>
+
+<p>In the list of the Rangers' eleven who took part in the match under review,
+the name of Mr. Drinnan does not occur, and I am obliged to proffer an
+explanation. In the report of the contest one "R. Jackson" is credited
+with keeping H. M'Intyre company on the occasion. As the incident is
+past, and Mr. Drinnan no longer amenable to the laws of engineer
+apprenticeship, he did in this match what a great many men have done
+before him&mdash;viz., played under an assumed name. He was a very fair
+back, but not sufficiently brilliant to obtain notoriety, and never had the
+distinction of playing in an International. He was, nevertheless, a very
+useful all-round player, and could take his place as a centre forward at a
+moment's notice.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Peter Campbell.</h3>
+
+<p>The Rangers a dozen years ago without Mr. Peter Campbell would have
+been like the Queen's Park now with Mr. William Sellar left out. He
+was the life and soul of the forward division, and it is not too much to say
+of him that a finer dribbler and harder worker never kicked leather. Poor
+Campbell, like so many more of the old lot, is gone to his account! In a
+terrible storm in the Bay of Biscay, which left many a home desolate,
+seven years ago, the steamer in which he was chief engineer foundered, and
+not a soul was left to tell the tale. Quiet and unassuming in manner, Mr.
+Campbell was beloved by all, and his untimely death is still mourned by the
+Rangers, for whom he did so much. In 1878-79 he was in such good form
+that he was chosen to play against Wales, and in 1876 and 1878 did duty
+for Glasgow against Sheffield.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Moses M'Neil.</h3>
+
+<p>The M'Neils are quite a football family, and, what is of more account,
+have gained distinction in the game. Is it not a fact that Mr. Peter was
+one of the founders of the famous club nineteen years ago, and that Messrs.
+Harry, William, and Moses kept the ball rolling on Kinning Park with
+credit for many a day? Moses is the youngest of the lot, and consequently
+what may be termed the most modern. He was quite a boy when this cup
+tie came off, and played with a dash and finish on the left wing that completely
+astonished all who were present on Old Hampden Park that May
+evening. Mr. Moses, too, was more than a mere local player, and through
+sheer force of ability was chosen to play against England in 1880, and
+acted in the same capacity for Scotland against Wales in 1876. He is still
+young and active, and resides in the city.</p>
+
+
+<h3>William Struthers.</h3>
+
+<p>An original member of the Partick, when that club could boast of having as
+good a team as now, Struthers was associated with the old pioneers in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">{40}</a></span>
+Messrs. Boag, James S. Campbell, Love, Sutar, Bell, and Smith, and
+joined the Rangers the previous year before the tie. He was a beautiful
+dribbler, after the style of Mr. T. C. Highet; went right ahead with the
+ball close at his toe, and was the most difficult man to tackle in the
+Rangers. He left Scotland some years ago for England, where he played
+for the Bolton Wanderers. In brilliant form in the match, he made some
+fine runs in company with Mr. Campbell and Mr. Hill, and was successful
+in scoring the first goal got for the Rangers. Mr. Struthers is now in
+England, where he has settled down.</p>
+
+
+<h3>David Hill.</h3>
+
+<p>A most unselfish player was Mr. Hill. He was slow, but sure, and if
+ever a man showed an example in the field by at once passing on the ball
+when necessary, and never opening his mouth from kick-of to time call, it
+was he. One of the prominent figures all through quite a decade of
+seasons for his old club, Mr. Hill rendered the Rangers valuable service,
+and never failed to turn up when he was wanted. In the final Association
+Challenge Cup match with the Vale of Leven, played shortly before the
+one I am touching upon, and which ended in a tie, some splendid passing
+was witnessed between him and Mr. Wm. Dunlop, who, by the way,
+could not play in the Charity event in consequence of an injury sustained a
+week before.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Alex. Steel.</h3>
+
+<p>Like the other members of the Rangers, Mr. Steel was very young when
+he joined that club. His enthusiasm for the game, however, was
+unbounded, and I have been told by an old Rangers' man that he was one
+of the original "moonlighters" of the club. This phrase gentlemen,
+requires some explanation. It does not refer to Ireland and its agrarian
+grievances. No, no. It was only a few choice spirits of the Rangers
+who, determined to win all matches, used to practice at full moon, and
+frequently frightened some of the belated lieges in the vicinity of Kinning
+Park, who swore the place was haunted.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Charles M'Quarrie.</h3>
+
+<p>Although retired from active duty on the field, Mr. M'Quarrie is even
+now in football harness as the treasurer of the Partick Thistle. He did
+not play in many of the first eleven matches of the club, but being a
+promising lad was always available as first reserve forward. He was
+rather a neat dribbler and good backer-up, but a little slow in tackling.
+He was always a steady player, and did very well in this game. He did not
+play very much after this tie, but gave up football altogether, till his old
+love for the game returned some years ago, when he joined the Thistle,
+and is one of their most earnest committee workers.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Robert Parlane.</h3>
+
+<p>I now proceed to the Vale of Leven men who played in this tie, and
+goalkeepers, beware! and, let me tell you, don't think too much of yourselves
+nowadays! We had a great man who stood between the posts a
+dozen years ago, quite equal at all points to you, and his name was
+Parlane. Who did not know Mr. Robert Parlane a decade ago? In the
+early history of Association football some of the best players ever Scotland
+produced were also good cricketers, and Parlane was one of these, and a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">{41}</a></span>
+grand wicketkeeper. Without saying too much of the men who have over
+and over again distinguished themselves, I cannot help saying that a better
+goalkeeper never chucked out a ball. Mr. Parlane did very well in this
+match, his only fault being a disposition to go away too far from his charge.
+He kept goal for Scotland against England in 1879, and is now in Belfast.</p>
+
+
+<h3>H. M'Lintock.</h3>
+
+<p>For six years no man ever did better work for his club than Mr. M'Lintock.
+In fact, the Vale of Leven would as soon have scratched altogether in a
+cup tie as entered into a doubtful contest without him and their other great
+back, Mr. Andrew M'Intyre. M'Lintock did more than any of the old
+school now living to popularise a style of back play which ten years ago
+was emulated to a large extent all over the country. He had a most
+graceful way of turning the ball when it came dangerously near the goal,
+and running it out by dodging an opponent. He used both feet with equal
+freedom, and was decidedly the cleanest kicker that ever played in the
+Vale of Leven. It is a curious fact, and one worth noting, that Mr.
+Forbes adopted much the same style. M'Lintock played against England
+in 1875 and 1876.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Andrew M'Intyre.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Andrew M'Intyre was a terrible fellow to meet in a hot scrimmage,
+and no matter the forwards who opposed&mdash;and I have seen three at him in
+a close tussle in front&mdash;M'Intyre generally had the best of it and got the
+ball clear. His powerfully-knit frame served him in good stead in all the
+great matches in which he took a prominent part. In the one under
+review M'Intyre was sorely beset by the pick of the Rangers' forwards,
+but was always in the right place. No player of his day could work as
+well in so little space, and get the leather away safely. His only fault was
+to be a little demonstrative in the field with opponents, and tell them a bit
+of his mind during the game. In 1878 he was chosen to play against
+England.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. Macintyre.</h3>
+
+<p>The play of the two namesakes was as different as the poles asunder. Of
+a fair height and good appearance, Mr. J. Macintyre was one of the most
+excitable men that ever stood in front of a goal. He generally warmed up
+at bit, however, and even showed more daring when his old club were
+playing an uphill game, and I know for certain that in the great drawn
+matches for the Association Challenge Cup, between the Vale of Leven
+and Rangers, no man ever did harder work. He was slow to get on the
+ball, and at times very erratic, but rarely if ever lost an opportunity. Very
+rough in tackling, he, above all others in the club, was severe on the
+opposing forwards.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. M'Pherson.</h3>
+
+<p>Among the Vale of Leven back division, which was so powerful long ago,
+none was more devoted to the game than Mr. M'Pherson, who held his place
+for several years as one of the backs of whom Caledonia felt proud. Without
+the least show or fussiness, M'Pherson did his work quietly, and had
+the credit (and a good one, too) of being next to Mr. John Ferguson, the
+best-natured footballer in Dumbartonshire. He could play a magnificent
+game when he liked, and one season particularly&mdash;that of 1883&mdash;when he
+was one of the Scottish Eleven against England at Sheffield, ably assisted
+his team to win a hard match by three goals to two.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">{42}</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>J. Macfarlane.</h3>
+
+<p>The Vale of Leven at the time this tie was played had a rare forward
+combination, and in some of their best matches the dribbling and passing
+among them were something to be remembered. Macfarlane, however,
+was certainly not the best of the lot, but a very safe man, and could play
+equally well on the left wing or the centre, and, if I mistake not, work
+excellently as a backer-up to J. M'Gregor. Now, when I think of it, he
+was severely tackled in this match by H. M'Intyre, and was not in such
+good form as some of the other forwards.</p>
+
+
+<h3>R. Paton.</h3>
+
+<p>There are few, if any, old players in Dumbartonshire, and, I should say,
+spectators as well, who cannot remember the familiar figure of Mr. Robert
+Paton. A nicely-featured little fellow, with a joke for every acquaintance,
+he was full of vivacity, and an intense love for his old club, the Vale.
+Yes, "The Vale." Nobody ever called it anything else. Paton, above
+all the other forwards who did so much to make the Leven men beloved at
+home and feared "abroad," even to the next parishes and the big city of
+Glasgow, was a fine player, and never kept the ball longer than was
+necessary if he saw a chance. He played against England in 1879.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. Baird.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. James Baird was a fair average player, without anything very
+remarkable about him. The combination, as I have already said, was so
+good among the Vale of Leven at the time when this great contest took
+place that an inferior or selfish player would soon have found his level.
+The forwards, in fact, were all pretty much alike, but with clearly defined
+degrees of brilliancy, and Mr. James Baird was one of the lesser lights. He
+was a good runner and smart at following up, but his dribbling was sometimes
+too wide for the others when following up on the enemy's lines.
+When hard pressed he often lost the ball, but in a scrimmage in front of
+the posts he was a rare shot at goal, and scored a good many for his club.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. C. Baird.</h3>
+
+<p>Of all the forwards who learned the game at Alexandria, on the old
+ground belonging to the Vale, perhaps, in many respects, Mr. J. C. Baird
+was the most distinguished, and, at the same time, the most gentlemanly.
+When the Vale of Leven beat the Queen's Park for the first time in one of
+the ties for the Association Challenge Cup, on Hampden Park, Mr. J. C.
+Baird played a perfect "demon." On the slippery ground he kept his
+feet against all comers, dribbled and passed on splendidly, and fairly took
+the breath away from John Dickson when scoring the goal which gave his
+club the victory. Mr. Baird was chosen to face England in 1876, and
+again in 1880.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. M'Gregor.</h3>
+
+<p>If one had met Mr. M'Gregor off the football stage, so to speak, they
+would never for a moment have taken him for a brilliant and accomplished
+player at all points. He was all nerve and sinew, and always in grand
+form. His disadvantages in appearance and weight, however, were kind
+of blessings in disguise to his club, for the opposing backs sometimes<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">{43}</a></span>
+treated him with indifference, and even contempt. This was M'Gregor's
+opportunity, and never man used it better. If ever he made his way
+past the backs, and was alone with the goalkeeper, ten to one but his team
+was a goal to the good in a few minutes. He played against England
+in 1877, 1878, and 1880.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. M'Dougall.</h3>
+
+<p>Two years previous to this final tie, Mr. M'Dougall was the most brilliant
+forward in Scotland, and he and Mr. J. T. Richmond (Queen's Park) were
+the first two forwards selected to play against England. A fine figure on
+the field, and a capital dribbler, without being showy, M'Dougall was
+always near the ball when wanted, and it sometimes took a couple of
+opponents to get the leather away from him. For three years in succession
+he was selected to appear against England. In the tie with the Rangers,
+Mr. M'Dougall was captain of the team, and scored the only goal made
+for the defeated club.</p>
+
+
+<h3>The Great International of 1882.</h3>
+
+<p>The eleven who were chosen to do battle for Scotland in this contest, close
+upon nine years ago, were considered in many respects the best that had
+ever donned International caps in any tussle before or since, and a better
+illustration of the wisdom of the Association Committee in their selection
+could not have been given than the result itself&mdash;viz., Scotland, five goals;
+England, one. Hampden Park was the meeting-place, and as one of the
+football giants of the day (E. Fraser) is, like some of my dear old friends,
+now lying in the grave, and others who took part in the memorable event
+divided by thousands of miles from those with whom they fought and won
+for Scotland, I should like to pay a tribute of respect to their football
+ability, and let the young and rising generation of players know that such
+men appeared in the arena, and played the game as well as it is done now.
+The match took place on the 11th March, 1882, and as England mustered
+a very powerful eleven, the issue was doubtful. About a quarter of an hour,
+however, after the start, Mr. Ker and Mr. Harrower had a fine run, and
+Harrower made the first point for Scotland but at half-time the score
+stood&mdash;Scotland, two goals; England, one&mdash;Ker having added the second,
+and Vaughton the one for England. In the last round, the Scotchmen,
+although playing against a good breeze, had it all to themselves, and
+scored other three points by Messrs. M'Pherson, Ker, and Kaye. In giving
+short sketches of the International eleven, I have only to deal with eight
+of the players, as Messrs. Charles Campbell, A. M'Intyre, and G.
+Gillespie have already been noticed in previous articles while engaged in
+other matches. I shall accordingly begin with</p>
+
+
+<h3>Andrew Watson (Queen's Park).</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Watson did a great deal for football in the Glasgow district a dozen
+years ago, both with his ready purse and personal ability in the game. It
+was in a great measure owing to his interest and energy that the young Parkgrove
+Club obtained proper ground, and was fairly put on its way rejoicing.
+The Parkgrove had a lot of very fine young fellows in its ranks, and for
+several years made a capital record in numerous matches under the
+captaincy of Mr. Watson. In this International he played as right-side
+back in company with Mr. Andrew M'Intyre, and, as an indication of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">{44}</a></span>
+how he and his companion behaved, it is necessary to say that only one
+goal was got against them. Mr. Watson was a rare "header-out," and
+was famed for his fine tackling and neat kicking. He had one fault,
+however, and this consisted in kicking over his own lines occasionally when
+hard pressed by a dashing forward. In the previous year he was the
+Scottish captain against England, in London, and led his team to victory
+by 6 goals to 1.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Peter Miller (Dumbarton).</h3>
+
+<p>When Mr. Miller played in this match, the Dumbarton Club was a power
+in the land, and not easily beaten. He was left half-back, and had as his
+companion Mr. Charles Campbell, who captained the victorious eleven.
+Mr. Miller was remarkable for his magnificent tackling at close quarters,
+and possessed weight, which told against England in the contest. Again
+and again I saw him shake off both Mr. Cursham and Mr. Parry, two of
+the Southrons' ablest forwards, and once Mr. Mosforth and he had an
+amusing bit of play near the Scotch goal, in which the Sheffielder came off
+best. Mr. Miller was, altogether, a very fine back, and when he retired a
+few years ago the Dumbarton Club had considerable difficulty in getting a
+good man properly trained to supply his place. Next season (1883) he was
+also chosen to play against England and Wales.</p>
+
+
+<h3>E. Fraser (Queen's Park).</h3>
+
+<p>Lost to his club and the thousands of delighted spectators who witnessed
+his brilliant ability as a right-wing forward, but not forgotten by the
+members of the old Q.P., Fraser, "though dead, yet speaketh." I
+question very much if any forward of that time among the mediæval class
+of players, so to speak, exercised such a potent influence over the spectators,
+and no style of play was more followed by the younger dribblers than
+that of Fraser. A son of the manse, he was a highly cultured young
+fellow, and loved football so devotedly that no amount of hard training was
+ever shirked by him when under probation for the first eleven. Dribbling
+beautifully up the side of the field, he had the knack of "middling" the
+ball at the proper time, and for six years no man ever assisted at the scoring
+of more goals. He was also included in the following season's eleven
+against England, and in 1880 did duty for Scotland in the Welsh match.
+Poor Fraser died in Australia, a few years ago, shortly after arriving there.</p>
+
+
+<h3>William Anderson (Queen's Park).</h3>
+
+<p>In the International of 1882 Mr. Anderson and Mr. Fraser played on the
+same side, and made a very good pair. The former, although not above
+the medium height, was powerfully built, and few, if any, of his formidable
+opponents were able to bring him down to mother earth. When he did fall,
+however, he was never in a hurry to rise, and took matters easy. If one
+could imagine such a thing as an easy-going football player, it was Anderson,
+but his failing sometimes came in handy, for he would occasionally make
+a gallant spurt, and pilot his way through the opposing backs in a way
+that completely astonished his team and their friends. He showed very
+well in this match, and the manner in which he and his companion dodged
+the Englishmen, not even excepting Mr. Bailey, the crack Clapham Rover
+half-back, will be easily remembered by those who were present. Mr.
+Anderson is now abroad, and it is something to his credit to say that he
+played four times against England.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">{45}</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>J. L. Kaye (Queen's Park).</h3>
+
+<p>Like a good many fine players of the glorious past, Mr. Kaye received
+the best of his football training in the ranks of the 3rd L.R.V., and a
+couple of years, I think, before this big event, joined the forward division
+of the black and white stripes. Of a good-natured disposition, and a
+genial fellow to meet both on the field and at the social board, Mr. Kaye
+was a great favourite all round, and much sought after outside the pale of
+his own club. He was a very fine forward; a good dribbler, but was
+much more easily tackled than Anderson, and occasionally felt shy at
+meeting an opponent who had frightened him in a previous match. He
+must have done well in this contest, as he is highly spoken about in the
+newspaper reports, and scored the fifth and last goal got for Scotland. He
+was also an old and tried hand at Internationals, as he faced the English
+division three times, and Wales also in the same number of matches.</p>
+
+
+<h3>R. M'Pherson (Arthurlie).</h3>
+
+<p>What might be honestly termed the illustration of a fair field and no
+favour, Mr. M'Pherson's name was added to the International players of
+that season through sheer force of ability. I saw him play in several
+matches that year, and his style and smart passing up from the left wing
+was justly admired. He was Mr. Kaye's companion in this contest, and
+ably assisted that player to bring up the ball in several splendid runs.
+Since M'Pherson's retiral from active duty, and also the fact of Mr.
+Turner, their famous goalkeeper, giving up the game, the Arthurlie have
+gone back a bit in football ability, but during two seasons they were able
+to have two nominations for International honours, as Mr. Turner kept
+goal against Wales in 1882. Possessing great speed and judgment,
+M'Pherson was a very neat and steady player, and for two seasons at anyrate,
+a star among all the Renfrewshire forwards.</p>
+
+
+<h3>George Ker (Queen's Park).</h3>
+
+<p>A sketch of an International, cup tie, or, in fact, a first-class contest of
+any kind ten years ago, would be altogether incomplete without some
+reference to Mr. George Ker, now abroad. From 1880 to 1883 he was
+Scotland's best centre forward, and the originator of what is now known
+in football parlance as the "cannon shot" at goal. Many players have
+since tried it, and made fairly good attempts, but Ker alone could do it to
+perfection. In this International he gave the Englishmen a taste of his
+ability in this line. He passed Mr. Greenwood, the English extreme back,
+and when fairly in front watched how the goalkeeper (Mr. Swepstone)
+would take in the situation. Ker spun the ball hard from his toe at the
+proper moment, and sent in a "flyer," which took effect. I am all but
+certain that if a vote were taken among players and spectators about the
+place to be assigned to centre forwards, Ker would come out the admitted
+chief. International honours were his thrice against England.</p>
+
+
+<h3>W. Harrower (Queen's Park).</h3>
+
+<p>The Queen's Park had no fewer than five forwards in this season's International,
+and Mr. Harrower was one. He played in the company of Mr.
+Ker, and the central division of the Scottish team was unusually strong.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">{46}</a></span>
+In fact, I distinctly remember some remarks made at the meeting of the
+Association, at which I was present, about the combination at that point
+being the most powerful ever sent out by Scotland. Mr. Harrower was
+really a beautiful dribbler, not easily knocked off his pins, and the most
+unselfish player I ever saw. He has the credit of earning the first goal
+got for Scotland in the match under notice, and was in the best of form
+the whole of that season. He took a leading part in the hard work of the
+Queen's Park for five years.</p>
+
+
+<h3>A Narrow Shave in the 1885 International.</h3>
+
+<p>There are yet other two Internationals, which introduce new faces into
+the field of play, and the first is that of 1885 at Kennington Oval, London,
+and ended in a tie, each side scoring one goal. Kennington Oval&mdash;in the
+winter time, at anyrate&mdash;is to football in London what Hampden Park is
+to Scotland in general and Glasgow in particular. The weather was
+delightful on that afternoon (Saturday, 21st March), and the spectators
+mustered in considerable force. Not, of course, so largely as we can show
+in Glasgow, for it takes an enormous amount of attraction to gather a big
+crowd in London. There was little or no wind to interfere with the play,
+and as both teams were in the pink of condition, it was an illustration of
+Greek meeting Greek in the open. The Scotchmen, however, were the
+first to make matters exciting by scoring a smart goal from the foot of Mr.
+Lindsay, and this was all the effective work done in the first round. The
+second forty-five minutes of the play was also of a very give-and-take
+order, and once Mr. Allan hit the English goal bar with a hard shot, but
+the ball rebounded into play, and was eventually sent behind. Towards
+the close, however, the Englishmen, led by Messrs. Bambridge, Cobbald,
+and Brown made a fine run, and the former put the game square for England.
+The contest, therefore, as I have already indicated, ended in a tie.
+As in all the other events that I have already touched upon, many of the
+players are now scattered far and wide. Some have given the game up
+altogether, while others are still playing on, and doing football duty as
+well, if not better, than ever they did before. Taking the eleven in the
+order of positions, I shall begin with</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. Macaulay (Dumbarton).</h3>
+
+<p>Among the brilliant array of goalkeepers who have sprung up to distinguish
+themselves during the past ten years, none deserves a more kindly
+notice in any football reminiscences than Mr. Macaulay. The present
+match was the third he stood sentinel before Scotland's stronghold, and he
+also played in '86 and '87. His first was at Sheffield in 1883, when I saw
+him save several splendid shies from the feet of the English forwards, and
+it is something to add of him that he was included in the Scotch teams
+who never lost a match with England. In the 1885 contest he kept goal
+in his best form, and was frequently cheered for the manner in which he
+got out the ball and dodged the English forwards. Mr. Macaulay was
+very quiet and unostentatious in his manner, and did his work brilliantly.
+He returned to Scotland the other day from abroad, and may yet play for
+some of our leading clubs.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">{47}</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>Walter Arnott (Queen's Park).</h3>
+
+<p>Second in the order of teams, but premier in all that pertains to back
+play, comes the name of Mr. Arnott. Out of all the fine players who
+acted as extreme backs, none has done better work for his club and, let me
+say, International matches. It is all very well to say that there were giants
+in those days, but you all know what befell Goliath, and I cannot help
+saying that if you were to ask me candidly (taking the question in an all-round
+way) who was the best back you ever saw, I should have no
+hesitation in answering that it was Walter Arnott. In the words of the old
+English ballad, "he feared no foe," and never in the history of football of
+the present time has such a brilliant man arisen. He has so many remarkable
+points that I cannot tell them in a brief notice, but as he is still playing
+well, spectators are at one in admitting his grand ability.</p>
+
+
+<h3>M. Paton (Dumbarton).</h3>
+
+<p>The match under review was Mr. Paton's second appearance against
+England, and he acquitted himself very well. Somehow or other the
+committee of selection in International matches, while they honestly do
+their duty, sometimes move in a mysterious way, and the selection of Mr.
+Paton to stand alongside Mr. Arnott in this contest was, at the time, considered
+somewhat risky. Not by any means because Mr. Paton was not a
+good back, but in consequence of the diversity of play shown by the pair.
+Mr. Paton was nothing if he was not allowed a little latitude, and in some
+of the matches he came off with flying colours. Arnott and he, however,
+acted well together. To give Mr. Paton his due, he was a most gentlemanly
+young fellow, and did his very best for the game.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. J. Gow (Queen's Park).</h3>
+
+<p>It has just occurred to me, and I can't see how the illustration might not
+with equal force be applied to football as in the honest range of every-day
+life, that if a "round-robin" were sent about the clubs that tackled the
+Q.P. in their best matches in the past decade, I am certain that the verdict
+about the man who was most feared in all the elevens, the name of Mr. J.
+J. Gow would come out first. He was, in fine, a half-back that the Q.P.
+had reason to feel proud. Half-backs might come and go&mdash;as they
+undoubtedly did&mdash;but Gow seemed in his football career to go on for
+ever. The most mysterious thing about him was that he was always in the
+same form, and never had any practice. Football at half-back seemed to
+come to him by nature, and cost him no effort. He could return splendidly,
+but at close tackling, and in clearing the ball away, he was sometimes a
+little slack, and had to make it up by sheer force of hard work.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Alexander Hamilton (Queen's Park).</h3>
+
+<p>Not long ago, while "doing" a match at Hampden Park (I think it was
+Q.P. v. Battlefield, in the Glasgow Cup), I met my old friend in the
+pavilion looking on and enjoying the sport. Like the M'Neils, the
+Hamiltons are a football family, and while Mr. James, who is now an
+active member of the present Q.P., will come under my pen later on, I
+have only at present to deal with Mr. Alexander. Well, he was something
+in his day, and by no means to be despised as a forward. He was not a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">{48}</a></span>
+fast dribbler, but when hard work was required, and wasn't it just in the
+great match against the professional Preston North End, when the Q.P.
+were able to hold their own, Mr. Hamilton never played better in his life.</p>
+
+
+<h3>William Sellar (Queen's Park).</h3>
+
+<p>I have for the most part been dealing with the past, and it is no force of
+imagination to come straight to the living present, and add that a better
+left-wing player never appeared in any club or combination of players than
+Mr. William Sellar. He has a style of his own which is, to give the
+Battlefield its due, peculiar to that club's ability in the dribbling game.
+Mr. Sellar did not learn all his football in the Queen's Park, but really
+perfected his style on Hampden Park, and he is undoubtedly, at the
+present time, the most brilliant forward in Scotland. Gentlemanly in
+every sense of the word, Sellar is the fairest player that ever faced an
+opponent, and no man is more respected on the field. In addition to this
+contest, he played against England in 1886, 1887, and 1888. It may be
+mentioned that in 1890, in playing against the 3rd L.R.V., he played
+from the left in a style never excelled by any forward.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Joseph Lindsay (Dumbarton).</h3>
+
+<p>Before this date, Mr. Joseph Lindsay was what might be called an old
+hand at Internationals, as he had appeared before England in 1881 and
+1884, and Wales in 1880, 1881, 1884, and 1885. It is not too much to
+say of him that he was the most dangerous forward (to an opponent, I
+mean) of his day, and if the backs were in any way slack, Lindsay "spread
+dismay around," as he was a dead shot at goal, and rarely, if ever, missed
+a chance if he got within a dozen yards of the sticks. Lindsay was the
+best forward in many respects that ever toed a ball for Dumbarton. He
+was, however, sorely tried in the finishing year of his football life, and in
+many of the leading matches so closely watched by the opposing backs
+that he was sometimes fairly done for, and could not get the ball away.</p>
+
+
+<h3>David S. Allan (Queen's Park).</h3>
+
+<p>Like Sir Roger de Coverley's definition of a great ethical question to one
+of his numerous friends, "that much might be said of one point," the
+illustration holds good when applied to Mr. David Allan. Popularity has
+its duties as well as its privileges, and there is not a single forward in
+broad Scotland who is so popular and so much beloved by club companions
+and opponents alike as Mr. Allan. He is, in fine, the most useful
+man in the Queen's Park, and while all of us seem to grow older as each
+season comes round, Allan has always that juvenile look which undoubtedly
+betokens an easy and contented mind. He is not what might be called a
+brilliant and showy forward, but I'll back him to do the best hour and a
+half of heavy work in the world without any outward sign of fatigue. I
+verily believe if Allan were forced to do it, he could play in any part of
+the field with a few minutes' notice.</p>
+
+
+<h3>R. Calderwood (Cartvale).</h3>
+
+<p>In consequence of Mr. R. M. Christie, who had played in the International,
+of the previous year, meeting with an accident in one of the trial matches,
+Mr. Calderwood did duty as left-wing forward in this match, and played
+very creditably. He was by far the best man in the young Cartvale, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">{49}</a></span>
+a finer country player never came under the eye of an International referee.
+He was a veritable dodger among the opposing backs, and in this contest
+gave the Englishmen, but more particularly the Walters and Amos, a lot
+of trouble. He played a fine game in combination with the rest of the
+Scottish forwards. In the same season Mr. Calderwood played against
+Wales in the Principality.</p>
+
+
+<h3>The Final Association Cup Tie of 1886.</h3>
+
+<p>The clubs left in the final tie for possession of the Blue Ribbon of Association
+football glory in this season were the Queen's Park and Renton.
+Queen's Park led off by scoring from the foot of Mr. Lambie, and this was
+all the effective work till ends were changed, when the Renton team made
+a brilliant charge on the Queen's Park goal, and forced the ball through in
+a scrimmage. The play immediately after this was so even that a draw
+looked certain, but the Queen's Park eventually assumed command, and
+scored other two goals (one by Mr. Hamilton and another by Mr. Allan),
+and won a hard contest by three goals to one. As most of the Renton
+players who took part in the match were considered famous in their day,
+and have not been already introduced to you, I shall give short sketches of
+their style of play. So far as the Queen's Park team are concerned, however,
+I have only to deal with new faces in Messrs. R. M. Christie, G.
+Somerville, and J. A. Lambie, as all the other eight (Messrs. Campbell,
+Watson, Gow, Harrower, Hamilton, Arnott, Allan, and Gillespie) have
+already been disposed of in the present volume.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. A. Lindsay.</h3>
+
+<p>Somehow or other the Renton Club were never very strong in goalkeeping
+when the perfect form of their forward division was taken into account, but
+Mr. J. A. Lindsay was decidedly their best. He had what might be called
+his good and bad days, however, and while he was always clever with his
+feet, he sometimes misjudged the ball and allowed a "soft thing" to take
+effect. In the present contest he had hot work in keeping the Q.P.
+forwards clear. Mr. Lindsay showed such brilliant form in the trial
+matches of 1888 that he was chosen to represent Scotland on Hampden
+Park. He was somewhat unfortunate there, however, as England
+revenged Bannockburn to the extent of five goals to none.</p>
+
+
+<h3>A. Hannah.</h3>
+
+<p>Who does not remember Mr. Hannah's fine fly-kick and powerful tackling?
+In meeting and judging the ball in the air he rivalled the great Q.P. back
+himself, but wanted the ability to follow up an advantage. In nearly all
+the matches in which he took part that season, Hannah worked hard and
+earnest. He had a peculiar way of turning round to an opponent and
+taking the ball away from him with the side of the foot, and no man in the
+Renton team was more feared by an opponent than Hannah. He never
+played against England, but in 1888 was picked out to represent Scotland
+against Wales.</p>
+
+
+<h3>A. M'Call.</h3>
+
+<p>In this tie Mr. Hannah had as his companion at extreme back Mr. A.
+M'Call. In some of the earlier matches in which the latter appeared he
+was a wild tackler and erratic in charging&mdash;rather going for the man, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">{50}</a></span>
+never minding the ball&mdash;but by and by he mellowed down, and returned
+the leather beautifully from a besieged goal. I remember seeing him in
+several of the leading games that same year, and he showed a neatness of
+style which won for him golden opinions. He played against Ireland in
+1888.</p>
+
+
+<h3>R. Kelso.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Kelso was a tower of strength to the Renton team at half-back, and
+did his duty in this contest. Rather a shade rough on an opponent at times,
+Mr. Kelso could also be generous to the foe when he liked, and sometimes
+made a brilliant hit at half-back by clearing away the ball from the feet of
+an opponent, just when the latter was poising for a shot at goal. Like Mr.
+Leitch Keir, of Dumbarton, he was, and is, a magnificent half-back, and
+had International honours against England in 1887 and 1888.</p>
+
+
+<h3>D. M'Kechnie.</h3>
+
+<p>In connection with Mr. M'Kechnie's name in juxtaposition with Renton's
+crack half-back, I must honestly confess I am like Cuddie Headrigg&mdash;"Between
+the deil and the deep sea." I can only remember seeing him
+twice. I come to the conclusion, then, that he must have been a substitute,
+and if I am wrong in my supposition I shall be glad to stand corrected.
+He was at any rate not sufficiently brilliant to get his name handed down
+to posterity, although it must be said of him that he was a fair average
+player, and did very well in this game.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. Thomson.</h3>
+
+<p>Although he had a disposition to "poach" a little now and again, as
+some forwards are apt to do, for you all know it is human to err, Thomson
+was a grand player, and made the most of his speed. He never kept the
+ball longer than was necessary, and if he thought his club would benefit by
+it, shied quickly in from the touch-line no matter where his companions
+or opponents alike were stationed on the field. He was really a fine shier,
+and his dribbling powers beyond dispute.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. M'Call.</h3>
+
+<p>The Renton team had now risen to the acme of their fame, and no player
+helped them more to attain that position than Mr. J. M'Call. Some clubs
+carry their position through sheer force of medium ability all round; some
+have rare luck with their goalkeeping and backs; but, there is no doubt
+about it, Renton was strong in front, and I question if any man during
+that season played a better game than the younger M'Call. He represented
+Scotland in the contests with England in 1887 and 1888 as left-wing
+forward, and played a fine game.</p>
+
+
+<h3>A. Grant.</h3>
+
+<p>When the Renton men carried off the Glasgow Charity Cup that same
+season, the forwards showed great ability. Mr. Grant was a very neat
+player. If my memory serves me right, he backed up Mr. Barbour in this
+game, and did it very well. He was, however, rather slow on the ball,
+and was often sent to the right-about by Messrs. Gow and Watson. Like
+Mr. M'Kechnie, he does not seem to have played in many of the Renton's
+first-class matches, and his name is not found among Internationalists.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">{51}</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>A. M'Intyre.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. M'Intyre was one of the best forwards in the county which has
+produced so many fine Association football exponents, and acted as centre
+forward. Like Mr. D. Gow, of the Rangers, when he got fairly on the
+ball there was no getting it from him and he excelled in hard tackling.
+Possessing considerable speed, M'Intyre used it to the best advantage, and
+he had such a liking for dodging round the backs that he sometimes fairly
+carried away the spectators, and was loudly cheered for his man&oelig;uvring.</p>
+
+
+<h3>A. Barbour.</h3>
+
+<p>In this event Mr. Barbour was the best man on the Renton side, and kept
+his feet on the slippery ground in a manner that completely astonished all
+who saw the contest. He was sometimes fairly puzzled by the clever
+heading of Mr. Campbell and the terrible tackling of Mr. Arnott, but fought
+gamely to the last. In close dribbling he was the nearest approach to Mr.
+William M'Kinnon (Q.P.) I have ever seen, and while he was quite as
+tricky, wanted the tact to lead an opponent astray. He played against
+Ireland in 1885.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. Kelly.</h3>
+
+<p>What Mr. Marshall is to the 3rd L.R.V., Mr. Berry to the Queen's Park,
+and Mr. Groves to the Celtic, Mr. Kelly was to his old club, the Renton&mdash;viz.,
+a grand man. Kelly, I think, first came out as a forward, and played
+as such for his county against Renfrewshire in 1885, and also in this tussle
+on Cathkin Park, but he eventually developed into a very fine half-back,
+and played against England as such twice&mdash;in 1888 for his mother club,
+and last season for his new love, the Celtic. His proper place, however,
+is undoubtedly at half-back.</p>
+
+
+<h3>R. M. Christie.</h3>
+
+<p>Slowly but surely Mr. Christie passed all the probationary stages in the
+Queen's Park on the way to develop a brilliant player, and in 1884
+appeared in the International with England. He was in the best of form,
+and caused the strangers a deal of trouble. He was very strong on his legs,
+and about the most powerful opponent of his day to meet in a close match.
+The passing between Christie and Harrower that day was splendid, and
+fairly astonished the Renton backs and goalkeeper.</p>
+
+
+<h3>G. Somerville.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Somerville was a very fine all round forward, with a good deal of
+ability in backing up and middling the ball in front of goal. Mr. Hamilton
+and he used to make the spectators laugh at the way in which they
+annoyed the opposing backs by passing the leather to one another in a tantalising
+way, right in front of the uprights. He was a sturdy player,
+something of the same make as Mr. David Davidson, of 3rd L.R.V. and
+latterly Queen's Park fame, with a nerve of iron and, shall I say, a frame
+of steel. He played against England in 1886.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. A. Lambie.</h3>
+
+<p>A comparatively short career had Mr. Lambie on Hampden Park, but
+it was fraught with much distinction. He was a grand forward among a
+fine division, and scored a lot of goals for the Queen's Park. He was,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">{52}</a></span>
+indeed, at it again in this match, and, as I have already said in the introduction,
+took one more for the black and white stripes. When nearing the
+keeper, if he were fortunate enough to pass the backs, he generally looked
+about for one of his companions to follow up, and was quite an adept at
+the "screw-kick." Lambie appeared against England in 1888, and is now
+an active member of the Corinthians.</p>
+
+
+<h3>The Association International of 1887.</h3>
+
+<p>As the International of 1887 is, so to speak, a thing of yesterday, I have
+only introduced it here for two reasons. The first of these is to give me
+an opportunity of bringing new faces into my reminiscences, and shortly
+criticising their styles of play, and the second to show you how the
+admittedly best eleven sent out by England in all her matches with
+Scotland were vanquished on their own soil by three goals to two. The
+event came off at Blackburn in presence of some 10,000 spectators&mdash;a
+much larger crowd than ever appeared in London to see the International.
+The weather was dry overhead during the early stages of the tussle, but a
+heavy shower of hail fell later on, and this, added to a mud-covered
+ground, made matters anything but pleasant. The Scotchmen were the first
+to score, which they did through Mr. M'Call against the wind, half-an-hour
+from the start; but the Englishmen soon bore down on the Scottish lines,
+and Mr. Lindley equalised, so that at half-time both nationalities were on
+terms of equality. Not long after ends were changed, the Scotchmen
+made one of those determined charges for which they have been famed in
+many of the International games, and shoved both goalkeeper and ball
+through between the posts. No sooner, however, had the leather again
+been started than Mr. Dewhurst, the crack English forward, sent in a
+shooter, and once more squared the game. It was now "night or
+Blucher" for Scotland, and after a grand run between Messrs. Marshall and
+Allan, which was loudly cheered, even though an enemy did it, the young
+Queen's Park forward made Scotland one goal up. Till the close the
+Englishmen had several brilliant sallies on the strangers' goal, but the
+backs&mdash;Messrs. Arnott and Forbes&mdash;held their own, and Scotland won by
+three goals to two. Mr. Macaulay kept goal in fine style, and was the
+captain of the victorious team. The Englishmen chosen to meet the
+Scotchmen on the occasion were&mdash;Messrs. Roberts, A. M. Walters, P. M.
+Walters, N. C. Bailey, G. Howarth, J. Forrest, E. C. Bambridge, W. N.
+Cobbald, J. Lofthouse, F. Dewhurst, and T. Lindley. Besides the six
+who are mentioned below, Messrs. Arnott, Macaulay, Kelso, J. M'Call,
+and W. Sellar (who have already been noticed) also appeared against
+England in the same contest.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. Forbes (Vale of Leven).</h3>
+
+<p>Like certain cricketers who can only cut, and are weak on the leg-side,
+there are several backs playing for fair medium clubs just now who can
+only return the ball properly if they have plenty of room to work, but Mr.
+Forbes, who played in this match along with Mr. Arnott, was none of
+these. You were, in fact, not five minutes in his company as a spectator
+at a match before you were captivated with the style and finish of his play.
+In the excitement of the game you imagined it was "all up with the Vale,"
+when a crowd of opposing forwards were observed getting the ball nearer
+goal. All the time, however, Forbes was maturing his mode of attack,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">{53}</a></span>
+and like the unsuspecting animal that darts upon its prey, the crack Vale
+of Leven back dashed in, and you were sure to see the ball flying away
+down the field, with a magnificent return. While kicking he always got
+his toes well under the ball, and it was quite a rare thing to see Forbes
+kicking high into the air. A great favourite with his club and opponents
+as well, Mr. Forbes first appeared against England in 1884, when Scotland
+won by one to none, so that in both Internationals in which he took
+part his team were on the winning side. He is now in business in England.</p>
+
+
+<h3>L. Keir (Dumbarton).</h3>
+
+<p>When in the spring of 1887 Mr. Leitch Keir was chosen as companion to
+Mr. Kelso (Renton), and Mr. Auld (3rd L.R.V.), in this great event at
+Blackburn, almost everybody had confidence in them as half-backs, and I
+am happy to say that this confidence was not misplaced, for no better trio
+ever did duty in an International at that important position in the field.
+For good, even-down tackling, and hard work, both in heading and clean
+kicking, Keir was one of the very best men who ever played football. So
+proficient was he at a "free kick," that when a "hand" was given against
+the opposing team, in most of the Dumbarton matches, Keir was
+invariably intrusted with the ball; and when the infringement took place
+near the goal, the opposing team always dreaded his shot. He was also a
+very fine dribbler for a half-back, and could run out the ball in fine style from
+a hotly-pressed goal, and send it spinning down the field. In the succeeding
+year he was chosen to appear against England on Hampden Park,
+but, like the rest of the Scottish representatives in that fatal contest, he did
+not show to the best advantage.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. Auld (3rd L.R.V.).</h3>
+
+<p>During the past four or five years, Mr. Auld has been one of the best
+half-backs in Scotland, and was a decided success in this contest. No club
+in Britain has produced a string of better backs and half-backs than the 3rd
+Lanark Rifle Volunteer Athletic and Football Club. Long ago, many of
+their most brilliant victories were won by back play alone, and this means
+preventing their opponents from scoring, and keeping what they had got in
+the earlier stages of a contest. Among these old and tried hands I must
+remember poor John Hunter (who is dead), Mr. Alexander Kennedy, who
+still goes out to see his old club, and delights to give the young ones an
+advice; Mr. William Somers, the gigantic high-kicker, now in America,
+and many more, whose names shall long be remembered in football history:
+but to Mr. Auld. He is yet a brilliant half-back, and while by no means a
+heavy kicker, one of the most judicious men in front of a hard-pressed goal
+I have ever seen. He is a terrible tackler, and sometimes hugs an
+opponent so tenaciously that he forces the ball away and saves his side.
+The 1887 match was the only one in which he played for Scotland against
+England, but he appeared that same season against Wales.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. Marshall (3rd L.R.V.).</h3>
+
+<p>For two seasons, at any rate, and, I think, I might almost say three, Mr.
+Marshall has maintained the honoured position of being about the best
+right wing forward on any field. Gifted with an amount of speed, which he
+uses to the best advantage, combined with rare dribbling powers, he is the
+pride of the 3rd L.R.V. forward division, and no man is more missed from<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">{54}</a></span>
+a match. In connection with the last observation, the Volunteers had to
+play the Rangers in the third round of the Glasgow Cup without Mr.
+Marshall, and at the committee meeting before the contest, when this became
+known, it was like a funeral lodge of Freemasons&mdash;nobody cared to
+speak except the R.W.M. and M.C. Mr. Marshall and Mr. Robertson
+(Dumbarton) were the right wing forwards on the occasion, and several
+brilliant runs were made from their side. At the present time he is about
+the best at middling the ball in front of goal of any player going, and is
+one of those forwards who never seem to get into a fagged state near the
+close of a match.</p>
+
+
+<h3>W. Robertson (Dumbarton).</h3>
+
+<p>Some players are fortunate in easily securing their positions among crack
+teams, while others have to struggle on before their genuine ability is
+properly recognised. Long ago, ability in selecting a team went for very
+little, and positions, like kissing, by favour. Mr. Robertson, however,
+received no favour from any combination, and was selected on his merits.
+In that same season, I am almost positive, I saw him play in brilliant form
+in the Final cup tie, when the Hibernian overcame the Dumbarton on
+Hampden Park by two goals to one, and several of the other matches about
+the same time. He was a very fine backer up, possessing first-rate
+dribbling powers, and although a little shy in meeting his opponent when
+he saw a charge inevitable, rather preferring to use stratagem, was by no
+means afraid to go into the heart of a scrimmage and face up to much
+heavier men than himself. This was Mr. Robertson's first game against
+England, and he has no reason to be ashamed of the way in which he
+helped Scotland to obtain victory. On the Monday following this match
+he played against Wales at Wrexham.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. Allan (Queen's Park).</h3>
+
+<p>When Mr. Allan made his appearance in the first match of any consequence
+for the Queen's Park, he did so well that both club companions,
+opponents, and spectators were completely astonished at his beautiful
+dribbling and speed. In Ayrshire, when he played for the Monkcastle
+Club, he was looked upon as a very fair young forward, but a few practice
+games on Hampden Park seems to have had a remarkable effect on him,
+and in one short season he was such a good man that International honours
+were given him at once. In this tussle, which was one of the most trying
+of the meetings between Scotland and England, Allan played a grand game,
+and scored the third and winning goal for his country. The run that
+resulted in the score was started by Mr. Marshall, and was one of the finest
+ever seen in any contest. In a football sense, however, to use a simile,
+Mr. Allan was like Octavian's prosperous star, but with this difference, he
+vanished from the scene as quickly as he came, so far as first-class matches
+were concerned, and only re-appeared on Ibrox Park recently against the
+3rd L.R.V. and his old club, Queen's Park.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Glasgow Charity Cup Final Tie of 1888.</h3>
+
+<p>The Renton Eleven are to-day in the proud position of winning the
+Glasgow Charity Cup four times in succession&mdash;from 1886 down to season
+1888-89, and even now the holders of that handsome trophy. In these
+finals they polished off the Vale of Leven in 1886 by three to one; next
+season the same club by one to none; in 1888 (the year which I have<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">{55}</a></span>
+singled out for review) vanquished the Cambuslang by four to none: and
+last spring overcame the Queen's Park by three goals to one. In 1888 the
+Renton men held both cups, and what was of more account, won them by
+long odds against precisely the same opponents, viz., Cambuslang. In
+the final for the Association Challenge Cup the victory was one of six
+goals to one, and in the Glasgow Charity Cup four to none. This was,
+indeed, the largest score made in the former, and was equal in the latter
+to that made in 1877 (the first year of the competition) by the Queen's
+Park, when they defeated the Rangers. Cambuslang, however, were at
+this time a power in the land, and had previously carried off the Glasgow
+Challenge trophy in its first season. In addition to this, they are also
+credited with the record of fast scoring&mdash;having taken four goals from the
+Queen's Park in the last ten minutes of the fifth round of the Scottish
+Challenge Cup in 1886, but as the Queen's Park had five points on
+previously, they saved the game by one goal. The event of which I have
+presently to deal came off on Hampden Park on the 12th May, 1888, and
+ended in favour of the Renton, as has already been indicated, by four to
+none. The Cambuslang men played well at the start, and a close match
+was expected. Through some cause or other, however, they fell away
+considerably as the game advanced, and J. Campbell scored the first goal
+for Renton, and this was soon followed by a second from the foot of J.
+M'Call, the record at half-time being two goals to none in favour of the
+crack Dumbartonshire club. The second round, strange to say, was also
+well contested at the outset, but the grand forward combination of the
+Renton told the tale of defeat to the Cambuslang men, and other two goals
+were added. As none of the Cambuslang team have previously come
+under my pen, I give them first, and will include three of Renton who have
+not been noticed.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Mr. Dunn.</h3>
+
+<p>More genuine progress has been made in goalkeeping among the Scottish
+Association clubs during the last decade than the average spectator cares
+to admit, but it is nevertheless a fact. Mr. Dunn played in most of the
+best matches of that year, and while he did very creditably in some of the
+ties, had the misfortune to lose four goals in this contest. The Renton
+forwards, however, were too smart for the bulk of the Cambuslang backs,
+and woe betide a goalkeeper when he is not properly supported there!
+Mr. Dunn had a lively time of it in the contest, and saved some splendid
+shies from taking effect.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. Smith.</h3>
+
+<p>The Cambuslang team were never famed for the brilliancy of their back
+play. It was what the forward division had done for that club in some of
+the most severe and uncertain of their matches that forced them to be
+looked upon in Scotland as one of the crack elevens. Mr. Smith was
+rather of the quiet and unassuming order of players, who thought much but
+said little, and did his work well. He was a fine kicker with either foot,
+and his tackling was severe, but honest and clean. With a good wind in
+his favour, few backs could equal him in a long kick, but he sometimes
+made mistakes near goal when he was hard pressed.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Mr. M'Farlane.</h3>
+
+<p>The best back in the Cambuslang eleven that season was undoubtedly
+Mr. M'Farlane. He reminded me very much of the style of Mr. A. H.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">{56}</a></span>
+Holm (Queen's Park), who captained the Scottish team against England at
+Sheffield in 1883. He had rare ability in close tackling; used to get
+the ball away by clever heading, and was the most plucky young fellow to
+go to the assistance of a half-back one could see anywhere. His only
+defect&mdash;and it was a very bad one&mdash;consisted in getting up to an opponent
+and trying to take the ball away from him in the rear. Sometimes it came
+off well, but at others his club had to pay the penalty with a free kick.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Mr. Russell.</h3>
+
+<p>In the present contest Mr. Russell was one of the three half-backs, and in
+no match during that season had a trio such terrible opponents to encounter
+as the two Campbells, M'Call, and M'Callum, who were perfect demons
+among the Renton forwards. Russell held out bravely for a time, but was
+eventually cornered, and, in the second half particularly, "lost his head,"
+and allowed the Renton men to get up to Dunn too often. In some of the
+smaller matches of the club he played brilliantly, but did not really rise to
+the occasion in this memorable cup tie, and in most of the tackling came off
+second best.</p>
+
+
+<h3>John Gourlay.</h3>
+
+<p>It has often been said about Cambuslang that it was a club of three
+names! Those names, however, both individually and collectively, were
+fearless opponents to meet in any tussle, let alone a cup tie, and to the
+credit of Cambuslang be it said, no combination of players ever served a
+club so well, and had such pleasure in their hard work, as the Buchanans,
+Gourlays, and Smiths. They were more feared than admired by the
+members of the clubs twenty miles around, than the Elliots, and Armstrongs,
+or, shall I say, the Græmes, of the "debatable land" long ago.
+Both Mr. James and Mr. John Buchanan were famous players in their
+way, but the back was decidedly the best man, and was selected to play
+against Wales the same season.</p>
+
+
+<h3>A. Jackson.</h3>
+
+<p>Cambuslang's style of play, with their fast following up and jerky kicking,
+suited, or, I might say, favoured the old style of six forwards and only two
+half-backs, but they insisted on being in the fashion. The three half-backs,
+however, were only names to conjure with, but nothing in real practice, for
+Mr. Jackson was always made the kind of "flying man" of the team, and
+was nothing more or less than a forward. He always joined the latter
+division when they were attacking an opponent's goal, and retired well up
+among the backs when his club were pressed at the lines. In 1886 Mr.
+Jackson played against Wales, and was also included in the team against
+Ireland in 1888.</p>
+
+
+<h3>John Buchanan.</h3>
+
+<p>Although Mr. John Buchanan developed into a very fair half-back, and
+was selected to appear against Ireland last spring, he was included in the
+present match under notice as a forward, and I think he then played on
+the right. He was the fastest dribbler in the team, and a capital tackler.
+The combination among the Cambuslang forward division, however, on
+the occasion was completely spoiled by the superior tactics of the Renton
+eleven, and that fine passing for which the village team were so justly
+famed was awanting that afternoon on Hampden Park.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">{57}</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>James Buchanan.</h3>
+
+<p>Although similar in name, the play of the other Buchanan was quite
+different from that of Mr. John. He was always cool and collected, and
+had a fine style of dribbling and passing which sometimes rose to perfection
+itself, but in his runs he was fond of showing off, and was easily tackled in
+consequence. But for this fault he would have been chosen to play in one
+of the Internationals the previous year. No player, however, loved the
+game and his old club so much, and practised more self-denial to attend
+the field on the eve of a big match, and do his best for victory.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. Plenderleith.</h3>
+
+<p>Every club undoubtedly has its own ideal type of player, and I am almost
+sure that Plenderleith was the favourite among the Cambuslang forwards.
+He had speed&mdash;and rare speed, too&mdash;and with a kind of long kick that he
+followed up in a style of his own, made great progress down the field. He
+kept too close on the touch-line, however, and his great fault was kicking
+out&mdash;a dangerous thing when too near goal in this age of smart throwing
+in&mdash;for I notice a great improvement in this art during the past few years.
+We are, however, still behind the Englishmen in this respect, as most of
+them play cricket in the summer, and are consequently good shiers.</p>
+
+
+<h3>G. Smith.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. George Smith was what I might honestly term a fair forward, not
+brilliant, but steady, and a good backer up. He was, however, always
+getting too near the line, and often had to submit to the indignity of being
+pressed into touch, and thereby losing the leather. The fact was he took
+too much room to work in, and was slow in following up an advantage.
+To give him his due, however, he was a very earnest worker, could stand
+a deal of tear and wear during a season, and was always available when
+wanted in a hurry by his club.</p>
+
+
+<h3>James Gourlay.</h3>
+
+<p>There is not a more steady player going at the present day than Mr.
+Gourlay. He showed remarkable ability in passing and middling, and his
+fast shies at goal were really splendid. In this event he was at his very
+best. Once or twice he started well with the ball at his toe, and made
+tracks for the Renton goal, but was badly supported in the following up,
+and often got collared by the opposing half-backs. He possessed great
+speed, like most of the other Cambuslang forwards, and scored a lot of the
+goals for his club that season in their best matches.</p>
+
+
+<h3>H. Campbell (Renton).</h3>
+
+<p>The two Campbells were young players in the Renton team three years
+ago, and in this match were considered sufficiently good to be included in
+the forward division that did so well against Cambuslang. Mr H.
+Campbell was a very fine dribbler and passer, and good at close tackling.
+The passing in this tie between Mr. J. M'Call and he was splendid, and
+went a long way in winning the match. He was also a veritable dodger
+when he got up to the opposing half-backs, and the partisans of the clubs
+who played Renton in 1888 used to hold their breath when they saw
+Campbell in front.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">{58}</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>J. Harvey (Renton).</h3>
+
+<p>Unknown to fame as a regular player in the Renton eleven until the
+season when this event took place, or it may be the preceding one, Mr.
+Harvey was one of the victorious forwards. He showed fair judgment,
+and middled the ball very neatly to the Campbells and M'Call. His
+dribbling, however, was a shade too wide, and as he had excellent speed,
+sometimes he over-ran the ball at a time when the other forwards were
+following close up, and lost chances to score.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. Campbell (Renton).</h3>
+
+<p>Of all the young forwards who graduated in the dribbling game at the
+village of Renton, there never was a better shot at goal than Mr. J.
+Campbell. Smart on his legs, with a good appearance, he dribbled splendidly,
+and half-backs caught a perfect Tartar when they came close up and
+attempted to take the leather away from him. His style near goal reminded
+me very much of Dr. John Smith, who scored so many goals in the half-a-dozen
+Internationals in which he took part against England. Campbell
+never waited a second before making his parting shot, and sometimes the
+goalkeeper failed to get the ball before it went spinning through.</p>
+
+
+<h3>The Final Association Cup Tie of 1889.</h3>
+
+<p>This tie was decided at Hampden Park on the 9th February, 1889,
+between the 3rd L.R.V. and Celtic, and ended in favour of the 3rd L.R.V.
+by two goals to one. The same clubs, however, had previously met to decide
+the contest, but both played under protest in consequence of the weather.
+This naturally caused that additional excitement, which culminated at the final
+meeting on Hampden Park that Saturday afternoon. The 3rd L.R.V. had
+long worked for possession of the coveted prize, and twice it was within
+their grasp, for they played and were defeated in the final ties on two
+previous occasions&mdash;viz., in 1876 by the Queen's Park, who scored two
+goals to none, and again in 1878 by the Vale of Leven, who overcame the
+warriors by one to none. If ever a team deserved victory in this event it
+was the 3rd Lanark Rifle Volunteers. The Celtic were more than foemen
+worthy of their steel, and considering the fact that the 3rd L.R.V. had
+come through the ties so creditably, and had that season vanquished the
+crack English professional combination, the victory was a most popular one
+all round. As for the Celtic, they are a young and powerful club, and can
+afford to wait a season or so for victory, for you know "everything comes
+to those who wait." The crowd was large, the weather fair, and the
+enthusiasm great. The Volunteers played with the wind, and made their
+first point out of a scrimmage about twenty minutes from the start, and
+this was all the scoring in the first round. The play after this was very
+even, and the Celts were showing off some grand combined efforts, but
+were unfortunate at goal. At length, however, the Irishmen made a
+brilliant sally on the Volunteers' stronghold, and Mr. M'Callum put the ball
+between the posts. After this the play was so even that a draw seemed
+inevitable, and it was only by the determined play of the Cathkin Park team
+that at length the Celtic goal was taken for the second time by Mr. Oswald,
+junior, who was ably assisted in the successful run by Messrs. Marshall and
+Hannah. The Cup&mdash;that trophy which had cost some kind hearts (now
+silent for ever), an unsatisfied longing, and a constant anguish of patience&mdash;was
+safe to the old club at last! I accordingly give the players who took
+part in the tie, and start with the 3rd L.R.V.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">{59}</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>Downie (3rd L.R.V.).</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Downie deserves credit for the manner in which he has kept goal for
+the "warriors" during the past two seasons, when his club played and
+defeated some of the best in Scotland and England. In this event he had
+terrible work to perform, and got through it with much credit. So far as I
+can remember&mdash;and it is, indeed, no stretch of imagination&mdash;the goal got
+by Mr. M'Callum could not have been saved by any keeper, as it came out
+of a scrimmage from the Celtic man's foot like a rocket. Mr. Downie is a
+very neat kicker-out in front, and shows fine judgment with his hands in
+clearing the ball away from a crowd of opposing forwards.</p>
+
+
+<h3>A. Thompson.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Thompson is one of the best backs that last season produced, and had
+it not been that the two Queen's Park men&mdash;Messrs. Arnott and Smellie&mdash;had
+played together so well, and pleased the Committee of Selection in most
+of the best matches, Mr. Thompson would have been in the great International.
+As it was, he got the next best position, being chosen to play
+against Wales. He is a rare tackler, sometimes a little rough, but the
+finest kicker in front of a besieged goal I have ever seen. Sometimes in
+the heat of a scrimmage he loses the ball, but has the knack of recovering
+himself in an instant.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. Rae.</h3>
+
+<p>The Volunteers were remarkably well served with their backs in this tie,
+and Mr. Rae made a capital companion to Mr. Thompson. He is scarcely
+such an accomplished tackler, but for neat kicking and feeding the
+forwards when they are playing an open game, I know none better. He
+is a splendid man for judging distances, and if he is certain the ball is
+nearer one of his companions than himself, gets close behind and backs up
+at once. To see Mr. Rae placing the leather in front of his forwards in a
+good match is a treat of no ordinary kind, and it may be mentioned that
+he played against Wales last season.</p>
+
+
+<h3>A. Lochhead.</h3>
+
+<p>The three half-backs in the present tie with which I have to deal were
+Messrs, Auld, Lochhead, and M'Farlane. Mr. Lochhead has been long
+one of the "shining lights" of the 3rd L.R.V., and while in some respects
+inferior to Mr. Auld, has one grand virtue to recommend in a football
+player&mdash;viz., patience. His perception is keen and decisive, and if he
+imagines a daring forward on the other side can be successfully met without
+close tackling, he never fails to out-man&oelig;uvre him, and let the
+spectators see some rare half-back play. Mr. Lochhead took part in the
+Welsh International in the spring.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Mr. M'Farlane.</h3>
+
+<p>The 3rd L.R.V. were in perfect training condition in the tie, and well can
+I remember both Auld and M'Farlane coming in for a large share of
+hugging by excited partisans as they made their way up the steps towards
+the pavilion of the Queen's Park Club that memorable Saturday afternoon.
+Mr. M'Farlane is really a fine all-round player, and this season is keeping
+up his form in a way that both astonishes and delights his old friends. His
+"heading" in front of goal is very fine, and has saved many a shot from
+taking effect.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">{60}</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>J. Oswald, Junior.</h3>
+
+<p>No better pair of dribblers ever served a club than the two Oswalds&mdash;senior
+and junior&mdash;last season, and had more genuine success in the games
+in which they played. The forward combination, with these two men at
+their best, was decidedly the most powerful in Scotland, and undoubtedly
+won the match for the Volunteers against the Celtic. Mr. Oswald, junior,
+however, was the better of the two, and the manner in which he scored
+the second goal, which gave the Third the victory, was quite a treat to all
+who saw the tie that day on Hampden Park.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. Oswald, Senior.</h3>
+
+<p>The senior Oswald, as he was called, to distinguish him from his companion
+of the same name, played against England in the spring, and was
+as good a dribbler, but not so fine a judge of a goalkeeper's ability to get
+at the ball when the forwards were crowding round, and sending in shots
+thick and fast. The passing among the forwards of the 3rd L.R.V. that
+day was so good as to defy criticism, if that were possible, and Oswald,
+senior, was no exception to the others. The pair, however, loved the
+loaves and fishes of England better than the 3rd L.R.V., and are now
+"o'er the Border and awa'."</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. Hannah.</h3>
+
+<p>In some of the best games of the 3rd L.R.V. last season the passing and
+following up between Mr. Hannah and Mr. Johnstone were not to be
+beaten anywhere for splendid judgment and properly matured forward
+play. There are what is known to the player as certain degrees of pluck
+and endurance, and while I have in my mind's eye some forwards in other
+clubs, including Mr. William Berry, the Queen's Park light-weight, who
+must of necessity come under the first, I am inclined to rank Mr. Hannah
+among the second. He is, however, a first-rate man.</p>
+
+
+<h3>W. Johnstone.</h3>
+
+<p>Last in order of forwards, but by no means lacking in genuine ability,
+with rare dribbling powers, comes the name of Mr. W. Johnstone. He
+played a very steady game all through this tie, and was as fresh as paint
+after the whistle sounded the finish. Although not such a determined
+tackler as some of the other forwards not only in his own team, but in the
+Celtic as well, he is the most earnest worker in the whole club, and in his
+probationary days would practice unceasingly to attain perfection in certain
+points of the game in which he was deficient. He played against Wales
+in 1889, and in 1887 against Ireland.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. Kelly (Celtic).</h3>
+
+<p>Although Mr. Kelly is, so to speak, unknown to the game as a
+goalkeeper, he promises to become a good man below the bar. The
+ability of the Celtic goalkeeper, however, is certainly not equal to the back
+and half-back play; and, while Kelly did very well in this match, his
+duties were rendered less difficult by the splendid defence shown at back
+by Mr. M'Keown, and the grand half-back efforts of Mr. M'Laren. He
+has several good points, including the clever fisting-out of the ball, but is
+not a strong kicker, and sometimes goes too far away from his charge.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">{61}</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>P. Gallacher.</h3>
+
+<p>When the Celtic were hard pressed on several occasions, Mr. Gallacher
+always fell back on his goal, like the prudent general who covers his
+retreat, and no man did more heading and breasting in running the ball out
+that day. He wants the judgment of his companion in the same position,
+but makes up for it by fearless and unceasing work. He was hard pressed
+several times by Marshall and Oswald, sen., and had the worst of the
+tackling, but he generally came up smiling, and renewed hostilities with
+Spartan bravery.</p>
+
+
+<h3>M. M'Keown.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. M'Keown was decidedly the best back on the losing side that day,
+and his defence near goal splendid. He is not, however, particularly careful
+in his returns, and sometimes kicks over his own lines when hard
+pressed, but there can be only one opinion as to his genuine ability in close
+tackling&mdash;he can do it to perfection. During the game, even Marshall,
+who is not afraid of anybody, sometimes steered clear of M'Keown by passing
+up the ball to Johnstone instead of keeping possession to the last. He
+played against Ireland the same year.</p>
+
+
+<h3>W. Maley.</h3>
+
+<p>The Celtic had as their three half-backs in the contest under review
+Messrs. W. Maley, J. M'Laren, and J. Kelly (the latter of whom has
+already been mentioned in a previous article). Mr. W. Maley, if I am not
+mistaken, is a young member of a very young club that has made a name
+for itself in a couple of seasons. He has, however, a deal to learn before
+he can be classed alongside Kelly and M'Laren. He is kind of slipshod in
+his mode of tackling, wanting finish, but nevertheless a dangerous man to
+meet in a charge.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. M'Laren.</h3>
+
+<p>The finest half-back of the Irish combination is undoubtedly Mr. J.
+M'Laren, and in this tie his play was really magnificent. When the
+Volunteers' forwards again and again got near the Celtic goal, he was the
+first to checkmate them, and, not contented to work his own place
+successfully, frequently went to the assistance of some of the forwards when
+he thought they had more than enough to do. He played for his old club,
+the Hibernian, against Wales in 1888, and in 1889 against England for
+the Celtic.</p>
+
+
+<h3>M. Dunbar.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Dunbar was one of the most active men in the Celtic forward
+division in this match, and showed very good dribbling, but was easily
+tackled when getting near goal, and more than once "removed" off the
+ball by Auld and Lochhead. He is, however, a steady worker, and most
+reliable when backing up. Mr. Dunbar, if I am not mistaken, was at one
+time a member of the Cartvale, and played for Scotland against Ireland
+for that club in 1886.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">{62}</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>R. M'Callum.</h3>
+
+<p>In his general style of play Mr. M'Callum was not unlike Mr. William
+M'Kinnon (Dumbarton), who flourished from 1881 to 1885, and was one
+of the best forwards in that county. He was not such a tricky and
+cunning tackler, however, but faced up to his man with a confidence that
+betokened superiority. He was, like the rest of the Celtic forwards,
+a good dribbler, and possessed considerable speed. For a young player he
+was also very judicious in passing the ball, and during this contest he
+helped to start some of the best runs of the day. He played against
+Ireland, at Belfast, in 1888, and is now located in Blackburn, where he
+partners Harry Campbell on the right wing of the Rovers.</p>
+
+
+<h3>W. Groves.</h3>
+
+<p>It was in the final tie for the Scottish Challenge Cup between the
+Hibernian and Dumbarton in 1887, which the crack Edinburgh team won
+by two goals to one, that brought Mr. Groves into special notice, and it may
+be, for aught I know, caused him to be carried off by the Celtic later on.
+Like a good many other players, he varies a bit in his style. Some days he
+is easily tackled; while at others not a single back or half-back on the
+field has a chance with him, and it must be said of him that he is one of the
+neatest dribblers of the day. He played against Wales in 1888.</p>
+
+
+<h3>J. Coleman.</h3>
+
+<p>Among the forward division of the Celtic, Mr. Coleman was a decided
+acquisition, and during that same season scored a lot of goals for the new
+Irish combination, which came to the front with something like the rapidity
+of "Jonah's gourd." A beautiful dribbler and runner, he made several grand
+spurts towards the 3rd L.R.V. goal, but had a weakness for keeping the
+ball too long, and was often tackled by the sure feet of Rae and Thomson.
+In speed and general play he reminded me very much of Mr. William
+Miller (3rd L.R.V.), an International against England as far back as 1876.</p>
+
+
+<h3>T. Maley.</h3>
+
+<p>When the whole of the Celts were at their best, and this happened pretty
+often last season in their Challenge Cup ties, Mr. T. Maley generally rose
+to the occasion, and led his team brilliantly. His steady-going style is
+much liked, not only by his colleagues, but spectators, and it is quite a rare
+thing to see him grassed by an opponent. When approaching the goal
+with the ball, he is like the priest who had a "wonderful way wid him"&mdash;slipping
+through the backs in a manner that is sure to make the goalkeeper
+gnash his teeth, and wish Maley was far enough away.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">{63}</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="V_THE_PIONEERS_OF_ASSOCIATION" id="V_THE_PIONEERS_OF_ASSOCIATION"></a><i>V.&mdash;THE PIONEERS OF ASSOCIATION
+FOOTBALL IN SCOTLAND;</i><br />
+<br />
+<span style="font-size: small">OR,</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="font-size: smaller">"<i>THE CONQUEROR'S FOOTBALL BOOTS.</i>"</span></h2>
+
+
+<p>My football boots are getting what might be called shabby genteel now,
+and no wonder. If they could speak they would tell you many a strange
+episode in the life of an Association football player, and how he kept his
+place in a leading club for nearly a dozen years. They have been old and
+dear friends, those well-worn boots, and although now somewhat curled up
+at the toes, have kicked many a good goal out of a hot and exciting
+scrummage in front of an opponent's upright posts, and even in an International
+tussle; but now that they, like myself, have retired from active
+duty, and may reasonably be supposed not to be encumbered with existing
+prejudices, which in the nature of things might more or less interfere with
+expressing an honest opinion about the Association football player of the
+past or his colleagues and successors, I will introduce them to you, and in
+figurative language allow them to tell their own unvarnished tale. My
+last advice, however, to you, my old friends, before leaving you to the
+tender mercies of a scribbler, is not to answer all the questions he thinks
+proper to put. Please don't tell him what you heard or saw after leaving
+the football field clinging to my sole and instep, of my love intrigues, my
+stolen interviews with blue-eyed Annie, and when she jilted me and got
+married to Charlie Quilter, who played "left wing" in the Flying Blues.
+Charlie must have regretted what he did more than once.</p>
+
+<p>The Blues used to play us a couple of games in the year, and not long
+before Charlie got married he was, as a matter of course, one of their
+eleven. On that occasion I felt nettled to think that a big, broosy-faced,
+lisping fellow like Charlie should have "put my eye out," and could not
+resist the temptation of frequently crossing to his side during the game,
+and "going" for him. Oh! how my old companions, my boots, behaved
+on the occasion&mdash;the very laces almost burst with indignation; but Quilter,
+poor soul, never gave a winch, and bore it with becoming fortitude. He
+has now, like myself, got settled in life (I am a confirmed bachelor), and
+we are still the best of friends, for that "blue-eyed Annie loved him, too,"
+was one of those things I could never forget. It is too bad, however, in
+me to block the way with this dissertation, and not allow Mr. Boots to
+begin. I shall leave the rest to him with confidence.</p>
+
+<p>Well, once upon a time (began Mr. Boots), I was a combination of
+circumstances. That is to say, I went through many processes even before
+I became mature leather, and one afternoon I was brought to a small
+shoemaker's shop in Crosshill tied up in a bundle. There were lots of
+cuttings in that bundle&mdash;butt, ben, wrapper, cordivan, kid, calf-skin, and
+even sheep-skin&mdash;but I was then a shapeless piece of wrapper, kipp, and
+calf-skin. When I was trysted there were few, if any, football boots made,
+and the old man who was entrusted with my construction was a strange old
+"cove." He could make a pair of ordinary boots with any one, but was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">{64}</a></span>
+not so sure about me. I was ordered by a genteel, nice-looking lad, with
+red cheeks and clear black eyes. He addressed the representative of St.
+Crispin in a musical voice, but I then formed an opinion of my future
+master, that he would be a little conceited and arrogant at times, and this
+has proved correct. The instructions about covering my soles with bars
+was specially impressed on the old man's memory, and every detail was
+carried out to the letter. When we were completed, my brother and I,
+you would have admired us. If it were possible to have anything handsome
+in the boot line, except, perhaps, a tiny, fur-lined lady's slipper, it
+was us. We were sewed with substantial rosen-end, the division between
+the inseam and soles was filled up with real leather skivings, and not the
+trashy "jump" which makes up the bulk of the soles of football boots
+nowadays. The more, in fact, I think of it, the more I am convinced that
+the present make of football boots is a new-fangled device in the shoemaking
+trade, for are they not now got up of American leather, brass nails, and other
+abominations, free of import duty! My master, I remember, came for me
+(please consider that I am also representing my brother, for, like the
+Siamese twins, the one can do nothing without the other) on a Saturday.
+He told the old man that he was going to play a match with the Leven
+Crowers that very afternoon, and must have me. I was barely finished,
+but Tate's son got the bars put on all right, and I was handed over to the
+tender mercies of my new master. He was quite delighted with my
+appearance, and looked with pride, and even satisfaction, on my well-polished
+uppers and wrapper soles. There was even a half-'un going at the
+paying.</p>
+
+<p>The Leven Crowers were a young and powerful club, possessing
+more speed in running than any real football ability at the time. The
+club to which my master belonged was the first to introduce the new
+ideas in the game, as they were then called, in Scottish soil, and
+as there were only three clubs in existence at the time of which I am
+referring, the contests, as a matter of course, were few and far between,
+and, consequently, looked forward to with more than ordinary pleasure.
+The other two clubs were the Greenvale and the Kilback, but they were
+not of much account (so my master had often said, and he was supposed to
+be a good judge). I heard him say the Conquerors had "licked" these
+clubs over and over again, and that they weren't in the same street. When
+I was being laced up, however, for the fray that afternoon in the old toll-house
+on the road to Battlefield (the Conquerors had no such modern
+requisite as a pavilion then), I heard Bob Gardens express quite a different
+opinion about the Greenvale, and even go the length of saying that they
+had a draw with them on the previous evening after a hard fight. This
+demonstrated a fact that was useful to me in my subsequent career, viz.,
+never to credit what other folks (especially football players) said about the
+ability of opponents in the heat of a tussle. Talking about the Leven
+Crowers, they were not to be despised. Although the haughty Conquerors
+had given them their first lesson in Association football, they were
+fast coming up on them in some of the points of the game. I heard my
+owner say that the first lesson was given at Alexandria, and on that
+occasion the Crowers, who were then crack shinty players, arranged
+themselves in the field as if for a match at that ancient Scottish game.
+That they had not forgotten their first game with the Conquerors was
+amply illustrated in the present, which, I might again repeat, was my
+first outset in public life. I was stiff at first, and pressed my master's<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">{65}</a></span>
+instep rather hard shortly after the kick-off. The contest was played
+on the Recreation Ground, and was witnessed by very few spectators.
+True, there were certainly many choice spirits residing near the spot, who
+came out to see us and enjoy a quiet outing, and have a friendly crack.</p>
+
+<p>Little did these club companions imagine that that small but enthusiastic
+gathering of spectators was the harbinger of crowds composed of thousands
+of excited spectators who now assemble to witness big Association matches
+every Saturday, not only to see the Conquerors, but other clubs, very
+slightly removed from them in ability, playing "Cup ties." The Crowers'
+forwards showed great pace, and one of them, Will Cumming, repeatedly
+got past me, despite the smart man&oelig;uvring of my master. Will, however,
+was somewhat wild in his dribbling, and could not keep the ball close
+enough to his toes. Jim Wild was my master's backer up on the occasion,
+and as Jim was decidedly the finest dribbler that ever toed a ball, and kept
+his place for ten years against all comers, afterwards the pair managed to
+intercept Cumming before he got close enough on goal to make a shot.
+The Crowers' goalkeeper was a good one, and could clear his place of
+defence with great ability, but the backs were not of much account. Pate
+M'Wherry and Luke M'Tavish did the work at half-back, but their kicking
+was somewhat feeble when compared with those of the Conquerors, Tom
+James and Willie Keith. The Conquerors were far too anxious to score,
+and for some time kept up a close cannonade at their opponents' goal
+without effect. Bob Prentice used his hands cleverly, and, though the goal
+was again and again endangered, not one of the forwards on my master's
+side could get the ball under the tape. A fine run was made by Wild,
+Lucky, Grind, Short, and my master, and the ball brought up to within a
+few feet of the Crowers' goal, but at the last second, Johnny Forrester, one
+of their centre forwards, kicked it behind. This gave the Conquerors the
+corner flag-kick. My master, who was quite an adept at corner flag-kicks,
+was sent to the spot, and placed the ball in a good position, but Bob
+Prentice got it up in his hands at a critical moment, and threw it clear. Good
+runs were eventually made on both sides, and once the Crowers nearly
+lowered our colours, but nothing was got by either, and the game was drawn.
+In those days the rules observed were somewhat different from those in
+vogue now. The game was far prettier. There was none of that heading
+which forms such important factors in the style of modern playing.
+When the ball was thrown in from the touch-line the rule insisted that it
+had first to land on the ground before being touched, and consequently
+head play was unnecessary, and dribbling was, as a matter of course, considered
+the most important point, combined with taking smart possession of
+the ball as soon as it touched the ground after being thrown in. My
+master was smart at getting on the leather, and, next to Jim Wild, he was
+the most accomplished dribbler in the Conquerors. If there is anyone
+capable of telling what he could do, 'tis I. How he used to keep my toes
+in a circle as he left the grass behind his heels, piloting the ball past the
+opposing backs, I know to my loss, and a very great depreciation in
+tear and wear. He was a veritable "dodger," this owner of mine. Never
+afraid of a charge, he would, in order either to secure the ball or keep it,
+attack the biggest man in an opposing team, aye, and knock him over,
+too. Sometimes he lost his temper when things went against him, and,
+while his remarks to an adversary were somewhat cutting and at times verging
+on impertinence, they were always within the scope of "Parliamentary."
+In after life, however, my master found several foemen worthy of his steel<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">{66}</a></span>
+amongst backs and half-backs in the Flying Blues, the Crowers, the
+Cedargrove, Red Cross, and North Western, and he sometimes came off
+second best.</p>
+
+<p>It is all very well to say that there were "great men in those days." So
+there were, but the same remark can be made equally applicable now, for
+they are even more common, and you find them scattered over the length
+and breadth of the land. It would decidedly weary you, my friend and
+reader, were I to detail all the games in which I have taken an active part,
+and you will at once admit that I may succeed in pleasing you better if I
+give a short sketch of the leading clubs and players who have wrought so
+hard and done so much to make the Association game so popular. Jim
+Wild has been mentioned in connection with his club (the Conquerors), but
+it is necessary to give him a line or two more. There was no other Association
+club in Scotland when the Conquerors were put into ship-shape order,
+and consequently no opponents to play. They could not challenge themselves
+to mortal combat, and there were none but Rugby clubs, whose
+members treated the new order of things in football as childish amusement,
+and unworthy of free-born Britons. "Give us," they said, "the exciting
+runs, the glorious tackling, the manly maul, and the beautiful dropped
+goal, and we will meet you a bit of the way, but not otherwise. We don't
+believe in loafing about the field at times, when only one or two of the side
+are engaged; we want to be active." "Well," said the Conquerors (one
+of whom had been offered a place in the Twenty in the Rugby match
+between Glasgow and Edinburgh), "you don't know Association rules, or
+you would never make such absurd assertions about the new game. If
+there is really any inactivity in football while being played, that inaction is
+clearly shown in a Rugby maul, where the one half of the side are merely
+spectators. Besides, your game is only half football; in fact, a combination
+of football and handball knocked into one. Your run with the ball under
+the arm is only a display of speed; it has nothing whatever to do with
+football. We want the grand dribbling run with the ball at the toe, the
+smart passing and middling of the Association, and we will enjoy it."
+Such good-natured banter went on at first between two opposing interests,
+but by and by the difference culminated into something more.</p>
+
+<p>As a sort of <i>quid pro quo</i> for the courtesy extended to an Association
+player by the Rugby contingent in the Inter-city match, Tom Chaloner,
+the very <i>beau ideal</i> of a Rugby player, was asked, and promised to play in
+the first International Association match at Partick in 1872. Tom even
+came out to the Recreation Ground at Crosshill, and practised with the
+Conquerors as goalkeeper, and promised well in that position, but through
+some cause or other he did not play when the eventful day came. If ever
+a man could handle a ball and kick a goal as a quarter-back in a Rugby
+game, it was Chaloner. He was the pride of all the Rugby clubs in the
+country side, and was as well, indeed, if not better known in his brilliant
+career as a cricketer. Who in Scotland could bat like Tom? He was
+not a hitter to a particular side of the wickets; all was alike to him.
+He could cut, drive, hit to long and square-leg, and oh! how far! He
+would have made a grand Association football player, but he preferred to
+stick to the Rugby style, and was equally successful, at least to his club's
+satisfaction. The first match between England and Scotland at Partick,
+nineteen years ago (which, by the way, is worthy of note, was played by
+members of the Queen's Park exclusively), did a great deal to spread
+Association rules in Glasgow and district, and, in fact, eventually all over<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">{67}</a></span>
+Scotland. Hitherto there used to be a couple of months of interval between
+the end of the Rugby football season and the starting of athletics and
+cricket, lasting from March till May, and as the football players of the
+old dispensation were still in trim, but with exhausted fixtures, not a few
+of them, belonging to two of the leading clubs, did not consider it <i>infra dig.</i>
+to have a "go" at the new rules, "just to see how they could stand it."</p>
+
+<p>The outcome of this hastily-formed notion was that a sort of Nomadic
+team, calling themselves the Western Pilgrims, was formed, and three or
+four matches, and good ones, too, were played between them and the
+Conquerors and also the Cedargrove. The Pilgrims showed themselves no
+mean opponents in the new game, and, after holding their own with the
+Cedargrove in a drawn game, had a good tussle with the Conquerors on the
+recreation ground at the Park, and were only beaten by a goal to none, the
+goal, I remember, being made in the last five minutes by Bob Gardens
+(who could dribble and play forward as well as keep goal). A few of the
+Pilgrims took kindly to the Association rules, and while that season lasted
+two of the leading forwards joined the Cedargrove, and turned out capital
+players. Another joined the Druids, and became a famous goalkeeper,
+even going as far as playing for his country in the International match, and
+the fourth turned out a leading man in the Holyrood Crescent. Talking
+about the above goalkeeper, Aleck M'Gregor was one of the finest fellows
+that ever stood with his back to a goal. There was the cheerful disposition,
+the gentlemanly demeanour to opponents or associates whenever he
+appeared on the field. His knowledge of the Rugby game made him a
+most useful man at goal, where the keeper of that charge is the only man
+under Association rules who is allowed to touch the ball with his hands.
+With the ordinary goalkeeper the punt-out kick, when dexterously executed,
+was considered the most effective mode of saving the ball from going under
+the tape, when the use of the hands to knock it out was not deemed
+necessary, but Aleck preferred the drop-kick, which is one of the redeeming
+features in the Rugby style of play, and this he could do almost to perfection.
+I have seen him (for I have, by-the-bye, taken part against him in
+several matches) lift a ball after it had come pretty smartly from my right
+toe, and dropping it on the ground before him, kick it as it rose, bounding
+away over the heads of the Conquerors' forwards as they besieged the goal
+like a hive of bees on a June morning. He had decidedly the advantage
+over the modern "punter," inasmuch that the leather was always sure to
+go higher out of reach when the place of defence was besieged, and farther
+out of the way of lurking backs and half-backs, who, as a matter of course,
+crowd down behind the forwards when an attack is made on an opponent's
+stronghold.</p>
+
+<p>There were other instances which came to my knowledge (that is, if my
+reader can imagine anything so queer as a pair of boots possessing such an
+immensely human gift) of converts from Rugby to Association style of
+play, or rather perverts, as they were designated, but enough has been
+said to show how Association football gained a hold on the young and
+rising generation, and how it spread all over the western and north-western
+portion of the country, and, like the proverbial Eastern magician's
+wand, caused goal-posts and corner-flags to spring up in every village and
+hamlet with remarkable rapidity. Close to the shores of several Highland
+lochs, where a big kick by a stalwart half-back endangers the ball being
+swept away by the tide, one can see the game played of an evening by the
+village youth with great earnestness of purpose. By and by the new rules<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">{68}</a></span>
+made remarkable progress, and as the public liked the game, and deserted
+the Rugby matches to see what they considered the most easily understood
+rules, the breach between the rival contingents widened, and eventually
+the Jews had no dealings with the Gentiles, and so they both continue
+playing the games they consider the best.</p>
+
+<p>What changes have taken place in clubs and players during the last few
+years! Faces, blithe, happy faces, now gone forever, can be remembered
+by the old spectators, although the present scarcely ever heard their
+names; but I will not go very far back. Poor Dixy (for he is dead now)&mdash;well
+can I remember his first introduction to the Conquerors. My
+master had been indulging, in company with Bob Gardens, Jim Wild,
+Willie Keith, and others, in a punt about on the evening preceding a match
+with the Red Cross, and, after shaking hands and passing the usual compliments,
+the practice game was started, and in it the newcomer showed
+well, and kicked cleverly with both feet. He was, however, just a shade
+too slow, and I frequently tackled him, and secured the leather, giving it a
+deal of "toe" after passing close in on goal. The club were badly off for
+a goal-keeper after Willie Keith left for America, and, as John was not
+backward in making a display of his ability, he offered to act as goal-keeper.
+It would take too long to recount the games in which he and I
+were engaged in the subsequent career of the Conquerors, but an incident
+or two will not be considered out of place. If Dixy had one weakness more
+than another it consisted in a lively sense of his own importance as a crack
+goalkeeper, and the supposed invincible qualities of his club, which he
+often declared could not be beaten. He improved wonderfully in his new
+position, and, while playing some of the junior clubs, which were by this
+time beginning to spring up, it was positively amusing to see how John
+would advance quietly from his goal when it was besieged, and punt the
+ball contemptuously away with quite a crowd of young ones close up, awe-stricken
+at the agility shown by such a bulky form.</p>
+
+<p>A few of the Red Cross and Cedargrove forwards sometimes gave him a
+fright, and in one match with the Leven Crowers he was fairly outwitted
+by Boyd and Ned M'Donald in a cup tie. I fought hard in that memorable
+battle myself, and never got such a saturation with water and mud in my
+career; but we were beaten. I will not easily forget Dixy as he came to
+the field on that occasion, carrying his umbrella to the goal-posts, and
+laying it against the left one. He, poor fellow, expected his club would
+have an easy victory, and this belief was shared in by not a few of the
+eleven besides, including my master, who had, by the way, emerged into a
+centre forward since the last match with the Kilmarackers, and as a consequence
+he gave me a deal of extra work as a backer-up to Mat. Angus.
+In fact, not long after I was carefully laced and ready for the fray that wet
+afternoon, the Conqueror's eleven had a confab about the tactics they
+should pursue, and Joe Sayler, our captain (who is now no more, and lost
+to his club for ever), remarked it would take them all their time to beat the
+Crowers. He had, I could see by his anxious looks, grave doubts on the
+issue. At the outset of the game the rain poured down in torrents, and as
+most of the play was on the Crowers' portion of the field, the umbrella was
+put up, amid the laughter of the partisans of John's contingent and the
+pent-up indignation of the followers of the Crowers, who mustered strong
+on the occasion, and demonstrated a strength of lungs truly astonishing.
+John, by and by, when the battle became hot, had to discard his old friend
+and comforter, and work in front of his fortress in a way that he had<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">{69}</a></span>
+never done before, and when the terrible tussle ended, the Conquerors were
+beaten by two goals to one. When chaffed on the "umbrella incident"
+ever afterwards Dixy was silent, and declared that in using it he did not
+hold his opponents too cheaply, but simply with a desire to save himself from
+a ducking. John was also a capital oarsman, and when he was suddenly
+cut away in the pride of his manhood, he was barely 30 years of age. He
+was greatly lamented, and his handsome figure is missed from the football field.</p>
+
+<p>John's death reminds me of a young and promising forward named
+Smith, who used to play on the left wing of the Cedargrove in company
+with a smart companion named Seward. Young Smith was a very
+enthusiastic football player, and missed few, if any, practice games.
+Poor lad, I met him twice in one season in matches with the Cedargrove,
+and it took all my master knew to prevent him from getting clean past
+the Conquerors' backs and scoring. He was a nice dribbler, and like
+Fred Adamson (an old member of the same club), went straight ahead
+with a splendid hold of the leather. Talking about Fred, I remember
+that player, in company with Johnny M'Phedran and James Wilton, going
+for big Thomas, who was then the Conquerors' captain, and played at half-back.
+Thomas was an awful fellow to meet in a charge, and a hundred to
+one was sure to send his opponent to grass. Johnny, however, who was a
+little bandy-legged, held tenaciously to the ball, and while Thomas was
+eagerly watching his opportunity, Fred sent him flat on his back, and the
+ball was close on goal in an instant. There was a hard scrummage, and in
+the nick of time, Joe Sayler (who was then the crack sprinter of the
+Conquerors), dashed up and got the ball clear before it reached the keeper.
+Poor Smith, he caught a severe cold one evening, and eventually succumbed
+to a painful malady. The Cedargrove were at one time hard to beat. In
+fact, in the early history of the Scottish Football Association Challenge
+Cup, they pressed my master's club hard for the trophy, and were only
+vanquished&mdash;after three games&mdash;by one goal to none.</p>
+
+<p>The Red Cross were also dangerous opponents, and possessed not a few
+capital players. There were John Huxter, Sandy Kenneth, Jack Williams,
+Joe Drummond, and Bill Millins. They were not easily beaten. Sandy
+Kenneth, though rather a quiet-looking customer to meet in the street,
+developed into one of the finest half-backs that Scotland ever produced. He
+was always cool and collected, and, although by no means a very hard kicker,
+could judge the ball to a hair-breadth. Sandy was especially clever in
+tackling, which he could manage without deliberate charging. If the ball
+got up close on the goal which he defended, he would follow the dribblers,
+and with a clever man&oelig;uvre on the left foot, obtain possession, and after
+nursing the ball for a few minutes, would, amid the applause of the spectators,
+send it spinning down the field. Then there was Bill Summons.
+He was rather a volatile customer, and a perfect football coquette.
+There was scarcely a club of any pretensions in Glasgow but what
+Bill had wooed. He, however, stuck well to the Red Cross, and did
+some splendid service in their best matches, but eventually left them
+and joined the Conquerors, who, by the way, were just a shade too
+ready to take over the best men of other clubs by holding out tempting
+baits in the shape of big matches. Bill, with all his faults, was a
+grand back, and I question if anybody in Glasgow could make a finer kick
+when he set his mind to it. He had his failing, to be sure, and who hasn't?
+He was sometimes most erratic while playing important matches, and,
+especially on a windy day, would make grave mistakes with too heavy
+kicking.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">{70}</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Jack Huxter, too, of the Red Cross, was a very fine player, and a
+"caution" to get past at back (poor fellow, he, too, like Dixy, has gone to
+his account). He was a dangerous man to meet in the heat of a tussle near
+the goal-line, and woe betide the daring forward who would attempt to take
+the ball from Jack there. His only weakness was a frequent desire to "go"
+for the man instead of the ball, and charging rather heavily. Although a
+back, he was by no means an inferior dribbler, and possessing good speed,
+sometimes astonished the members of his own club by the smart runs he
+would now and again make in company with the forwards when the leather
+was in an opponents' territory. He stuck like a veritable leech to the Red
+Cross, and turned out most faithfully to all their important matches. I must
+not forget Willie Millins, who was one of the neatest dribblers of his day.
+He has given up football now. Getting a clear start, many an exciting and
+clever run he made for the Red Cross. I heard my master say that in a
+match for the Association Cup between his club and the Cedargrove, he once
+made a goal after dribbling the ball almost the entire length of the field.</p>
+
+<p>Then there was a lot of smaller fry, including good players belonging to
+the Dumbrook, North-Eastern, Gallowgate Rovers, the Locomotive
+Slashers, Thornians, Northern Jumpers, Edinburgh Irishmen, Partick
+Unfortunates, and last, though by no means least, the Flying Blues. There
+was no club in Scotland, except, perhaps, the Vale Crowers, that had made
+so much progress in the game as those Flying Blues, and few, if any, were
+gifted with the same amount of self-confidence. The Blues, nevertheless,
+had good reason to feel proud of some of their members, for they were
+young and active, and the very ideal of smart football players. It was a
+lucky thing for them when they migrated from the north and established
+themselves in the old ground vacated by the Cedargrove. Had it not been
+for that lucky arrangement, they might have wasted their football lives in
+obscurity, and gone down to Association posterity "unhonoured and
+unsung." Their success was as remarkable as it was swift and decisive.
+Possessing any amount of pluck, they tackled all and sundry in the district,
+and the second year, after gaining something like a first-class reputation,
+won nearly every game they played. Their captain, Tom Vincent, was a
+grand back, and, indeed, one of the crack men in that position, of whom
+Scotland has now so many to select from; and then there was Bentback,
+Bill Donoup, Jack Drummer, and Mat Neil, all fine players at their
+respective positions. Never shall I forget the match between the Blues and
+the Conquerors for the Association Cup a dozen years ago, about the last big
+match in which I took an active part. My master's team had had bad
+luck though, for after pressing the Flying Blues till within a few minutes of
+the game, the Blues beat the Conquerors by one goal to none, Bill Donoup
+sending the ball under goal at the last minute, although the story goes that
+he had a bet of a "sov." that the Conquerors would win, and it was even
+admitted that he was heard to say, when kicking the goal, "Here goes my
+blooming sovereign!"</p>
+
+<p>Although now stowed away in the corner of a large chest, side by side
+with jerseys, caps, knickerbockers, and other football requisites, as a
+remnant of the glorious game, my master sometimes visits me to think over
+the past, and I often hear him say that, although he does not play now, he
+still goes to see some of the leading contests, and at them picks up many
+queer stories of the modern players. Last year's crack men, as he sees
+them crowding in his "mind's eye," are not, he says, unworthy representatives
+of those of the past.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">{71}</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="VI_HOW_CLUBS_WERE_STARTED" id="VI_HOW_CLUBS_WERE_STARTED"></a><i>VI.&mdash;HOW CLUBS WERE STARTED
+LONG AGO.</i></h2>
+
+
+<p>When the summer game of cricket was far more extensively played in
+Glasgow and District than it is now, those who understood the feelings
+and aspirations of young men engaged in it repeatedly considered the
+question in all its aspects, and a combination of circumstances have
+occurred within the last decade which had seriously affected that game.
+The City of Glasgow could not, of course, afford to remain in a stationary
+condition to suit the convenience of a few thousands of cricketers. New
+streets had to be formed, new houses built all round, and with this advance
+upon civilisation came the deadly blow to cricket&mdash;at least juvenile cricket&mdash;and
+those clubs soon disappeared from the field. Ground after ground
+was swallowed up, and on the scene of many a hot and exciting match
+blocks of houses, railway stations, churches, and public works may now be
+seen. The Scotch youth, and for that part of it (just to give the sentence
+greater weight), the British youth, loves some kind of manly sport.
+Cricket he could no longer play for want of good and level ground, but
+then there was another game which, at least, could be played or learned
+under easy circumstances, even on a quiet street or big "free coup," and
+that was Association football. They soon took to it kindly, and many of
+them struggled hard and procured a ground. Not one, of course, like
+that on which they used to have their cricket matches long ago, but one on
+which Farmer Lyon grazed his cows and sheep, and they had it for a
+trifle. What did they care about ridges and furrows, or that it was a
+difficult matter to see the lower goal-posts when you were at the east end?
+Not a straw. The only matter which annoyed them (and this only
+happened occasionally) was Lyon's bull. Their club colours were red
+jerseys, with a small white stripe, and "Jock" (that was the animal's
+name), used to scatter the lads about on the Friday evenings when they
+were engaged in a big side. The players generally managed to clear out
+in time, but the infuriated animal once goared the best ball the club had,
+and next morning, as they had to play the "Invincible" of Glasgow
+Green, a subscription had to be raised for a new one. Football can thus
+be played under much more favourable conditions than cricket, or almost
+any other out-door game, at less expense, and this, in a great measure at
+least, is the secret of its popularity amongst the masses. It can also be
+played under nearly every condition of the atmosphere. Nothing seems to
+frighten the Scotch Association football player. Rain, hail, snow, and
+even frost, is treated with cool indifference. In England the ball is quietly
+laid aside with the advent of April and forgotten till the Autumn leaves
+are yellow and sear, but in Scotland Association football seems to have no
+recognised season at all, so far as the younger clubs and even a few of the
+seniors are concerned. With the sun making one's hair stick to his head
+with perspiration, and the thermometer at 90 degrees in the shade, they
+play away in the summer-time, and at Christmas attempt to dribble in
+half-a-foot of snow. Meantime the question about football being
+blotted out can, I think, be easily answered in the negative, and upon
+these will depend the future prospect of Association Football in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">{72}</a></span>
+Scotland. There are, in fact, "breakers ahead," and a strong and determined
+hand will have to take the wheel. The greatest of these is the
+"professional" football player, and the next the "greed of gate-money."
+"O! we never heard of a professional football player in Scotland," exclaims
+a chorus of voices; "there is no such thing. It's only in England." My
+remark, of course, is only beginning to be realised. The definition of
+professional in athletics "is one who runs (plays) for gain." Everybody
+knows what that means. If you receive any money whatever, directly or
+indirectly, from your club (except out of the private purses of the members),
+you are a professional. Are there not clubs, with great reputations, who
+have such members? If these are allowed to continue on the club books
+simply because they are good players, the committee are doing a great
+injustice to the other members, it may be under a mistaken notion. Now,
+as football has always been looked upon as a purely amateur game, and
+played by young men for their own amusement, it is to be hoped that the
+day is far distant when the professional football player, or even worse, the
+professional football "loafer," who does not work, but preys upon his
+fellow-members, will appear in a general form. In all conscience, if the
+public wish to see professional football (and I know from experience they
+don't), what would they think of the All-Scotland Eleven against the
+Champion Eleven of England? That might sound all right, but with the
+recollection of how professional athletics of all kinds (with the remarkable
+exception of cricket) are now conducted, and their low associations, woe
+betide football when the professional element is introduced. It will
+assuredly be the signal for its decline and fall. As for the greed of gate-money,
+of which some clubs are so fond, much might be said. When I
+refer to the clubs who try to gather as much cash as they can during the
+season in order to pay their legitimate obligations and meet the heavy item
+of ground rent, I show up an honourable example, and one worthy of
+imitation; but when I hear of clubs who have gathered ten, yea twenty
+times more than is required for such purposes, and even get handsome
+donations besides from their patrons, deep in debt at the end of the season,
+I begin to wonder where all the money has gone. I ask a young gentleman
+who has only lately become a member, and he tells me he knows
+nothing about the finance committee, but throws out grave hints about
+sordid motives and bare-faced applications for pecuniary assistance. In
+this respect clubs must be above suspicion, if they want the delightful
+game to hold its own and prosper. As a <i>quid pro quo</i> for this vicious
+practice, however, there is no game whose players are so charitable as
+those connected with Association Football. There is not a club in the
+Association that is not ready to play a "Charity Match," and far more has
+been given to the funds of charitable institutions by the actions of Association
+football clubs than all the other games in Scotland put together.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">{73}</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="VII_THE_GREAT_INTERNATIONAL" id="VII_THE_GREAT_INTERNATIONAL"></a><i>VII.&mdash;THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL;</i><br />
+<br />
+<span style="font-size: small">OR,</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="font-size: smaller"><i>NED DUNCAN'S DREAM.</i></span></h2>
+
+
+<h3>Scotland v. America, 1901.</h3>
+
+
+<p>While on holidays, enjoying myself at a quiet and beautiful sea-side
+village on the shores of the Firth of Clyde, I received a note from a friend
+reminding me that an old football chum was still on the sick list, and
+making little or no progress towards recovery. In fact, his life, which had
+recently been enfeebled by an incurable malady, was slowly but surely
+drawing to a close. Last time I saw him he referred to the fact that he
+had some MS. which he wished Mr. John M'Dowall, his successor in the
+secretaryship of the S.F.A., and myself, to read over, and when this came
+into my mind I resolved to repair to Glasgow at once, ere it might be too
+late.</p>
+
+<p>It was just as well that I did, for poor Ned Duncan was fast sinking
+when I got permission from his widowed mother to visit the bedside. Ned,
+I may mention, was one of the most enthusiastic players of his day that
+ever kicked a ball, but was obliged to give up practice in consequence of
+the unfortunate circumstances I have just mentioned, and of late had only
+been a spectator at the leading games. He received me that evening with
+a kind smile of recognition, and his pale face beckoned me to come near.
+I was certainly much touched with my old friend's appearance, and tried
+as much as possible to cheer him, but it was of no use.</p>
+
+<p>He said he knew he was going to the silent land. The doctor, in fact,
+had told him he had only a few days to live, and he was glad I had come
+to bid him farewell, and take over some straggling notes he had compiled
+last summer about the football of the future. "Going home one evening,"
+he continued, "after an International match, I fell into a deep sleep, and
+had a remarkable dream. I thought I saw a great match between Scotland
+and America. Real genuine players glided past, scrimmaging with each
+other for the ball; thousands of spectators, new and beautiful youthful
+faces, graced the area allotted to spectators; the hum of thousands of
+excited voices greeted my ears, and"&mdash;&mdash;Here poor Ned's voice failed.</p>
+
+<p>After a few minutes repose, the old player gasped, "But what need I
+tell you more. Here is the MS., and make what use of it you like."</p>
+
+<p>My dear old friend is now under the turf he loved so well to play on
+when in the zenith of his fame.</p>
+
+<p>Having eventually opened the packet, the first sentence which met my
+eyes was "Ned Duncan's Dream; or, The Great International of 1901."</p>
+
+<p>I will, therefore, leave poor Ned to tell his own tale, and what he saw in
+his vision, which at any rate has the merit of originality about it. As more
+extraordinary dreams have come to pass, there is no saying what the
+beginning of the twentieth century may bring forth, for International
+football matches with Australia, America, and Canada have been talked
+of, and some of them even played, during the past year or two, and may
+become accomplished facts.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">{74}</a></span></p>
+
+<p>I must, however, return to the MS., which reads after the following
+style:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"It was in April, 1901, on a Saturday afternoon, that the Yankees came
+to Scotland to play a match with our crack Eleven. The Universal Postal
+Service, which scattered letters all over the world at the rate of one half-penny
+per ounce, conveyed a formal challenge from the Americans to
+Scotland that the Yankees would be delighted to meet an eleven of that
+country in an even game of football. The New World men of course
+meant business, and our secretary, who was a capital fellow, much liked
+by the Scottish Football Association for his kind and obliging disposition,
+was instructed to accept the challenge and welcome the strangers to
+Glasgow.</p>
+
+<p>"Previous to the time I speak of, the Americans had beaten the
+Australians and Canadians, and were considered by their own friends
+invincible even to the extent of a couple of goals. The Canadians, by the
+aid of the Electric Express Line's fast steamers, had been able to leave
+Montreal in the morning and return in the evening from New York,
+defeated but not disgraced. The Australians were a little longer on the
+way, as the improved appliances for driving ships had not yet attained that
+perfection there which had been shown in most of the ports and rivers of
+the British Isles. They were experimenting, however, and some good in
+that direction was looked for daily, and a new Express Company floated.
+The Americans had also beaten the Englishmen the previous year at New
+York, and, as their own newspapers had it, 'came over to crow in the
+Land o' Cakes.' The great shipping trade of the Clyde ere this was, so to
+speak, causing a new order of things to arise all over the world. Large
+and beautifully-built steel and bronze vessels left the Clyde every day for
+all parts of the earth.</p>
+
+<p>"They had annihilated space and bridged the Atlantic in earnest, and
+the 'electrics' (once called steamers) could go from Glasgow to New York
+in little over twenty-four hours. Yes. 'Daily to New York, Montreal,
+California, and New Mexico. Splendid accommodation for first-class
+passengers: 120 knots per hour, and no vibration.' So read the advertisement
+in the leading Glasgow newspapers. Why! what did it all mean?
+One hundred knots per hour&mdash;3000 in twenty-four hours! To New York
+in a day! I had certainly heard of the swallow taking an early breakfast
+at the uttermost part of England and picking up a late dinner on the shores
+of Africa, all in one day; but 120 knots an hour with an 'electric,'&mdash;it
+was just enough for flesh and blood to comprehend at once.</p>
+
+<p>"'Well,' said a friend of mine with some experience in the marine
+engineering line, 'I have long thought on electricity as the great motive
+power of the future, provided it could be properly stored, and now you see
+what it has come to.'</p>
+
+<p>"In fact, our coal supply&mdash;one of the sources of Britain's greatness&mdash;was
+getting exhausted, and electrical appliances had become an absolute
+necessity. The strain could no longer be borne of one huge vessel consuming
+500 tons of coal in twenty-four hours, and those blessed electrics
+were not introduced a moment too soon.</p>
+
+<p>"The learned men of France, who had long been working earnestly to
+solve the problem of electric economy, were beaten in the race, and a
+perfect system of stored electricity introduced and successfully applied to
+the propulsion of ships, patented by Professor Scotland Thomson, nephew
+of the late Sir William Thomson, of blessed memory.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">{75}</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"Lots of other remarkable events had been occurring in our history, but
+none so marked as the introduction of the 'electrics.' The people of
+Scotland had very nearly lost their individuality. Old Caledonia was to
+be simply a name. Englishmen invaded Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee,
+and even <i>Ultima Thule</i>, and overran the country with their ideas of social
+life. They made slow progress at first, but came in hordes, and the invasion
+was irresistible. They, of course, introduced all their newfangled ideas
+about games and pastimes, and compelled us to submit.</p>
+
+<p>"Parliament had got so mixed up and thoroughly disgusted with the
+question of Irish Home Rule, which cropped up every session, that in
+an evil mood it had threatened puir all Scotland with assimilation of the
+Law of Jurisprudence, but failed. King Albert the First, however, had,
+out of respect to the great city of Glasgow&mdash;the Second City in the Empire&mdash;created
+his third son Duke of Glasgow, for you must know the House of
+Peers was still extant, but greatly reformed and limited in power. It could
+only veto a law passed by the Commons once, and there was no more about
+the matter.</p>
+
+<p>"The match, you may be sure, was the general topic of conversation all
+over Scotland several weeks before it came off, and on the Friday evening,
+when the Americans arrived and put up at the Express Hotel, Glasgow,
+the excitement was great. The preparations and arrangements for the
+struggle were on a grand scale, and good weather alone was wanting to
+make it a success. That evening several of the Scotch team strolled into
+the billiard-room of the Express Hotel to welcome the young Americans,
+and had a chat with them about football in general, and the spread of the
+rules all over the world.</p>
+
+<p>"The eventful day at last dawned, and a finer April morning could not
+have been desired. Play was announced to begin at 3.30 p.m., and long
+before that time Bruce Park, Cathcart Road, was half-filled with spectators,
+and presented a fine sight.</p>
+
+<p>"The crowd around the field was certainly the most remarkable that had
+ever gathered together in Glasgow. As the game was no ordinary one,
+they flocked from all quarters. Most of the towns in Scotland supplied
+their quota to swell the multitude, and as railway travelling was cheap and
+convenient now compared to the original football days of the Queen's Park,
+Clydesdale, Vale of Leven, Rangers, Dumbarton, Granville, 3rd Lanark
+Volunteers, Partick, Clyde, Alexandra Athletic (of which poor Duncan was
+hon. secy.), and a host of other clubs, a two-hundred-mile journey, which
+was easily accomplished in an hour, was considered next to nothing.
+They were there&mdash;young men and maidens from London, Manchester,
+Liverpool, Edinburgh, Blackburn, Darwen, Bolton, and Sheffield&mdash;all
+bent on making a day of it. The road to Bruce Park, indeed, was
+a sight to see, despite the fact that the Cathcart Railway carried its
+thousands that afternoon to the south-side. There were not a few buxom
+country girls in the crowd, enticed thither by no great love of the game&mdash;which,
+of course, they did not understand&mdash;but by their sweethearts,
+just to let the young persons of the place see that they had lads as well as
+their neighbours. There was one winsome lassie among them, however,
+who would have done credit to Burns' incomparable 'Queen o' the
+Glen.'</p>
+
+<p>"Emma was the only sister of a young farmer in the district. It is a
+mistaken notion to suppose that farmers in Scotland are by far too plodding
+a class to indulge themselves in anything savouring of English games and
+pastimes, particularly football, but this is a mistake. I know several<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">{76}</a></span>
+farmers in the country who love the dribbling game dearly, and do their
+best to promote its interests in the way of supplying ground to not a few
+young clubs dotted over the country. In fact, Emma was the beauty of
+the whole parish, and all the young men for miles around were well aware
+of it. No one could deny it, and even the most unreasonable of fellows,
+Charley M'Gowan, the schoolmaster, and Alfred Walker, the lawyer's clerk,
+were forced to acknowledge it.</p>
+
+<p>"'Talk about Sydney's heavenly Geraldine,' said young M'Gowan to
+me one afternoon on the road to practice, 'she beats her hollow.'
+M'Gowan, however, was a bit of a cynic, and Emma soon cast him off for
+Walker. He was a fine singer, and in after years, when he became a
+confirmed bachelor, delighted to sing songs about the inconstancy of the
+fair sex. He used to hum out G&oelig;the's 'Vanatos,' and more particularly
+that verse with reference to the fickle fair ones, which ran</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"'I set my heart upon woman next&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">Hurrah!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For her sweet sake was oft perplexed;<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">But ah!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The false one looked for a daintier lot&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The constant one wearied me out and out&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The best was not easily got.'<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>The Yankees, however, had a high opinion of our feminine beauty, and the
+impressions made on the gallant youths that Saturday afternoon were of the
+most favourable order. The Romans, in fact, were not more captivated
+with the beauty of the Sabean maidens than were the young Americans
+with the lovely Scottish girls who gave them such a hearty reception at
+Bruce Park in April, 1901.</p>
+
+<p>"Walt Vanderbilt, their captain, was a fine-looking young fellow, about
+25 years of age. Ere this the young Americans had completely discarded
+whiskers, and Walt formed no exception to the rule, with his closely-shaven
+cheeks and well-formed moustache. Good work in the field in the way of
+practice had made Walt's form show complete development, and I am
+inclined to think that a finer specimen of a football player never toed a
+ball. The goalkeeper of the team, too, young Lincoln, was rather a nice-looking
+fellow, nearly six feet high, and well-proportioned, with eyes
+sparkling with humour, but he lacked the fine open countenance of his
+captain.</p>
+
+<p>"The other members of the team were much of the ordinary type of
+humanity, just like our average football club men, with any amount of
+nerve and energy. If they felt excited at the magnitude of the work they
+had in hand they concealed it well, and looked as if they were merely
+entering the field to do a little practice. They wore the sign of the
+American eagle, dotted over with the emblematical stars and stripes. Our
+fellows had also an imposing appearance, with the lion-rampant on their
+jerseys, and, although looking rather douce and uncertain about the game,
+determination was depicted on every face.</p>
+
+<p>"The names of the gentlemen who entered the field were as under:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"<i>Scotland.</i>&mdash;F. Wallace (South-Side Swifts), goalkeeper; T. Glen
+(Queen's Park), D. Smollet (Vale of Leven), backs; W. M'Millan
+(Dumbarton), F. M'Neil (Rangers), half-backs; K. M'Geake (Pollokshields
+Athletic), P. Livingstone (Kilmarnock), K. Watt (Edinburgh
+Rovers), T. Stewart (Volunteer A.C.), T. D. Coats (Paisley Combination),
+and G. F. Turnbull (Clyde), forwards.</p>
+
+<p>"<i>America.</i>&mdash;W. R. C. Lincoln (New York Caledonian), goalkeeper; V.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">{77}</a></span>
+H. Grant (Texas Rovers), W. C. Vanderbilt (Hamilton State Swifts),
+backs; J. H. Armstrong (Chicago Association), D. Steel (Nebraska
+Electric), half-backs; D. C. Bramey (Victoria Boys), R. S. Chandler
+(Utah Gentiles), P. Whitehouse (Newhaven), J. S. Bryan (Alaska
+Pilgrims), W. D. Bangle (San Francisco Racers), and T. Lawrence
+(Washington House), forwards.</p>
+
+<p>"<i>Umpires.</i>&mdash;J. W. Marindin (South Australia), and D. Y. Jones
+(Canadian Association). <i>Referee.</i>&mdash;W. H. Littleton (English Association).</p>
+
+<p>"Before the game began, the Yankees offered to bet level money, and
+some of their red-hot plungers even went the length of two to one on their
+chances; but they were promptly told that the days of betting and wagering
+at football matches, cricket, horse-racing, and all genuine sport, were
+now numbered with the past in the United Kingdom.</p>
+
+<p>"Gentlemen, in fact, who loved and enjoyed sport for its own sake, and
+for that part of it, ladies too, had voted betting 'low and unmanly,' and
+even degrading, and as Parliament had been repeatedly petitioned on the
+subject, a bill was almost unanimously passed in the dying year of the
+nineteenth century abolishing betting.</p>
+
+<p>"The Loyal Irish Party (late Home Rulers), and the Rado-Toro
+Democratic Party (led by Lord Randy Chapel-Mountain), whose hair was
+beginning to get silvery-grey, and his long moustache to match, did not
+even oppose the bill, and it passed. Never did a legislative enactment
+work such improvement among the masses as this bill. It completely
+banished all needy souls and black-legs from the arena of honest sport,
+and left the field to those who came out of an afternoon and evening to
+enjoy themselves in an honest way.</p>
+
+<p>"The coarse language, too, of which our forefathers justly complained
+twenty years ago, had almost disappeared, whether through the effects of
+the School Board, I would not like to say, but one could now take sweetheart
+or wife to enjoy themselves, provided always, of course, the weather
+was at all suitable.</p>
+
+<p>"As for professional football players, no such thing had been heard of
+for years. They certainly died hard, but eventually no club would have
+anything to do with them.</p>
+
+<p>"'What is that?' 'Oh, it's the bell to begin.'</p>
+
+<p>"Well, the game did begin in earnest, immediately after a fair lady had
+thrown out the leather ball from the Grand Stand at the right-hand side of
+the field. There was no tossing for choice of ends, for a new rule had
+been just added to the revised code enacting in a most chivalrous way that
+strangers or visitors be allowed to select the side of the ground they
+preferred to play on for the first half-hour&mdash;for you must know, my readers,
+the term now allowed for the game was one hour, and that when the ball
+was kicked into touch, there was no throwing back into play with the
+hands, but it was kicked from the touch-line straight out before play was
+again resumed.</p>
+
+<p>"For some time the forwards kept the leather close to themselves, and
+the Yankees on the left wing, by a fine piece of man&oelig;uvring, were successful
+in getting it away, amid tremendous cheering. Chandler, who was one
+of the fastest sprinters in the world, and had beaten the record in San
+Francisco in the fall of last year, got through his men in brilliant form, and
+came down on the goalkeeper like 'winkum.' Just as he was poising himself,
+however, for a final shot, M'Neil deliberately crossed the field from
+the opposite side, and after dodging about the young American, rushed in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">{78}</a></span>
+and took the leather away, and keeping it between his feet for a couple of
+seconds, kicked it clear of the Scotch goal. A good deal of heading afterwards
+occurred near the home goal&mdash;the ball getting close on the lines
+several times, and even passing them. Many considered before the game
+began that the Americans would never have a 'look in' at all, and great
+was their dismay when they actually beheld their champions hotly pressed
+on their own ground, and look like losing the day. With a brilliant
+charge the Yankee forwards crowded round the Scotch sticks like a hive of
+bees on a June morning, and a straight shot from the foot of D. Steel, who
+rushed in from his place at half-back, caused the ball to glide past the
+Scotch goalkeeper like a rocket.</p>
+
+<p>"This was the signal for tremendous excitement. Crowds of partisans
+and friends who had come over with the strangers, and many enthusiastic
+lovers of the game and fair play, raised a loud cheer, again and again
+renewed, at this piece of grand play on the part of the Yankees. The
+intensely interested Scotchmen, however, while they certainly admired the
+pluck and fine play of the visitors, and cheered in a mild kind of a way,
+even though an enemy wrung it from them, kept very quiet, and not a few
+white faces might have been seen about the wire fence which kept
+spectators and players apart on Bruce Park on that memorable day.
+They, however, kept their own counsel, and quaintly said to the Yankees
+who chaffed them on the point, that howling was a very good thing in a
+way, but it should not be indulged in till people were out of the wood.</p>
+
+<p>"The teams then faced each other in midfield, and the ball had no
+sooner left the Scotch captain's foot than it was taken away, and dribbled
+down the centre by Bryan, Whitehouse, and Lawrence, and when half-time
+was called the latter was just finishing a good shy, which sent the ball
+over the bar. According to the new rules a quarter of an hour was allowed
+as an interval, and during that time speculation ran high as to what was
+destined to be the final issue.</p>
+
+<p>"To indulge for a moment at the idea of the Americans beating the
+Scotch on their own ground in the great International was a sore point for
+the bulk of the spectators with Scotch faces, but they said very little.
+They had a secret hope that their champions would eventually pull off
+the game, even though they had a goal to make up, and only half-an-hour
+to do it. They had, it was remembered with pride and satisfaction, pulled
+through many a doubtful match before, and Scotchmen, it was well known,
+were not easily beaten.</p>
+
+<p>"The young lady again threw up the ball, and Tam Glen, getting a
+good hold of it at his left foot, made one of the finest fly-kicks ever seen in
+a match, and the forwards on the Scotch side following well up, completely
+puzzled the Yankee backs and half-backs by their brilliant passing. Before
+you could say Jack Robinson, M'Geake shied for the American goal, and
+the ball knocked off the cap of the goalkeeper, and, hitting the bar,
+bounded back into the field of play. A hard and exciting scrimmage
+followed, and amid breathless excitement the Yankees cleared their goal.
+Five minutes of very even play followed, and then the Scotchmen set their
+teeth and made a desperate effort for victory.</p>
+
+<p>"Only ten minutes of the game now remained to the good, and there
+was, you may be sure, no time to lose. One goal behind, and at the great
+International, too! It would never do to allow America to whip creation,
+even at football! One final effort; no, two final efforts, and it was done.</p>
+
+<p>"The Scotch captain was seen to whisper something to his team, and in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">{79}</a></span>
+a few minutes the grandest run which was probably ever witnessed since
+football became a scientific sport in the world, was started, and, before the
+American backs, half-backs, and goalkeeper could realise their position,
+the Scotchmen bore down on the visitors' goal, and literally dribbled the
+ball clean through. This was, you may be sure, the signal for an outburst
+of cheering, which must have been heard over the half of the big city of
+Glasgow, which now contained over a million of inhabitants.</p>
+
+<p>"The game, however, was not yet won&mdash;it was only a tie&mdash;and when the
+representatives of Brother Jonathan again started the ball only four minutes
+remained, but it proved a bad four minutes for the representatives of the
+stars and stripes. Another run, backed up by a shooter from the left foot
+of Turnbull, settled the great International for that year at anyrate. Those
+who had hitherto viewed the game in moody silence began to come out of
+their shells (talking piscatorially) and join in the universal huzzah.</p>
+
+<p>"The Yanks were now fairly cowed, and when another grand piece of
+play by Stewart, backed up at the proper moment by Watt, put a third
+goal to the credit of the Scotchmen, the visitors, in the most gentlemanly
+way, heartily joined in the cheering for the victors. When the referee's
+whistle was sounded, the Scotchmen were declared the winners of a hard-fought
+field by 3 goals to 1. The crowd completely besieged the pavilion
+at Bruce Park at the close, and cheered lustily as the Scotch champions
+made their way up the steps. Nor were the vanquished Americans forgotten.
+They came in for a round of hearty cheers for their pluck.</p>
+
+<p>"There was a dinner given to the distinguished strangers in the evening,
+and the usual complimentary toasts proposed and duly acknowledged; but,
+as I was not present, I am unable to say who spoke best and gave the
+most enjoyable song.</p>
+
+<p>"At anyrate, a happy evening was passed, and, after spending a day in
+Glasgow, the Yankees sailed on the following Monday morning for New
+York, where they duly arrived without any mishap, after the fastest passage
+on record, having covered the distance from Greenock to Sandy Hook in
+twenty-three hours fifty-nine and three-quarter minutes."</p>
+
+<p>Such is "<span class="smcap">Ned Duncan's Dream; or, the Great International.</span>"</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="VIII_THE_PATRONS_SPECTATORS" id="VIII_THE_PATRONS_SPECTATORS"></a><i>VIII.&mdash;THE PATRONS, SPECTATORS,
+AND POPULAR PLAYERS.</i></h2>
+
+
+<p>They are to be found in all ranks and conditions of life, from the lord of
+the manor down to the apprentice-artizan and newly-fledged young man
+from shop and warehouse. Like love, football, for the time, at least,
+levels all distinction; and albeit I know, for that of it, many a well-matched
+pair, who have met for the first time on the grand stand at Hampden Park,
+looking back with feelings of intense pleasure to the time when their
+"infant love began." Were it not, in fact, that Caledonia is at times so
+"stern and wild," and that football and frost can never flourish together,
+the game would be far more extensively patronised by the fair sex. At a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">{80}</a></span>
+cup tie or an International match, it is quite a common thing to see the
+Convener of an adjacent county,<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a> the city magnate, the suburban magistrate,
+the Free Kirk minister, and the handsome matronly lady, standing
+side by side with the horny-handed mechanic, the office-boy, the overgrown
+schoolboy, and the Buchanan Street "swell." They all watch the game and
+surroundings in their own particular way. I once heard a quaint, but nevertheless
+true, idea of how some of the more familiar visitors give way to
+a certain failing, which in itself can scarcely be called such, but is not
+unfrequently looked upon with amazement by the stranger. The Scotchman,
+it is said somewhere, is not so much respected for the manner in which he
+goes about a thing as the way in which he does it, and the remark, when
+applied to this particular case, will be all the more potent. Here it is:&mdash;"Where
+are you going to howl to-morrow (the query is put on Friday),
+Jack?" "Oh! the Queen's and Vale, of course; they will have a close
+thing of it, and there will be rare fun," says Jack. "Old Anderson was
+very indignant last Saturday, and declares that he will never stand near me
+again at any such matches. He was quite ashamed of my howling, and
+positively charges me with digging my thumbs into his ribs, and nearly
+strangling his youngest son at every scrimmage near each goal." "It
+serves you right, Tom. I was always afraid something of that kind would
+happen; you shouldn't be so demonstrative." Tom was silent. He was
+as jealous of his own propriety and good behaviour as anybody could be, but
+being of a most excitable nature, he did things in the heat of a tussle for
+which he was afterwards very sorry, and many ignored the fact that he was
+an old Rangers man, who scored the first goal for that then young club
+in a close and exciting game with the once powerful Clydesdale.
+As the Association rules are very easily learned in theory, the great
+bulk of the spectators show an acquaintance with them which is
+pleasing to see, and when an assumed infringement takes place, it is
+generally heralded from some part of the field by a partisan of the contending
+elevens. The only apparently unintelligible point to them is the
+"off-side" rule, and I have seen a goal kicked in this way hailed with
+deafening cheers and waving of hats and handkerchiefs. These manifestations,
+however, were turned into low growling when the leather was sent
+away by a free kick. The ladies, too, talk about "free kicks," "corner-kicks,"
+"heading," "hands," "beautiful passing and dribbling," as if to
+the manner born. I cannot, however, dismiss the subject of spectators
+without referring to the use and abuse of a free and unrestrained vent to
+pent-up feelings. There is the low, vulgar fellow, whose collarless neck
+and general coarseness of exterior and language indicates that he possesses
+all the vices but none of the virtues of the "honest working man." Work
+he will not, except he is compelled, and although to "beg he is ashamed,"
+he would be the first to do a mean action if he had the opportunity. It is
+he who, by his foul tongue and very breath, contaminates the atmosphere
+he breathes, and brings some of the matches into disrepute. Unfortunately
+he has paid his money at the gate (sometimes he gets over the fence), and
+you can't turn him out; but he makes hundreds miserable. He is, in fact,
+one of the "unimproving and irresponsible," and moral suasion has no
+power over his hard and stony heart. Sometimes in an evil moment his
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">{81}</a></span>vulgar remark is challenged by one of the players on the contending sides,
+and this gives him an air of importance. There is nothing, however, which
+shows a want of gentlemanly bearing in a team more clearly than paying
+the least attention to exclamations from excited spectators. They should
+treat them with silent indifference, and if needs be, contempt, and play
+away as if there were nobody present at all. It is sometimes, nevertheless,
+very hard for country clubs to come to Glasgow and play for the city
+charities, and get howled at by this class of spectators at certain stages of
+the game. The great bulk of those around, however, are indignant at such
+conduct, and regret it all the more on account of being utterly unable to prevent
+it. There is another spectator, too, who not unfrequently forgets himself,
+and he is to be found on what might be termed the "touch-line" of society.
+He is the fast young man, who considers you a perfect nonentity if you don't
+bet. I don't mean betting on football pure and simple, for he only lays a few
+"bobs" on it, but on the latest quotations for the Derby, the St. Leger,
+the Waterloo Cup, or the University boat race. His "screw" is not very
+big at the best, but he can always lay "half a sov." on the event, whether
+his landlady's bill is paid or not, and touching that little account of Mr.
+Strides, the tailor, why, he'll pay it when he "makes a pile." He thinks
+too much of himself ever to get married, and the young ladies of his
+acquaintance may indulge in a sigh of relief at escaping from the toils of
+such a consummate fool. When he has something "on" a match, and
+sees that it is lost, he not unfrequently opens out, and is not over choice in
+his language. The game, however, goes on, and is greatly enjoyed by the
+general spectator, despite such drawbacks, and if you happen to go to the
+same locality on a similar occasion, you are all but sure to see old and
+familiar faces crowding round the stand and area.</p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> The late lamented Mr. A. B. Stewart, Convener of the County of Bute, was an
+enthusiastic admirer of the game, and many will miss his handsome firm and kindly
+remark when future matches are played on the leading grounds in Scotland.</p></div>
+
+<p>The modern Association football player is a man of some ability. As a
+rule he is temperate in his habits, with a good appetite, and sound in limb.
+Long before he knew what football was, he was blessed with a large share
+of health. When a boy at school he used to be remarkable for punctuality,
+but occasionally got into trouble from neglected lessons, in consequence of
+a weakness for indulging in out-door sports. He loved the rude style of
+football, then played, dearly (he knew of nothing better), although goal-posts,
+touch-lines, corner-flags, and other modern appliances were totally
+unknown. As for "hacking," it was endured by all and sundry with the
+air of martyrs. Why, if you had not nerve enough to "give and take" in
+that line, your chance of getting near the "goal score" was remote indeed,
+and you were looked upon as a coward and the verriest noodle. He, of
+course, grows older, and by and by joins an average club, and gets on very
+well. The crack football players, however, have many maturities. They
+generally come slowly, but surely, and leave behind them powerful impressions.
+They are like the occasional planets, not the stars which are seen
+every evening if you care to look towards the "milky way." They are
+mostly fine-looking fellows, with pleasant countenances and grandly-moulded
+limbs. They have just passed a severe course of probation in the
+football field, without even an outward trace of anxiety. The vagaries of
+the game admit of no distinction of class. The crack player is, in fine,
+found among all classes&mdash;in the gentleman's son, in the clerk at the desk,
+and the lad in the workshop. There may be different ways of working
+out the latent ability, but sooner or later it begins to show itself. Some
+thought it was scarcely fair in the Duke of Wellington to say that
+"Waterloo was won at Eton." There is not the least possibility of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">{82}</a></span>
+doubt such a remark might be misunderstood, and many feel inclined to
+charge the "Iron Duke" with ignoring the services rendered by the
+non-commissioned officers and men of the British army, for everybody
+knows that none but the sons of the opulent class can ever gain admittance
+to Eton. It looked, in fact, very like the credit being given to the officers
+for winning that great battle. Wellington, however, had his eye on the
+football and cricket grounds when he spoke these words, and no doubt
+intended to convey the idea that these games went a long way in bracing up
+the nerve which served so well on the battle-field. Close adhesion to the
+practice of any game really and sincerely creates fresh possibilities of that
+perfection and discipline. And why should this not be so in football,
+particularly as it is a game regulated by sharply-defined maxims? Everyone
+can't be the captain of an eleven; and as for Wellington's remarks, the
+most humble member of the team may show the greatest ability. You may
+belong to the most "swellish" of clubs, and have a fair reputation, but
+you are not chosen to play in the International. Your father may be
+the "Great Mogul" himself, but that has no effect. The coveted place
+can only be attained by merit, and this is one of the most successful and
+meritorious traits in Scotch Association Football. You don't, as a rule,
+even get a place now by reputation, and so much the better. When clubs
+were few and good players fewer, you were not unfrequently favoured with
+one, whether you deserved it or not, but now the matter is different, and
+justly so, since we cannot go into a single town or village in Scotland
+without seeing the practice ground and goal-posts of the now omnipresent
+football club.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="IX_A_DREAM_OF_THE_PAST" id="IX_A_DREAM_OF_THE_PAST"></a><i>IX.&mdash;A DREAM OF THE PAST.</i></h2>
+
+
+<p>I am getting old and stiff now, at least in a football sense, but have seen
+and played in, perhaps, more big matches in my time than many will be
+inclined to give me credit for now. Somehow or other the modern player
+does not seem to go into the game for the pleasure it affords nearly so
+heartily as his representative of yore, but it may be that the Compulsory
+Clause in the Education Act has made him more refined, or, if you like it,
+a good deal more cunning in hiding his animal spirits and exuberance of
+innocent fun. Be that as it may, the Association Football of to-day does
+not really possess the same charm to me as it did ten years ago.</p>
+
+<p>I was once a very fair player, but never considered sufficiently brilliant to
+get my name handed down to posterity as the crack half-back of the
+"Invincible Club" of bygone days, or proclaimed aloud in the secret
+recesses of the great "houf" where football players now retire to spend a
+social hour after finding themselves the victors of a hard-fought field. I
+must admit, however, that I did some clever things which the newspapers
+of that era ought to have at least given me a "puff" for, but they didn't;
+in fact, I never, like Byron (Lord Byron, I mean), awoke one morning to
+find myself famous, because my football was that of days long ago, in an
+obscure (to football, at least) country town; and, besides, the game then<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">{83}</a></span>
+was conducted in rather a rude and undignified fashion. Talk about rules,
+we had those which might, for all I know, have been framed by the "Chief
+Souter of Selkirk" himself to suit the peculiar mode of playing on the
+streets at Shrovetide (a practice still in vogue near that Border land). Our
+captain knew nothing of such new-fangled devices as the Rugby code, and
+far less of the Football Association. Ours, in brief, was a sort of
+combination of both styles of play. To win a "hail," as it was termed, the
+opposing side, with shoving, hacking, and other descriptions of horse-play,
+had only to pass the ball over the line, and it was won. Touch-lines,
+corner-flags, twenty-five flags, and even upright posts, and the usual
+concomitants of the scientific game of to-day, were unknown. This
+leads me, then, to the point of tracing the rise and progress of the game
+in Scotland during the past dozen years, leaving its antiquity and
+origin, about which there are mere surmises, an "open question." That it
+was played, however, in Edinburgh and Glasgow at least twenty years ago,
+under rules somewhat similar to those now adhered to by the followers of
+the Rugby Union I can well remember, and this was the only kind of
+football known by the young athletes of that time. Over a dozen years ago
+many were the exciting contests engaged in by not a few of the clubs still in
+existence.</p>
+
+<p>The oval ball, with its historical associations, has a charm for them.
+They then talked about the Association style of play with something akin
+to contempt. "What," they might have been heard to say, "is the fun of
+looking at people 'bobbing' a ball about with their heads, and the half of
+a team doing nothing, while a couple or so of the players are engaged at a
+time? Give us the closely-packed maul, the exciting individual run, with
+the ball under the arm, the gallant struggle to ground it over the opposing
+line, and, above all, the beautifully dropped goal." "But nobody goes to
+see your matches now," remarks a newly-fledged convert to the Association
+style of play, who has come to see the "Inter-City," "they got disgusted
+with your never-ending mauls and shoving matches, preferring to witness
+scientific manipulation of the ball in dribbling, and passing with the feet."
+"Pshaw! do you imagine we care a straw for gate-money? We play the
+game for the love of it, and the genuine exercise it affords," retorts the old
+Rugby adherent, "and respect it all the more on that account." "Oh! it
+is all very well to tell one that, but don't your leading clubs still charge for
+admission to their matches?" "Yes; but this is more in the way of keeping
+out the roughs from the field than for gain." Such conversation I have
+overheard myself, and none of the sides made much by it.</p>
+
+<p>Well can I remember the birth of Association Football in Scotland, and
+look back to the time when there was not as many clubs as I could
+count on the fingers of one hand. In 1870, a semi-International contest,
+under Association rules, was played in London between Scotch men living
+in England and an English Eleven, and continued till 1872, when, on
+November 30th, the first real International match between England and
+Scotland took place in Glasgow. In that same year, early in the season,
+the celebrated Queen's Park Club (to whom Scotland owes the introduction
+of the game), entered the lists for the English Challenge Cup, and were
+drawn against the London Wanderers. It was at that point that the
+matches which had hitherto been played in London between London
+Scotchmen and Englishmen were given up in favour of an annual match
+between Scotland and England, to be played alternately in London and
+Glasgow, and, if possible, so to arrange the contest that the Association<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">{84}</a></span>
+match might be played in England the same season that the Rugby match
+would be played in Scotland, and <i>vice versa</i>. It might be as well here to
+say that the celebrated Scotch club and the Wanderers, then in the zenith
+of their fame, played a drawn game with no goals on either side, but finding
+it too difficult a job to meet the Englishmen again, they scratched. Since
+then, however, the Rugby and Association Internationals take place
+regularly as each season comes round, in Scotland and England alternately.
+It is a curious fact, and one worthy of record, that the Scottish Rugby
+Football Union and the Scottish Football Association were both constituted
+in the same year&mdash;viz., 1873. The Union was formed after the International
+Rugby match at Glasgow, Dr. J. Chiene, of Edinburgh, being in
+the chair on the occasion. The Scottish Football Association was formed
+under the presidency of Mr. Robert Gardner, the once famous goalkeeper.</p>
+
+<p>The annual competition for the Association Cup, when the clubs who
+entered for it the first year only numbered 16, were proceeded with in a
+much more gentlemanly way than is the case now, but the reason is
+obvious. Hitherto young and inexperienced clubs never dreamt of entering
+against opponents with whom they knew they had no chance, and,
+consequently, the competitions were left to be fought out among the cream
+of exponents of the dribbling game. As each year came round, however,
+and young clubs began to multiply exceedingly, many of them considered
+they should have a shy at the "Cup," and as the entry-money for membership
+to the Association was only a nominal sum, they competed, and were
+never heard of after the first tie. No one who has watched the progress of
+Association Football in Scotland can for a moment deny the fact that the
+Challenge Cup has been the chief factor in assuring its popularity and
+rapid development all over the Western District of Scotland, and when its
+original promoters inaugurated the competition, it was done with the
+honest conviction of spreading a knowledge of the Association rules, together
+with generating a spirit of friendly rivalry amongst clubs.</p>
+
+<p>That it has been eminently successful in the former respect is admitted,
+but I can't say the same thing so far as "friendly rivalry" is concerned,
+and one has only to remember the manner in which some of the ties are
+conducted to point out that the term "questionable conduct" would be more
+appropriate. When I hear of men and lads deliberately kicking one
+another, and charging wildly when the ball is about ten yards away in
+front, I begin to consider that the time has positively arrived when the
+Scottish Football Association, if it wishes to retain its hold, should
+interfere, and make a selection of clubs to compete for the "blue ribbon"
+of Association glory. Quadruple the subscriptions to the Association if
+necessary, and, above all, revise the bye-laws in such a way that what is
+known as a "rough game" would be impossible. It is but fair, however,
+to the Scottish Football Association to state that they have long been alive
+to the fact, and have since taken the matter up while deciding protests.</p>
+
+<p>The Association Rules, however, are immensely popular with the people,
+and in some of the big matches it is quite a common thing to see 10,000 or
+15,000 spectators. I have heard of such people as those who actually hate
+cricket and football, and make it a constant aim to prevent those over
+whom they have some influence from engaging in the manly sport. They
+occasionally flit across one's path like an evil spirit, and disappear as
+rapidly, but leave behind a chilling effect on the imagination, far more
+intense than the terrible nightmare after a disastrous defeat. They cannot
+see the fun of spending valuable time in such a way. If you follow one of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">{85}</a></span>
+those gentle "cads," however, at the close of an evening, he may be seen,
+cue in hand, earnestly engaged at the billiard table. He is not in a happy
+mood, for he is one of the losing side, and there is a wild look about his
+eyes. He sometimes gets home rather early in the morning, and is not
+particularly careful of his choice of companions at times. They are childish
+amusements, these games at cricket and football, "and none but silly
+people," he continues, "would ever think of engaging in, or even
+encouraging, them any way."</p>
+
+<p>And another thing. There is a sort of prejudice to football, and, in fact,
+to a lot of healthful out-door exercises, in Scotland, among the older
+people, who can scarcely endure the thought of spending time under any
+circumstances; and parents are often the cause of degenerating a kind
+of deception more common than one would believe&mdash;viz., playing under
+assumed names. Surely it is much better for the young men to spend a
+spare afternoon on the football field, enjoying the fresh air, than being,
+perhaps, engaged in questionable "time-smashing," in the way of playing
+cards, draughts, or drinking. On asking a well-known dribbler the other
+day how it came about that he played under a <i>nomme de guerre</i>, "Was he
+afraid to let his real name be known?" The answer was conclusive. The
+governor was sometimes inexorable, and treated him to a lecture on filial
+obedience and the inevitable consequences of neglecting business. He
+positively debarred him from playing again, but Tom was not to be done.
+Taking advantage of the old fellow's absence from home, he yielded to the
+solicitations of his captain, and played under an assumed name, dribbling
+and passing in such beautiful form that thousands of spectators applauded
+his efforts, and his side won in a canter. As the non-indulgent parent did
+not observe Tom's name in the papers, his little deception was never found
+out, and he continued doing duty for his club in this way for a couple of
+seasons. And of the yet fine player who thinks he will retire as each
+season comes round, something must also be said. His eye has not yet lost
+the gleam of honest rivalry, and he snorts like the war-horse as each season
+comes round to be in the thick of the fight. He retired, it may be, last
+season, for good, as he thought, but the fascinations of the goal-posts and
+flying corner-flags was too much for him as a spectator at the first big
+game, and he yielded for another year, but it will be his last, for Maud,
+his beloved and beautiful Maud, will claim him as her own before June.
+"We have been long engaged," he is heard to say to an old club
+companion, "but this blessed football, of which I am very fond, has
+been the cause of putting off the marriage."</p>
+
+<p>I once knew a fine young fellow, a crack half-back, who was so anxious
+to play in an "International," that he positively swore he would never get
+married till he was one of the chosen team. He kept his word. He
+played twice for his country, got married, and, as the "unexpected does
+not always happen," is now the father of what may some day prove a race
+of stalwart football players. His handsome, though now slightly-bent
+form, is still often seen when a great event is being decided, accompanied
+by his wife and children, and woe betide the captain of his former club if
+he allows it to be beaten. "Well played; keep him off the ball, can't
+you!" he is heard to exclaim, till he is red in the face, and he goes home
+to dinner with something like an appetite.</p>
+
+<p>None but those who have positively come through all the grades of
+football probation really know what amount of labour, to say nothing of
+self-denial, is needed to make a crack back, half-back, or skilful forward<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">{86}</a></span>.
+Sometimes one has to be contented with a place in the Second Eleven for
+years, before some incident, it may be, brings him to the front, and reveals
+true merit. In football, of course, as in other things, I have found that the
+best men were not always in their best places, and when this was the case,
+what is known as favouritism came in bold relief, but in the end the club
+in which such stupidity was rampant suffered very severely. It did all
+very well when the club were engaged in ordinary contests with weaker
+opponents, but it came out in some of the big events, in which the guilty
+club predominated in the selection of men to represent a city, a university,
+and even a country. Fortunately, however, I can honestly say that during
+the last few years there has been little of this practised, and Scotch football
+under both rules is all the better in consequence.</p>
+
+<p>While every enlightened mind is willing to go a long way in advocating
+equality, the line must be drawn somewhere, and I am inclined to think at
+that stage where gentlemanly feeling and courtesy are absent. A very
+obscure individual may, by his conduct on the field, show that he at least
+can be a gentleman. In all such manly sports social distinction ought to
+be sunk, and that great and noble equality&mdash;that equality and love of
+honest worth which is so dear to the Scotch (and let me also say English
+heart) be ever remembered, when team meets team on the football field.
+We are shown noble examples of how in days gone by, peer mingled with
+peasant on the cricket field, strove with each other on the curling pond,
+and why should not such things exist in football? Let me hope that as
+each succeeding season comes round the noble winter game will in proportion
+show greater improvement, both in club and individual integrity, as
+well as higher scale of moral worth.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="X_THE_DUEL_NEAR_THE_FOOTBALL" id="X_THE_DUEL_NEAR_THE_FOOTBALL"></a><i>X.&mdash;THE DUEL NEAR THE FOOTBALL
+FIELD, AND THE CAUSE OF IT.</i></h2>
+
+
+<p>"And you tell me, Frank, that the old ground is at last cut up to form a
+railway embankment?" said Bob Smith to Frank Green (whose sister, by
+the way, had got married to Pate Brown last season), as they met one
+evening at Crosshill.</p>
+
+<p>"They will be long in finding a ground like Hampden Park, I'm
+thinking," replied Green, with the recollections of pleasant games and
+glorious victories for the Black-and-Whites, to say nothing of numerous
+gains to Scotland in matches with England and Wales.</p>
+
+<p>Since this meeting of Bob and Frank, however, the said Black-and-Whites
+have got pretty far forward with a new ground quite close to
+Hampden Park, and it is now being levelled up and put into condition.
+The railway embankment referred to is part of the Cathcart Railway,
+which will assist very considerably in opening up rapid communication
+between Glasgow and the whole of the suburban burghs lying south.</p>
+
+<p>While referring to the Southern Suburbs, which, it may be mentioned,
+are closely associated with the rise and progress of Association Football, I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">{87}</a></span>
+cannot refrain from alluding to several genial souls who have helped to
+make them what they are. None, however, is entitled to claim more
+consideration and credit than Provost Goodfellow, of Suburbopolis, whose
+official life, so to speak, has been spent in the cause of suburban organisation,
+accompanied, of course, with a due regard for Association Football.</p>
+
+<p>You must know, my brave Scotch readers, and those hailing from South
+of the Tweed, that the Provost of a Scotch burgh or town occupies the
+exact position of the English Mayor. He is the head of the municipality,
+and is, in fact, a kind of ruler of all he surveys, but about his "right to
+dispute," particularly when the November election comes on, why that is
+purely a matter of opinion.</p>
+
+<p>Well, the ruler of Suburbopolis was not a despotic man. He was
+certainly a little pedantic, and who, I should like to know, would not be
+inclined to lean that way if they had taken part in a great annexation fight
+with the chiefs of the big bouncing city of Glasgow, and beaten them too?</p>
+
+<p>Some years ago, it may be briefly explained, the Glasgow authorities
+devised a scheme, whereby all the suburban burghs were to be taken under
+the wing of Glasgow and lose their entire independence, and Suburbopolis,
+being close on the touch-line, was to be attacked first. Glasgow, in fact,
+was to act as the veritable annaconda, and swallow it up, but she didn't.</p>
+
+<p>Scotch Radicals, talking politically, had not hitherto much faith in what
+they considered an effete hereditary legislature, such as the House of
+Lords, but if there was one thing more than another calculated to bring
+about a Conservative reaction among the Glasgow suburban authorities, it
+was the attention paid to their vested interests by the Peers.</p>
+
+<p>The Commons had spurned their entreaties to maintain independence
+with scorn, and even relegated them to Bumbledom, but their lordships, to
+whom the case was appealed, literally strangled the said annaconda before
+she began to devour, and Suburbopolis, along with other five thriving burghs,
+were saved from municipal death, and still retain their Provosts. Provost
+Goodfellow was a most genial soul, and particularly fond of Association
+Football.</p>
+
+<p>He could talk about dribbling, passing, and backing-up, as if to the
+manner born. The only thing, in fact, which he did not fully understand
+was the "off-side rule," and many of greater pretentions were as far at sea
+regarding that said rule as the worthy Provost. He was the life and soul
+of Charity Cup Ties, and never failed to turn out to patronise them. Even
+the charming young ladies of the family (for you must know his honour had
+three handsome daughters) knew a good deal about the rules, and had
+several excited discussions with their brother Archie (who was a member of
+the Camphill), and Bob Lambert (of the Black-and-Whites), as to the
+respective merits of sundry clubs.</p>
+
+<p>These young ladies, too, had a long string of admirers, and no family
+acquaintance was more eagerly sought after than that of the Goodfellows.
+Suburbopolis, however, was by no means devoid of a galaxy of feminine
+beauty and well-developed male forms, who might have been seen of an
+evening leaving the handsome villas and terraces around the Park (for
+which the inhabitants were not taxed).</p>
+
+<p>There were, of course, the families of Colonel Black (an old warrior,
+who had been through the Crimea and Indian Mutiny), the Redpath girls,
+whose mother was a widow, the Snodgrass young ladies (three in number),
+the Misses Bland, residing at Jessimine Lodge, and, of course, many more
+lesser luminaries. The Colonel's daughters, or "Golden Slippers," as one<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">{88}</a></span>
+of them was called by several members of the Camphill, who had caught
+her in the act of watching a practice game on the eve of a big Cup Tie,
+wearing a pair of fur-lined slippers, and had her heart set on the Camphill
+beating the Black-and-Whites, was, indeed, the most handsome girl
+in the burgh.</p>
+
+<p>I would not dare to attempt a pen-and-ink sketch. It would fail in its
+effect. It's all very good for you fellows who have no soul for feminine
+loveliness to talk about girls, like babies, being all pretty much alike, but
+you are wrong&mdash;entirely wrong. Jenny was, in fine, a "bonnie, bonnie
+lass," and scores of young fellows, I know, would have gone considerably
+out of their way to have received "ae blink o' her bonnie black e'e."
+Emma, although scarcely so tall, was very like her sister, only shorter in
+the temper.</p>
+
+<p>After sundry matches at the field, Jack Black used to take a few of his
+companions up to the Hillhouse, and the young ladies received them
+graciously&mdash;congratulating them when they won their matches, and
+"chaffing" them unmercifully when they lost.</p>
+
+<p>There were at least three suitors for the hand of Jenny, but one of them
+resided in London, and the other at Skyview Villa, a couple of hundred
+yards from Hillhouse. It can be easily imagined that the local man had
+the advantage in the courtship, being, as the special correspondent always
+prides himself in adding to his communications, "on the spot."</p>
+
+<p>Bob Lambert was, to be sure, a welcome visitor at Jenny's residence, and
+a fast companion of her brother Jack, and what was more, Bob was quite a
+favourite with the old Colonel, who admired his fine appearance in the
+football field, and the brilliant manner in which he could "back-up" when
+that was needed to win a game. Bob, I must confess, was really a nice-looking
+fellow, with black curly hair, and a good broad chest. His
+features were well formed, and he possessed penetrating dark grey eyes.
+There was one thing, however, which told against Bob in many ways, and
+that was his hasty temper. He could brook no rival in his position as the
+best forward in the Black-and-Whites, and a word or two from the captain
+at a practice game was sure to upset him. He sometimes, in fact, took the
+pet altogether.</p>
+
+<p>Once, when playing a Cup Tie with the Athletic Park, he met his match
+in Charlie Walker (another of Jenny's sweethearts), who played at half-back,
+and the work done all through that eventful match was seen between
+the pair. Talk about coming in contact with "mother earth," why that
+was positively child's play when the two met.</p>
+
+<p>Walker was also a powerful fellow, and it was a case of Greek meeting
+Greek. "Bumping at Oxford," to use an aquatic term, why it was
+nothing! At one time Bob was seen tossed up in the air as if from the
+horns of an infuriated bull, and at another Charlie was observed lying on
+the field at Bob's feet. What did they care about the ball being fifty yards
+off? Not a straw, so long as they tackled and kept each other away from
+it. "That's not football," says one, "it is horse play." "Never mind
+about football in a Cup Tie," says another, "let the heaviest team win; go
+into the fellow." "Oh! gentlemen, gentlemen, fie, fie, Association
+Football is an amateur game, and as long as I play it," said the captain,
+"there shall be no cruelty done on either side."</p>
+
+<p>Little did the spectators know the real cause of the inordinate tackling
+done by Bob and Charlie, but the secret soon came out. The pair had
+previously been rivals for the hand of Jenny Black, and Bob was looked<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">{89}</a></span>
+upon as the winner. At least Charlie had not been seen at the Black's
+Villa for two or three months, and before this he always made it his house
+of call. But what about Harry Carts, Jenny's English sweetheart? Why,
+I had almost forgotten him.</p>
+
+<p>A team of Cantabs had played the Black-and-Whites just a year previously,
+and Harry was one of them. He had been invited to spend an
+evening at the Colonel's house, and had fallen desperately in love with the
+bonnie Scotch lassie. Bob was also specially invited and was present that
+evening, and although trying to be as affable as possible to the friendly
+stranger and opponent, could barely hide his jealousy when the gallant
+English forward kissed the lovely girl's ruby lips in a game at forfeits.</p>
+
+<p>Bob said nothing about it to Jenny, but Emma, the youngest sister,
+whispered to her brother Jack that Bob's eyes had a wild look that evening.
+The matter, however, was soon forgotten, as Harry Carts left Glasgow the
+next evening for London, after his gallant team had played a drawn game
+with the Scotch Black-and-Whites&mdash;the first one ending in that way, be it
+observed, that had ever been played between them and an English team
+on Scottish ground in the memory of the proverbial "oldest inhabitant."</p>
+
+<p>Harry Carts, to give him his due, was one of the best Association football
+players ever England produced. When Mr. C. W. Alcock and a few
+choice spirits in London, it is true, first opened the eyes of many football
+players to the value of the Association rules, and inaugurated the Football
+Association in 1863, Harry was a mere child. Appearing at college, however,
+he soon showed a liking for the dribbling game, and never lost a
+moment in doing his best to acquire everything he was likely to know
+about it.</p>
+
+<p>Just the season before our story opens, he had been chosen from an
+imposing array of names sent in by his club, and also the branch Associations,
+for an honourable place in the "Great International." His
+superiority, in fact, put his place beyond doubt, and he stood to represent
+his country first, and club afterwards, in a tussle which proved disastrous
+to England; but it was admitted by all who witnessed the match that
+Harry was one of the best men on the Field, and, in company with his
+half-back, showed the best form and pluck&mdash;the victorious Scotchmen
+notwithstanding. How the pair above mentioned tackled and passed up,
+to say nothing of backing and nursing the ball, I know full well, for I saw
+the game. Harry and his companion, in fact, were again and again
+cheered for their magnificent dribbling, and when the eventful game was
+over Harry was carried shoulder-high, in real Scotch form, to the Black-and-White's
+pavilion.</p>
+
+<p>The incident did not escape Jenny and her sister, who were standing on
+the gravelled walk in front of the pavilion. Jenny was sympathetic when
+she saw the handsome young Englishman cheered by the excited crowd,
+and when the excitement culminated into carrying him shoulder-high to
+the pavilion, a brilliant flash from her eye told the tale of regard. The
+young lady, despite assertions to the contrary, must have at least admired
+the young Englishman; and among the blithe and gentle faces who swept
+their cambric handkerchiefs over their heads, none were more demonstrative
+than the Black girls. They saw, with something akin to pride, Harry let
+gently down at the pavilion door, followed by their brother Jack, Jim
+Wallace, and Bill M'Clelland, all of whom had done great work in the
+big match.</p>
+
+<p>Harry did not lose sight of the handsome face which had haunted him<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">{90}</a></span>
+all the previous summer, notwithstanding his flirtation with the Italian
+girls in Venice. Venice, beautiful Venice! It was in thy classic city,
+close to the scene of the great Italian poet's labours and triumphs, that
+poor Jack Vincent (who used to play left wing in the Swifts) was found
+drowned, after attending a ball. Poor Jack, I think even now I can see
+his handsome, but withal, comical face, when he used to dodge sundry
+half-backs while playing for his club. Poor fellow! grave hints were held
+out at the time that he had met with foul play, but nothing more was ever
+heard about the matter, and Jack's friends never got any satisfaction.</p>
+
+<p>I am, however, going off the line with my brief story. Carts, in fact,
+felt Jenny's face haunting him wherever he went, and on the earliest
+opportunity came back to Scotland, asked the dear little girl to be his
+wife, got the crusty old Colonel's consent, and the pair were all but
+apparently engaged to be married at an early date. Harry was splendid
+company either on the field, at the Black-and-White's room in Battlefield
+Hotel, or at the villa. He could sing a good song, tell a good story, and
+crack a wild joke. Harry used to sing a new song about football, the
+chorus of which jingled out:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"In measured blow, the dancing feet,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Now moving slow, now galloping fleet;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With a leap and a curl,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With a sweep and a twirl."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>He declared that the song was original, but Archie, who was a bit of a
+book-worm, and never neglected taking in the "Monthlies," expressed
+grave misgivings about having seen something like it applied to a skater in
+"Scribner's Magazine."</p>
+
+<p>Bob Lambert and Charlie Walker, the other two young fellows who
+were looked upon as Jenny's admirers, were terribly shaken in heart and
+spirit when they heard of her flirtation with the handsome young Englishman;
+but such a thing as an engagement between them was never for a
+moment entertained. Bob was too much a man of the world to suppose
+that Jenny would ever give him up for another; and poor, soft-headed
+Charlie, why, he was sure the Colonel's favourite daughter loved him still.</p>
+
+<p>Matters went on in this way for some time. The football season was
+now about closed, as the month of May was at hand, and all the big
+matches had been lost and won, including the Challenge Cup Tie, which
+Dumbarton had carried off. For several evenings Bob and Charlie had not
+come across one another (although Charlie was also a member of the
+Black-and-Whites, as well as the Athletic Park). Bob had blamed Charlie
+for telling some stories about a fine young girl whom the former had
+promised to make his wife a year previously. The poor girl, it was hinted,
+had been jilted to such an extent by Bob, that she had broken her heart,
+and pined away and died.</p>
+
+<p>One evening the pair met at the entrance to the pavilion on Hampden
+Park, where a lot of the players were lounging about smoking, after having
+done with their sides. Most of the club fellows knew that Lambert and
+Walker had not spoken to each other for a long time, even to the extent of
+exchanging the usual salutations about the weather. They were, therefore,
+much astonished to see them in earnest conversation. Menacing looks
+were exchanged, and something like curses&mdash;not deep, perhaps, but loud&mdash;were
+heard from the rivals' lips.</p>
+
+<p>The fact was, the men had arranged to settle their "little difference"
+with swords. What do you think of that, my nineteenth century in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">{91}</a></span>telligent
+reader, with all your boasted approach to civilisation and sacred
+respect for life? Why, a cold-blooded duel with swords, and in the French
+fashion, too! Both hot-headed youths knew comparatively little about
+the handling of the chosen weapons, nothing more, indeed, than what they
+received while training in the Volunteers; but it was a "point of honour,"
+and they would do their best.</p>
+
+<p>Several of the Black-and-Whites, who had heard about the proposed
+"meeting," had a secret consultation with Ned M'Gill and Davie
+Merricks, who, it was whispered, had taken the friendly job of
+"seconds," and the whole affair was "adjusted." With swords this was
+impossible, and they resolved to resort to the respectable and honourable
+weapon, the revolver.</p>
+
+<p>The two men who were to face each other in terrible earnest, you may
+be sure, slept little or none during the preceding night. "Four o'clock
+sharp, mind, at the grass field, near Hagg's Castle," said the brave seconds,
+"and it will be all over in a few minutes." Charlie shuddered when he
+heard the last words (which, by the way, were deliberately intended for
+him).</p>
+
+<p>"<i>A few minutes, and all will be over</i>," Charlie muttered; "what if I
+should be killed?" His very teeth (which he used to whiten with cigar
+ashes, and was so proud about), were chattering. Thousands of ideas
+floated across his heated imagination. He saw his past life before him,
+and the only consolation, if it could be called one, lay in the thought that,
+should it come to the worst, Jenny Black's eyes would be dimmed with
+tears at his misfortune. He felt sure the dear lassie loved him, and he
+would brave death a thousand times rather than endure the anguish of
+seeing her married to a useless fellow like Bob Lambert.</p>
+
+<p>Bob, on the other hand, was really a cool and determined fellow; and
+while Charlie was in the throes speculating about probable dissolution
+before the morrow's sun should rise, Bob was actually priding himself on
+superior ability in handling a revolver. He was, in fact, far too arrogant a
+man to imagine that <i>he</i> could be shot by a silly boy like Walker. He had
+made up his mind to shoot straight when the signal fell, and indulged in
+the devilish pleasure it would afford him to read a "true and particular
+account" of the duel in the Glasgow evening papers, if good luck would
+favour him in escaping to the Continent.</p>
+
+<p>"These fellows are not going to come up to the scratch," said Ned
+M'Gill to the other honourable gent&mdash;as they passed the Clydesdale Cricket
+Ground a few minutes to four o'clock on that memorable morning. Ned,
+however, was wrong. Through the grey dawn a muffled figure was
+observed crossing the Pollokshields Athletic Club's Park, and making direct
+for the old castle. Almost simultaneously came a second individual from
+the vicinity of Crossmyloof, smoking a cigar. There was no doubt about
+it, for on closer inspection the figure was that of Lambert, who generally
+indulged in a good cigar, as he had a friend in the Anchor Line who was
+always supplying him with "weeds."</p>
+
+<p>A very short time sufficed to measure the distance, but the would-be
+<i>murderers</i>, no doubt, considered it an age. When the seconds advanced
+along with their men to the fatal spot, and placed them twenty paces apart,
+Charlie put one in mind of the poor misguided boy in "The Rivals." His
+hand shook, and his knees almost touched one another.</p>
+
+<p><i>The signal was given</i>, and bang went the revolvers from both sides.
+None of the young men, however, seemed to have been hit; and while<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">{92}</a></span>
+Charlie was almost sinking on the ground from excitement, Bob might have
+been seen examining his weapon with suspicion, at the same time casting a
+glance at his rival and wondering why he did not fall. A second or two
+more, and the latter fired another shot, and this time poor Charlie dropped
+his pistol and fell back on the grass.</p>
+
+<p>Bob was satisfied he had done the business now, and taking the advice
+of Davie Merricks, he fled for his life; getting the early train for Greenock
+and thence per steamer "Golden Eagle," to the Isle of Man.</p>
+
+<p>The "seconds" (and a few strange figures that were seen lurking about)
+of course, lifted the supposed dying man from the grass, and as his "life's
+blood ebbed away," they whispered about being willing to fill a last
+request. Poor Charlie's brow was covered with blood, and as he himself
+expressed the terrible sensation of "feeling a pistol ball bobbing about in
+his brain," arrangements were hastily made for having him consigned to
+relatives. Accordingly his lodgings were sought after and easily found by
+the excited hansom driver who had taken them near the fatal spot.</p>
+
+<p>All the time the affair was going on the driver threw out grave hints
+about reporting the whole matter to the police. When they reached
+Greenfield Avenue, however, there was still some life in Charlie, but he
+said he "knew he was dying," and forgave everybody who had taken
+part in the rascally business.</p>
+
+<p>Higgins, the hansom driver, was as good as his word, and after leaving
+the place, went direct to the Suburbopolis Police Office, and got the whole
+matter reported. Not very long after the police surrounded the house in
+Greenfield Avenue, and Provost Goodfellow (who, it may be remarked,
+was the only magistrate at home when the affair took place, and had to be
+aroused for the purpose), came in all haste to take the "dying deposition."
+Meanwhile Dr. Barrister, one of the best of the local surgeons, was in
+attendance.</p>
+
+<p>The doctor, however, suspecting something soon after feeling the
+supposed wounded man's pulse, and judge of the surprise, to say nothing
+of indignation, when the doctor, and then the Provost, began to indulge in
+a hearty fit of unrestrained laughter. The "seconds" knew their business
+well, for they had <i>loaded the weapons with blank cartridges and a few drops
+of bullock's blood</i>, and some of the contents of Bob's pistol had hit Charlie
+on the brow.</p>
+
+<p>Poor Charlie, he was so terribly shaken and nervous after being hit that
+he was long in getting the better of the fright. Like the French prisoner
+whom the cruel authorities of the "Inquisition" determined should be experimented
+upon as a victim of imagination in the way of supposed bleeding
+to death, Charlie, although he had not received a scratch, thought he was
+dying fast, till the doctor informed him of the imaginary wound.</p>
+
+<p>A few days afterwards the affair was "hushed up," and nobody was
+better pleased when he heard the true state of matters than Bob Lambert
+himself. His friend Jim Campbell had sent a letter to Douglas Post
+Office, to be called for, under a fictitious name, and Bob soon returned
+to Glasgow.</p>
+
+<p>When little Jenny Black was told the same morning of the duel, that
+Charlie Walker had been shot by Bob Lambert, she fainted clean away,
+and afterwards refused to be comforted. "To think that she, a poor weak
+girl, should have been the cause of such a terrible tragedy," she was heard
+to say to her sister, "I'm afraid I'll never get over it." When the true
+state of matters, however, was revealed, and the whole affair brought up in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">{93}</a></span>
+its real light, it afforded immense merriment all over Suburbopolis, and
+when football players met to spend a social hour, the duel between Bob
+Lambert and Charlie Walker is, of course, alluded to as a standard joke.</p>
+
+<p>A few months afterwards there was a nice wedding at Colonel Black's
+villa, and strange as it may seem, both Lambert and Walker were there,
+together with quite a crowd of football players and their sweethearts.</p>
+
+<p>The reader will, of course, easily make out who wore the bridal dress,
+and looked lovely in it, too. Surprise, however, not, it is to be hoped,
+altogether unmixed with satisfaction, will be expressed, when the bride-groom
+appears in the person of Charlie Walker, Jenny's own love. Harry
+Carts, the handsome Englishman, she certainly admired, but did not
+actually love sufficiently to make a husband of. He, in fact, seemed to
+have been too fond of company, and in correspondence a coldness had
+sprung up between them, and ended in two parting letters.</p>
+
+<p>Jenny loved Charlie Walker best, and accordingly gave him her heart
+and hand. "What he had suffered for her sake," the young lady was
+heard to express to a confidant, "no one but himself knew." They are,
+however, now a happy pair, and when Cup Ties and big matches are being
+played near Suburbopolis, you will be sure to see Charlie and his handsome
+wife on the field.</p>
+
+<p>As for Bob Lambert, who was forgiven, he became more of a man in
+subduing his temper and general disposition, and one evening told his old
+rival that he would never forget till his dying day&mdash;"<span class="smcap">The Duel near
+the Football Field</span>."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="XI_THE_FINAL_TIE_FOR_THE_ASSOCIATION" id="XI_THE_FINAL_TIE_FOR_THE_ASSOCIATION"></a><i>XI.&mdash;THE FINAL TIE FOR THE ASSOCIATION
+CHALLENGE CUP&mdash;1889-90.</i></h2>
+
+
+<h3>TWO MEMORABLE MATCHES.</h3>
+
+
+<p>A couple of matches had to played before the final tie for the Association
+Challenge Cup was decided, and at the earnest request of numerous friends
+I have reproduced my articles on both games, which appeared in the Daily
+Mail, and trust they will be considered worthy a place in the volume.
+The following is the</p>
+
+
+<h3>First Match.</h3>
+
+<p>This important contest, which had to be postponed the previous
+Saturday in consequence of the dense fog which enveloped the city and
+suburbs in semi-darkness, came off at Ibrox Park, and resulted in a draw&mdash;each
+side scoring a goal. Early in the forenoon the weather in every
+particular looked like a counterpart of the previous Saturday, and it was
+not till well on in the day that the Association Committee finally decided
+to go on with the match. Even with this short notice, combined with the
+fact that heavy rain came on and continued till well on in the second half,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">{94}</a></span>
+the attendance of spectators was large, about 11,000, and this is borne out
+by the cash lifted at the gate, some £500. Of this the Association gets a
+third, and the other two-thirds are equally divided between the contending
+teams. The proceeds of the stand, however, went to the Rangers' funds,
+as that club gave their ground free of charge to the Association to play off
+the tie. Paisley Road and Govan Road presented a scene to be
+remembered from two o'clock till well on for 3.30 <span class="smcap lowercase">P.M.</span>, being thronged
+with vehicles of every kind, from the carriage and pair, the hansom and
+cab, down to the modest van. Pedestrians, too, were numerous, and on
+the Govan Road the Vale of Clyde Tramway Company, with extra cars,
+reaped a good harvest. On the way down, and in the field itself, the
+usual good-natured banter was largely indulged in, and as football
+enthusiasts, like the rest of impatient spectators, are only human, they were
+in better temper at the start of the contest than was the case at the finish.
+The meeting of the Queen's Park and Vale of Leven, in fact, revived old
+times among the once brilliant players of both clubs, many of whom were
+present on Saturday to "fight their battles o'er again." "Dae ye ken,"
+said an old man as the game proceeded, "I wis present at old Hampden
+Park on the wet Hogmanay afternoon long ago, when the Vale licked the
+Queen's by two to one in a Cup tie, and I wish'd ye'd a' seen the Queen's
+Park committee men and their supporters that day when the bare fac' wis
+kent. I'm thinkin' they didna craw sae crouse, and maybe they'll get a
+fricht the noo." When the Vale scored their goal a wag, primed with a
+fair-sized pocket pistol, no doubt containing the best&mdash;well, every public-house
+salesman will tell you at anyrate, it is the "best," and charge for it,
+too, as "special"&mdash;began to lilt a verse of the popular pantomime song,
+"Their funeral's to-morrow," hinting heavily about the decline and fall of
+the Queen's Park. Many saw the point, and laughed; while others gave
+the jolly fellow a look that betokened contempt and dismay. "Wait till
+the second half," said a quiet supporter of the senior club, "and ye'll see
+what they can dae; they're only making some fun." In pressing forward,
+leaning against the pailings, were not a few critical rivet boys and iron-workers,
+whose running comments were amusing in the extreme. Of some
+young fellows who came down from the city dressed up in style, one of the
+"black squad" was heard to say, "Don't they look blooming 'swells,'
+with their gloves and G.O.M. collars, and you wid think that the whole
+landed property about is theirs, even to Ibrox Park itself. Crush up, Bob.
+We've paid our money as well as the lot, and must get share of the view.
+Crush up." "Man, jock, they've got a new ile for training and rubbin'
+up the fitballers noo. It's whit they ca' herbuline, and it keeps out the
+cauld and warms ye unca' much; but the smell's sae strong that it
+nearly blin's ye." No doubt some kind of specific was required
+on such a trying day as Saturday, for it was indeed a clear case of
+illustrating the old adage, when exclusively applied to man, about the
+survival of the fittest. There is this about Ibrox Park, however, which
+certainly recommends it to the impartial spectator&mdash;fine even turf, without
+a flaw, and no advantage even to the home club itself when playing
+matches. It is well sheltered, and the arrangements for the big crowd
+were ample, and well carried out by the Rangers' committee and the
+Scottish Football Association, for whom Mr John M'Dowall, the secretary,
+acted with much credit. The Govan policemen (at least most of them)
+love a good game at football as dearly as the old Highland landlady lo'ed a
+lord, and what is more, their respected chief shows them a good example,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">{95}</a></span>
+as he is generally to be found at Ibrox Park, in company with other burgh
+officials, when there is a good thing on. The early editions of the evening
+papers were largely in request, not by any means for the purpose of reading,
+as all attention was directed to the game, and in the anxiety to see the
+players before the contest began, but for the sole purpose of being "sat
+on." The supply was soon exhausted, and one speculative newsboy, taking
+in the situation at a glance, disappeared for a short time, but came up
+smiling towards the grand stand ten minutes afterwards with a bundle of
+brown paper wrappers, which he disposed of like penny pies at twopence
+per sheet. The judges of the game had very difficult duties to perform, and
+to their credit be it said they did the work without fear or favour, and we
+are quite certain gave general satisfaction to the players. The spectators,
+however, treated the unfavourable conditions of the atmosphere with
+indifference, and even contempt, and long before the time announced for
+the kick-off they crowded around the pailing and surroundings to get a good
+view of the game. In consequence of the wet weather very few ladies were
+present compared with what has turned out at previous finals. The Vale of
+Leven emerged from the pavilion first, and were well received. A few
+minutes afterwards came the Queen's Park, who were also loudly cheered
+with cries of "Good old Q.P." The toss between the two captains was
+watched with much earnestness, and when the Leven team ranged themselves
+in front of the ball from the gate end, it became apparent that they
+had won. The Queen's Park, by Hamilton, kicked off against the wind,
+and a short run by Berry was successful in sending the ball so near the Vale
+of Leven goal that one of the strangers put it behind, and gave the Queen's
+Park a corner-flag kick. This was followed by a close scrimmage, in
+which the ball came near Whitelaw, who sent it down the field. A
+"foul," however, by Paton gave the Queen's Park a lift, and in a second
+scrimmage the ball was again put behind the lines. Another corner-flag
+kick was the consequence, and it took the Queen's Park well in on goal,
+where the tackling was very severe. The ball again bobbed about the
+posts, but the Vale men showed splendid back play on the slippery
+ground, and sent it clear. After this Bruce and M'Millan had
+a good run on the left for the Vale of Leven, and the former
+had a shy that went past the left post. The kick out by Gillespie
+was followed up by a steady run on the part of Allan, Berry, and
+Gulliland, and the former shied wide past the right post. After the kick
+out, the Queen's Park kept up the pressure, and it was some time before
+the ball emerged from Vale of Leven territory, which it did from the foot
+of Rankin. Some even play ensued, and then the Vale had a run by the
+right forwards, and, in kicking clear, Arnott slipped a bit, and the ball,
+getting the upper of his boot, rolled over the lines and gave the Vale of
+Leven a corner-flag kick. It was taken by M'Lachlan, but he cut the
+distance too fine, and the ball rolled harmlessly over the bar. In turn,
+Gillespie's kick-out was followed by a run on the part of Sellar and
+Hamilton, and a "hand" by one of the Vale of Leven backs gave
+Smellie a chance of doing something with a free kick. It was very
+hard work, however, for both, and the opinion began to gain ground that
+the team who could keep up their stamina longest would be the winners.
+The ground, in fact, was a bit treacherous, and in some cases when the
+ball landed, after a long kick, it bounded clean over the heads of the
+backs, and some mis-kicks now and again occurred. Seven minutes from
+half-time, the Vale men made a smart spurt, and, after some clever<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">{96}</a></span>
+passing, the ball was taken possession of by M'Lachlan, who jumped in
+and headed it between the posts&mdash;just a few inches from the right side&mdash;amid
+cheers and counter cheers. The teams then faced up in the centre,
+and, from a good start, the Queen's Park got up to their opponents' lines,
+and Berry just missed the goal by a foot. After this the Vale of Leven had
+a good run down on the Queen's Park lines, and a fast shy by Osborne was
+caught up and punted out by Gillespie, and another immediately afterwards,
+from the foot of Bruce, was cleared by Smellie. The half-time signal,
+however, was given, leaving the Vale of Leven one goal ahead. The
+strangers had now the kick-off, and made considerable use of it, for the
+forwards backed up well, and a slip by one of the half-backs of the Queen's
+Park gave the Vale of Leven a corner-flag kick. The ball was fairly
+managed, but Bruce, who had it at his toe, was tackled by Smellie, and
+sent down the field. The Queen's Park had now a brilliant turn at the
+Leven goal, and several hard shies at the posts were cleverly returned by
+the backs. The Queen's men, however, kept pressing on, and had a corner-flag
+kick, which was taken by Sellar, and splendidly sent out by Wilson.
+The play after this was straggling a bit, and falls were frequent in Vale of
+Leven territory, but the Queen's men were very unlucky at goal, and could
+not get the ball through&mdash;Gulliland, with a hard shy, only missing by a
+shave. The ball eventually passed the Leven lines in a scrimmage not
+long afterwards, and as it was put over by one of the defenders, another
+corner-flag kick was the consequence. Time was now wearing on, and do
+all they could, with hemming in their opponents and making innumerable shies
+at goal, the Queen's Park could not score, and a corner-flag kick did not
+mend matters. After this the Vale team improved very much in their forward
+play, and M'Lachlan and Bruce again had a fine run up the field, and as Arnott,
+in tackling, let the ball go over the lines, the Leven team had a corner-flag kick.
+The shot from the pavilion end was very well taken by one of the half-backs
+(M'Nicol), and the Queen's Park goal had a narrow shave, as the ball
+was caught by Robertson in the nick of time and cleared. The Queen's
+Park were soon at it again, however, and not only drove their powerful
+opponents off, but completely invaded their stronghold. Crowding round
+Allan, Berry, Gulliland, Sellar, Hamilton, and even the Queen's half-backs
+had shies at the Leven goal, but Wilson saved brilliantly. When time
+was drawing to a close the excitement became very intense, and while the
+friends of the Vale of Leven were jubilant and hopeful about the issue, the
+partisans of the senior club, who came to see their favourites conquer, were
+proportionately sad and crest-fallen. "They cannot do it now," said a
+chorus of voices well up on the stand, "but see this, boys," remarked an
+old football follower, as Arnott rolled up the sleeves of his jersey with a
+determination which gave new life to the game; and as it has been said
+frequently before that the Queen's Park can rise to a great occasion,
+assuredly they did on Ibrox Park on Saturday. One minute or so more
+and all would be over. Pressing their opponents very hard with shots
+at goal, corner-flag kicks, scrimmages almost under the goalkeeper's feet,
+they were again and again repulsed by grand work on the part of Wilson,
+and as the ball emerged out of the pack after a free kick it was sent a bit
+down the field towards the Queen's Park half-backs. Here Bruce, the
+most prominent forward of the country club, got possession, and was about
+to beat Stewart, when Arnott and Smellie came to the rescue, and the ball
+was immediately sent back to the Vale goal, where, after a terrible scrimmage,
+from a "free kick," it was put between the posts by Smellie. The<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">{97}</a></span>
+vision of a glorious victory for the Q.P. had by that time faded away like
+a dream, and a crowd of the senior club's followers had actually left
+Ibrox Park in disgust, when a tremendous cheer burst forth from the
+ground signalling a point for the Queen's Park, who had "turned" the
+doubtful day again. The scene which followed was truly exciting. The
+Q.P. followers gave vent to their strained feelings with an outburst of
+cheering which must have been heard in some of the neighbouring police
+burghs, including Partick on the other side of the river, while those of the
+Vale kept quiet in disappointment. The teams then began the struggle
+anew, and from the kick off the Vale of Leven men made a grand run up
+on the Queen's Park goal, and had a couple of corner-flag kicks in succession,
+but the Queen's Park backs sent the ball clear, and a few seconds
+afterwards the whistle sounded, leaving one of the most remarkable
+games ever played in the final tie for the Association Challenge Cup
+drawn, with one goal all. The following are the teams that played in
+both games:&mdash;Queen's Park&mdash;Goal, Gillespie; backs, Arnott and Smellie;
+half-backs, M'Ara, Stewart, and Robertson; forwards, Gulliland, Berry,
+J. Hamilton, Allan, and Sellar. Vale of Leven&mdash;Goal, Wilson; backs,
+Whitelaw and Murray; half-backs, Osborne, M'Nicol, and Sharp; forwards,
+M'Lachlan, Rankin, James Patton, Bruce, and M'Millan.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<h3>Second Match.</h3>
+
+<p>The destiny of the Challenge Cup has at length been decided for the
+season, and the Queen's Park are the conquerors after one of the finest
+games ever seen on Ibrox Park&mdash;the victory being the narrow one of two
+goals to one. The game, it may be remembered, was drawn on the
+previous Saturday, when each side had scored a goal, and, strange as it
+may seem, the Queen's Park only saved themselves then, as they have done
+now, towards the close of the contest, and converted what looked like a
+defeat into a victory. Between 12,000 and 13,000 spectators were present,
+and as the weather was fine the match was a most enjoyable one. The
+cash drawn at the gate amounted to fully £600, and, as on the previous
+meeting, will be equally apportioned among the two clubs and the
+Association. The city cabbies made a day of it, and pocketed a good
+round sum. They handled the ribbons with a dexterity which in some
+cases was really alarming, and threatened the lieges with accident.
+"Drive us to Ibrox Park, mind, in ten minutes, or we'll be late for the
+kick-off," and the promise of an extra sixpence did the business, although
+Jehu's old friend and brother must be passed on the road. In some cases
+this was overdone, and a horseless machine with only one wheel might have
+been seen near Bellahouston Academy, awaiting "alterations and repairs," and
+on the same road some "spills" also occurred. The remarks round the
+pavilion, stand, and approaches were, as usual, both instructive and
+amusing, and let the impartial spectator know how the land lay, and the
+kind of company he was for the moment keeping. All sorts and conditions
+of men and boys were there to see the match. A hasty glance, in fact,
+revealed the astonishing fact that nearly all classes in the country were represented&mdash;city
+magnates, iron-masters, shipbuilders, ministers of religion,
+doctors, schoolmasters, clerks, mechanics of all kinds, and a much larger
+contingent of ladies than we have seen on any previous occasion. From<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">{98}</a></span>
+the cheers and counter cheers which greeted the goal-scoring by the senior
+club it was apparent that their followers were in the majority, but when the
+young Vale of Leven got the first point, the cheers which followed
+showed that they had also a large number of partisans, who honestly
+believed in the club's ability to win the cup. In the first round,
+indeed, the Vale players showed much better combination all over than
+the Q.P., and reminded many of the Vale of yore. The second half,
+however, revealed the senior club at their best, and from the manner in
+which they acted together and kept up their staying powers, they really
+deserved to win. As we have already said, the gossip among the spectators
+was both bright and original. A demonstrative supporter of the
+senior club was rather personal with his remarks, and was asked by a lover
+of the game, but not a partisan of either club, to keep quiet "and not let
+everybody know he was a born fool." "Oh! yes; it's all very fine, but
+the band at Alexandria 'ill no play at the station yet: the Vale canna' win
+noo," said he, as the Queen's team put the ball through a second time. A
+well dressed young fellow on the stand near the press table was very funny,
+and if ever a man enjoyed the game it was he. In the exuberance of his
+joy at the Q.P. scoring, he danced on the little spot allotted to him on the
+stand, and in doing so nearly overbalanced himself. "Ye'll be the better
+o' a half yin after that narrow escape," said one of his friends, handing him
+a bottle. After he had swallowed a fair amount of the liquor he stole a
+hasty glance at the bottle, and found to his disgust he had been drinking
+"The Vale of Leven blend." "It's a' richt," said his country friend,
+"ye'll maybe need it a' yet; the Vale are not beaten the noo; the Queen's
+man tak' anither goal before that occurs," and so they did. "Oh! a'
+say," remarked a born East-Ender, for whom we are perfectly certain the
+Clyde and Thistle, according to his self-importance at any rate, had played
+their best on Barrowfield and Beechwood, "look at that; it's no' fair
+to gie the Vale a free kick for that; it's the auld way; gie't ta the
+yin that mak's the maist noise." "Yes," said another, who looked
+every inch a dyer from the celebrated football county of Dumbarton,
+and maybe the Vale of Leven district itself, "did ever ye see the likes
+o' that, and frae sic a swell club, tae?" as Robertson bowled over
+Bruce on the grass, and cleared the ball away. Wilson, the Vale of Leven
+goalkeeper, came in for a fair share of praise; and so did Arnott, Smellie,
+Sellar, Gulliland, and Gillespie for their brilliant play, but many were in
+ecstacy about young Wilson. "His mither 'ill be a proud woman the day
+when she kens how well he kept goal for the Vale; there's nae doubt
+about it, Wilson's the coming man between the sticks for the International
+on Hampden Park on 5th April next," said a red-faced man, wearing a
+glengarry. Old and respected members of both clubs were again present
+to cheer on their successors to victory, and we observed several original
+members of the once-famous Clydesdale, including two who took part in
+the first final tie for the cup on old Hampden Park. Several old Rangers
+were present, too, who remembered well the series of exciting matches
+played by them against the Vale of Leven, when no fewer than three hard
+battles had to be fought before the destiny of the cup was settled for the
+year. The sad news, too, was announced in the papers of the sudden
+death of another famous forward (Mr. J. R. Wilson), who took part in the
+first final tie between the Queen's Park and Clydesdale on behalf of the
+latter club. Many of the "Old Brigade" viewed the contest with mixed
+feelings. "You seem excited, Bob," said a friend to an old Q.P., and no <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">{99}</a></span>
+wonder; time is fleeting fast; the game will be done in a quarter of an
+hour, and, dear me, the Queen's have not even scored. "Not at all, not
+at all," said the Q.P. old player, tearing at his moustache in a manner that
+threatened that hirsute appendage with instant annihilation, "I think they
+will, at anyrate, make it a draw, for see how they press the Vale now.
+Oh! they've done it; see that," as Hamilton sent the ball between the
+posts. "The extra half-hour is sure to be played now," said another,
+as the Vale of Leven men brought down the ball to mid-field, and
+kicked off. There was, indeed, great excitement, and as the Queen's Park
+again and again pressed their opponents, and finally scored a second goal,
+it was a dozen times intensified, and the subsequent play made the Q.P.
+men more bold and determined. The Vale of Leven, as on the previous
+occasion, appeared in the field of play first, and had a punt about with the
+ball for a few minutes, when their opponents emerged from the pavilion
+and had some practice round the upper goal, while the umpires and the
+referee were arranging the preliminaries. The visitors won the toss, and
+played with what little wind there was in their favour. Hamilton kicked
+off, and Berry followed his forward companion, but Murray turned the ball,
+and M'Millan and Bruce had a nice run, and caused the ball to get near
+the Queen's Park goal, but Smellie caught it on the rise and sent it down
+the field. It was taken up on the left side, and Sellar ended a brilliant
+run by passing the leather fairly across the goal to Gulliland, and that
+player made a rare shot at goal, but Wilson was on the alert, and caught
+the ball very smartly, and sent it out. Here a close scrimmage was
+followed by another shot on the part of Allan, but the ball went over the
+lines. After the kick-out, the Vale of Leven men made a fine run up on
+the Queen's Park goal, and M'Lachlan had a long shy that caused
+Gillespie to throw away the ball in a hurry. The strangers played well
+together, and had by far the best of it, and made the Q.P. backs work
+about as they had never done before. Paton had another shy, and then the
+left outside forward had one that came so close on the bar that Gillespie
+had again to chuck out in double quick time. After this, Gulliland had a
+fast run down the field, and ended the run with a parting shot that
+went past on the right post. Some even play then occurred, but the
+Leven forwards man&oelig;uvred together better than those of the Queen's
+Park, and a fine piece of passing by Sharp, Osborne, and Bruce ended
+by the latter making a shy that touched the tips of Gillespie's fingers and
+went through the goal, close to the post. The point was so smartly
+made that it fairly took away the breath from the Queen's Park
+friends, and caused the faces of the supporters of the country club to beam
+with delight, while the cheering for the then successful team was long
+and loud. The players then faced up in mid-field and renewed the battle,
+and not very long thereafter the Queen's Park gained their first corner-flag
+kick, but it was a poor one for Sellar, and the ball was soon cleared away
+by the Vale of Leven backs. The Queen's team, however, kept well in
+front of their opponents' goal, and another corner-flag kick was succeeded
+by an exciting scrimmage, and then a shy by Gulliland was cleverly cleared
+away by Wilson. When half-time came, however, the Leven men were
+swarming round the Q.P. posts. The contest was then renewed in terrible
+earnest, and the Queen's Park, with one goal against them, had the wind
+in their favour now. The Vale of Leven, however, had the kick-off, but
+the ball was at once returned by M'Ara, and the Queen's Park found themselves
+right in front of the Leven goal, where one of the backs fouled the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">{100}</a></span>
+ball close on the right post. The shy was taken by Allan, and the ball hit
+the bar, but after an exciting scrimmage it was cleared by the Vale backs.
+The Queen's Park, however, were soon on it again, and the next five minutes'
+play was nearly disastrous to the Leven team, as no fewer than five corner-flag
+kicks were given to the Queen's Park, in consequence of kicking behind
+on the part of Leven men. The defence, however, was excellent, and
+by slow degrees the ball was worked clear, and M'Lachlan had a run
+down on the Glasgow club's goal, where the whistle of the referee told the
+spectators that the dashing forward was off-side. He did not seem to hear
+the whistle a bit, but coolly went up to the Queen's Park posts and kicked
+the ball through without the least opposition. The kick-out in front was
+followed by a fine run on the part of Gulliland and Berry, but Whitelaw
+managed to tackle the Q.P. young forward, and the ball was soon sent
+back. It did not go far, however, for the Q.P. forwards kept it among
+them for a time. The Leven men had now a good run on the left by
+Sharp, and Stewart sent the ball behind his own goal. Rankin took the
+corner-flag kick, but Arnott got on the leather in an instant, and sent it
+spinning up the field by one of his famous returns. From this point till
+the call of time the Queen's Park were fairly in it, and played, perhaps, as
+they had never done before. Defeat stared them in the face, and the
+game was fast drawing to a close. Barely a quarter of an hour and the
+destiny of the cup would be settled. As on the previous Saturday, however,
+the Queen's men played worthy of a great occasion, and won the
+trophy. Pressing their opponents up on the goal, they kept them there for
+a time, and although the ball was seen to go out and in among the
+shoal of busy feet a few yards from the posts, Wilson and the backs
+cleared brilliantly. At length, however, Allan had a corner-flag kick,
+which was managed so neatly that Hamilton got the ball in a good position
+and headed it through. This gave new life to the senior club and their
+supporters, and the cheering was again renewed when a few minutes after
+the next kick-off the Queen's Park drove the Vale team before them, and
+again had hot work near Wilson. The Queen's half-backs, who had
+hitherto not acted so well together in the earlier stages of the game,
+metaphorically speaking, "came out of their shells," and, along with the
+forwards, took an active part in the siege. Shots were aimed thick and
+fast at the goalkeeper, and at length Stewart, with a shooter, sent the ball
+spinning through, making the second goal for the Queen's Park. The
+teams then faced up in the centre, and the tremendous cheering which
+greeted the scoring of the second goal had scarcely died away when the Vale
+team made one last but brilliant effort to equalise, but they were driven on
+by Smellie and Arnott, and at length the whistle sounded, leaving the Queen's
+Park the winners of a match in every way worthy of the final tie for the
+Challenge Cup by two goals to one. Although the strain now and again
+was pretty heavy on the players when at close quarters, the contest all
+through was conducted in the most friendly way, and showed a marked
+contrast to some final ties played a few years ago. It may also be
+mentioned that the premier club have not held the trophy since 1885-86,
+when they defeated Renton by three goals to one; but of the seventeen
+matches played in the final the Queen's Park have carried off no fewer
+than nine, while the Vale come next with three.</p>
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+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Free Insurance</span></b></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p class='center' style="font-size: large;"><b>The Conqueror's Football Boots.</b></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p>Spectators who value their health while attending
+Football Matches in all kinds of weather
+should get</p>
+
+<p class='center'><b>GRAY'S DAMP-RESISTING BOOTS.</b></p>
+
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+
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+
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+122 Cowcaddens.<br />
+182 Main Street, Anderston.<br />
+661 Gallowgate.<br />
+5 Main St., Bridgeton Cross.<br />
+876 Govan Road, Govan.<br />
+613 Duke Street.<br />
+236 Cumberland Street, S.S.<br />
+</p>
+
+<p class='center'>GLASGOW.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p class='center' style="font-size: x-large;">KELSO &amp; CO.,</p>
+
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+and Model Makers.</b></p>
+
+<p class='center'>Telescopes: Field, Marine, &amp; Opera Glasses.</p>
+
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+
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+IN GOLD, SILVER, AND STEEL.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p class='center'><b>2 COMMERCE STREET, S.S., GLASGOW.</b></p>
+
+<p class='center'>WORKS&mdash;21 CLYDE PLACE.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p class='center' style="font-size: x-large">Commercial and General Printing.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>BEST, CHEAPEST, AND NEATEST.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p class='center'><b>LARGEST ATHLETIC PRINTERS IN SCOTLAND.</b></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p class='center'><span style="font-size: large">HAY NISBET &amp; CO.,</span></p>
+
+<p class='center'><b>25 Jamaica Street, Glasgow.</b></p>
+
+<p class='center'>LONDON OFFICE&mdash;169, FLEET STREET, E.C.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p class='center'><span style="font-size: large">The PIONEER ATHLETIC PAPERS of SCOTLAND.</span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p class='center'><span style="font-size: large"><i>SCOTTISH SPORT</i></span></p>
+
+<p class='center'><b>Published every Tuesday and Friday&mdash;ONE PENNY.</b></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p><b>THE AUTHORITY</b> in all matters Athletic&mdash;Football
+(Association and Rugby), Cricket, Running, Swimming, etc., etc.</p>
+
+<p>The only purely athletic paper in Britain published twice
+a-week.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p class='center'><span style="font-size: large"><i>THE SCOTTISH CYCLIST.</i></span></p>
+
+<p class='center'><b>Published every Wednesday&mdash;ONE PENNY.</b></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p>The Wheel Paper of North Britain, and sole organ of its
+Trade, Sport, and Pastime.</p>
+
+<p>The brightest, the spiciest, the neatest, the cleverest and
+most original of modern cycling publications.</p>
+
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+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p class='center'>OFFICES&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class='center'><b>GLASGOW: 25 JAMAICA ST. LONDON: 169, FLEET ST., E.C.</b></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
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+
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+
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+
+Grocer and Wine Merchant,
+
+232 DUMBARTON ROAD,
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+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p class='center'><b>THE LEADING HOUSE for GOLD and SILVER BADGES.</b></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p class='center'><span style="font-size: x-large">DAVID DOW,</span></p>
+
+<p class='center'>Wholesale Watchmaker and Jeweller,<br />
+(Late 3, 5, and 7 Trongate)</p>
+
+<p class='center'><span style="font-size: large">68 ARGYLE STREET</span></p>
+
+<p class='center'><b>(Between Miller Street and Queen Street).</b></p>
+
+<p>MR. DOW, having removed to more central premises, has much pleasure in again
+thanking his numerous patrons in all parts of Scotland for the large measure of
+support accorded him during past seasons, and would again call the attention of
+Committees and others to his large and choice selection of Gold and Silver Badges,
+Medals, and Athletic Prizes. Committees are cordially invited to inspect his Stock
+and compare with any others before placing their orders. The style, finish, and
+general excellency of his designs are unsurpassed, and taking quality, etc., into
+consideration, the prices will be found the cheapest in the Trade.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>New Designs always being added.</p>
+
+<p>Special designs to order, and estimates given. Samples forwarded on request.
+Inscriptions at specially low rates.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>Estimates and Designs furnished for Silver and Electro-Plated
+Challenge Cups.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>FOOTBALL AND TRAVELLING BAGS AT LOWEST PRICES.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>Splendid Selection of Electro-Plate Goods, Marble Clocks, &amp;c., suitable for
+Athletic Prizes and Presentations.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>Patronized by over 200 Associations and Clubs.</i></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p class='center'><span style="font-size: large">THE ACKNOWLEDGED<br /></span>
+<span style="font-size: x-large">CYCLING OUTFITTERS</span></p>
+
+<p>Suits to Order from 21/ to 50/ in a Shade of Surges, Vicunas, Tweeds, and
+Worsteds.</p>
+
+<p>C.T.C. CLOTH, all pure Wool and thoroughly shrunk, 35/ the Suit to Order,
+with Cap.</p>
+
+<p>All inside Trimmings pure Wool.</p>
+
+<p>Suiting and Fitting by practical Cyclists.</p>
+
+<p>Club Secretaries or unattached riders respectfully requested to write for
+samples, and compare prices.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><span style="font-size: large">Forms of Self-Measurement Sent,</span></p>
+
+<p>or Clubs waited on by one of our representatives if an Order for three or more Suits,
+fifty miles from Glasgow.</p>
+
+<p>NOTE.&mdash;Gentlemen should be very careful in ordering a Cycling or any other
+suit to know that they are not made under the sweating System (we have reason
+to believe many of them are), the dangers of which are well-known.</p>
+
+<p>All garments made by us are made by our own Tailors, in our own work-rooms,
+adjoining our warehouses.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>Private Fit-on Rooms, and all accessories to a large Tailoring Business.</i></p>
+
+<p class='center'>Waterproof Cape, Leggings, and Cap, 12s. 6d. the lot. Can go in the
+smallest space.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>Hygienic Underwear, Cycling Hose to match Uniform, etc., etc.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p class='center'><span style="font-size: x-large">PENMANS',</span></p>
+
+<p class='center'><span style="font-size: large">101, 103, 105, 107, &amp; 109 Canning St., Bridgeton,</span></p>
+
+<p class='center'>And 122 MAIN STREET, ANDERSTON, GLASGOW.</p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches, by
+David Drummond Bone
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+Title: Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches
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+SCOTTISH FOOTBALL REMINISCENCES
+
+AND
+
+SKETCHES.
+
+BY D. D. BONE
+
+_GLASGOW._
+
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+PREFACE.
+
+
+In bringing my first edition of Football Reminiscences and Sketches
+before the public, I do so with a sense of profound regard for the game
+and its players, and heartfelt gratitude to numerous friends--some of
+whom, alas! are no more--for advice and assistance. If my readers
+consider it worthy of one who has devoted a quarter of a century in
+attaining that experience necessary to criticise the players of the dead
+past and those of the living present with fidelity, I will have gained
+something to be remembered, and be amply repaid for what I have done to
+assist the spread of the Association game in Scotland. Many of my
+sketches, under different names, have already appeared in various
+journals, including the _Daily_ and _Weekly Mail_, _Bell's Life in
+London_, and the "Scottish Football Annual," but I have remodelled some
+of them very considerably, and indulge in the hope that they may while
+away an hour or so at the fireside of the Player and Spectator after a
+big Cup Tie or other interesting match.
+
+THE AUTHOR.
+
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+
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+
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+62 BUCHANAN ST., GLASGOW.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+
+                                                                    PAGE
+
+   I.--FOOTBALL: ANCIENT AND MODERN,                                  17
+
+  II.--THE FOOTBALL WAVE,                                             20
+
+ III.--A "SWEEP FOR THE CUP;" OR, HOW PATE BROWN KEPT HIS ENGAGEMENT, 21
+
+  IV.--FAMOUS ASSOCIATION PLAYERS--PAST AND PRESENT,                  26
+
+   V.--THE PIONEERS OF ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL IN SCOTLAND;
+     OR, "THE CONQUEROR'S FOOTBALL BOOTS,"                            63
+
+  VI.--HOW CLUBS WERE STARTED LONG AGO,                               71
+
+ VII.--THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL; OR, NED DUNCAN'S DREAM,               73
+
+VIII.--THE PATRONS, SPECTATORS, AND POPULAR PLAYERS,                  79
+
+  IX.--A DREAM OF THE PAST,                                           82
+
+   X.--THE DUEL NEAR THE FOOTBALL FIELD,                              86
+
+  XI.--THE FINAL TIE FOR THE ASSOCIATION CHALLENGE CUP--1889-90,      93
+
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+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+FOOTBALL REMINISCENCES.
+
+
+
+
+_I.--FOOTBALL: ANCIENT AND MODERN._
+
+    "Then strip, lads and to it, though cold be the weather,
+      And if, by mischance you should happen to fall,
+    There are worse things in life than a tumble on heather,
+      For life is itself but a game at Football."
+            --_Sir Walter Scott._
+
+
+In Scotland, so closely associated with traditional lore, and the
+acknowledged birth-place of romance and patriotic song, it would be
+almost dangerous to incur displeasure by attempting to refer to the
+early history of anything associated with the amusements or recreations
+of the people, without actually touching on tradition--a point held by
+some in far greater regard and reverence than actual fact. Under these
+circumstances, then, I do not want to run the risk of complete
+annihilation by ignoring the traditional, and even territorial, aspect
+of Football. That the game was played as early as the tenth century
+there is any amount of authentic evidence to show, and that it continued
+to be one of the chief recreations of the people there can be no doubt.
+Coming much further down, however, the game of Football is referred to,
+both by historical and romance writers. In Sir Walter Scott's "Lay of
+the Last Minstrel," we find that the English and Scotch soldiers, in a
+few hours' actual cessation from skirmishing on the eve of a battle,
+engaged in "the merry Football play." Our forefathers, however, must
+have played the game in rather a rude and undignified fashion, if we can
+believe certain authorities--actual brute force and superiority in point
+of weight being the indispensable concomitants of a successful side. The
+matches, too, must have been played utterly regardless of science. Just
+fancy a couple of crack teams meeting on a heather-covered field, with
+the "hailing spots" about a mile and a-half apart, and playing a match
+lasting four or five hours! Could any of our young men nowadays stand
+such rough-and-tumble work? Happily it is not required. It has been
+found that a match lasting an hour and a-half, with the ball ever and
+anon passing in front of one on a level field, is quite enough, even for
+the strongest back, half-back, or forward. Experience has sufficiently
+proved that, even in this age of scientific play. So much for the past,
+and I will proceed to touch briefly on the spread and popularity of
+football.
+
+To those who only know football as promoted by the Queen's Park, and
+subsequently by the Vale of Leven, Clydesdale, Granville (now defunct),
+3rd L.R.V, and lastly, though not leastly, by the Scottish Football
+Association, we are almost compelled to offer some information. A
+quarter of a century ago a Union was formed in Edinburgh to draw up a
+code of rules to encourage the game of Football, and matches were played
+between schools and other clubs. These rules were a combination of the
+present Association and Rugby, dribbling being largely indulged in, but
+the goal-posts were similar to those now in use under the latter code of
+rules, and a goal could not be scored unless the ball went over the
+posts. This game made considerable progress in Edinburgh, being
+vigorously promoted by scholastic clubs and students attending college.
+Some years later, when the number of young gentlemen sent over from
+England to be educated in Scotland, particularly Edinburgh, began to
+increase, these old rules were subjected to considerable alteration, and
+eventually assimilated to those of the English Rugby Union, and all the
+known clubs in Scotland at that time adhered tenaciously to these rules,
+and under them many exciting games were played between Eastern and
+Western clubs, the Glasgow Academicals and Edinburgh Academicals being
+the leading ones. Eventually, however, the new clubs springing into
+existence in the Western District of the country did not care to play
+these rules, and, following the example of similar clubs in England,
+adhered to what they considered an improvement on the old system of
+Football, and joined the English Football Association, formed in 1863.
+The first to do this was the Queen's Park, the mother of Association
+Football in Scotland, in 1867, and the example was soon followed by the
+Clydesdale, 3rd L.R.V., Vale of Leven, Granville, and others, a few
+years afterwards. Well can I remember witnessing several exciting
+tussles on the Queen's Park recreation ground (then the only
+meeting-place of the Premier Association Club), between the Vale of
+Leven, Hamilton, East Kilbride, Clydesdale, Granville, and 3rd L.R.V.
+Since then the spread and popularity of the Association style of play
+has been so often written about that it is, so to speak, bound up in the
+actual history of the Western District of Scotland. In Edinburgh,
+however, the new rules have not made so much headway, the Rugby code
+being there as extensively played as of yore. Some advances, however,
+have taken place, and the Edinburgh University has an Association team,
+and that city several promising clubs, including the Hibernian, Heart of
+Midlothian, and St. Bernard, and, in Leith, the Athletic, that made such
+a plucky fight with the Queen's Park in a recent cup tie.
+
+No one, except a close observer, can believe the earnestness and
+enthusiasm imparted into the game by the formation of young clubs, but
+there is one danger which should be avoided. There is such a thing as
+overdoing; and, depend upon it, if this is continued, the game will
+suffer. To those who love and appreciate everything in season, the
+advice I am about to impart will be doubly significant. Football is a
+winter game, and while it may be all right to practice in spring and
+autumn, the line is bound to be drawn somewhere, and why attempt to
+force it down the throats of cricketers, athletes, yachtsmen, and even
+lawn-tennis players, in the heart of summer? It must not be forgotten
+that some of our best and most influential football clubs have also
+cricket clubs and kindred summer recreations attached, and, in the
+interests of football, these should be encouraged; and to this end I am
+confident my remarks will be treated with some respect. I am also sure
+that no one who has taken a deep interest in the game from its
+comparative infancy, but can look back with extreme pleasure on its
+development, and even go the length of registering a vow that he will do
+his utmost to make and uphold it as an honest and manly game, despite
+isolated assumptions by a few traducers who question such earnestness,
+and I will endeavour to point them out, and draw comparisons.
+
+"What came ye out to see?" might often be asked by an uninterested
+spectator who had ventured forth to look at some of the matches. A crowd
+of young men pursuing a round object, called a ball, with great
+earnestness of purpose. To the young cad, who can think of nothing but
+the colour of his latest pair of kid gloves, or the check of his newest
+acquisition in the shape of fashionable trousers, all out-door amusement
+is considered an interminable bore, the game of Football has, of course,
+no charm. There is too much hard work for him, and the training required
+to put one in condition, fraught with all that is called self-denial, he
+could never endure. The musty old duffer, too, looks upon the game in
+the light of a deadly sin, which can never be associated in his mind
+with anything short of idiocy and the most virulent fanaticism. To some
+of his young men he remarks--"And you call that a grand game, running
+about a field trying to put a ball near a pair of upright posts, and
+knocking the first lad down who attempts to retard your progress! Do you
+call that manly, eh? Would anyone but a pure lunatic run the chance of
+getting his shins cut, or collar-bone dislocated, indulging in such
+work, and donning coloured stockings and fantastic shirt the while to
+make the matter all the more absurd!" He seems to forget that "all work
+and no play makes Jack a dull boy," and the real meaning of a dull boy
+and a dull man is irregularity and vexation in the counting-house and
+office. There are amusements and amusements, and recreations and
+recreations, but I know of none adapted for the winter months which can
+be so cheaply indulged in, with so much profit to health, as Football.
+Accidents do happen occasionally, I admit, but they are exceedingly few
+when the number of young men engaged in the game is taken into account,
+combined with the fact that, last year, some of the leading Association
+matches were played much more roughly than in previous years, it is an
+astonishing fact that no fatal accident occurred in Scotland. There are,
+of course, many, if the whole truth must be written, whom the exciting
+and manly game has failed to touch by its magic and fascinating
+influence, but they should not be courted, and fortunately their
+patronage is neither sought nor needed, for they are the men most to be
+avoided on a wintry Saturday afternoon while one is on his way to see an
+exciting "cup tie." Depend upon it, they will allure you to some haunt
+where the language is not even so choice as where the "final" is being
+played between two leading clubs.
+
+I am fully convinced that when the game was first improved and adapted
+to stand side by side with others requiring both pluck and skill, the
+thought never entered the heads of its promoters that some of the laws
+might be abused, not used. Unfortunately, such is too true, and the
+sooner these things are discouraged the better. The old precept about
+warriors feeling a stern joy when they knew they were opposed to foemen
+worthy of their steel, should never be forgotten by the biggest back,
+half-back, or the smallest forward. To put it in another way,
+gentlemanly conduct towards an opponent in the field is pleasing to see,
+and, indeed, civility is worth much, and costs nothing--only a small
+effort of self-denial. In this enlightened age, the nation who crows too
+much over a vanquished foe is naturally detested, and why should not
+this spirit regulate the game of Football? If this were carefully
+remembered during the season, there would undoubtedly be such a close
+bond of fellowship and good feeling amongst Football players that
+nothing could disturb.
+
+And again, I cannot allow the present opportunity to pass without
+protesting against a practice, now, unfortunately, too largely followed
+by a section of the spectators who turn out to all the big events--viz.,
+betting. About as long as I can remember, and it may be before
+Football, perhaps, was played, many an honest wager was made by the
+leaders in all out-door sports that they would be the victors, but the
+practice, I have been assured, never went further. Now it is quite a
+common thing to see cash dancing about a ring of spectators at a big
+match, and often the loss of cash to certain individuals means a
+proportionate loss of temper, and the practice is all the more to be
+deplored. It is for this end, it is for this avowed purpose, that one
+and all connected with its development and culture, will strive to their
+utmost to ennoble and raise Football to a higher and purer level, and
+consequently discourage, by every legitimate means, betting in all its
+phases, and the slightest tendencies amongst the players who take part
+in the various matches towards rough play, and a disposition to indulge
+in unnecessary charging.
+
+
+
+
+_II.--THE FOOTBALL WAVE._
+
+
+Like Dogberry's idea of certain kinds of novel writing, both Association
+and Rugby Football seem to come to the Scotchmen by nature. My readers
+can, perhaps, easily remember the clever _jeu d'esprit_ on the antiquity
+of the Gaelic tongue which appeared several years ago advocating the
+claims of that race as lisping the first "speech" heard in Eden in a
+manner that must have stirred the blood of Professor Blackie. As the
+history of Association Football, with which I have only to deal under
+the present circumstances, is so well-known and a thing of yesterday,
+its origin, like that of the Gaelic language, is not shrouded in
+mystery, but actually known (or should be known) to all who take an
+interest in the game. In my previous article, I tried to trace the
+origin of football in its rudest form as played by our forefathers, when
+goal-posts and bars, to say nothing of corner-flags, were unknown.
+Football now, however, has been reduced to something like a scientific
+game, and to the credit of England be it said, the Association Rules
+there first saw the light. Scotch players in the Western District soon
+emulated their Southern brethren, and from the Parent Club, which had a
+humble and unassuming origin on the recreation ground at Queen's Park,
+sprang hundreds of clubs, spreading over the length and breadth of the
+land with remarkable rapidity. The wave soon rolled all over Glasgow and
+suburbs, submerged the whole country, and eventually invaded the Heart
+of Midlothian itself, where the Rugby code had hitherto reigned supreme.
+The schoolboys who played cricket and rounders in the summertime came
+out on a wintry afternoon to see their seniors engaged in Association
+football, and soon felt the desire creep over them to be members of a
+club containing lads like themselves. The young men engaged in the city
+all day thought on the health-imparting exercise it afforded, and had
+the necessary funds raised to form a club. The artisans, too, from the
+dusky foundry, the engineer shop, and the factory, soon began to dribble
+about. The young ones, and even the seniors themselves, had many a
+collision with mother earth ere they could rely on keeping their pins
+with any degree of accuracy, and it was rare fun to see a bearded man
+turning a somersault as he missed the ball in trying to make a big
+kick. Football is easily acquired in so far as the rudimentary part is
+concerned, but a great deal of probation is required to convert one into
+a crack player. Among those who now practice football, and their name is
+legion, the superior players can be numbered in (to give it a wide
+scope) hundreds. In fact, to be able to master all the details requisite
+to win a first-class match, one has to be capable of dribbling,
+middling, heading, and passing in a way that would do credit to solving
+a complicated problem in Euclid. It is all very well to talk about brute
+force and lasting power, but unless these are accompanied by scientific
+application, they are worth little, and cost much. "The race is not
+always to the swift," says the old proverb. In at least eight cases out
+of ten, the match is to the scientific and careful, but of this more
+anon. There is one thing that can be said about football which in the
+nature of things must recommend it to all lovers of out-door exercise.
+Of late years bicycling has obtained a great deal of popularity all over
+the three kingdoms, both for its usefulness as a speedy means of
+conveyance, and exercise to the limbs, but that it has its drawbacks has
+just been made apparent by undisputed medical authority. "The bicycle
+back," the effect of hard work on the "iron horse," is beginning to
+appear on the handsome young man who thinks nothing of doing his 50
+miles a day, and while walking occasionally with the young lady with the
+"Grecian bend," the contrast in his case is amusing. To say that there
+are no dangers of any kind attached to football would be making an
+assertion which I cannot substantiate, but these are comparatively few.
+All sports, of whatever kind, have the elements of danger attached to
+their pursuit, but, with great care, these can be reduced to a minimum.
+Although I have certainly never observed the round-shoulders of the
+bicyclist in the football player, I have not unfrequently seen the
+"football leg." That is a series of cuts about the shin bone,
+administered by a vicious opponent while (as it generally happens)
+playing a "cup tie," and last season they were more plentiful than ever.
+In fact, I heard from the lips of a member of one of the crack clubs
+that in not a few of the ties they retired from the field "greatly
+impressed with the unmistakable signs of muscular ability shown by their
+opponents." This means most undoubtedly hacking and tripping, under the
+guise of tackling, and if Association football is to go on and prosper
+such disgraceful acts of tyranny on the football field must forever
+cease. These "accidents" can, of course, be avoided, and as there are
+distinct rules forbidding them, clubs would do well to see that these
+are rigidly enforced.
+
+
+
+
+_III.--A "SWEEP FOR THE CUP;"_
+
+OR,
+
+_HOW PATE BROWN KEPT HIS ENGAGEMENT._
+
+
+"What do you say, old fellow, about a 'Sweep for the Cup.' Why, a 'sov.'
+is nothing to the like of you, and there will be such fun at the
+lifting." This was said to me one morning about nine, just as I was
+preparing to get my shaving utensils into working order before turning
+out to the warehouse. Pate Brown used to make fun of me about my scanty
+hirsute appendages, and many a time caused me to blush before sundry
+members of the Druids when he emphatically declared that I was one of
+those effeminate individuals who shaved, not because they had whiskers,
+but because they hadn't. This was in September, and a more open year for
+the respective chances of the clubs in the Cup had, perhaps, never come
+round.
+
+I was unattached then. I was, in fact, neither a member of the Druids
+nor the Nomads, but simply a friend of both, and an enthusiastic admirer
+of the game. My big brother Angus, it is true, was one of the best men
+in the Conquerors, and he and I sometimes had animated discussions about
+the respective merits of the clubs. "Why, Jack, this is only September,
+it will be more sensible for us to postpone the affair till after the
+preliminary ties. A lot of chaps to whom I have spoken consider it next
+to nonsense to draw the 'sweep' so soon."
+
+After a great deal of talking and another meeting, it was agreed to go
+right ahead with the "sweep," and accordingly the necessary arrangements
+were duly made, and subscribers' names taken, as well as their cash.
+
+The warehouse of Ball & Field was the largest in the whole city. Their
+trade connection extended to every known country on the face of the
+globe. There was a decided charm about the way in which the firm did
+business, and the kindly, not to say considerate manner, in which they
+treated employes, who really deserved it. The two leading members of the
+firm, in fact, were not insignificant prototypes of Dickens' Cheeryble
+Brothers (with the exception that they were both married). I verily
+believe that in an hour's notice a couple of excellent teams could have
+been picked from the house to make a decent match of it anywhere.
+
+The senior himself was an enthusiastic admirer of the game, and one way
+or another did much to encourage it by his presence on the field at all
+the big matches, and if any of the lads, such as myself, Brown, Rose,
+Wilson, or M'Nab wanted away to play in a big affair, a hint reaching
+the governor's ears to that effect was amply sufficient. The manager,
+however, was of a different sort, he hated football like poison. He even
+relegated the grand game to a pastime suitable for pure and
+unadulterated lunatics, those, as he put it, "who were too daft to get
+into Gartnavel." Fancy that! Woe betide the unfortunate half-back or
+forward, who in a weak moment relied on the magnanimity of "Sour Plums,"
+as he was called, to let him off to a match, without first consulting
+the governor himself. Sometimes M'Nab forgot to do so, and as his club
+were frequently in great straits to get him to play, he had to steep his
+brains to think on a strategic movement to get free, and succeeded; but
+sometimes with the aid of a "crammer."
+
+Brown, for reasons best known to himself, but which will duly come out
+as my story advances, was very anxious to be at the "draw," and
+accordingly duly appeared at the Marie Stuart Hall, Crosshill. There
+were a lot of pale faces in the room when Pate drew the Queen's Park,
+Dick Wallace the "Vale," Bill Weldon, Dumbarton, and Sandy M'Bean the
+Rangers. A rosy-cheeked, country-looking lad belonging to the Q.P. drew
+Cowlairs, and a general titter ran through the august assembly when that
+same lad remarked, "he was quite satisfied with his draw, the other
+crack clubs notwithstanding." Tom Vincent got Kilmarnock Athletic, Alf.
+Grant the Clyde, Blower Fleming drew the Heart of Midlothian, and Bill
+Fairfield the Hibernian. I was unlucky enough to secure one of the many
+insignificant clubs who never survived the first round, and so my "sov."
+was a dead letter.
+
+The entire "sweep" came to a fine round sum, as the subscribers included
+a good many of the rank and file of football enthusiasts, and even two
+"football-daft" members of the upper strata of the Glasgow Police Force,
+and three of the Fire Brigade, went the length of taking a couple of
+tickets. There was also Luke Wood, the representative of the "Kick-off,"
+who knew a thing or two about the game. He was in for a pair of tickets,
+too, and drew the Invincible and Morning Star. He was thoroughly
+disgusted at the prospect (more particularly as he had been one of the
+leading hands in getting up the "sweep"); but, as the Yankees say, he
+gradually "cooled himself down," and got thoroughly reconciled to his
+loss.
+
+The Cowlairs had to play the Queen's Park in one of the ties, and a
+determined tussle it turned out to be. The "boys" bore a wild look that
+afternoon as they emerged from the pavilion at Hampden Park. You could
+read the anxious and determined character of their mission on every
+face. They had fully made up their minds to fight hard for the Cup, and
+really they did. Several of the team were big powerful fellows whom not
+a few cautious half-backs would think twice before "going for," and two
+of the forwards were very smart on their pins, but wanted that true
+mastery of the art of passing and dribbling at the proper time which
+make up the refined and superior Association player. As for endurance,
+they did not toil among iron wheels, steel axles, and brass fittings for
+locomotives, to say nothing of generating steam on the shortest notice,
+without being "hardy." No, no. They were in the best of condition for
+the game. The Queen's took them too cheaply, and nearly paid a lasting
+penalty for their carelessness. The game, in fact, was so closely fought
+that the teams were unable to overcome one another, and two goals each
+was the result. Meeting a second time, however, the Q.P. made short work
+of them, and won by nine goals to none.
+
+The evening before the memorable tussle which put the half of
+Dumbartonshire into a state of excitement, bordering on the football
+fever, "Mary, the Maid of the Football Inn," came to the door of the
+little hotel repeatedly, and after casting sundry glances at the roadway
+and scanning the passers-by, muttered something about being jilted, and
+how shamefully she had been used by Bob. Her own Bob, who was always so
+punctual, and occasionally treated her to a nice walk along the Leven,
+past Ewing's big work, and even went the length of composing verses in
+her honour.
+
+"What had become of him? Had Nancy Pringle waylaid him, as she
+positively swore she would do, on the first opportunity, and start the
+probationary stages of a drama in real life?" The fact was Bob never
+came, and no wonder. He was collared by the Dumbarton captain, and
+carried off to the field to practice for the great fight of the next
+day, under pains and penalties. He pleaded for Mary, but it was of no
+avail. "He had," he went on to remonstrate, "promised on his word of
+honour to meet her that evening and take her to Luckie M'Latchie's
+booking." Luckie and Tam M'Murtrie (an old footballer) were to be
+spliced a fortnight afterwards, and the "cries" were in.
+
+With a serious air the captain lectured Bob till he was blue in the
+face, and told him if he did not put himself in condition for the great
+battle of the morrow he would be stoned by the town enthusiasts. He
+remembered when a boy at school scribbling as best he could on his
+copybook, "Discretion is the better part of valour," and the sentence
+flashed across his heated brain with all the force of actual conviction.
+"What was he to do?" "Was it to be football first, and Mary afterwards?"
+Something whispered "yes; Mary could afford to wait, but the 'Cup' was a
+transitory article, and the splendid chance his club had of winning it
+might pass away like a dream." "Why, there was Joe Laidlay, he was in
+something like the same dilemma so far as his 'lass' was concerned, and
+if Joe, he thought, could afford to put off his sweetheart, Maggie
+Jackson, in the same way, he (Bob) considered that he should be able to
+conclude the arrangement, and make the best excuse to Mary."
+
+Quietly speaking, Bob had an ambition in his football, and it consisted
+in being a member of the eleven who would at one time or another "lick"
+the Queen's Park, and went into the practice game with his whole heart,
+and played all through in good form.
+
+Just a year or so before this the "Vale" would have given the same
+Dumbarton lot short shift and no favour on any of the grounds, but
+matters were altered. They wanted a lot of their old blood, which had in
+years gone bye carried them through many a doubtful battle. They had
+lost their grand goalkeeper, and the crack half-back had vacated his
+favourite position to keep the ball from going between the uprights in
+"time o' need."
+
+Some of the daring forwards had also bade farewell to the game, and were
+scattered over the length and breadth of the land. The match, however,
+had to be played--it would brook no delay--and the spirited captain
+resolved to make the best of it, although a score of misgivings passed
+through his mind as to the issue. There was one thing in favour of the
+"Vale," they had their own ground to play upon, and that was reckoned as
+worth a goal any day.
+
+Before the start Johnny Freer told his old chums to keep their "weather
+eyes" open for sudden rushes by the Dumbarton forward division, and
+before the game was very old, they discovered that the advice did not
+come a moment too soon. Keeping close on the touch lines till well down
+among the half-backs, Maclure and his light companion, "the Bird,"
+assuredly did not allow the grass to grow under their leather bars. The
+ground was a little sloppy from the recent rain, but, strange to say,
+the Dumbarton men seemed to keep their feet in a remarkable manner.
+M'Luckie and big Walton tried their very best to intercept the
+dribblers, but at times they were completely mastered, and Dick Wallace
+had to come away from his place at back and assist.
+
+The most of the Dumbarton lads were much faster on the ball than the
+"Vale," and this, added to a slice of luck, aided them in scoring twice,
+and they consequently won a hard battle by two goals to none, and earned
+the proud distinction of being the champions.
+
+After the great crowd had dispersed, and lots of silver had changed
+hands, a solemn silence reigned in that part of the pavilion utilised by
+the "Vale." "There is no use denying the fact, chaps," said the captain
+of the defeated team, "these fellows have beaten us on our form this
+season, and we'll have to make the best of a bad bargain."
+
+Not so, however, in the other end of the house. The victors were
+"blowing" a good deal of the bad luck they had had, and how they ought
+to have scored a dozen goals if "Sandy had not repeatedly allowed the
+ball to graze the goal-posts, instead of attempting to kick it out. They
+had, however, beaten the 'Vale,' and that was all they cared for, in
+the said tie. The Rangers they declared they did not fear, and from all
+they could hear, they were now quite able to meet the Queen's Park face
+to face."
+
+With the Rangers, however, they had just sufficient to do on their own
+ground in the first match, but in the second came off victorious by five
+goals to one.
+
+One Saturday evening we took forcible possession of Jack Cook's
+lodgings, which were situated near the Marie Stuart Hall, Crosshill.
+Jack was very fond of billiards, and sometimes pocketed several "pools"
+of an evening, when a few choice spirits congregated in "The Rooms."
+Jack's landlady had frequently threatened him with pains and penalties
+for treating anything approaching "elders' hours" with contempt, and
+once intensified it to instant dismissal, bag and baggage, for
+encouraging a lot of his chums in leading the chorus of Dickens'
+Bacchanalian song:
+
+    "We won't go home till morning,
+    Till morning, till morning,
+    We won't go home till morning,
+    Till daylight doth appear,"
+
+at four o'clock A.M., under her kitchen window after a big cup tie,
+which the Conquerors had won. Jack, as a matter of precaution warned us
+that we were to comport ourselves with decency, and not rouse the
+aforesaid lady. Our friend had something in the bottle. We were
+comfortably seated, and the room filled with tobacco smoke, when a dim
+shadow was noticed at the door, and turned out to be Willie Fairfield,
+of the Flying Blues, who had just called to let us know he had received
+a telegram from Edinburgh announcing the defeat of the Hibernian in the
+protested match with Dumbarton, by six goals to two.
+
+Willie, it may be mentioned, had drawn the Hibernian in our "sweep," and
+was, I may inform all concerned, well pleased with his luck when the
+ticket came out the bag; but now much crestfallen. Bill Weldon, however,
+who had secured Dumbarton in the same drawing, jumped off his chair at
+the success of the club he had secured, and remarked--"Look here, boys,
+Dumbarton are just about good enough to win the Association Cup, and
+I'll take evens on't." "Done," said a chorus of voices, and Mrs. Blank's
+parlour was for a few minutes transformed into a betting house on a
+small scale.
+
+We had a long chat as to the respective merits of the Rangers and
+Dumbarton, who were to play their tie over again, in consequence of some
+informality, and after draining Jack's bottle, were accompanied to the
+door with solemn injunctions not to kick up a row on the stairs.
+
+Weeks passed after this little incident, and the clubs left in our
+"sweep" were getting small by degrees and beautifully less. The Rangers,
+Partick, South-Western, Northern, 3rd L.R.V., Arthurlie, Kilmarnock
+Portland, Alexandra Athletic, Thornliebank, Heart of Midlothian, and
+even the plucky little Clyde were cleared off the list, and the Queen's
+Park had their own ado with Kilmarnock Athletic, and only beat that
+sturdy Ayrshire Club by three goals to two. All that now remained in the
+tie, in fact, were Q.P. and Dumbarton.
+
+It was Weldon and Pate Brown for it now, and both began to dream of a
+good pocketful of "sovs."
+
+Pate, who was engaged to charming little Lizzie Green, had been living
+very carefully for a time in prospect of shortly calling Lizzie his own,
+was only now a casual visitor to Cook's lodgings. One evening, on his
+way home from Ball & Field's, Pate began to reckon up his chances of
+winning the "sweep."
+
+"One hundred and five subscribers at a 'sov.' a-piece," said he, "why
+that makes L105. The odd 'fiver' will pay all the expenses, and if the
+Q.P. win the Cup, why all that will be mine. Oh! glorious Q.P.,
+invincible Q.P., you must and shall win the Cup," raved excited Pate.
+"Lizzie, my own dear lassie, I have not told you about my speculation,
+nor will I till the tie is over, and we'll get married this summer yet."
+
+I do not intend to weary my readers with a detailed account of the final
+Cup ties, for everybody knows there were two played. In the first, when
+the clubs tied, and Dumbarton had the best of the game, little Pate
+Brown nearly lost his senses with excitement, and had frequently to lean
+heavily on the shoulder of Lizzie Green to prevent him from falling
+under the grand stand.
+
+"What is it, dear, that makes you so terribly pale at a match?" she said
+to him in a gentle whisper. "You must be ill, for I have never observed
+you so excited before." Little did the young lady imagine what was at
+issue, and the cause of Pate's nervousness; but she knew afterwards, and
+had a jolly laugh over it in her own tidy little house at Govanhill.
+
+Who does not remember the real final tie on Cathkin Park? Such a match
+will, perhaps, never be seen in Scotland again. How both Queen's Park
+and Dumbarton played with all the force and dash they could command, and
+how at length the Queen's Park were the conquerors, and Pate Brown won
+the double prize.
+
+A few nights afterwards Pate received one hundred sovs. (there were no
+second and third prizes) in the "Marie Stuart," and when he told the
+young fellows assembled that he was about to get wed to Lizzie Green,
+every soul of them (not even excepting Bill Weldon himself, who had
+drawn Dumbarton in the speculation, and lost a few "sovs." on them too),
+congratulated him on his choice, and called Pate a "lucky dog."
+
+They all knew and admired the neat little girl who, among other blithe
+and gentle faces, turned out to see the leading football matches, to
+cheer the players when they won, and chaff them when they lost.
+
+They were married--Pate Brown and Lizzie Green--and in presence of his
+old club companions, whom he had invited to spend an evening at his new
+house, Pate told the simple story of how he had got married to his
+little darling a year sooner than he expected, all through drawing the
+Queen's Park in a "SWEEP FOR THE CUP."
+
+
+
+
+
+_IV.--FAMOUS ASSOCIATION PLAYERS--PAST AND PRESENT._
+
+
+Little did the comparatively small but orderly group of enthusiastic
+spectators who met around the ropes at Hamilton Crescent Ground,
+Partick, eighteen years ago, to witness the first International
+Association match, imagine the ultimate development of the Association
+style of play in Scotland, and in after years the triumphs which awaited
+her sons in contests with England. I was present, and shall never
+forget the manner in which the teams--both Scotch and English--acquitted
+themselves, and made a drawn game of it.
+
+
+~The Five Dead Internationalists.~
+
+The ranks of the past crack players are beginning to get thinned by the
+common enemy of mankind. When I think of the busy feet, blithe and happy
+faces, and merry voices that joined in the game twenty years ago, a
+sense of sadness comes over me which it is difficult to dispel. "The
+first International, sir;" yes. Five of the gallant eleven who fought
+Scotland's battle are dead. Poor Gardner, Smith, Weir, Leckie, and
+Taylor, football players, have cause to remember thee! It was a hard
+struggle to keep up football in those days, and as there were no club
+funds all the items of expenditure had to be brought forth from the
+capacious pockets of the members. They loved the game, however, those
+primitive players, and engaged in it for its own sake, without ever
+thinking of reward. In the words of a great poetess, "We shall sing
+their praise ere long;" and while it may be thousands of dribblers of
+the present never heard their names, it is but right that the young ones
+should not forget what they owe to the Association football pioneers.
+Yes, the boys of the old brigade are falling out of the ranks in which
+they served so well, never to muster again on this side the grave; while
+others, still toiling on, are "scattered far and wide, by mountain,
+stream, and sea."
+
+
+~Joseph Taylor.~
+
+The admitted chief of the five who have gone to their rest was Joseph
+Taylor. Of a quiet and unassuming disposition, blended with remarkable
+firmness, no man who captained the Queen's Park was so much respected
+both on the field and in private life. None hated unfair or rough play
+more. He could not endure it in a club companion, and this was
+particularly so if his team were playing a comparatively junior
+combination. Taught in the early school of Association football, when
+the rules were much more exacting than they are now, he had, along with
+his colleagues in the Queen's Park, to fight their preliminary battles,
+and overcome the prejudices consequent on introducing the "reformation,"
+so to speak, in football. Taylor developed into a first-class back when
+comparatively young, and was chosen to play for his club against England
+in 1872, when the Queen's Park met that country single-handed, and
+played a drawn contest. Considering his light weight, he was a fine
+tackler, returned very smartly to his forwards, and, possessing
+remarkable speed, completely astonished an opponent by clearing the ball
+away before the forwards of the opposing club were able to obtain any
+advantage. He had always a kind and encouraging word to young players,
+and in 1875 and 1876 was chosen captain of the Scotchmen, and played, in
+all, five times against England. He died in Govanhill about three years
+ago.
+
+
+~Robert Gardner.~
+
+As the first captain of the Queen's Park in the International of 1872,
+and also chosen to that post next season in London, Gardner, who has
+also joined the great majority, was the most extraordinary player of his
+day. He was so versatile that I have seen him at work in all the
+different positions of the field--goalkeeper, back, half-back, and even
+forward--but it was as a goalkeeper that he excelled. A very
+indifferent kicker out in front, when the ball came up, he sometimes
+made mistakes with the feet; but when I remember the brilliant men who
+have since stood between the posts in Internationals and final cup ties,
+each in their line famous, I must confess that none ever used their
+hands and weight to greater advantage than Gardner. Possessing a
+peculiarity of temper which had much of the Scotchmen's sturdy
+independence, he had a difference with some of his friends, and left the
+Queen's Park to join the Clydesdale, and did much to assist that club to
+attain at the time the second position in Scottish Association football.
+Members of both clubs will not easily forget the manner in which Gardner
+kept goal for his new combination against the Queen's Park in a cup tie,
+when three matches had to be completed before the senior club won. He
+retired from the game some time before his death, which took place at
+South Queensferry a year and a half ago.
+
+
+~James E. Weir.~
+
+Who could dribble and keep possession of the ball like Weir? In a
+football sense he was in everybody's mouth sixteen years ago, when crack
+forwards were few, and neat dribblers fewer. In all the contests the
+Queen's Park engaged in for ten years, none was more popular among the
+spectators, and emulated by the then young generation of players, than
+Weir. He always worked on the right side, and with William M'Kinnon,
+Angus Mackinnon, H. M'Neil, T. Lawrie, and T. C. Highet for companions,
+the exhibition of dribbling and passing, with the six forwards, was
+finer than is the case now with the five. The ball had then to touch the
+ground after being thrown in straight from the line before being played.
+Under those circumstances, heading by the forwards was never seen in the
+field, unless after a corner-flag kick. Well can I remember the match at
+Hampden Park against the London Wanderers, whom the Queen's Park
+defeated by six goals to none, when Weir, being tackled by the Hon. A.
+F. Kinnaird and C. W. Alcock, put his foot on the ball, shook off the
+two powerful Englishmen, and made a goal. The sad news only arrived
+lately from Australia, whither Weir had gone some years ago, of his
+demise. Deceased played in two Internationals, including that of 1872,
+and no finer dribbler ever toed a ball. He was, in fact, at the time
+designated the "Prince of Dribblers."
+
+
+~Joseph Leckie.~
+
+In every condition of life, no matter the sphere in which one is placed,
+he has his own peculiarities, and, in a football sense, Leckie, above
+all the gallant throng who have disappeared for ever from the field, had
+his. Comparatively short of stature and powerfully knit together, with
+splendidly moulded limbs, Leckie was one of the most tenacious forwards.
+While dribbling past an opponent with the ball at his toe, his
+peculiarity asserted itself in such a way that, once seen, could never
+be forgotten. Weir, Smith, W. M'Kinnon, H. M'Neil, and, later on,
+Fraser, Highet, and Richmond, among the army of forwards brought out by
+the Queen's Park; to say nothing of M'Lintock, M'Intyre, and Baird (Vale
+of Leven), J. R. Wilson and Anderson (Clydesdale), T. Vallance and P.
+Campbell (Rangers), and A. Kennedy and J. Hunter (3rd L.R.V.), of whom I
+will say something later on, had all their imitators in the younger
+clubs, but Leckie had none. He was, in fine, a player by himself. When
+he obtained possession of ball, he guarded his body with extended arms
+drooping from his side, with the back of his hands in front of the
+thighs, and thus formed a barrier to an opponent who attempted to tackle
+or take the ball from him. He took part in the first International. He
+died about three years ago in South Africa.
+
+
+~James Smith.~
+
+The least known, perhaps, of the original International men, but one
+whose name will ever be honoured by many of the older school of players,
+and locally Queen's Park members, is Mr. James Smith, who died some
+years ago in London. Mr. Smith was, in conjunction with his brother
+Robert, early associated with the game in Scotland, and was an original
+member of the Queen's Park. Mr. Archibald Rae, the first secretary of
+the Scottish Football Association, and at one time an active member of
+the Queen's Park (and a beautiful dribbler in his day), tells an amusing
+anecdote of Smith, while playing against the Hamilton Club, leaping on
+the top of a hedge to win a touch-down, which in those days counted a
+point in the game. This entirely coincided with poor Smith's play, as he
+was sometimes very impetuous. He played in the International of 1872 as
+a forward.
+
+
+~William M'Kinnon.~
+
+Dealing now with the past players who are with us in the body, for a
+long series of years, and, indeed, till within a short period of
+retiring from the field, no centre forward of his day, and very few
+since, have equalled M'Kinnon in that trying position. When the 3rd
+Lanark Rifle Volunteers started the dribbling game on the old drill
+ground at Govanhill, or rather when that small burgh was "No Man's
+Land," M'Kinnon was one of its most active players. It is in connection
+with his membership of the Queen's Park that I wish to recall incidents
+in his career. In 1874 I made my way over to the South-Side Park to
+witness a match between the Queen's and the Vale of Leven. Association
+football was then a very insignificant affair--the Rugby code, with such
+fine clubs as the Glasgow Academicals and West of Scotland as
+exponents--engaging all the public attention. The game was free to all.
+"Ladies and gentlemen, no charge for admission. Come and see our game.
+Kick-off, 3.30." Well, M'Kinnon, along with the rest of the team,
+emerged from the old toll-house, close by, to meet their gallant
+opponents, and Mr. Parlane, of the Vale of Leven (who kept goal so well
+for that club in many of her best matches), "chaffed" the Q.P. man in
+amusing manner about his boots (See "The Conqueror's Football Boots"),
+which were new, and differed considerably from the style then worn by
+players. All through the contest, which, by the way, was drawn, with no
+goals on either side, M'Kinnon was a little stiff, and scarcely played
+so well as was his wont. He never discarded his old companions, however,
+and those very boots in after years kicked many a goal both in
+Internationals and final cup ties. As an indication, in fact, of his
+genuine ability, he was chosen to play against England oftener than any
+man in Scotland, with the single exception of Mr. Charles Campbell, who
+was selected no fewer than ten times as a half-back. Mr. M'Kinnon was
+engaged in eight, including the first, and in these his country was
+victorious four times, and two were drawn matches. As a centre forward
+has to bear the brunt of an attack from the opposing side first,
+M'Kinnon was the very man to lead on the advance guard. His pluck was
+immense; and while he rather delighted to dodge an opponent and leave
+the charging to his backer up, he was a close and beautiful dribbler;
+could play a hard match without any outward signs of fatigue, and no man
+before or since could take a corner-flag kick like him. He used to
+practice this kick, and could place the ball within a few inches of the
+spot aimed at. Mr. M'Kinnon is still in our midst hale and hearty, and
+when a good thing in football is announced he generally turns out to see
+his favourite game, and is not afraid to criticise the form shown by his
+successors.
+
+
+~David Wotherspoon.~
+
+Mr. Wotherspoon was early associated with the Queen's Park; indeed, one
+of the original members, and did much in his day for football. When the
+senior club found it a matter of difficulty to get up an eleven to play
+in the country, some times at East Kilbride (for you must know that
+important agricultural centre had a club nearly twenty years ago),
+Alexandria, and Hamilton, Wotherspoon and Gardner were generally the
+first volunteers. There were no fares paid in those primitive days out
+of club funds, and each individual had to square up his own account,
+like the Scottish cricketer of the present. Although retired now for a
+number of years, and out of the run of the game, Wotherspoon, who is in
+business in the city, is always delighted to hear of its development,
+and proud of what he did in his youth for it. If ever a man had neatness
+of style, combined with gentlemanly conduct to an opponent on the field,
+it was Wotherspoon. Considering the fact that he was a light-weight,
+under 10st., he many a time astonished both opponents and spectators by
+his magnificent returns at half-back, and I may mention, in passing,
+that in a match at Hampden Park I actually saw him kick a ball from the
+centre of the field right through the goal--a feat that very few of our
+younger half-backs could accomplish now. As I saw him in two
+Internationals (1872-73), however, it was not as a half-back, but as an
+accomplished forward, dribbling with great judgment, and passing in a
+most unselfish way. Mr. Wotherspoon left the Queen's Park to join the
+Clydesdale a short time after his old companion Gardner, and the two
+were associated with that club when it numbered among its members such
+fine players as Messrs. F. Anderson, G. M. Wilson, J. R. Wilson, W.
+Wilson, J. P. Tennent, J. M'Pherson, W. Gibb, J. T. Richmond, and
+David's brother, J. Wotherspoon. In the first of the long string of
+matches which have been played between Sheffield and Glasgow, dating
+back to 1874, Mr. Wotherspoon was one of the players; and it may be
+mentioned that, in the same contest, the Glasgow representatives were
+made up entirely of Queen's Park and Clydesdale men, and that each city
+scored a couple of goals.
+
+
+~James J. Thomson.~
+
+No player among the half-backs of the old school was so much thought of
+in Association football as Thomson. Once seen and met by an opponent, he
+could never be forgotten. Tall and stern in appearance, he carried every
+pound of his heavy weight with the greatest ease, and, what was of more
+consequence to his club in a hard battle, used it well. He tackled with
+consummate skill, and had remarkable confidence in himself. For the
+first three years of his membership no player ever turned out more
+regularly to practice, and, for a stout man, none could show an opponent
+a cleaner pair of heels. All the time he was available in the Queen's
+Park, an International without Thomson as one of the half-backs was out
+of the question, and for three seasons (1872-73-74), he was selected for
+that post against England. In the last event, when Scotland won at
+Partick by two goals to one, the brilliant manner in which Thomson
+played will not easily be forgotten by those who witnessed the contest.
+While F. Anderson (Clydesdale), and A. Mackinnon (Queen's Park), scored
+the goals for Scotland, Thomson never worked harder in his life, and
+when the English forwards got near his side, he rarely, if ever, failed
+to take the ball away from them. Just before leaving for Manchester, Mr.
+Thomson was chosen captain of the Glasgow Eleven against Sheffield. Some
+years ago he went to Liverpool, and is now secretary of the extensive
+butcher business of Eastmans Company (Limited). In addition to his
+ability as a football player, Mr. Thomson was a splendid sprinter, and
+carried off a large number of prizes both in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
+
+
+~William Ker.~
+
+Mr. William Ker was captain of the Queen's Park when they leased their
+first private ground, and did much by his tact and ability to bring on
+our senior club to seek new conquests in England. Mr. Ker--of whose
+brother George I shall have occasion to refer by and by--was a most
+gentlemanly young fellow, and made himself respected by club companions
+and opponents alike. In the early history of the game a half-back, and
+even back, did not consider it _infra dig._ to dribble a bit and bring
+up the ball to goal, provided the match was against a much weaker club,
+and while Ker was a grand back and beautiful kicker with his left foot,
+he was also an accomplished dribbler. In a match he never lost sight of
+the ball for a moment, and when any of his team made a mistake in
+following up, Ker frequently stepped into the breach himself, and did
+his best to get the player out of a difficulty. He was too gentlemanly
+to upbraid a member of the team on the ground, like some captains
+now-a-days, but awaited an opportunity, and the advice imparted
+generally did the careless player a world of good. In the famous match
+at Partick in 1872, Ker showed some very fine play, both in clever
+tackling and returning the ball; and, if I mistake not, he was opposed
+on the opposite side by the English captain (Mr. C. J. Ottaway, since
+dead), and the manoeuvring between the pair was something to be
+remembered. Mr. Ker did not play very long after this game, as he left
+Glasgow for Canada.
+
+
+~Robert Smith.~
+
+Unlike his brother in the manner of his style, Mr. Robert Smith was not
+by any means an impulsive player, but took in the situation quietly; and
+while no man ever worked harder in the field, or did more for a club, he
+was not what could be called a brilliant forward. The brothers, however,
+did well in the International I have referred to, and considerably
+helped the eleven to make a drawn battle of it. It may be mentioned that
+both were then also members of the South Norwood Club (one of the best
+in England at that time), as they had previously left Scotland for
+London. Mr. Robert Smith, so far as I am aware, is now in the United
+States.
+
+
+~Alexander Rhind.~
+
+A rare but light dribbler was Mr Rhind. One of the old members of the
+Queen's Park, and associated with men whose names I have already
+mentioned in its early struggles, he knew, if I may be allowed to use a
+simile which is likely to force a smile, what football poverty was, for
+is it not a fact that he was a member of the Q.P. Finance Committee
+when the annual subscription was _sixpence_, the yearly income L3 9s.
+8d., and as the expenditure amounted up to L4 2s. 4d., the deficit of
+12s. 8d. had to be made up by a levy? I never remember Mr. Rhind playing
+in a match after the International. He is now in Aberdeen.
+
+
+~The First Final Cup Tie.~
+
+The First Final Association Cup Tie, on Hampden Park, I remember well.
+The clubs fated to meet each other were the Queen's Park and Clydesdale,
+and the match, considering the fact that the players were comparatively
+young in the practice of the dribbling game, proved a very fine one
+indeed. It was on a Saturday afternoon in the middle of March, 1874, and
+a crowd of fully 2000 spectators attended. The Hampden Park of to-day,
+with its splendid pavilion and accessories, and beautifully laid-off
+turf, was not then conceived in the minds of the Match Committee. It was
+the Hampden Park of yore, now cut up to form a railway embankment. Mr.
+Hon. Secy. Rae and his companions in office never for a moment imagined
+that in sixteen years afterwards the new ground, which is crowded nearly
+every Saturday afternoon with excited spectators, would be made to
+satisfy the cravings of a football public, and the exigencies of
+athletic life. There was no such thing as a pavilion then, only a kind
+of "wee house" at the gate end of the field, for all the world like an
+overgrown sentry-box, did duty instead. The grass on the field was not
+even cut in some places, and at the top corner-flag was long and turfy.
+The spectators, however, of whom a large number were ladies, enjoyed it
+very much, and the enthusiasm imparted among the youths who were present
+had a wonderful effect on the spread of the game. It was thought that a
+draw was inevitable, so well did both sides play till within twenty
+minutes of the finish, when Mr. Wm. M'Kinnon scored a goal for the
+senior club, and this was followed by a second from the foot of Mr.
+Leckie, not long before no-side was announced, leaving the Q.P. the
+winners by two goals to none. I must, however, go back a little way and
+say something about the
+
+
+~Association Challenge Cup,~
+
+which has caused a new order of things to arise in Scottish football.
+Well, during the previous year, and, in fact, not long after the first
+International at Partick, new clubs were formed in many quarters, but
+more particularly Glasgow and Dumbartonshire, and it was on March 13,
+1873, that the Queen's Park convened a meeting of representatives of
+clubs, and what is now known as the Scottish Football Association was
+formed. Eight clubs responded, and created the great Association. The
+eight, who deserve much honour at the hands of players, were:--Queen's
+Park, Clydesdale, Vale of Leven, Dumbreck, Eastern, Rovers, 3rd L.R.V.,
+and Granville, and those clubs were represented on the committee by Mr.
+Arch. Campbell (Clydesdale), president; Mr. W. Ker (Queen's Park), hon.
+treasurer; Mr. Archibald Rae (Queen's Park), hon. secretary; with the
+following committee:--Messrs. Ebenezer Hendry and Wm. Gibb (Clydesdale),
+J. Turnbull (Dumbreck), D. Macfarlane (Vale of Leven), W. E. Dick (3rd
+L.R.V.), T. Mackay (Granville), J. M'Intyre (Eastern), and R. Gardner
+(Queen's Park). Next in order came the Challenge Cup, and the
+competition for that trophy was in full swing. The necessary funds were
+soon forthcoming, and a very neat, but plain, specimen of the
+silversmith's art was brought forth. The subject for ornamentation was
+taken from a cut in the _Graphic_, representing a player in the act of
+dribbling at the first International, and made by Messrs. George Edward
+& Sons. There you have it now, gentlemen, rather dry reading and
+technical, though, but nevertheless the infant life of a great
+competition. By a strange coincidence in the respective matches, and one
+which the players of a former era will look upon with a sense of
+sadness, consists in the fact that of the twenty-two who took part in
+that game seven are dead. Of these the senior club has the misfortune to
+claim five--Messrs. J. J. Taylor, J. B. Weir, J. Leckie, J. Dickson, and
+A. Mackinnon; while the Clydesdale, so far as I am aware, has only two,
+Mr. J. R. Wilson and Mr. Robert Gardner. As I have already given short
+sketches of Messrs. Taylor, Weir, Leckie, and Gardner, under the head of
+"Dead Internationalists," and J. J. Thomson and W. M'Kinnon under
+another, I have only to deal with R. W. Neil, J. Dickson, T. Lawrie, C.
+Campbell, Angus Mackinnon, and H. M'Neil (Queen's Park), and the whole
+of the Clydesdale, with the sole exception of R. Gardner.
+
+
+~Charles Campbell.~
+
+Mr. Campbell seems to have had no real starting point in his football
+career. The love of the game and its early associations came to him as
+if by nature. I am told that when he was quite a boy he used to appear
+on the ground at Queen's Park to see his brother Edward playing with old
+club companions. He soon began to dribble about, and afterwards show
+splendid ability in long-kicking and tackling, and in 1873-74 played for
+the Queen's Park in her best matches. The final cup tie, however, was
+his first big event, and no doubt the lessons and confidence he obtained
+in that match served him well in after years, when he was destined to be
+the greatest favourite both among players and spectators that ever took
+part in any cup tie or International. Mr. Campbell has now retired from
+active duty on the field, but his love for the game, and the welfare of
+the players engaged in it, induced him to accept the presidentship of
+the Association for 1889-90, and one and all are alive to the fact that
+he discharges his duties with the greatest fidelity. As a brilliant
+tackler and neat kicker at half-back, it might honestly be said of him
+that he had no equal. Men who played against him on great occasions (for
+Mr. Campbell always rose to his best form in these) have good cause to
+remember how he could "head" the ball away from goal at a critical
+moment, and get it through quite a forest of legs. As he was not one of
+the cracks in the final cup tie of 1874, I must honestly confess I can't
+remember how he played, but as his club scored a victory, and he was one
+of the half-backs, he must have done well. Mr. Campbell rarely, if ever,
+spends a Saturday afternoon away from Hampden Park in the winter time;
+takes a lively interest in his mother club, and, what is of more
+account, can still play in his favourite position with great dash and
+precision. He has the unique distinction of playing in ten
+Internationals with England, and been an office-bearer of his club since
+1873.
+
+
+~Thomas Lawrie.~
+
+Mr. Lawrie has done much for football in connection with his club and
+the Association, both by example and precept. In the early days of the
+Queen's Park he was one of their most brilliant forwards, and in several
+of the cup ties, notably that between the Queen's Park and Renton,
+proved the best man on the field. He never shirked his work, or left
+hard tackling to the half-backs, but sprang on the ball and opponent at
+once, and generally had the best of it. Of all the fine forwards who
+received their football education under Mr. J. J. Thomson's, and later
+on Mr. C. Campbell's and Mr. Joseph Taylor's captaincy, none could keep
+his feet better on the field; and it was quite a rare thing to see
+Lawrie grassed by an opponent. Although not much above the middle
+height, he was a perfect football Hercules, and not long before retiring
+from the field opponents in some of the matches would frequently make
+earnest inquiries about whether he were to be included in the Q.P. team
+on that day. But for an accident to the knee which made him retire,
+after being chosen to play in the International against England in 1874,
+Mr. Lawrie would have then represented his club. After giving up active
+duty in the field, he has rendered noble service by being president of
+the Scottish Football Association, and loves the game as dearly as ever.
+
+
+~Harry M'Neil.~
+
+The first final cup tie brought into prominence one of the neatest
+little dribblers and passers that ever played on the left wing of any
+club. Methinks I see him now, with his quick action, short step, and
+unselfish play, gliding down the side of the field, dodging an opponent
+close on the touch-line, and causing the spectators to laugh
+immoderately. Spectators are prone to make favourites, and while Mr.
+Campbell was assuredly one at half-back, Mr. M'Neil was none the less
+loved among the forwards. While playing in the leading games he was
+always ready with his joke, and I'll back him to be the best man in the
+world to explain away a defeat and magnify a victory for the club he
+loved so well. Mr. M'Neil was chosen seven times to play against England
+and Wales, and I remember his efforts and their results with pleasure.
+The only time he was sorely beset was in the International of 1876, when
+Mr. Jarrett (Cambridge University, I think), one of the English
+half-backs--a powerful young fellow--tackled him severely. The gallant
+little Queen's Park man, however, withstood the charges well, and came
+up from mother earth smiling. That match, however, ended in favour of
+Scotland by three goals to none. Mr. M'Neil was a member of the 3rd
+L.R.V. at the start of his career, and also of the Rangers, but joined
+the Queen's Park in 1872.
+
+
+~Robert W. Neill.~
+
+Mr. Neill kept the late Mr. J. J. Taylor company at back in many of the
+most trying and critical Q.P. matches of 1876, '77, '78, and '80, and in
+all those years was a familiar figure in the Internationals against
+England and Wales. As we have previously said about the deceased Mr.
+Leckie, players have their peculiarities, and Neill had his. He was a
+really brilliant back and pretty sure tackler, but relied too much on
+his feet while defending goal, instead of using the breast and head. His
+individuality consisted in meeting the charge of an opponent with bended
+knees, and he had the knack of taking the ball away and making a
+brilliant return in a style that roused the cheers of the spectators. He
+was a very hard worker to the last, and only retired from football to go
+abroad some years ago. He has, however, returned to Glasgow, and may
+frequently be seen at some of the best matches of the season. His play
+during 1877 and 1878 was exceptionally good, and in those years was in
+the best form of any back in Scotland.
+
+
+~John Dickson.~
+
+Poor fellow! Mr. Dickson had but a short career, not only in football,
+but in everyday life. He caught a severe cold one bleak evening coming
+from Hampden Park after a practice match, and succumbed to the malady of
+inflammation of the lungs at the age of 28. He started his football life
+as a back; but when the Queen's Park lost Mr. Gardner he was tried as
+goalkeeper, and did very well. Tall and gentlemanly in appearance, with
+neatly trimmed sandy whiskers and moustache, Dickson kicked out in front
+of his goal very neatly, and was not afraid to meet the charge of an
+opposing forward. An incident in his career caused a great deal of
+amusement at the time, however, and is worth recording, just to show the
+immense faith he had in the infallibility of his old club. It was in a
+cup tie with the Vale of Leven, when that club beat the Queen's Park by
+two goals to one. Dickson appeared at goal with an umbrella, as the rain
+was falling fast, but when the Vale scored their first goal he was
+obliged to throw away his companion, and work harder than ever he had
+done before.
+
+
+~Angus Mackinnon.~
+
+A powerfully-made young fellow, above the medium height, Mr. Mackinnon
+was a very fair forward, and always played in the centre with Mr.
+William M'Kinnon, his namesake, and the pair were a "caution" to meet in
+a hot tussle. The six forwards took part in the play then, with two on
+each wing and a couple in the centre, and it was a treat to see how well
+the Mackinnons worked in their places. Mr. Angus, however, was rather
+short in the temper, and often had a "few words" with both companions
+and opponents during a game. He played a very indifferent game in the
+final tie and some of the matches previously, but was really in
+excellent form at that same year's International against England, and
+scored one of the goals. Mr. Mackinnon died about four years ago in
+Canada.
+
+
+~Frederick Anderson.~
+
+If there is one player more than another that deserves to be remembered
+by his old club, the Clydesdale, for the manner in which he brought it
+before the public by scoring one of the goals in the third International
+at Partick in 1874, it is Anderson. He was a very fine dribbler, and
+about the most difficult man in the Clydesdale forwards to get the ball
+away from after he had obtained possession. Although not one of the
+original members, he was early associated with the Clydesdale, and
+played in the best games of seasons 1874, '75, and '76. He was a bit of
+a sprinter, and very fast on the ball, with very fine staying power.
+Many of the backs who played against him during his best days were
+afraid of Anderson when he got near the sticks. He is now in Manchester.
+
+
+~John M'Pherson.~
+
+Mr. John M'Pherson, of the Clydesdale, is a much older player than his
+namesake of the Vale of Leven. When the Clydesdale went into the game
+with a dash that astonished even the Q.P., he was one of their finest
+forwards, and, possessing great speed, was not easily tackled by the
+best backs of the day. He always played on the right wing, and was a
+dangerous man at goal. Mr. M'Pherson did much both for football and
+cricket in Inveraray, and even now takes an interest in his favourite
+pastime in Rothesay, where he assists his father in the management of
+the Queen's Hotel. It may be mentioned that, in addition to his other
+qualifications, for "he was so versatile," M'Pherson has acted on more
+than one occasion as outrider to Her Majesty when she visited the
+Highlands. In 1875 he played against England.
+
+
+~William Gibb.~
+
+I am sorry to say Mr. Gibb is dead, and that the sad event severs the
+link that bound the whole of the Clydesdale eleven together, with the
+exception of the blank left by the loss of their accomplished
+goalkeeper. Mr. Gibb was a tall and powerful young fellow, and I have
+frequently seen a few of his opponents feeling rather shy before
+attempting to oppose his progress towards goal. During the winters of
+1873, 1874, and 1875, the Clydesdale forward play was good. So brilliant
+was his form in 1873 that he was taken to Landon to play against
+England, and scored one of the goals got by Scotland, who were defeated
+by four goals to two. Mr. Gibb's only fault on the field was a
+disposition to over-run the ball. He died about two years ago in India.
+
+
+~A. H. Raeburn.~
+
+In the first final cup tie Mr. Raeburn was one of the half-backs, and
+played up with great dash and pluck. If my memory serves me right, he
+was one of the original members of the Granville Cricket and Football
+Club when the ground was at Myrtle Park, about a couple of stone-throws
+from Hampden Park. He was very fond of the game, and no man in the
+Clydesdale had more enthusiasm. Mr. Raeburn was a fine tackler, and not
+easily flurried when meeting an opponent, and with such men as the
+Mackinnons to face in the centre and Weir on the right that day of the
+final, he had his own ado. He did not play very much after this game.
+
+
+~Ebenezer Hendry.~
+
+Mr. Hendry was more of a cricketer than a football player, and made many
+fine scores for his side during the early years of his career. With the
+exception of Mr. Gardner and Mr. Anderson, all the members of the
+Clydesdale could play cricket, and it was more for the purpose of
+keeping members together during the winter months that the dribbling
+game was started on Kinning Park (the old home of the senior cricket
+club of Glasgow). Mr. Hendry was a slow tackler, and took too long to
+get on the ball, but when he got a fair chance, was a very neat kicker,
+and showed good judgment.
+
+
+~J. R. Wilson.~
+
+During the past season, Mr. Wilson, who had been abroad for a number of
+years, made a visit to his native city, and was welcomed back by his old
+friends of the field with remarkable pleasure. No man in the club was
+more highly beloved and respected, and, in after years, when his brother
+Walter joined the club and played in several of the leading matches, the
+pair rarely if ever missed a practice evening. Mr. Wilson was very fast
+on the ball, and went right ahead when he got possession. In 1874 he was
+chosen to play for Glasgow against Sheffield. In the cup tie which is
+now under notice he made some very fine runs, and did much to make a
+name for the old Clydesdale. It is with much regret I have to announce
+that Mr. Wilson died in Glasgow only a month ago.
+
+
+~James M'Arly.~
+
+A hard worker and plucky tackler was Mr. M'Arly. For a long series of
+years he was one of the finest batsmen in cricket that Glasgow produced.
+Contemporary with Mr. Thos. Chalmers (Caledonian), the pair often met on
+the field for their respective clubs; but so far as football is
+concerned Chalmers played the Rugby game for the Glasgow Academicals,
+while his contemporary was half-back in the Association Clydesdale.
+About a dozen years ago he went to Manchester, where he is engaged as
+partner in a large calico printing business; and the other day I had a
+chat with him about old times, and he enjoyed it immensely.
+
+
+~John Kennedy.~
+
+Pressed into the service of his club on very short notice, Mr. Kennedy
+played in the tie as a substitute. He had only been a few weeks at the
+game when the match took place, but the young and rising generation of
+players must remember the substitutes were few in those days, and it is
+not the first time I have seen a match played with one of the clubs a
+man short. Kennedy played as a forward, but afterwards developed into a
+very fair back, and showed capital judgment in that position.
+
+
+~J. J. Lang.~
+
+Originally a member of the 3rd L.R.V., Lang left that club and joined
+the Clydesdale in 1874. He played in the final, I think, as centre
+forward, and backed up Mr. J. R. Wilson. Possessing splendid dribbling
+powers, he was a very "showy" player, but his short steps did not make
+anything like the progress with the ball one imagined at the time. He
+was a somewhat heavy charger when he got the chance, and frequently
+preferred to take his man before the ball.
+
+
+~A Final Charity Cup Tie Eleven Years Ago.~
+
+Bringing my reminiscences down to 1879, the year above all others when
+Association football was, so to speak, in a kind of transition stage,
+the clubs that earned the greatest fame, and justly so, were the Queen's
+Park, Rangers, and Vale of Leven. Who, among all the gallant throng that
+played in those clubs--and, for that part of it, the spectators--can
+forget the exciting tussles engaged in by the trio? In this year the
+Rangers met the Vale of Leven in the final tie for the Association
+Challenge Cup, and also in the final for the Charity. Party, or shall I
+say club, feeling ran as high, if not higher, than now, the excitement
+was great, and intensified by the fact that the Leven men had been
+eventually awarded the Association Cup without playing off the drawn
+match, in consequence of the Rangers not turning up. Later on, too, the
+crack Dumbartonshire eleven overthrew the Queen's Park in the semi-final
+of the charities, on Glasgow Green, by four goals to none. Well, it was
+on Tuesday evening, 20th May, that the battle came off on Old Hampden
+Park, and both the Rangers and Vale of Leven mustered in strong force.
+Lovely weather helped to swell the crowd, and some 12,000 people were
+inside the ground. The Vale of Leven scored almost at once by Mr.
+M'Dougall, and this looked like the prelude to victory. The Rangers,
+however, set their teeth, and before the contest closed vanquished their
+powerful opponents by scoring a couple of goals--one by Mr. Struthers,
+and another out of a scrimmage. Since then eleven years have come and
+gone, and with them a new generation of football players. Seeing that
+the Rangers were the victors, I shall proceed to give sketches of their
+eleven who played on the occasion, and deal with the Vale of Leven
+afterwards.
+
+
+~George Gillespie.~
+
+In connection with the dribbling game in Glasgow, it should be generally
+known that Mr. Gillespie supplies the link which binds the players of
+the dead past to those of the living present. He is still to the fore,
+and does duty as well as ever. Early in his football career Mr.
+Gillespie was not a goalkeeper, for I am certain I saw him play at back
+in some of the early matches of the "Light Blues." Nature,
+metaphorically speaking, never intended him to be anything in the game
+but a goalkeeper, and a brilliant one, too. How he kept goal in this
+great match, and dozens of others, is still fresh in the memory both of
+old players and spectators. He is the only man on the active list who
+played ten years ago, and had the distinction of appearing against
+England twice and Wales three times. From the Rangers he joined the Q.P.
+about six years ago.
+
+
+~Thomas Vallance.~
+
+The early history of the Rangers--their triumphs, misfortunes, joys, and
+sorrows--have all been shared in by Mr. Thomas Vallance, and he still
+sticks to them like the veritable leech. Who could captain a young team
+like he? When Vallance led the Rangers to victory in this final Charity
+tie, I am sure he was barely out of his teens, and I don't think would
+even yet hesitate to don the blue jersey of the club were it hard up for
+a back. Vallance was a back, indeed, and for several seasons, but more
+particularly that of 1879-80, none in Scotland showed better form. His
+returns near goal were neat and clean, and without being in any way
+rough with an opponent. Vallance's length of limb and good judgment
+often saved his club from losing goals. The whole of the Rangers "lo'ed
+him like a vera brither," and at practice his word was law. He played
+four times against England.
+
+
+~Alexander Vallance.~
+
+With quite as much pluck, but awanting in finish and style, the younger
+of the brothers, Mr. Alexander, was nevertheless a fine back. Lighter
+made and more easily tackled than Thomas, he had a way of his own in
+running out the ball before making the final shy, and when this was done
+well, as it frequently happened in a first-class match, young Vallance
+received a perfect ovation from the crowd. Alexander was in fine form in
+this tie, and some of his returns were splendidly made. Instead of going
+at an opponent with the air of an infuriated bull, as some backs are
+prone to do now-a-days, he kept close to his man, and waited for an
+opportunity, which was at once taken advantage of. Like his brother, he
+is still in the city, and takes a kindly interest in his mother club.
+
+
+~Hugh M'Intyre.~
+
+Mr. Hugh M'Intyre and Mr. J. Drinnan were the half-backs in this
+contest. No such new-fangled device as three half-backs was ever thought
+of in Scotland at that time, and you may be sure the pair had hard work.
+Of all the players sent out by the Rangers, M'Intyre was in many
+respects the most powerful. He was, however, to be outspoken, the
+coarsest. Woe betide the light and gentle forward who tried to pass Mr.
+Hugh! He pounced on his man at once, and with raised back--for he was
+somewhat round-shouldered--gave the excited spectator the idea that he
+meant to have the ball at any cost. His weight gave him an immense
+advantage in tackling, and I think old players will be at one with me
+when I say that he was the best at that kind of work in Scotland. He was
+about the first to leave Glasgow and accept an engagement in England. He
+played against Wales in 1880.
+
+
+~James Drinnan.~
+
+In the list of the Rangers' eleven who took part in the match under
+review, the name of Mr. Drinnan does not occur, and I am obliged to
+proffer an explanation. In the report of the contest one "R. Jackson" is
+credited with keeping H. M'Intyre company on the occasion. As the
+incident is past, and Mr. Drinnan no longer amenable to the laws of
+engineer apprenticeship, he did in this match what a great many men have
+done before him--viz., played under an assumed name. He was a very fair
+back, but not sufficiently brilliant to obtain notoriety, and never had
+the distinction of playing in an International. He was, nevertheless, a
+very useful all-round player, and could take his place as a centre
+forward at a moment's notice.
+
+
+~Peter Campbell.~
+
+The Rangers a dozen years ago without Mr. Peter Campbell would have been
+like the Queen's Park now with Mr. William Sellar left out. He was the
+life and soul of the forward division, and it is not too much to say of
+him that a finer dribbler and harder worker never kicked leather. Poor
+Campbell, like so many more of the old lot, is gone to his account! In a
+terrible storm in the Bay of Biscay, which left many a home desolate,
+seven years ago, the steamer in which he was chief engineer foundered,
+and not a soul was left to tell the tale. Quiet and unassuming in
+manner, Mr. Campbell was beloved by all, and his untimely death is still
+mourned by the Rangers, for whom he did so much. In 1878-79 he was in
+such good form that he was chosen to play against Wales, and in 1876 and
+1878 did duty for Glasgow against Sheffield.
+
+
+~Moses M'Neil.~
+
+The M'Neils are quite a football family, and, what is of more account,
+have gained distinction in the game. Is it not a fact that Mr. Peter was
+one of the founders of the famous club nineteen years ago, and that
+Messrs. Harry, William, and Moses kept the ball rolling on Kinning Park
+with credit for many a day? Moses is the youngest of the lot, and
+consequently what may be termed the most modern. He was quite a boy when
+this cup tie came off, and played with a dash and finish on the left
+wing that completely astonished all who were present on Old Hampden Park
+that May evening. Mr. Moses, too, was more than a mere local player, and
+through sheer force of ability was chosen to play against England in
+1880, and acted in the same capacity for Scotland against Wales in 1876.
+He is still young and active, and resides in the city.
+
+
+~William Struthers.~
+
+An original member of the Partick, when that club could boast of having
+as good a team as now, Struthers was associated with the old pioneers
+in Messrs. Boag, James S. Campbell, Love, Sutar, Bell, and Smith, and
+joined the Rangers the previous year before the tie. He was a beautiful
+dribbler, after the style of Mr. T. C. Highet; went right ahead with the
+ball close at his toe, and was the most difficult man to tackle in the
+Rangers. He left Scotland some years ago for England, where he played
+for the Bolton Wanderers. In brilliant form in the match, he made some
+fine runs in company with Mr. Campbell and Mr. Hill, and was successful
+in scoring the first goal got for the Rangers. Mr. Struthers is now in
+England, where he has settled down.
+
+
+~David Hill.~
+
+A most unselfish player was Mr. Hill. He was slow, but sure, and if ever
+a man showed an example in the field by at once passing on the ball when
+necessary, and never opening his mouth from kick-of to time call, it was
+he. One of the prominent figures all through quite a decade of seasons
+for his old club, Mr. Hill rendered the Rangers valuable service, and
+never failed to turn up when he was wanted. In the final Association
+Challenge Cup match with the Vale of Leven, played shortly before the
+one I am touching upon, and which ended in a tie, some splendid passing
+was witnessed between him and Mr. Wm. Dunlop, who, by the way, could not
+play in the Charity event in consequence of an injury sustained a week
+before.
+
+
+~Alex. Steel.~
+
+Like the other members of the Rangers, Mr. Steel was very young when he
+joined that club. His enthusiasm for the game, however, was unbounded,
+and I have been told by an old Rangers' man that he was one of the
+original "moonlighters" of the club. This phrase gentlemen, requires
+some explanation. It does not refer to Ireland and its agrarian
+grievances. No, no. It was only a few choice spirits of the Rangers who,
+determined to win all matches, used to practice at full moon, and
+frequently frightened some of the belated lieges in the vicinity of
+Kinning Park, who swore the place was haunted.
+
+
+~Charles M'Quarrie.~
+
+Although retired from active duty on the field, Mr. M'Quarrie is even
+now in football harness as the treasurer of the Partick Thistle. He did
+not play in many of the first eleven matches of the club, but being a
+promising lad was always available as first reserve forward. He was
+rather a neat dribbler and good backer-up, but a little slow in
+tackling. He was always a steady player, and did very well in this game.
+He did not play very much after this tie, but gave up football
+altogether, till his old love for the game returned some years ago, when
+he joined the Thistle, and is one of their most earnest committee
+workers.
+
+
+~Robert Parlane.~
+
+I now proceed to the Vale of Leven men who played in this tie, and
+goalkeepers, beware! and, let me tell you, don't think too much of
+yourselves nowadays! We had a great man who stood between the posts a
+dozen years ago, quite equal at all points to you, and his name was
+Parlane. Who did not know Mr. Robert Parlane a decade ago? In the early
+history of Association football some of the best players ever Scotland
+produced were also good cricketers, and Parlane was one of these, and a
+grand wicketkeeper. Without saying too much of the men who have over and
+over again distinguished themselves, I cannot help saying that a better
+goalkeeper never chucked out a ball. Mr. Parlane did very well in this
+match, his only fault being a disposition to go away too far from his
+charge. He kept goal for Scotland against England in 1879, and is now in
+Belfast.
+
+
+~H. M'Lintock.~
+
+For six years no man ever did better work for his club than Mr.
+M'Lintock. In fact, the Vale of Leven would as soon have scratched
+altogether in a cup tie as entered into a doubtful contest without him
+and their other great back, Mr. Andrew M'Intyre. M'Lintock did more than
+any of the old school now living to popularise a style of back play
+which ten years ago was emulated to a large extent all over the country.
+He had a most graceful way of turning the ball when it came dangerously
+near the goal, and running it out by dodging an opponent. He used both
+feet with equal freedom, and was decidedly the cleanest kicker that ever
+played in the Vale of Leven. It is a curious fact, and one worth noting,
+that Mr. Forbes adopted much the same style. M'Lintock played against
+England in 1875 and 1876.
+
+
+~Andrew M'Intyre.~
+
+Mr. Andrew M'Intyre was a terrible fellow to meet in a hot scrimmage,
+and no matter the forwards who opposed--and I have seen three at him in
+a close tussle in front--M'Intyre generally had the best of it and got
+the ball clear. His powerfully-knit frame served him in good stead in
+all the great matches in which he took a prominent part. In the one
+under review M'Intyre was sorely beset by the pick of the Rangers'
+forwards, but was always in the right place. No player of his day could
+work as well in so little space, and get the leather away safely. His
+only fault was to be a little demonstrative in the field with opponents,
+and tell them a bit of his mind during the game. In 1878 he was chosen
+to play against England.
+
+
+~J. Macintyre.~
+
+The play of the two namesakes was as different as the poles asunder. Of
+a fair height and good appearance, Mr. J. Macintyre was one of the most
+excitable men that ever stood in front of a goal. He generally warmed up
+at bit, however, and even showed more daring when his old club were
+playing an uphill game, and I know for certain that in the great drawn
+matches for the Association Challenge Cup, between the Vale of Leven and
+Rangers, no man ever did harder work. He was slow to get on the ball,
+and at times very erratic, but rarely if ever lost an opportunity. Very
+rough in tackling, he, above all others in the club, was severe on the
+opposing forwards.
+
+
+~J. M'Pherson.~
+
+Among the Vale of Leven back division, which was so powerful long ago,
+none was more devoted to the game than Mr. M'Pherson, who held his place
+for several years as one of the backs of whom Caledonia felt proud.
+Without the least show or fussiness, M'Pherson did his work quietly, and
+had the credit (and a good one, too) of being next to Mr. John Ferguson,
+the best-natured footballer in Dumbartonshire. He could play a
+magnificent game when he liked, and one season particularly--that of
+1883--when he was one of the Scottish Eleven against England at
+Sheffield, ably assisted his team to win a hard match by three goals to
+two.
+
+
+~J. Macfarlane.~
+
+The Vale of Leven at the time this tie was played had a rare forward
+combination, and in some of their best matches the dribbling and passing
+among them were something to be remembered. Macfarlane, however, was
+certainly not the best of the lot, but a very safe man, and could play
+equally well on the left wing or the centre, and, if I mistake not, work
+excellently as a backer-up to J. M'Gregor. Now, when I think of it, he
+was severely tackled in this match by H. M'Intyre, and was not in such
+good form as some of the other forwards.
+
+
+~R. Paton.~
+
+There are few, if any, old players in Dumbartonshire, and, I should say,
+spectators as well, who cannot remember the familiar figure of Mr.
+Robert Paton. A nicely-featured little fellow, with a joke for every
+acquaintance, he was full of vivacity, and an intense love for his old
+club, the Vale. Yes, "The Vale." Nobody ever called it anything else.
+Paton, above all the other forwards who did so much to make the Leven
+men beloved at home and feared "abroad," even to the next parishes and
+the big city of Glasgow, was a fine player, and never kept the ball
+longer than was necessary if he saw a chance. He played against England
+in 1879.
+
+
+~J. Baird.~
+
+Mr. James Baird was a fair average player, without anything very
+remarkable about him. The combination, as I have already said, was so
+good among the Vale of Leven at the time when this great contest took
+place that an inferior or selfish player would soon have found his
+level. The forwards, in fact, were all pretty much alike, but with
+clearly defined degrees of brilliancy, and Mr. James Baird was one of
+the lesser lights. He was a good runner and smart at following up, but
+his dribbling was sometimes too wide for the others when following up on
+the enemy's lines. When hard pressed he often lost the ball, but in a
+scrimmage in front of the posts he was a rare shot at goal, and scored a
+good many for his club.
+
+
+~J. C. Baird.~
+
+Of all the forwards who learned the game at Alexandria, on the old
+ground belonging to the Vale, perhaps, in many respects, Mr. J. C. Baird
+was the most distinguished, and, at the same time, the most gentlemanly.
+When the Vale of Leven beat the Queen's Park for the first time in one
+of the ties for the Association Challenge Cup, on Hampden Park, Mr. J.
+C. Baird played a perfect "demon." On the slippery ground he kept his
+feet against all comers, dribbled and passed on splendidly, and fairly
+took the breath away from John Dickson when scoring the goal which gave
+his club the victory. Mr. Baird was chosen to face England in 1876, and
+again in 1880.
+
+
+~J. M'Gregor.~
+
+If one had met Mr. M'Gregor off the football stage, so to speak, they
+would never for a moment have taken him for a brilliant and accomplished
+player at all points. He was all nerve and sinew, and always in grand
+form. His disadvantages in appearance and weight, however, were kind of
+blessings in disguise to his club, for the opposing backs sometimes
+treated him with indifference, and even contempt. This was M'Gregor's
+opportunity, and never man used it better. If ever he made his way past
+the backs, and was alone with the goalkeeper, ten to one but his team
+was a goal to the good in a few minutes. He played against England in
+1877, 1878, and 1880.
+
+
+~J. M'Dougall.~
+
+Two years previous to this final tie, Mr. M'Dougall was the most
+brilliant forward in Scotland, and he and Mr. J. T. Richmond (Queen's
+Park) were the first two forwards selected to play against England. A
+fine figure on the field, and a capital dribbler, without being showy,
+M'Dougall was always near the ball when wanted, and it sometimes took a
+couple of opponents to get the leather away from him. For three years in
+succession he was selected to appear against England. In the tie with
+the Rangers, Mr. M'Dougall was captain of the team, and scored the only
+goal made for the defeated club.
+
+
+~The Great International of 1882.~
+
+The eleven who were chosen to do battle for Scotland in this contest,
+close upon nine years ago, were considered in many respects the best
+that had ever donned International caps in any tussle before or since,
+and a better illustration of the wisdom of the Association Committee in
+their selection could not have been given than the result itself--viz.,
+Scotland, five goals; England, one. Hampden Park was the meeting-place,
+and as one of the football giants of the day (E. Fraser) is, like some
+of my dear old friends, now lying in the grave, and others who took part
+in the memorable event divided by thousands of miles from those with
+whom they fought and won for Scotland, I should like to pay a tribute of
+respect to their football ability, and let the young and rising
+generation of players know that such men appeared in the arena, and
+played the game as well as it is done now. The match took place on the
+11th March, 1882, and as England mustered a very powerful eleven, the
+issue was doubtful. About a quarter of an hour, however, after the
+start, Mr. Ker and Mr. Harrower had a fine run, and Harrower made the
+first point for Scotland but at half-time the score stood--Scotland, two
+goals; England, one--Ker having added the second, and Vaughton the one
+for England. In the last round, the Scotchmen, although playing against
+a good breeze, had it all to themselves, and scored other three points
+by Messrs. M'Pherson, Ker, and Kaye. In giving short sketches of the
+International eleven, I have only to deal with eight of the players, as
+Messrs. Charles Campbell, A. M'Intyre, and G. Gillespie have already
+been noticed in previous articles while engaged in other matches. I
+shall accordingly begin with
+
+
+~Andrew Watson (Queen's Park).~
+
+Mr. Watson did a great deal for football in the Glasgow district a dozen
+years ago, both with his ready purse and personal ability in the game.
+It was in a great measure owing to his interest and energy that the
+young Parkgrove Club obtained proper ground, and was fairly put on its
+way rejoicing. The Parkgrove had a lot of very fine young fellows in its
+ranks, and for several years made a capital record in numerous matches
+under the captaincy of Mr. Watson. In this International he played as
+right-side back in company with Mr. Andrew M'Intyre, and, as an
+indication of how he and his companion behaved, it is necessary to say
+that only one goal was got against them. Mr. Watson was a rare
+"header-out," and was famed for his fine tackling and neat kicking. He
+had one fault, however, and this consisted in kicking over his own lines
+occasionally when hard pressed by a dashing forward. In the previous
+year he was the Scottish captain against England, in London, and led his
+team to victory by 6 goals to 1.
+
+
+~Peter Miller (Dumbarton).~
+
+When Mr. Miller played in this match, the Dumbarton Club was a power in
+the land, and not easily beaten. He was left half-back, and had as his
+companion Mr. Charles Campbell, who captained the victorious eleven. Mr.
+Miller was remarkable for his magnificent tackling at close quarters,
+and possessed weight, which told against England in the contest. Again
+and again I saw him shake off both Mr. Cursham and Mr. Parry, two of the
+Southrons' ablest forwards, and once Mr. Mosforth and he had an amusing
+bit of play near the Scotch goal, in which the Sheffielder came off
+best. Mr. Miller was, altogether, a very fine back, and when he retired
+a few years ago the Dumbarton Club had considerable difficulty in
+getting a good man properly trained to supply his place. Next season
+(1883) he was also chosen to play against England and Wales.
+
+
+~E. Fraser (Queen's Park).~
+
+Lost to his club and the thousands of delighted spectators who witnessed
+his brilliant ability as a right-wing forward, but not forgotten by the
+members of the old Q.P., Fraser, "though dead, yet speaketh." I question
+very much if any forward of that time among the mediaeval class of
+players, so to speak, exercised such a potent influence over the
+spectators, and no style of play was more followed by the younger
+dribblers than that of Fraser. A son of the manse, he was a highly
+cultured young fellow, and loved football so devotedly that no amount of
+hard training was ever shirked by him when under probation for the first
+eleven. Dribbling beautifully up the side of the field, he had the knack
+of "middling" the ball at the proper time, and for six years no man ever
+assisted at the scoring of more goals. He was also included in the
+following season's eleven against England, and in 1880 did duty for
+Scotland in the Welsh match. Poor Fraser died in Australia, a few years
+ago, shortly after arriving there.
+
+
+~William Anderson (Queen's Park).~
+
+In the International of 1882 Mr. Anderson and Mr. Fraser played on the
+same side, and made a very good pair. The former, although not above the
+medium height, was powerfully built, and few, if any, of his formidable
+opponents were able to bring him down to mother earth. When he did fall,
+however, he was never in a hurry to rise, and took matters easy. If one
+could imagine such a thing as an easy-going football player, it was
+Anderson, but his failing sometimes came in handy, for he would
+occasionally make a gallant spurt, and pilot his way through the
+opposing backs in a way that completely astonished his team and their
+friends. He showed very well in this match, and the manner in which he
+and his companion dodged the Englishmen, not even excepting Mr. Bailey,
+the crack Clapham Rover half-back, will be easily remembered by those
+who were present. Mr. Anderson is now abroad, and it is something to his
+credit to say that he played four times against England.
+
+
+~J. L. Kaye (Queen's Park).~
+
+Like a good many fine players of the glorious past, Mr. Kaye received
+the best of his football training in the ranks of the 3rd L.R.V., and a
+couple of years, I think, before this big event, joined the forward
+division of the black and white stripes. Of a good-natured disposition,
+and a genial fellow to meet both on the field and at the social board,
+Mr. Kaye was a great favourite all round, and much sought after outside
+the pale of his own club. He was a very fine forward; a good dribbler,
+but was much more easily tackled than Anderson, and occasionally felt
+shy at meeting an opponent who had frightened him in a previous match.
+He must have done well in this contest, as he is highly spoken about in
+the newspaper reports, and scored the fifth and last goal got for
+Scotland. He was also an old and tried hand at Internationals, as he
+faced the English division three times, and Wales also in the same
+number of matches.
+
+
+~R. M'Pherson (Arthurlie).~
+
+What might be honestly termed the illustration of a fair field and no
+favour, Mr. M'Pherson's name was added to the International players of
+that season through sheer force of ability. I saw him play in several
+matches that year, and his style and smart passing up from the left wing
+was justly admired. He was Mr. Kaye's companion in this contest, and
+ably assisted that player to bring up the ball in several splendid runs.
+Since M'Pherson's retiral from active duty, and also the fact of Mr.
+Turner, their famous goalkeeper, giving up the game, the Arthurlie have
+gone back a bit in football ability, but during two seasons they were
+able to have two nominations for International honours, as Mr. Turner
+kept goal against Wales in 1882. Possessing great speed and judgment,
+M'Pherson was a very neat and steady player, and for two seasons at
+anyrate, a star among all the Renfrewshire forwards.
+
+
+~George Ker (Queen's Park).~
+
+A sketch of an International, cup tie, or, in fact, a first-class
+contest of any kind ten years ago, would be altogether incomplete
+without some reference to Mr. George Ker, now abroad. From 1880 to 1883
+he was Scotland's best centre forward, and the originator of what is now
+known in football parlance as the "cannon shot" at goal. Many players
+have since tried it, and made fairly good attempts, but Ker alone could
+do it to perfection. In this International he gave the Englishmen a
+taste of his ability in this line. He passed Mr. Greenwood, the English
+extreme back, and when fairly in front watched how the goalkeeper (Mr.
+Swepstone) would take in the situation. Ker spun the ball hard from his
+toe at the proper moment, and sent in a "flyer," which took effect. I am
+all but certain that if a vote were taken among players and spectators
+about the place to be assigned to centre forwards, Ker would come out
+the admitted chief. International honours were his thrice against
+England.
+
+
+~W. Harrower (Queen's Park).~
+
+The Queen's Park had no fewer than five forwards in this season's
+International, and Mr. Harrower was one. He played in the company of Mr.
+Ker, and the central division of the Scottish team was unusually
+strong. In fact, I distinctly remember some remarks made at the meeting
+of the Association, at which I was present, about the combination at
+that point being the most powerful ever sent out by Scotland. Mr.
+Harrower was really a beautiful dribbler, not easily knocked off his
+pins, and the most unselfish player I ever saw. He has the credit of
+earning the first goal got for Scotland in the match under notice, and
+was in the best of form the whole of that season. He took a leading part
+in the hard work of the Queen's Park for five years.
+
+
+~A Narrow Shave in the 1885 International.~
+
+There are yet other two Internationals, which introduce new faces into
+the field of play, and the first is that of 1885 at Kennington Oval,
+London, and ended in a tie, each side scoring one goal. Kennington
+Oval--in the winter time, at anyrate--is to football in London what
+Hampden Park is to Scotland in general and Glasgow in particular. The
+weather was delightful on that afternoon (Saturday, 21st March), and the
+spectators mustered in considerable force. Not, of course, so largely as
+we can show in Glasgow, for it takes an enormous amount of attraction to
+gather a big crowd in London. There was little or no wind to interfere
+with the play, and as both teams were in the pink of condition, it was
+an illustration of Greek meeting Greek in the open. The Scotchmen,
+however, were the first to make matters exciting by scoring a smart goal
+from the foot of Mr. Lindsay, and this was all the effective work done
+in the first round. The second forty-five minutes of the play was also
+of a very give-and-take order, and once Mr. Allan hit the English goal
+bar with a hard shot, but the ball rebounded into play, and was
+eventually sent behind. Towards the close, however, the Englishmen, led
+by Messrs. Bambridge, Cobbald, and Brown made a fine run, and the former
+put the game square for England. The contest, therefore, as I have
+already indicated, ended in a tie. As in all the other events that I
+have already touched upon, many of the players are now scattered far and
+wide. Some have given the game up altogether, while others are still
+playing on, and doing football duty as well, if not better, than ever
+they did before. Taking the eleven in the order of positions, I shall
+begin with
+
+
+~J. Macaulay (Dumbarton).~
+
+Among the brilliant array of goalkeepers who have sprung up to
+distinguish themselves during the past ten years, none deserves a more
+kindly notice in any football reminiscences than Mr. Macaulay. The
+present match was the third he stood sentinel before Scotland's
+stronghold, and he also played in '86 and '87. His first was at
+Sheffield in 1883, when I saw him save several splendid shies from the
+feet of the English forwards, and it is something to add of him that he
+was included in the Scotch teams who never lost a match with England. In
+the 1885 contest he kept goal in his best form, and was frequently
+cheered for the manner in which he got out the ball and dodged the
+English forwards. Mr. Macaulay was very quiet and unostentatious in his
+manner, and did his work brilliantly. He returned to Scotland the other
+day from abroad, and may yet play for some of our leading clubs.
+
+
+~Walter Arnott (Queen's Park).~
+
+Second in the order of teams, but premier in all that pertains to back
+play, comes the name of Mr. Arnott. Out of all the fine players who
+acted as extreme backs, none has done better work for his club and, let
+me say, International matches. It is all very well to say that there
+were giants in those days, but you all know what befell Goliath, and I
+cannot help saying that if you were to ask me candidly (taking the
+question in an all-round way) who was the best back you ever saw, I
+should have no hesitation in answering that it was Walter Arnott. In the
+words of the old English ballad, "he feared no foe," and never in the
+history of football of the present time has such a brilliant man arisen.
+He has so many remarkable points that I cannot tell them in a brief
+notice, but as he is still playing well, spectators are at one in
+admitting his grand ability.
+
+
+~M. Paton (Dumbarton).~
+
+The match under review was Mr. Paton's second appearance against
+England, and he acquitted himself very well. Somehow or other the
+committee of selection in International matches, while they honestly do
+their duty, sometimes move in a mysterious way, and the selection of Mr.
+Paton to stand alongside Mr. Arnott in this contest was, at the time,
+considered somewhat risky. Not by any means because Mr. Paton was not a
+good back, but in consequence of the diversity of play shown by the
+pair. Mr. Paton was nothing if he was not allowed a little latitude, and
+in some of the matches he came off with flying colours. Arnott and he,
+however, acted well together. To give Mr. Paton his due, he was a most
+gentlemanly young fellow, and did his very best for the game.
+
+
+~J. J. Gow (Queen's Park).~
+
+It has just occurred to me, and I can't see how the illustration might
+not with equal force be applied to football as in the honest range of
+every-day life, that if a "round-robin" were sent about the clubs that
+tackled the Q.P. in their best matches in the past decade, I am certain
+that the verdict about the man who was most feared in all the elevens,
+the name of Mr. J. J. Gow would come out first. He was, in fine, a
+half-back that the Q.P. had reason to feel proud. Half-backs might come
+and go--as they undoubtedly did--but Gow seemed in his football career
+to go on for ever. The most mysterious thing about him was that he was
+always in the same form, and never had any practice. Football at
+half-back seemed to come to him by nature, and cost him no effort. He
+could return splendidly, but at close tackling, and in clearing the ball
+away, he was sometimes a little slack, and had to make it up by sheer
+force of hard work.
+
+
+~Alexander Hamilton (Queen's Park).~
+
+Not long ago, while "doing" a match at Hampden Park (I think it was Q.P.
+v. Battlefield, in the Glasgow Cup), I met my old friend in the pavilion
+looking on and enjoying the sport. Like the M'Neils, the Hamiltons are a
+football family, and while Mr. James, who is now an active member of the
+present Q.P., will come under my pen later on, I have only at present to
+deal with Mr. Alexander. Well, he was something in his day, and by no
+means to be despised as a forward. He was not a fast dribbler, but when
+hard work was required, and wasn't it just in the great match against
+the professional Preston North End, when the Q.P. were able to hold
+their own, Mr. Hamilton never played better in his life.
+
+
+~William Sellar (Queen's Park).~
+
+I have for the most part been dealing with the past, and it is no force
+of imagination to come straight to the living present, and add that a
+better left-wing player never appeared in any club or combination of
+players than Mr. William Sellar. He has a style of his own which is, to
+give the Battlefield its due, peculiar to that club's ability in the
+dribbling game. Mr. Sellar did not learn all his football in the Queen's
+Park, but really perfected his style on Hampden Park, and he is
+undoubtedly, at the present time, the most brilliant forward in
+Scotland. Gentlemanly in every sense of the word, Sellar is the fairest
+player that ever faced an opponent, and no man is more respected on the
+field. In addition to this contest, he played against England in 1886,
+1887, and 1888. It may be mentioned that in 1890, in playing against the
+3rd L.R.V., he played from the left in a style never excelled by any
+forward.
+
+
+~Joseph Lindsay (Dumbarton).~
+
+Before this date, Mr. Joseph Lindsay was what might be called an old
+hand at Internationals, as he had appeared before England in 1881 and
+1884, and Wales in 1880, 1881, 1884, and 1885. It is not too much to say
+of him that he was the most dangerous forward (to an opponent, I mean)
+of his day, and if the backs were in any way slack, Lindsay "spread
+dismay around," as he was a dead shot at goal, and rarely, if ever,
+missed a chance if he got within a dozen yards of the sticks. Lindsay
+was the best forward in many respects that ever toed a ball for
+Dumbarton. He was, however, sorely tried in the finishing year of his
+football life, and in many of the leading matches so closely watched by
+the opposing backs that he was sometimes fairly done for, and could not
+get the ball away.
+
+
+~David S. Allan (Queen's Park).~
+
+Like Sir Roger de Coverley's definition of a great ethical question to
+one of his numerous friends, "that much might be said of one point," the
+illustration holds good when applied to Mr. David Allan. Popularity has
+its duties as well as its privileges, and there is not a single forward
+in broad Scotland who is so popular and so much beloved by club
+companions and opponents alike as Mr. Allan. He is, in fine, the most
+useful man in the Queen's Park, and while all of us seem to grow older
+as each season comes round, Allan has always that juvenile look which
+undoubtedly betokens an easy and contented mind. He is not what might be
+called a brilliant and showy forward, but I'll back him to do the best
+hour and a half of heavy work in the world without any outward sign of
+fatigue. I verily believe if Allan were forced to do it, he could play
+in any part of the field with a few minutes' notice.
+
+
+~R. Calderwood (Cartvale).~
+
+In consequence of Mr. R. M. Christie, who had played in the
+International, of the previous year, meeting with an accident in one of
+the trial matches, Mr. Calderwood did duty as left-wing forward in this
+match, and played very creditably. He was by far the best man in the
+young Cartvale, and a finer country player never came under the eye of
+an International referee. He was a veritable dodger among the opposing
+backs, and in this contest gave the Englishmen, but more particularly
+the Walters and Amos, a lot of trouble. He played a fine game in
+combination with the rest of the Scottish forwards. In the same season
+Mr. Calderwood played against Wales in the Principality.
+
+
+~The Final Association Cup Tie of 1886.~
+
+The clubs left in the final tie for possession of the Blue Ribbon of
+Association football glory in this season were the Queen's Park and
+Renton. Queen's Park led off by scoring from the foot of Mr. Lambie, and
+this was all the effective work till ends were changed, when the Renton
+team made a brilliant charge on the Queen's Park goal, and forced the
+ball through in a scrimmage. The play immediately after this was so even
+that a draw looked certain, but the Queen's Park eventually assumed
+command, and scored other two goals (one by Mr. Hamilton and another by
+Mr. Allan), and won a hard contest by three goals to one. As most of the
+Renton players who took part in the match were considered famous in
+their day, and have not been already introduced to you, I shall give
+short sketches of their style of play. So far as the Queen's Park team
+are concerned, however, I have only to deal with new faces in Messrs. R.
+M. Christie, G. Somerville, and J. A. Lambie, as all the other eight
+(Messrs. Campbell, Watson, Gow, Harrower, Hamilton, Arnott, Allan, and
+Gillespie) have already been disposed of in the present volume.
+
+
+~J. A. Lindsay.~
+
+Somehow or other the Renton Club were never very strong in goalkeeping
+when the perfect form of their forward division was taken into account,
+but Mr. J. A. Lindsay was decidedly their best. He had what might be
+called his good and bad days, however, and while he was always clever
+with his feet, he sometimes misjudged the ball and allowed a "soft
+thing" to take effect. In the present contest he had hot work in keeping
+the Q.P. forwards clear. Mr. Lindsay showed such brilliant form in the
+trial matches of 1888 that he was chosen to represent Scotland on
+Hampden Park. He was somewhat unfortunate there, however, as England
+revenged Bannockburn to the extent of five goals to none.
+
+
+~A. Hannah.~
+
+Who does not remember Mr. Hannah's fine fly-kick and powerful tackling?
+In meeting and judging the ball in the air he rivalled the great Q.P.
+back himself, but wanted the ability to follow up an advantage. In
+nearly all the matches in which he took part that season, Hannah worked
+hard and earnest. He had a peculiar way of turning round to an opponent
+and taking the ball away from him with the side of the foot, and no man
+in the Renton team was more feared by an opponent than Hannah. He never
+played against England, but in 1888 was picked out to represent Scotland
+against Wales.
+
+
+~A. M'Call.~
+
+In this tie Mr. Hannah had as his companion at extreme back Mr. A.
+M'Call. In some of the earlier matches in which the latter appeared he
+was a wild tackler and erratic in charging--rather going for the man,
+and never minding the ball--but by and by he mellowed down, and
+returned the leather beautifully from a besieged goal. I remember seeing
+him in several of the leading games that same year, and he showed a
+neatness of style which won for him golden opinions. He played against
+Ireland in 1888.
+
+
+~R. Kelso.~
+
+Mr. Kelso was a tower of strength to the Renton team at half-back, and
+did his duty in this contest. Rather a shade rough on an opponent at
+times, Mr. Kelso could also be generous to the foe when he liked, and
+sometimes made a brilliant hit at half-back by clearing away the ball
+from the feet of an opponent, just when the latter was poising for a
+shot at goal. Like Mr. Leitch Keir, of Dumbarton, he was, and is, a
+magnificent half-back, and had International honours against England in
+1887 and 1888.
+
+
+~D. M'Kechnie.~
+
+In connection with Mr. M'Kechnie's name in juxtaposition with Renton's
+crack half-back, I must honestly confess I am like Cuddie
+Headrigg--"Between the deil and the deep sea." I can only remember
+seeing him twice. I come to the conclusion, then, that he must have been
+a substitute, and if I am wrong in my supposition I shall be glad to
+stand corrected. He was at any rate not sufficiently brilliant to get
+his name handed down to posterity, although it must be said of him that
+he was a fair average player, and did very well in this game.
+
+
+~J. Thomson.~
+
+Although he had a disposition to "poach" a little now and again, as some
+forwards are apt to do, for you all know it is human to err, Thomson was
+a grand player, and made the most of his speed. He never kept the ball
+longer than was necessary, and if he thought his club would benefit by
+it, shied quickly in from the touch-line no matter where his companions
+or opponents alike were stationed on the field. He was really a fine
+shier, and his dribbling powers beyond dispute.
+
+
+~J. M'Call.~
+
+The Renton team had now risen to the acme of their fame, and no player
+helped them more to attain that position than Mr. J. M'Call. Some clubs
+carry their position through sheer force of medium ability all round;
+some have rare luck with their goalkeeping and backs; but, there is no
+doubt about it, Renton was strong in front, and I question if any man
+during that season played a better game than the younger M'Call. He
+represented Scotland in the contests with England in 1887 and 1888 as
+left-wing forward, and played a fine game.
+
+
+~A. Grant.~
+
+When the Renton men carried off the Glasgow Charity Cup that same
+season, the forwards showed great ability. Mr. Grant was a very neat
+player. If my memory serves me right, he backed up Mr. Barbour in this
+game, and did it very well. He was, however, rather slow on the ball,
+and was often sent to the right-about by Messrs. Gow and Watson. Like
+Mr. M'Kechnie, he does not seem to have played in many of the Renton's
+first-class matches, and his name is not found among Internationalists.
+
+
+~A. M'Intyre.~
+
+Mr. M'Intyre was one of the best forwards in the county which has
+produced so many fine Association football exponents, and acted as
+centre forward. Like Mr. D. Gow, of the Rangers, when he got fairly on
+the ball there was no getting it from him and he excelled in hard
+tackling. Possessing considerable speed, M'Intyre used it to the best
+advantage, and he had such a liking for dodging round the backs that he
+sometimes fairly carried away the spectators, and was loudly cheered for
+his manoeuvring.
+
+
+~A. Barbour.~
+
+In this event Mr. Barbour was the best man on the Renton side, and kept
+his feet on the slippery ground in a manner that completely astonished
+all who saw the contest. He was sometimes fairly puzzled by the clever
+heading of Mr. Campbell and the terrible tackling of Mr. Arnott, but
+fought gamely to the last. In close dribbling he was the nearest
+approach to Mr. William M'Kinnon (Q.P.) I have ever seen, and while he
+was quite as tricky, wanted the tact to lead an opponent astray. He
+played against Ireland in 1885.
+
+
+~J. Kelly.~
+
+What Mr. Marshall is to the 3rd L.R.V., Mr. Berry to the Queen's Park,
+and Mr. Groves to the Celtic, Mr. Kelly was to his old club, the
+Renton--viz., a grand man. Kelly, I think, first came out as a forward,
+and played as such for his county against Renfrewshire in 1885, and also
+in this tussle on Cathkin Park, but he eventually developed into a very
+fine half-back, and played against England as such twice--in 1888 for
+his mother club, and last season for his new love, the Celtic. His
+proper place, however, is undoubtedly at half-back.
+
+
+~R. M. Christie.~
+
+Slowly but surely Mr. Christie passed all the probationary stages in the
+Queen's Park on the way to develop a brilliant player, and in 1884
+appeared in the International with England. He was in the best of form,
+and caused the strangers a deal of trouble. He was very strong on his
+legs, and about the most powerful opponent of his day to meet in a close
+match. The passing between Christie and Harrower that day was splendid,
+and fairly astonished the Renton backs and goalkeeper.
+
+
+~G. Somerville.~
+
+Mr. Somerville was a very fine all round forward, with a good deal of
+ability in backing up and middling the ball in front of goal. Mr.
+Hamilton and he used to make the spectators laugh at the way in which
+they annoyed the opposing backs by passing the leather to one another in
+a tantalising way, right in front of the uprights. He was a sturdy
+player, something of the same make as Mr. David Davidson, of 3rd L.R.V.
+and latterly Queen's Park fame, with a nerve of iron and, shall I say, a
+frame of steel. He played against England in 1886.
+
+
+~J. A. Lambie.~
+
+A comparatively short career had Mr. Lambie on Hampden Park, but it was
+fraught with much distinction. He was a grand forward among a fine
+division, and scored a lot of goals for the Queen's Park. He was,
+indeed, at it again in this match, and, as I have already said in the
+introduction, took one more for the black and white stripes. When
+nearing the keeper, if he were fortunate enough to pass the backs, he
+generally looked about for one of his companions to follow up, and was
+quite an adept at the "screw-kick." Lambie appeared against England in
+1888, and is now an active member of the Corinthians.
+
+
+~The Association International of 1887.~
+
+As the International of 1887 is, so to speak, a thing of yesterday, I
+have only introduced it here for two reasons. The first of these is to
+give me an opportunity of bringing new faces into my reminiscences, and
+shortly criticising their styles of play, and the second to show you how
+the admittedly best eleven sent out by England in all her matches with
+Scotland were vanquished on their own soil by three goals to two. The
+event came off at Blackburn in presence of some 10,000 spectators--a
+much larger crowd than ever appeared in London to see the International.
+The weather was dry overhead during the early stages of the tussle, but
+a heavy shower of hail fell later on, and this, added to a mud-covered
+ground, made matters anything but pleasant. The Scotchmen were the first
+to score, which they did through Mr. M'Call against the wind,
+half-an-hour from the start; but the Englishmen soon bore down on the
+Scottish lines, and Mr. Lindley equalised, so that at half-time both
+nationalities were on terms of equality. Not long after ends were
+changed, the Scotchmen made one of those determined charges for which
+they have been famed in many of the International games, and shoved both
+goalkeeper and ball through between the posts. No sooner, however, had
+the leather again been started than Mr. Dewhurst, the crack English
+forward, sent in a shooter, and once more squared the game. It was now
+"night or Blucher" for Scotland, and after a grand run between Messrs.
+Marshall and Allan, which was loudly cheered, even though an enemy did
+it, the young Queen's Park forward made Scotland one goal up. Till the
+close the Englishmen had several brilliant sallies on the strangers'
+goal, but the backs--Messrs. Arnott and Forbes--held their own, and
+Scotland won by three goals to two. Mr. Macaulay kept goal in fine
+style, and was the captain of the victorious team. The Englishmen chosen
+to meet the Scotchmen on the occasion were--Messrs. Roberts, A. M.
+Walters, P. M. Walters, N. C. Bailey, G. Howarth, J. Forrest, E. C.
+Bambridge, W. N. Cobbald, J. Lofthouse, F. Dewhurst, and T. Lindley.
+Besides the six who are mentioned below, Messrs. Arnott, Macaulay,
+Kelso, J. M'Call, and W. Sellar (who have already been noticed) also
+appeared against England in the same contest.
+
+
+~J. Forbes (Vale of Leven).~
+
+Like certain cricketers who can only cut, and are weak on the leg-side,
+there are several backs playing for fair medium clubs just now who can
+only return the ball properly if they have plenty of room to work, but
+Mr. Forbes, who played in this match along with Mr. Arnott, was none of
+these. You were, in fact, not five minutes in his company as a spectator
+at a match before you were captivated with the style and finish of his
+play. In the excitement of the game you imagined it was "all up with the
+Vale," when a crowd of opposing forwards were observed getting the ball
+nearer goal. All the time, however, Forbes was maturing his mode of
+attack, and like the unsuspecting animal that darts upon its prey, the
+crack Vale of Leven back dashed in, and you were sure to see the ball
+flying away down the field, with a magnificent return. While kicking he
+always got his toes well under the ball, and it was quite a rare thing
+to see Forbes kicking high into the air. A great favourite with his club
+and opponents as well, Mr. Forbes first appeared against England in
+1884, when Scotland won by one to none, so that in both Internationals
+in which he took part his team were on the winning side. He is now in
+business in England.
+
+
+~L. Keir (Dumbarton).~
+
+When in the spring of 1887 Mr. Leitch Keir was chosen as companion to
+Mr. Kelso (Renton), and Mr. Auld (3rd L.R.V.), in this great event at
+Blackburn, almost everybody had confidence in them as half-backs, and I
+am happy to say that this confidence was not misplaced, for no better
+trio ever did duty in an International at that important position in the
+field. For good, even-down tackling, and hard work, both in heading and
+clean kicking, Keir was one of the very best men who ever played
+football. So proficient was he at a "free kick," that when a "hand" was
+given against the opposing team, in most of the Dumbarton matches, Keir
+was invariably intrusted with the ball; and when the infringement took
+place near the goal, the opposing team always dreaded his shot. He was
+also a very fine dribbler for a half-back, and could run out the ball in
+fine style from a hotly-pressed goal, and send it spinning down the
+field. In the succeeding year he was chosen to appear against England on
+Hampden Park, but, like the rest of the Scottish representatives in that
+fatal contest, he did not show to the best advantage.
+
+
+~J. Auld (3rd L.R.V.).~
+
+During the past four or five years, Mr. Auld has been one of the best
+half-backs in Scotland, and was a decided success in this contest. No
+club in Britain has produced a string of better backs and half-backs
+than the 3rd Lanark Rifle Volunteer Athletic and Football Club. Long
+ago, many of their most brilliant victories were won by back play alone,
+and this means preventing their opponents from scoring, and keeping what
+they had got in the earlier stages of a contest. Among these old and
+tried hands I must remember poor John Hunter (who is dead), Mr.
+Alexander Kennedy, who still goes out to see his old club, and delights
+to give the young ones an advice; Mr. William Somers, the gigantic
+high-kicker, now in America, and many more, whose names shall long be
+remembered in football history: but to Mr. Auld. He is yet a brilliant
+half-back, and while by no means a heavy kicker, one of the most
+judicious men in front of a hard-pressed goal I have ever seen. He is a
+terrible tackler, and sometimes hugs an opponent so tenaciously that he
+forces the ball away and saves his side. The 1887 match was the only one
+in which he played for Scotland against England, but he appeared that
+same season against Wales.
+
+
+~J. Marshall (3rd L.R.V.).~
+
+For two seasons, at any rate, and, I think, I might almost say three,
+Mr. Marshall has maintained the honoured position of being about the
+best right wing forward on any field. Gifted with an amount of speed,
+which he uses to the best advantage, combined with rare dribbling
+powers, he is the pride of the 3rd L.R.V. forward division, and no man
+is more missed from a match. In connection with the last observation,
+the Volunteers had to play the Rangers in the third round of the Glasgow
+Cup without Mr. Marshall, and at the committee meeting before the
+contest, when this became known, it was like a funeral lodge of
+Freemasons--nobody cared to speak except the R.W.M. and M.C. Mr.
+Marshall and Mr. Robertson (Dumbarton) were the right wing forwards on
+the occasion, and several brilliant runs were made from their side. At
+the present time he is about the best at middling the ball in front of
+goal of any player going, and is one of those forwards who never seem to
+get into a fagged state near the close of a match.
+
+
+~W. Robertson (Dumbarton).~
+
+Some players are fortunate in easily securing their positions among
+crack teams, while others have to struggle on before their genuine
+ability is properly recognised. Long ago, ability in selecting a team
+went for very little, and positions, like kissing, by favour. Mr.
+Robertson, however, received no favour from any combination, and was
+selected on his merits. In that same season, I am almost positive, I saw
+him play in brilliant form in the Final cup tie, when the Hibernian
+overcame the Dumbarton on Hampden Park by two goals to one, and several
+of the other matches about the same time. He was a very fine backer up,
+possessing first-rate dribbling powers, and although a little shy in
+meeting his opponent when he saw a charge inevitable, rather preferring
+to use stratagem, was by no means afraid to go into the heart of a
+scrimmage and face up to much heavier men than himself. This was Mr.
+Robertson's first game against England, and he has no reason to be
+ashamed of the way in which he helped Scotland to obtain victory. On the
+Monday following this match he played against Wales at Wrexham.
+
+
+~J. Allan (Queen's Park).~
+
+When Mr. Allan made his appearance in the first match of any consequence
+for the Queen's Park, he did so well that both club companions,
+opponents, and spectators were completely astonished at his beautiful
+dribbling and speed. In Ayrshire, when he played for the Monkcastle
+Club, he was looked upon as a very fair young forward, but a few
+practice games on Hampden Park seems to have had a remarkable effect on
+him, and in one short season he was such a good man that International
+honours were given him at once. In this tussle, which was one of the
+most trying of the meetings between Scotland and England, Allan played a
+grand game, and scored the third and winning goal for his country. The
+run that resulted in the score was started by Mr. Marshall, and was one
+of the finest ever seen in any contest. In a football sense, however, to
+use a simile, Mr. Allan was like Octavian's prosperous star, but with
+this difference, he vanished from the scene as quickly as he came, so
+far as first-class matches were concerned, and only re-appeared on Ibrox
+Park recently against the 3rd L.R.V. and his old club, Queen's Park.
+
+
+~Glasgow Charity Cup Final Tie of 1888.~
+
+The Renton Eleven are to-day in the proud position of winning the
+Glasgow Charity Cup four times in succession--from 1886 down to season
+1888-89, and even now the holders of that handsome trophy. In these
+finals they polished off the Vale of Leven in 1886 by three to one; next
+season the same club by one to none; in 1888 (the year which I have
+singled out for review) vanquished the Cambuslang by four to none: and
+last spring overcame the Queen's Park by three goals to one. In 1888 the
+Renton men held both cups, and what was of more account, won them by
+long odds against precisely the same opponents, viz., Cambuslang. In the
+final for the Association Challenge Cup the victory was one of six goals
+to one, and in the Glasgow Charity Cup four to none. This was, indeed,
+the largest score made in the former, and was equal in the latter to
+that made in 1877 (the first year of the competition) by the Queen's
+Park, when they defeated the Rangers. Cambuslang, however, were at this
+time a power in the land, and had previously carried off the Glasgow
+Challenge trophy in its first season. In addition to this, they are also
+credited with the record of fast scoring--having taken four goals from
+the Queen's Park in the last ten minutes of the fifth round of the
+Scottish Challenge Cup in 1886, but as the Queen's Park had five points
+on previously, they saved the game by one goal. The event of which I
+have presently to deal came off on Hampden Park on the 12th May, 1888,
+and ended in favour of the Renton, as has already been indicated, by
+four to none. The Cambuslang men played well at the start, and a close
+match was expected. Through some cause or other, however, they fell away
+considerably as the game advanced, and J. Campbell scored the first goal
+for Renton, and this was soon followed by a second from the foot of J.
+M'Call, the record at half-time being two goals to none in favour of the
+crack Dumbartonshire club. The second round, strange to say, was also
+well contested at the outset, but the grand forward combination of the
+Renton told the tale of defeat to the Cambuslang men, and other two
+goals were added. As none of the Cambuslang team have previously come
+under my pen, I give them first, and will include three of Renton who
+have not been noticed.
+
+
+~Mr. Dunn.~
+
+More genuine progress has been made in goalkeeping among the Scottish
+Association clubs during the last decade than the average spectator
+cares to admit, but it is nevertheless a fact. Mr. Dunn played in most
+of the best matches of that year, and while he did very creditably in
+some of the ties, had the misfortune to lose four goals in this contest.
+The Renton forwards, however, were too smart for the bulk of the
+Cambuslang backs, and woe betide a goalkeeper when he is not properly
+supported there! Mr. Dunn had a lively time of it in the contest, and
+saved some splendid shies from taking effect.
+
+
+~J. Smith.~
+
+The Cambuslang team were never famed for the brilliancy of their back
+play. It was what the forward division had done for that club in some of
+the most severe and uncertain of their matches that forced them to be
+looked upon in Scotland as one of the crack elevens. Mr. Smith was
+rather of the quiet and unassuming order of players, who thought much
+but said little, and did his work well. He was a fine kicker with either
+foot, and his tackling was severe, but honest and clean. With a good
+wind in his favour, few backs could equal him in a long kick, but he
+sometimes made mistakes near goal when he was hard pressed.
+
+
+~Mr. M'Farlane.~
+
+The best back in the Cambuslang eleven that season was undoubtedly Mr.
+M'Farlane. He reminded me very much of the style of Mr. A. H. Holm
+(Queen's Park), who captained the Scottish team against England at
+Sheffield in 1883. He had rare ability in close tackling; used to get
+the ball away by clever heading, and was the most plucky young fellow to
+go to the assistance of a half-back one could see anywhere. His only
+defect--and it was a very bad one--consisted in getting up to an
+opponent and trying to take the ball away from him in the rear.
+Sometimes it came off well, but at others his club had to pay the
+penalty with a free kick.
+
+
+~Mr. Russell.~
+
+In the present contest Mr. Russell was one of the three half-backs, and
+in no match during that season had a trio such terrible opponents to
+encounter as the two Campbells, M'Call, and M'Callum, who were perfect
+demons among the Renton forwards. Russell held out bravely for a time,
+but was eventually cornered, and, in the second half particularly, "lost
+his head," and allowed the Renton men to get up to Dunn too often. In
+some of the smaller matches of the club he played brilliantly, but did
+not really rise to the occasion in this memorable cup tie, and in most
+of the tackling came off second best.
+
+
+~John Gourlay.~
+
+It has often been said about Cambuslang that it was a club of three
+names! Those names, however, both individually and collectively, were
+fearless opponents to meet in any tussle, let alone a cup tie, and to
+the credit of Cambuslang be it said, no combination of players ever
+served a club so well, and had such pleasure in their hard work, as the
+Buchanans, Gourlays, and Smiths. They were more feared than admired by
+the members of the clubs twenty miles around, than the Elliots, and
+Armstrongs, or, shall I say, the Graemes, of the "debatable land" long
+ago. Both Mr. James and Mr. John Buchanan were famous players in their
+way, but the back was decidedly the best man, and was selected to play
+against Wales the same season.
+
+
+~A. Jackson.~
+
+Cambuslang's style of play, with their fast following up and jerky
+kicking, suited, or, I might say, favoured the old style of six forwards
+and only two half-backs, but they insisted on being in the fashion. The
+three half-backs, however, were only names to conjure with, but nothing
+in real practice, for Mr. Jackson was always made the kind of "flying
+man" of the team, and was nothing more or less than a forward. He always
+joined the latter division when they were attacking an opponent's goal,
+and retired well up among the backs when his club were pressed at the
+lines. In 1886 Mr. Jackson played against Wales, and was also included
+in the team against Ireland in 1888.
+
+
+~John Buchanan.~
+
+Although Mr. John Buchanan developed into a very fair half-back, and was
+selected to appear against Ireland last spring, he was included in the
+present match under notice as a forward, and I think he then played on
+the right. He was the fastest dribbler in the team, and a capital
+tackler. The combination among the Cambuslang forward division, however,
+on the occasion was completely spoiled by the superior tactics of the
+Renton eleven, and that fine passing for which the village team were so
+justly famed was awanting that afternoon on Hampden Park.
+
+
+~James Buchanan.~
+
+Although similar in name, the play of the other Buchanan was quite
+different from that of Mr. John. He was always cool and collected, and
+had a fine style of dribbling and passing which sometimes rose to
+perfection itself, but in his runs he was fond of showing off, and was
+easily tackled in consequence. But for this fault he would have been
+chosen to play in one of the Internationals the previous year. No
+player, however, loved the game and his old club so much, and practised
+more self-denial to attend the field on the eve of a big match, and do
+his best for victory.
+
+
+~J. Plenderleith.~
+
+Every club undoubtedly has its own ideal type of player, and I am almost
+sure that Plenderleith was the favourite among the Cambuslang forwards.
+He had speed--and rare speed, too--and with a kind of long kick that he
+followed up in a style of his own, made great progress down the field.
+He kept too close on the touch-line, however, and his great fault was
+kicking out--a dangerous thing when too near goal in this age of smart
+throwing in--for I notice a great improvement in this art during the
+past few years. We are, however, still behind the Englishmen in this
+respect, as most of them play cricket in the summer, and are
+consequently good shiers.
+
+
+~G. Smith.~
+
+Mr. George Smith was what I might honestly term a fair forward, not
+brilliant, but steady, and a good backer up. He was, however, always
+getting too near the line, and often had to submit to the indignity of
+being pressed into touch, and thereby losing the leather. The fact was
+he took too much room to work in, and was slow in following up an
+advantage. To give him his due, however, he was a very earnest worker,
+could stand a deal of tear and wear during a season, and was always
+available when wanted in a hurry by his club.
+
+
+~James Gourlay.~
+
+There is not a more steady player going at the present day than Mr.
+Gourlay. He showed remarkable ability in passing and middling, and his
+fast shies at goal were really splendid. In this event he was at his
+very best. Once or twice he started well with the ball at his toe, and
+made tracks for the Renton goal, but was badly supported in the
+following up, and often got collared by the opposing half-backs. He
+possessed great speed, like most of the other Cambuslang forwards, and
+scored a lot of the goals for his club that season in their best
+matches.
+
+
+~H. Campbell (Renton).~
+
+The two Campbells were young players in the Renton team three years ago,
+and in this match were considered sufficiently good to be included in
+the forward division that did so well against Cambuslang. Mr H. Campbell
+was a very fine dribbler and passer, and good at close tackling. The
+passing in this tie between Mr. J. M'Call and he was splendid, and went
+a long way in winning the match. He was also a veritable dodger when he
+got up to the opposing half-backs, and the partisans of the clubs who
+played Renton in 1888 used to hold their breath when they saw Campbell
+in front.
+
+
+~J. Harvey (Renton).~
+
+Unknown to fame as a regular player in the Renton eleven until the
+season when this event took place, or it may be the preceding one, Mr.
+Harvey was one of the victorious forwards. He showed fair judgment, and
+middled the ball very neatly to the Campbells and M'Call. His dribbling,
+however, was a shade too wide, and as he had excellent speed, sometimes
+he over-ran the ball at a time when the other forwards were following
+close up, and lost chances to score.
+
+
+~J. Campbell (Renton).~
+
+Of all the young forwards who graduated in the dribbling game at the
+village of Renton, there never was a better shot at goal than Mr. J.
+Campbell. Smart on his legs, with a good appearance, he dribbled
+splendidly, and half-backs caught a perfect Tartar when they came close
+up and attempted to take the leather away from him. His style near goal
+reminded me very much of Dr. John Smith, who scored so many goals in the
+half-a-dozen Internationals in which he took part against England.
+Campbell never waited a second before making his parting shot, and
+sometimes the goalkeeper failed to get the ball before it went spinning
+through.
+
+
+~The Final Association Cup Tie of 1889.~
+
+This tie was decided at Hampden Park on the 9th February, 1889, between
+the 3rd L.R.V. and Celtic, and ended in favour of the 3rd L.R.V. by two
+goals to one. The same clubs, however, had previously met to decide the
+contest, but both played under protest in consequence of the weather.
+This naturally caused that additional excitement, which culminated at
+the final meeting on Hampden Park that Saturday afternoon. The 3rd
+L.R.V. had long worked for possession of the coveted prize, and twice it
+was within their grasp, for they played and were defeated in the final
+ties on two previous occasions--viz., in 1876 by the Queen's Park, who
+scored two goals to none, and again in 1878 by the Vale of Leven, who
+overcame the warriors by one to none. If ever a team deserved victory in
+this event it was the 3rd Lanark Rifle Volunteers. The Celtic were more
+than foemen worthy of their steel, and considering the fact that the 3rd
+L.R.V. had come through the ties so creditably, and had that season
+vanquished the crack English professional combination, the victory was a
+most popular one all round. As for the Celtic, they are a young and
+powerful club, and can afford to wait a season or so for victory, for
+you know "everything comes to those who wait." The crowd was large, the
+weather fair, and the enthusiasm great. The Volunteers played with the
+wind, and made their first point out of a scrimmage about twenty minutes
+from the start, and this was all the scoring in the first round. The
+play after this was very even, and the Celts were showing off some grand
+combined efforts, but were unfortunate at goal. At length, however, the
+Irishmen made a brilliant sally on the Volunteers' stronghold, and Mr.
+M'Callum put the ball between the posts. After this the play was so even
+that a draw seemed inevitable, and it was only by the determined play of
+the Cathkin Park team that at length the Celtic goal was taken for the
+second time by Mr. Oswald, junior, who was ably assisted in the
+successful run by Messrs. Marshall and Hannah. The Cup--that trophy
+which had cost some kind hearts (now silent for ever), an unsatisfied
+longing, and a constant anguish of patience--was safe to the old club at
+last! I accordingly give the players who took part in the tie, and start
+with the 3rd L.R.V.
+
+
+~Downie (3rd L.R.V.).~
+
+Mr. Downie deserves credit for the manner in which he has kept goal for
+the "warriors" during the past two seasons, when his club played and
+defeated some of the best in Scotland and England. In this event he had
+terrible work to perform, and got through it with much credit. So far as
+I can remember--and it is, indeed, no stretch of imagination--the goal
+got by Mr. M'Callum could not have been saved by any keeper, as it came
+out of a scrimmage from the Celtic man's foot like a rocket. Mr. Downie
+is a very neat kicker-out in front, and shows fine judgment with his
+hands in clearing the ball away from a crowd of opposing forwards.
+
+
+~A. Thompson.~
+
+Mr. Thompson is one of the best backs that last season produced, and had
+it not been that the two Queen's Park men--Messrs. Arnott and
+Smellie--had played together so well, and pleased the Committee of
+Selection in most of the best matches, Mr. Thompson would have been in
+the great International. As it was, he got the next best position, being
+chosen to play against Wales. He is a rare tackler, sometimes a little
+rough, but the finest kicker in front of a besieged goal I have ever
+seen. Sometimes in the heat of a scrimmage he loses the ball, but has
+the knack of recovering himself in an instant.
+
+
+~J. Rae.~
+
+The Volunteers were remarkably well served with their backs in this tie,
+and Mr. Rae made a capital companion to Mr. Thompson. He is scarcely
+such an accomplished tackler, but for neat kicking and feeding the
+forwards when they are playing an open game, I know none better. He is a
+splendid man for judging distances, and if he is certain the ball is
+nearer one of his companions than himself, gets close behind and backs
+up at once. To see Mr. Rae placing the leather in front of his forwards
+in a good match is a treat of no ordinary kind, and it may be mentioned
+that he played against Wales last season.
+
+
+~A. Lochhead.~
+
+The three half-backs in the present tie with which I have to deal were
+Messrs, Auld, Lochhead, and M'Farlane. Mr. Lochhead has been long one of
+the "shining lights" of the 3rd L.R.V., and while in some respects
+inferior to Mr. Auld, has one grand virtue to recommend in a football
+player--viz., patience. His perception is keen and decisive, and if he
+imagines a daring forward on the other side can be successfully met
+without close tackling, he never fails to out-manoeuvre him, and let
+the spectators see some rare half-back play. Mr. Lochhead took part in
+the Welsh International in the spring.
+
+
+~Mr. M'Farlane.~
+
+The 3rd L.R.V. were in perfect training condition in the tie, and well
+can I remember both Auld and M'Farlane coming in for a large share of
+hugging by excited partisans as they made their way up the steps towards
+the pavilion of the Queen's Park Club that memorable Saturday afternoon.
+Mr. M'Farlane is really a fine all-round player, and this season is
+keeping up his form in a way that both astonishes and delights his old
+friends. His "heading" in front of goal is very fine, and has saved many
+a shot from taking effect.
+
+
+~J. Oswald, Junior.~
+
+No better pair of dribblers ever served a club than the two
+Oswalds--senior and junior--last season, and had more genuine success in
+the games in which they played. The forward combination, with these two
+men at their best, was decidedly the most powerful in Scotland, and
+undoubtedly won the match for the Volunteers against the Celtic. Mr.
+Oswald, junior, however, was the better of the two, and the manner in
+which he scored the second goal, which gave the Third the victory, was
+quite a treat to all who saw the tie that day on Hampden Park.
+
+
+~J. Oswald, Senior.~
+
+The senior Oswald, as he was called, to distinguish him from his
+companion of the same name, played against England in the spring, and
+was as good a dribbler, but not so fine a judge of a goalkeeper's
+ability to get at the ball when the forwards were crowding round, and
+sending in shots thick and fast. The passing among the forwards of the
+3rd L.R.V. that day was so good as to defy criticism, if that were
+possible, and Oswald, senior, was no exception to the others. The pair,
+however, loved the loaves and fishes of England better than the 3rd
+L.R.V., and are now "o'er the Border and awa'."
+
+
+~J. Hannah.~
+
+In some of the best games of the 3rd L.R.V. last season the passing and
+following up between Mr. Hannah and Mr. Johnstone were not to be beaten
+anywhere for splendid judgment and properly matured forward play. There
+are what is known to the player as certain degrees of pluck and
+endurance, and while I have in my mind's eye some forwards in other
+clubs, including Mr. William Berry, the Queen's Park light-weight, who
+must of necessity come under the first, I am inclined to rank Mr. Hannah
+among the second. He is, however, a first-rate man.
+
+
+~W. Johnstone.~
+
+Last in order of forwards, but by no means lacking in genuine ability,
+with rare dribbling powers, comes the name of Mr. W. Johnstone. He
+played a very steady game all through this tie, and was as fresh as
+paint after the whistle sounded the finish. Although not such a
+determined tackler as some of the other forwards not only in his own
+team, but in the Celtic as well, he is the most earnest worker in the
+whole club, and in his probationary days would practice unceasingly to
+attain perfection in certain points of the game in which he was
+deficient. He played against Wales in 1889, and in 1887 against Ireland.
+
+
+~J. Kelly (Celtic).~
+
+Although Mr. Kelly is, so to speak, unknown to the game as a goalkeeper,
+he promises to become a good man below the bar. The ability of the
+Celtic goalkeeper, however, is certainly not equal to the back and
+half-back play; and, while Kelly did very well in this match, his duties
+were rendered less difficult by the splendid defence shown at back by
+Mr. M'Keown, and the grand half-back efforts of Mr. M'Laren. He has
+several good points, including the clever fisting-out of the ball, but
+is not a strong kicker, and sometimes goes too far away from his
+charge.
+
+
+~P. Gallacher.~
+
+When the Celtic were hard pressed on several occasions, Mr. Gallacher
+always fell back on his goal, like the prudent general who covers his
+retreat, and no man did more heading and breasting in running the ball
+out that day. He wants the judgment of his companion in the same
+position, but makes up for it by fearless and unceasing work. He was
+hard pressed several times by Marshall and Oswald, sen., and had the
+worst of the tackling, but he generally came up smiling, and renewed
+hostilities with Spartan bravery.
+
+
+~M. M'Keown.~
+
+Mr. M'Keown was decidedly the best back on the losing side that day, and
+his defence near goal splendid. He is not, however, particularly careful
+in his returns, and sometimes kicks over his own lines when hard
+pressed, but there can be only one opinion as to his genuine ability in
+close tackling--he can do it to perfection. During the game, even
+Marshall, who is not afraid of anybody, sometimes steered clear of
+M'Keown by passing up the ball to Johnstone instead of keeping
+possession to the last. He played against Ireland the same year.
+
+
+~W. Maley.~
+
+The Celtic had as their three half-backs in the contest under review
+Messrs. W. Maley, J. M'Laren, and J. Kelly (the latter of whom has
+already been mentioned in a previous article). Mr. W. Maley, if I am not
+mistaken, is a young member of a very young club that has made a name
+for itself in a couple of seasons. He has, however, a deal to learn
+before he can be classed alongside Kelly and M'Laren. He is kind of
+slipshod in his mode of tackling, wanting finish, but nevertheless a
+dangerous man to meet in a charge.
+
+
+~J. M'Laren.~
+
+The finest half-back of the Irish combination is undoubtedly Mr. J.
+M'Laren, and in this tie his play was really magnificent. When the
+Volunteers' forwards again and again got near the Celtic goal, he was
+the first to checkmate them, and, not contented to work his own place
+successfully, frequently went to the assistance of some of the forwards
+when he thought they had more than enough to do. He played for his old
+club, the Hibernian, against Wales in 1888, and in 1889 against England
+for the Celtic.
+
+
+~M. Dunbar.~
+
+Mr. Dunbar was one of the most active men in the Celtic forward division
+in this match, and showed very good dribbling, but was easily tackled
+when getting near goal, and more than once "removed" off the ball by
+Auld and Lochhead. He is, however, a steady worker, and most reliable
+when backing up. Mr. Dunbar, if I am not mistaken, was at one time a
+member of the Cartvale, and played for Scotland against Ireland for that
+club in 1886.
+
+
+~R. M'Callum.~
+
+In his general style of play Mr. M'Callum was not unlike Mr. William
+M'Kinnon (Dumbarton), who flourished from 1881 to 1885, and was one of
+the best forwards in that county. He was not such a tricky and cunning
+tackler, however, but faced up to his man with a confidence that
+betokened superiority. He was, like the rest of the Celtic forwards, a
+good dribbler, and possessed considerable speed. For a young player he
+was also very judicious in passing the ball, and during this contest he
+helped to start some of the best runs of the day. He played against
+Ireland, at Belfast, in 1888, and is now located in Blackburn, where he
+partners Harry Campbell on the right wing of the Rovers.
+
+
+~W. Groves.~
+
+It was in the final tie for the Scottish Challenge Cup between the
+Hibernian and Dumbarton in 1887, which the crack Edinburgh team won by
+two goals to one, that brought Mr. Groves into special notice, and it
+may be, for aught I know, caused him to be carried off by the Celtic
+later on. Like a good many other players, he varies a bit in his style.
+Some days he is easily tackled; while at others not a single back or
+half-back on the field has a chance with him, and it must be said of him
+that he is one of the neatest dribblers of the day. He played against
+Wales in 1888.
+
+
+~J. Coleman.~
+
+Among the forward division of the Celtic, Mr. Coleman was a decided
+acquisition, and during that same season scored a lot of goals for the
+new Irish combination, which came to the front with something like the
+rapidity of "Jonah's gourd." A beautiful dribbler and runner, he made
+several grand spurts towards the 3rd L.R.V. goal, but had a weakness for
+keeping the ball too long, and was often tackled by the sure feet of Rae
+and Thomson. In speed and general play he reminded me very much of Mr.
+William Miller (3rd L.R.V.), an International against England as far
+back as 1876.
+
+
+~T. Maley.~
+
+When the whole of the Celts were at their best, and this happened pretty
+often last season in their Challenge Cup ties, Mr. T. Maley generally
+rose to the occasion, and led his team brilliantly. His steady-going
+style is much liked, not only by his colleagues, but spectators, and it
+is quite a rare thing to see him grassed by an opponent. When
+approaching the goal with the ball, he is like the priest who had a
+"wonderful way wid him"--slipping through the backs in a manner that is
+sure to make the goalkeeper gnash his teeth, and wish Maley was far
+enough away.
+
+
+
+
+_V.--THE PIONEERS OF ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL IN SCOTLAND;_
+
+OR,
+
+_"THE CONQUEROR'S FOOTBALL BOOTS."_
+
+
+My football boots are getting what might be called shabby genteel now,
+and no wonder. If they could speak they would tell you many a strange
+episode in the life of an Association football player, and how he kept
+his place in a leading club for nearly a dozen years. They have been old
+and dear friends, those well-worn boots, and although now somewhat
+curled up at the toes, have kicked many a good goal out of a hot and
+exciting scrummage in front of an opponent's upright posts, and even in
+an International tussle; but now that they, like myself, have retired
+from active duty, and may reasonably be supposed not to be encumbered
+with existing prejudices, which in the nature of things might more or
+less interfere with expressing an honest opinion about the Association
+football player of the past or his colleagues and successors, I will
+introduce them to you, and in figurative language allow them to tell
+their own unvarnished tale. My last advice, however, to you, my old
+friends, before leaving you to the tender mercies of a scribbler, is not
+to answer all the questions he thinks proper to put. Please don't tell
+him what you heard or saw after leaving the football field clinging to
+my sole and instep, of my love intrigues, my stolen interviews with
+blue-eyed Annie, and when she jilted me and got married to Charlie
+Quilter, who played "left wing" in the Flying Blues. Charlie must have
+regretted what he did more than once.
+
+The Blues used to play us a couple of games in the year, and not long
+before Charlie got married he was, as a matter of course, one of their
+eleven. On that occasion I felt nettled to think that a big,
+broosy-faced, lisping fellow like Charlie should have "put my eye out,"
+and could not resist the temptation of frequently crossing to his side
+during the game, and "going" for him. Oh! how my old companions, my
+boots, behaved on the occasion--the very laces almost burst with
+indignation; but Quilter, poor soul, never gave a winch, and bore it
+with becoming fortitude. He has now, like myself, got settled in life (I
+am a confirmed bachelor), and we are still the best of friends, for that
+"blue-eyed Annie loved him, too," was one of those things I could never
+forget. It is too bad, however, in me to block the way with this
+dissertation, and not allow Mr. Boots to begin. I shall leave the rest
+to him with confidence.
+
+Well, once upon a time (began Mr. Boots), I was a combination of
+circumstances. That is to say, I went through many processes even before
+I became mature leather, and one afternoon I was brought to a small
+shoemaker's shop in Crosshill tied up in a bundle. There were lots of
+cuttings in that bundle--butt, ben, wrapper, cordivan, kid, calf-skin,
+and even sheep-skin--but I was then a shapeless piece of wrapper, kipp,
+and calf-skin. When I was trysted there were few, if any, football boots
+made, and the old man who was entrusted with my construction was a
+strange old "cove." He could make a pair of ordinary boots with any one,
+but was not so sure about me. I was ordered by a genteel, nice-looking
+lad, with red cheeks and clear black eyes. He addressed the
+representative of St. Crispin in a musical voice, but I then formed an
+opinion of my future master, that he would be a little conceited and
+arrogant at times, and this has proved correct. The instructions about
+covering my soles with bars was specially impressed on the old man's
+memory, and every detail was carried out to the letter. When we were
+completed, my brother and I, you would have admired us. If it were
+possible to have anything handsome in the boot line, except, perhaps, a
+tiny, fur-lined lady's slipper, it was us. We were sewed with
+substantial rosen-end, the division between the inseam and soles was
+filled up with real leather skivings, and not the trashy "jump" which
+makes up the bulk of the soles of football boots nowadays. The more, in
+fact, I think of it, the more I am convinced that the present make of
+football boots is a new-fangled device in the shoemaking trade, for are
+they not now got up of American leather, brass nails, and other
+abominations, free of import duty! My master, I remember, came for me
+(please consider that I am also representing my brother, for, like the
+Siamese twins, the one can do nothing without the other) on a Saturday.
+He told the old man that he was going to play a match with the Leven
+Crowers that very afternoon, and must have me. I was barely finished,
+but Tate's son got the bars put on all right, and I was handed over to
+the tender mercies of my new master. He was quite delighted with my
+appearance, and looked with pride, and even satisfaction, on my
+well-polished uppers and wrapper soles. There was even a half-'un going
+at the paying.
+
+The Leven Crowers were a young and powerful club, possessing more speed
+in running than any real football ability at the time. The club to which
+my master belonged was the first to introduce the new ideas in the game,
+as they were then called, in Scottish soil, and as there were only three
+clubs in existence at the time of which I am referring, the contests, as
+a matter of course, were few and far between, and, consequently, looked
+forward to with more than ordinary pleasure. The other two clubs were
+the Greenvale and the Kilback, but they were not of much account (so my
+master had often said, and he was supposed to be a good judge). I heard
+him say the Conquerors had "licked" these clubs over and over again, and
+that they weren't in the same street. When I was being laced up,
+however, for the fray that afternoon in the old toll-house on the road
+to Battlefield (the Conquerors had no such modern requisite as a
+pavilion then), I heard Bob Gardens express quite a different opinion
+about the Greenvale, and even go the length of saying that they had a
+draw with them on the previous evening after a hard fight. This
+demonstrated a fact that was useful to me in my subsequent career, viz.,
+never to credit what other folks (especially football players) said
+about the ability of opponents in the heat of a tussle. Talking about
+the Leven Crowers, they were not to be despised. Although the haughty
+Conquerors had given them their first lesson in Association football,
+they were fast coming up on them in some of the points of the game. I
+heard my owner say that the first lesson was given at Alexandria, and on
+that occasion the Crowers, who were then crack shinty players, arranged
+themselves in the field as if for a match at that ancient Scottish game.
+That they had not forgotten their first game with the Conquerors was
+amply illustrated in the present, which, I might again repeat, was my
+first outset in public life. I was stiff at first, and pressed my
+master's instep rather hard shortly after the kick-off. The contest was
+played on the Recreation Ground, and was witnessed by very few
+spectators. True, there were certainly many choice spirits residing near
+the spot, who came out to see us and enjoy a quiet outing, and have a
+friendly crack.
+
+Little did these club companions imagine that that small but
+enthusiastic gathering of spectators was the harbinger of crowds
+composed of thousands of excited spectators who now assemble to witness
+big Association matches every Saturday, not only to see the Conquerors,
+but other clubs, very slightly removed from them in ability, playing
+"Cup ties." The Crowers' forwards showed great pace, and one of them,
+Will Cumming, repeatedly got past me, despite the smart manoeuvring of
+my master. Will, however, was somewhat wild in his dribbling, and could
+not keep the ball close enough to his toes. Jim Wild was my master's
+backer up on the occasion, and as Jim was decidedly the finest dribbler
+that ever toed a ball, and kept his place for ten years against all
+comers, afterwards the pair managed to intercept Cumming before he got
+close enough on goal to make a shot. The Crowers' goalkeeper was a good
+one, and could clear his place of defence with great ability, but the
+backs were not of much account. Pate M'Wherry and Luke M'Tavish did the
+work at half-back, but their kicking was somewhat feeble when compared
+with those of the Conquerors, Tom James and Willie Keith. The Conquerors
+were far too anxious to score, and for some time kept up a close
+cannonade at their opponents' goal without effect. Bob Prentice used his
+hands cleverly, and, though the goal was again and again endangered, not
+one of the forwards on my master's side could get the ball under the
+tape. A fine run was made by Wild, Lucky, Grind, Short, and my master,
+and the ball brought up to within a few feet of the Crowers' goal, but
+at the last second, Johnny Forrester, one of their centre forwards,
+kicked it behind. This gave the Conquerors the corner flag-kick. My
+master, who was quite an adept at corner flag-kicks, was sent to the
+spot, and placed the ball in a good position, but Bob Prentice got it up
+in his hands at a critical moment, and threw it clear. Good runs were
+eventually made on both sides, and once the Crowers nearly lowered our
+colours, but nothing was got by either, and the game was drawn. In those
+days the rules observed were somewhat different from those in vogue now.
+The game was far prettier. There was none of that heading which forms
+such important factors in the style of modern playing. When the ball was
+thrown in from the touch-line the rule insisted that it had first to
+land on the ground before being touched, and consequently head play was
+unnecessary, and dribbling was, as a matter of course, considered the
+most important point, combined with taking smart possession of the ball
+as soon as it touched the ground after being thrown in. My master was
+smart at getting on the leather, and, next to Jim Wild, he was the most
+accomplished dribbler in the Conquerors. If there is anyone capable of
+telling what he could do, 'tis I. How he used to keep my toes in a
+circle as he left the grass behind his heels, piloting the ball past the
+opposing backs, I know to my loss, and a very great depreciation in tear
+and wear. He was a veritable "dodger," this owner of mine. Never afraid
+of a charge, he would, in order either to secure the ball or keep it,
+attack the biggest man in an opposing team, aye, and knock him over,
+too. Sometimes he lost his temper when things went against him, and,
+while his remarks to an adversary were somewhat cutting and at times
+verging on impertinence, they were always within the scope of
+"Parliamentary." In after life, however, my master found several foemen
+worthy of his steel amongst backs and half-backs in the Flying Blues,
+the Crowers, the Cedargrove, Red Cross, and North Western, and he
+sometimes came off second best.
+
+It is all very well to say that there were "great men in those days." So
+there were, but the same remark can be made equally applicable now, for
+they are even more common, and you find them scattered over the length
+and breadth of the land. It would decidedly weary you, my friend and
+reader, were I to detail all the games in which I have taken an active
+part, and you will at once admit that I may succeed in pleasing you
+better if I give a short sketch of the leading clubs and players who
+have wrought so hard and done so much to make the Association game so
+popular. Jim Wild has been mentioned in connection with his club (the
+Conquerors), but it is necessary to give him a line or two more. There
+was no other Association club in Scotland when the Conquerors were put
+into ship-shape order, and consequently no opponents to play. They could
+not challenge themselves to mortal combat, and there were none but Rugby
+clubs, whose members treated the new order of things in football as
+childish amusement, and unworthy of free-born Britons. "Give us," they
+said, "the exciting runs, the glorious tackling, the manly maul, and the
+beautiful dropped goal, and we will meet you a bit of the way, but not
+otherwise. We don't believe in loafing about the field at times, when
+only one or two of the side are engaged; we want to be active." "Well,"
+said the Conquerors (one of whom had been offered a place in the Twenty
+in the Rugby match between Glasgow and Edinburgh), "you don't know
+Association rules, or you would never make such absurd assertions about
+the new game. If there is really any inactivity in football while being
+played, that inaction is clearly shown in a Rugby maul, where the one
+half of the side are merely spectators. Besides, your game is only half
+football; in fact, a combination of football and handball knocked into
+one. Your run with the ball under the arm is only a display of speed; it
+has nothing whatever to do with football. We want the grand dribbling
+run with the ball at the toe, the smart passing and middling of the
+Association, and we will enjoy it." Such good-natured banter went on at
+first between two opposing interests, but by and by the difference
+culminated into something more.
+
+As a sort of _quid pro quo_ for the courtesy extended to an Association
+player by the Rugby contingent in the Inter-city match, Tom Chaloner,
+the very _beau ideal_ of a Rugby player, was asked, and promised to play
+in the first International Association match at Partick in 1872. Tom
+even came out to the Recreation Ground at Crosshill, and practised with
+the Conquerors as goalkeeper, and promised well in that position, but
+through some cause or other he did not play when the eventful day came.
+If ever a man could handle a ball and kick a goal as a quarter-back in a
+Rugby game, it was Chaloner. He was the pride of all the Rugby clubs in
+the country side, and was as well, indeed, if not better known in his
+brilliant career as a cricketer. Who in Scotland could bat like Tom? He
+was not a hitter to a particular side of the wickets; all was alike to
+him. He could cut, drive, hit to long and square-leg, and oh! how far!
+He would have made a grand Association football player, but he preferred
+to stick to the Rugby style, and was equally successful, at least to his
+club's satisfaction. The first match between England and Scotland at
+Partick, nineteen years ago (which, by the way, is worthy of note, was
+played by members of the Queen's Park exclusively), did a great deal to
+spread Association rules in Glasgow and district, and, in fact,
+eventually all over Scotland. Hitherto there used to be a couple of
+months of interval between the end of the Rugby football season and the
+starting of athletics and cricket, lasting from March till May, and as
+the football players of the old dispensation were still in trim, but
+with exhausted fixtures, not a few of them, belonging to two of the
+leading clubs, did not consider it _infra dig._ to have a "go" at the new
+rules, "just to see how they could stand it."
+
+The outcome of this hastily-formed notion was that a sort of Nomadic
+team, calling themselves the Western Pilgrims, was formed, and three or
+four matches, and good ones, too, were played between them and the
+Conquerors and also the Cedargrove. The Pilgrims showed themselves no
+mean opponents in the new game, and, after holding their own with the
+Cedargrove in a drawn game, had a good tussle with the Conquerors on the
+recreation ground at the Park, and were only beaten by a goal to none,
+the goal, I remember, being made in the last five minutes by Bob Gardens
+(who could dribble and play forward as well as keep goal). A few of the
+Pilgrims took kindly to the Association rules, and while that season
+lasted two of the leading forwards joined the Cedargrove, and turned out
+capital players. Another joined the Druids, and became a famous
+goalkeeper, even going as far as playing for his country in the
+International match, and the fourth turned out a leading man in the
+Holyrood Crescent. Talking about the above goalkeeper, Aleck M'Gregor
+was one of the finest fellows that ever stood with his back to a goal.
+There was the cheerful disposition, the gentlemanly demeanour to
+opponents or associates whenever he appeared on the field. His knowledge
+of the Rugby game made him a most useful man at goal, where the keeper
+of that charge is the only man under Association rules who is allowed to
+touch the ball with his hands. With the ordinary goalkeeper the punt-out
+kick, when dexterously executed, was considered the most effective mode
+of saving the ball from going under the tape, when the use of the hands
+to knock it out was not deemed necessary, but Aleck preferred the
+drop-kick, which is one of the redeeming features in the Rugby style of
+play, and this he could do almost to perfection. I have seen him (for I
+have, by-the-bye, taken part against him in several matches) lift a ball
+after it had come pretty smartly from my right toe, and dropping it on
+the ground before him, kick it as it rose, bounding away over the heads
+of the Conquerors' forwards as they besieged the goal like a hive of
+bees on a June morning. He had decidedly the advantage over the modern
+"punter," inasmuch that the leather was always sure to go higher out of
+reach when the place of defence was besieged, and farther out of the way
+of lurking backs and half-backs, who, as a matter of course, crowd down
+behind the forwards when an attack is made on an opponent's stronghold.
+
+There were other instances which came to my knowledge (that is, if my
+reader can imagine anything so queer as a pair of boots possessing such
+an immensely human gift) of converts from Rugby to Association style of
+play, or rather perverts, as they were designated, but enough has been
+said to show how Association football gained a hold on the young and
+rising generation, and how it spread all over the western and
+north-western portion of the country, and, like the proverbial Eastern
+magician's wand, caused goal-posts and corner-flags to spring up in
+every village and hamlet with remarkable rapidity. Close to the shores
+of several Highland lochs, where a big kick by a stalwart half-back
+endangers the ball being swept away by the tide, one can see the game
+played of an evening by the village youth with great earnestness of
+purpose. By and by the new rules made remarkable progress, and as the
+public liked the game, and deserted the Rugby matches to see what they
+considered the most easily understood rules, the breach between the
+rival contingents widened, and eventually the Jews had no dealings with
+the Gentiles, and so they both continue playing the games they consider
+the best.
+
+What changes have taken place in clubs and players during the last few
+years! Faces, blithe, happy faces, now gone forever, can be remembered
+by the old spectators, although the present scarcely ever heard their
+names; but I will not go very far back. Poor Dixy (for he is dead
+now)--well can I remember his first introduction to the Conquerors. My
+master had been indulging, in company with Bob Gardens, Jim Wild, Willie
+Keith, and others, in a punt about on the evening preceding a match with
+the Red Cross, and, after shaking hands and passing the usual
+compliments, the practice game was started, and in it the newcomer
+showed well, and kicked cleverly with both feet. He was, however, just a
+shade too slow, and I frequently tackled him, and secured the leather,
+giving it a deal of "toe" after passing close in on goal. The club were
+badly off for a goal-keeper after Willie Keith left for America, and, as
+John was not backward in making a display of his ability, he offered to
+act as goal-keeper. It would take too long to recount the games in which
+he and I were engaged in the subsequent career of the Conquerors, but an
+incident or two will not be considered out of place. If Dixy had one
+weakness more than another it consisted in a lively sense of his own
+importance as a crack goalkeeper, and the supposed invincible qualities
+of his club, which he often declared could not be beaten. He improved
+wonderfully in his new position, and, while playing some of the junior
+clubs, which were by this time beginning to spring up, it was positively
+amusing to see how John would advance quietly from his goal when it was
+besieged, and punt the ball contemptuously away with quite a crowd of
+young ones close up, awe-stricken at the agility shown by such a bulky
+form.
+
+A few of the Red Cross and Cedargrove forwards sometimes gave him a
+fright, and in one match with the Leven Crowers he was fairly outwitted
+by Boyd and Ned M'Donald in a cup tie. I fought hard in that memorable
+battle myself, and never got such a saturation with water and mud in my
+career; but we were beaten. I will not easily forget Dixy as he came to
+the field on that occasion, carrying his umbrella to the goal-posts, and
+laying it against the left one. He, poor fellow, expected his club would
+have an easy victory, and this belief was shared in by not a few of the
+eleven besides, including my master, who had, by the way, emerged into a
+centre forward since the last match with the Kilmarackers, and as a
+consequence he gave me a deal of extra work as a backer-up to Mat.
+Angus. In fact, not long after I was carefully laced and ready for the
+fray that wet afternoon, the Conqueror's eleven had a confab about the
+tactics they should pursue, and Joe Sayler, our captain (who is now no
+more, and lost to his club for ever), remarked it would take them all
+their time to beat the Crowers. He had, I could see by his anxious
+looks, grave doubts on the issue. At the outset of the game the rain
+poured down in torrents, and as most of the play was on the Crowers'
+portion of the field, the umbrella was put up, amid the laughter of the
+partisans of John's contingent and the pent-up indignation of the
+followers of the Crowers, who mustered strong on the occasion, and
+demonstrated a strength of lungs truly astonishing. John, by and by,
+when the battle became hot, had to discard his old friend and comforter,
+and work in front of his fortress in a way that he had never done
+before, and when the terrible tussle ended, the Conquerors were beaten
+by two goals to one. When chaffed on the "umbrella incident" ever
+afterwards Dixy was silent, and declared that in using it he did not
+hold his opponents too cheaply, but simply with a desire to save himself
+from a ducking. John was also a capital oarsman, and when he was
+suddenly cut away in the pride of his manhood, he was barely 30 years of
+age. He was greatly lamented, and his handsome figure is missed from the
+football field.
+
+John's death reminds me of a young and promising forward named Smith,
+who used to play on the left wing of the Cedargrove in company with a
+smart companion named Seward. Young Smith was a very enthusiastic
+football player, and missed few, if any, practice games. Poor lad, I met
+him twice in one season in matches with the Cedargrove, and it took all
+my master knew to prevent him from getting clean past the Conquerors'
+backs and scoring. He was a nice dribbler, and like Fred Adamson (an old
+member of the same club), went straight ahead with a splendid hold of
+the leather. Talking about Fred, I remember that player, in company with
+Johnny M'Phedran and James Wilton, going for big Thomas, who was then
+the Conquerors' captain, and played at half-back. Thomas was an awful
+fellow to meet in a charge, and a hundred to one was sure to send his
+opponent to grass. Johnny, however, who was a little bandy-legged, held
+tenaciously to the ball, and while Thomas was eagerly watching his
+opportunity, Fred sent him flat on his back, and the ball was close on
+goal in an instant. There was a hard scrummage, and in the nick of time,
+Joe Sayler (who was then the crack sprinter of the Conquerors), dashed
+up and got the ball clear before it reached the keeper. Poor Smith, he
+caught a severe cold one evening, and eventually succumbed to a painful
+malady. The Cedargrove were at one time hard to beat. In fact, in the
+early history of the Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup, they
+pressed my master's club hard for the trophy, and were only
+vanquished--after three games--by one goal to none.
+
+The Red Cross were also dangerous opponents, and possessed not a few
+capital players. There were John Huxter, Sandy Kenneth, Jack Williams,
+Joe Drummond, and Bill Millins. They were not easily beaten. Sandy
+Kenneth, though rather a quiet-looking customer to meet in the street,
+developed into one of the finest half-backs that Scotland ever produced.
+He was always cool and collected, and, although by no means a very hard
+kicker, could judge the ball to a hair-breadth. Sandy was especially
+clever in tackling, which he could manage without deliberate charging.
+If the ball got up close on the goal which he defended, he would follow
+the dribblers, and with a clever manoeuvre on the left foot, obtain
+possession, and after nursing the ball for a few minutes, would, amid
+the applause of the spectators, send it spinning down the field. Then
+there was Bill Summons. He was rather a volatile customer, and a perfect
+football coquette. There was scarcely a club of any pretensions in
+Glasgow but what Bill had wooed. He, however, stuck well to the Red
+Cross, and did some splendid service in their best matches, but
+eventually left them and joined the Conquerors, who, by the way, were
+just a shade too ready to take over the best men of other clubs by
+holding out tempting baits in the shape of big matches. Bill, with all
+his faults, was a grand back, and I question if anybody in Glasgow could
+make a finer kick when he set his mind to it. He had his failing, to be
+sure, and who hasn't? He was sometimes most erratic while playing
+important matches, and, especially on a windy day, would make grave
+mistakes with too heavy kicking.
+
+Jack Huxter, too, of the Red Cross, was a very fine player, and a
+"caution" to get past at back (poor fellow, he, too, like Dixy, has gone
+to his account). He was a dangerous man to meet in the heat of a tussle
+near the goal-line, and woe betide the daring forward who would attempt
+to take the ball from Jack there. His only weakness was a frequent
+desire to "go" for the man instead of the ball, and charging rather
+heavily. Although a back, he was by no means an inferior dribbler, and
+possessing good speed, sometimes astonished the members of his own club
+by the smart runs he would now and again make in company with the
+forwards when the leather was in an opponents' territory. He stuck like
+a veritable leech to the Red Cross, and turned out most faithfully to
+all their important matches. I must not forget Willie Millins, who was
+one of the neatest dribblers of his day. He has given up football now.
+Getting a clear start, many an exciting and clever run he made for the
+Red Cross. I heard my master say that in a match for the Association Cup
+between his club and the Cedargrove, he once made a goal after dribbling
+the ball almost the entire length of the field.
+
+Then there was a lot of smaller fry, including good players belonging to
+the Dumbrook, North-Eastern, Gallowgate Rovers, the Locomotive Slashers,
+Thornians, Northern Jumpers, Edinburgh Irishmen, Partick Unfortunates,
+and last, though by no means least, the Flying Blues. There was no club
+in Scotland, except, perhaps, the Vale Crowers, that had made so much
+progress in the game as those Flying Blues, and few, if any, were gifted
+with the same amount of self-confidence. The Blues, nevertheless, had
+good reason to feel proud of some of their members, for they were young
+and active, and the very ideal of smart football players. It was a lucky
+thing for them when they migrated from the north and established
+themselves in the old ground vacated by the Cedargrove. Had it not been
+for that lucky arrangement, they might have wasted their football lives
+in obscurity, and gone down to Association posterity "unhonoured and
+unsung." Their success was as remarkable as it was swift and decisive.
+Possessing any amount of pluck, they tackled all and sundry in the
+district, and the second year, after gaining something like a
+first-class reputation, won nearly every game they played. Their
+captain, Tom Vincent, was a grand back, and, indeed, one of the crack
+men in that position, of whom Scotland has now so many to select from;
+and then there was Bentback, Bill Donoup, Jack Drummer, and Mat Neil,
+all fine players at their respective positions. Never shall I forget the
+match between the Blues and the Conquerors for the Association Cup a
+dozen years ago, about the last big match in which I took an active
+part. My master's team had had bad luck though, for after pressing the
+Flying Blues till within a few minutes of the game, the Blues beat the
+Conquerors by one goal to none, Bill Donoup sending the ball under goal
+at the last minute, although the story goes that he had a bet of a
+"sov." that the Conquerors would win, and it was even admitted that he
+was heard to say, when kicking the goal, "Here goes my blooming
+sovereign!"
+
+Although now stowed away in the corner of a large chest, side by side
+with jerseys, caps, knickerbockers, and other football requisites, as a
+remnant of the glorious game, my master sometimes visits me to think
+over the past, and I often hear him say that, although he does not play
+now, he still goes to see some of the leading contests, and at them
+picks up many queer stories of the modern players. Last year's crack
+men, as he sees them crowding in his "mind's eye," are not, he says,
+unworthy representatives of those of the past.
+
+
+
+
+_VI.--HOW CLUBS WERE STARTED LONG AGO._
+
+
+When the summer game of cricket was far more extensively played in
+Glasgow and District than it is now, those who understood the feelings
+and aspirations of young men engaged in it repeatedly considered the
+question in all its aspects, and a combination of circumstances have
+occurred within the last decade which had seriously affected that game.
+The City of Glasgow could not, of course, afford to remain in a
+stationary condition to suit the convenience of a few thousands of
+cricketers. New streets had to be formed, new houses built all round,
+and with this advance upon civilisation came the deadly blow to
+cricket--at least juvenile cricket--and those clubs soon disappeared
+from the field. Ground after ground was swallowed up, and on the scene
+of many a hot and exciting match blocks of houses, railway stations,
+churches, and public works may now be seen. The Scotch youth, and for
+that part of it (just to give the sentence greater weight), the British
+youth, loves some kind of manly sport. Cricket he could no longer play
+for want of good and level ground, but then there was another game
+which, at least, could be played or learned under easy circumstances,
+even on a quiet street or big "free coup," and that was Association
+football. They soon took to it kindly, and many of them struggled hard
+and procured a ground. Not one, of course, like that on which they used
+to have their cricket matches long ago, but one on which Farmer Lyon
+grazed his cows and sheep, and they had it for a trifle. What did they
+care about ridges and furrows, or that it was a difficult matter to see
+the lower goal-posts when you were at the east end? Not a straw. The
+only matter which annoyed them (and this only happened occasionally) was
+Lyon's bull. Their club colours were red jerseys, with a small white
+stripe, and "Jock" (that was the animal's name), used to scatter the
+lads about on the Friday evenings when they were engaged in a big side.
+The players generally managed to clear out in time, but the infuriated
+animal once goared the best ball the club had, and next morning, as they
+had to play the "Invincible" of Glasgow Green, a subscription had to be
+raised for a new one. Football can thus be played under much more
+favourable conditions than cricket, or almost any other out-door game,
+at less expense, and this, in a great measure at least, is the secret of
+its popularity amongst the masses. It can also be played under nearly
+every condition of the atmosphere. Nothing seems to frighten the Scotch
+Association football player. Rain, hail, snow, and even frost, is
+treated with cool indifference. In England the ball is quietly laid
+aside with the advent of April and forgotten till the Autumn leaves are
+yellow and sear, but in Scotland Association football seems to have no
+recognised season at all, so far as the younger clubs and even a few of
+the seniors are concerned. With the sun making one's hair stick to his
+head with perspiration, and the thermometer at 90 degrees in the shade,
+they play away in the summer-time, and at Christmas attempt to dribble
+in half-a-foot of snow. Meantime the question about football being
+blotted out can, I think, be easily answered in the negative, and upon
+these will depend the future prospect of Association Football in
+Scotland. There are, in fact, "breakers ahead," and a strong and
+determined hand will have to take the wheel. The greatest of these is
+the "professional" football player, and the next the "greed of
+gate-money." "O! we never heard of a professional football player in
+Scotland," exclaims a chorus of voices; "there is no such thing. It's
+only in England." My remark, of course, is only beginning to be
+realised. The definition of professional in athletics "is one who runs
+(plays) for gain." Everybody knows what that means. If you receive any
+money whatever, directly or indirectly, from your club (except out of
+the private purses of the members), you are a professional. Are there
+not clubs, with great reputations, who have such members? If these are
+allowed to continue on the club books simply because they are good
+players, the committee are doing a great injustice to the other members,
+it may be under a mistaken notion. Now, as football has always been
+looked upon as a purely amateur game, and played by young men for their
+own amusement, it is to be hoped that the day is far distant when the
+professional football player, or even worse, the professional football
+"loafer," who does not work, but preys upon his fellow-members, will
+appear in a general form. In all conscience, if the public wish to see
+professional football (and I know from experience they don't), what
+would they think of the All-Scotland Eleven against the Champion Eleven
+of England? That might sound all right, but with the recollection of how
+professional athletics of all kinds (with the remarkable exception of
+cricket) are now conducted, and their low associations, woe betide
+football when the professional element is introduced. It will assuredly
+be the signal for its decline and fall. As for the greed of gate-money,
+of which some clubs are so fond, much might be said. When I refer to the
+clubs who try to gather as much cash as they can during the season in
+order to pay their legitimate obligations and meet the heavy item of
+ground rent, I show up an honourable example, and one worthy of
+imitation; but when I hear of clubs who have gathered ten, yea twenty
+times more than is required for such purposes, and even get handsome
+donations besides from their patrons, deep in debt at the end of the
+season, I begin to wonder where all the money has gone. I ask a young
+gentleman who has only lately become a member, and he tells me he knows
+nothing about the finance committee, but throws out grave hints about
+sordid motives and bare-faced applications for pecuniary assistance. In
+this respect clubs must be above suspicion, if they want the delightful
+game to hold its own and prosper. As a _quid pro quo_ for this vicious
+practice, however, there is no game whose players are so charitable as
+those connected with Association Football. There is not a club in the
+Association that is not ready to play a "Charity Match," and far more
+has been given to the funds of charitable institutions by the actions of
+Association football clubs than all the other games in Scotland put
+together.
+
+
+
+
+_VII.--THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL;_
+
+OR,
+
+_NED DUNCAN'S DREAM._
+
+
+~Scotland v. America, 1901.~
+
+While on holidays, enjoying myself at a quiet and beautiful sea-side
+village on the shores of the Firth of Clyde, I received a note from a
+friend reminding me that an old football chum was still on the sick
+list, and making little or no progress towards recovery. In fact, his
+life, which had recently been enfeebled by an incurable malady, was
+slowly but surely drawing to a close. Last time I saw him he referred to
+the fact that he had some MS. which he wished Mr. John M'Dowall, his
+successor in the secretaryship of the S.F.A., and myself, to read over,
+and when this came into my mind I resolved to repair to Glasgow at once,
+ere it might be too late.
+
+It was just as well that I did, for poor Ned Duncan was fast sinking
+when I got permission from his widowed mother to visit the bedside. Ned,
+I may mention, was one of the most enthusiastic players of his day that
+ever kicked a ball, but was obliged to give up practice in consequence
+of the unfortunate circumstances I have just mentioned, and of late had
+only been a spectator at the leading games. He received me that evening
+with a kind smile of recognition, and his pale face beckoned me to come
+near. I was certainly much touched with my old friend's appearance, and
+tried as much as possible to cheer him, but it was of no use.
+
+He said he knew he was going to the silent land. The doctor, in fact,
+had told him he had only a few days to live, and he was glad I had come
+to bid him farewell, and take over some straggling notes he had compiled
+last summer about the football of the future. "Going home one evening,"
+he continued, "after an International match, I fell into a deep sleep,
+and had a remarkable dream. I thought I saw a great match between
+Scotland and America. Real genuine players glided past, scrimmaging with
+each other for the ball; thousands of spectators, new and beautiful
+youthful faces, graced the area allotted to spectators; the hum of
+thousands of excited voices greeted my ears, and"----Here poor Ned's
+voice failed.
+
+After a few minutes repose, the old player gasped, "But what need I tell
+you more. Here is the MS., and make what use of it you like."
+
+My dear old friend is now under the turf he loved so well to play on
+when in the zenith of his fame.
+
+Having eventually opened the packet, the first sentence which met my
+eyes was "Ned Duncan's Dream; or, The Great International of 1901."
+
+I will, therefore, leave poor Ned to tell his own tale, and what he saw
+in his vision, which at any rate has the merit of originality about it.
+As more extraordinary dreams have come to pass, there is no saying what
+the beginning of the twentieth century may bring forth, for
+International football matches with Australia, America, and Canada have
+been talked of, and some of them even played, during the past year or
+two, and may become accomplished facts.
+
+I must, however, return to the MS., which reads after the following
+style:--
+
+"It was in April, 1901, on a Saturday afternoon, that the Yankees came
+to Scotland to play a match with our crack Eleven. The Universal Postal
+Service, which scattered letters all over the world at the rate of one
+half-penny per ounce, conveyed a formal challenge from the Americans to
+Scotland that the Yankees would be delighted to meet an eleven of that
+country in an even game of football. The New World men of course meant
+business, and our secretary, who was a capital fellow, much liked by the
+Scottish Football Association for his kind and obliging disposition, was
+instructed to accept the challenge and welcome the strangers to Glasgow.
+
+"Previous to the time I speak of, the Americans had beaten the
+Australians and Canadians, and were considered by their own friends
+invincible even to the extent of a couple of goals. The Canadians, by
+the aid of the Electric Express Line's fast steamers, had been able to
+leave Montreal in the morning and return in the evening from New York,
+defeated but not disgraced. The Australians were a little longer on the
+way, as the improved appliances for driving ships had not yet attained
+that perfection there which had been shown in most of the ports and
+rivers of the British Isles. They were experimenting, however, and some
+good in that direction was looked for daily, and a new Express Company
+floated. The Americans had also beaten the Englishmen the previous year
+at New York, and, as their own newspapers had it, 'came over to crow in
+the Land o' Cakes.' The great shipping trade of the Clyde ere this was,
+so to speak, causing a new order of things to arise all over the world.
+Large and beautifully-built steel and bronze vessels left the Clyde
+every day for all parts of the earth.
+
+"They had annihilated space and bridged the Atlantic in earnest, and the
+'electrics' (once called steamers) could go from Glasgow to New York in
+little over twenty-four hours. Yes. 'Daily to New York, Montreal,
+California, and New Mexico. Splendid accommodation for first-class
+passengers: 120 knots per hour, and no vibration.' So read the
+advertisement in the leading Glasgow newspapers. Why! what did it all
+mean? One hundred knots per hour--3000 in twenty-four hours! To New York
+in a day! I had certainly heard of the swallow taking an early breakfast
+at the uttermost part of England and picking up a late dinner on the
+shores of Africa, all in one day; but 120 knots an hour with an
+'electric,'--it was just enough for flesh and blood to comprehend at
+once.
+
+"'Well,' said a friend of mine with some experience in the marine
+engineering line, 'I have long thought on electricity as the great
+motive power of the future, provided it could be properly stored, and
+now you see what it has come to.'
+
+"In fact, our coal supply--one of the sources of Britain's
+greatness--was getting exhausted, and electrical appliances had become
+an absolute necessity. The strain could no longer be borne of one huge
+vessel consuming 500 tons of coal in twenty-four hours, and those
+blessed electrics were not introduced a moment too soon.
+
+"The learned men of France, who had long been working earnestly to solve
+the problem of electric economy, were beaten in the race, and a perfect
+system of stored electricity introduced and successfully applied to the
+propulsion of ships, patented by Professor Scotland Thomson, nephew of
+the late Sir William Thomson, of blessed memory.
+
+"Lots of other remarkable events had been occurring in our history, but
+none so marked as the introduction of the 'electrics.' The people of
+Scotland had very nearly lost their individuality. Old Caledonia was to
+be simply a name. Englishmen invaded Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, and
+even _Ultima Thule_, and overran the country with their ideas of social
+life. They made slow progress at first, but came in hordes, and the
+invasion was irresistible. They, of course, introduced all their
+newfangled ideas about games and pastimes, and compelled us to submit.
+
+"Parliament had got so mixed up and thoroughly disgusted with the
+question of Irish Home Rule, which cropped up every session, that in an
+evil mood it had threatened puir all Scotland with assimilation of the
+Law of Jurisprudence, but failed. King Albert the First, however, had,
+out of respect to the great city of Glasgow--the Second City in the
+Empire--created his third son Duke of Glasgow, for you must know the
+House of Peers was still extant, but greatly reformed and limited in
+power. It could only veto a law passed by the Commons once, and there
+was no more about the matter.
+
+"The match, you may be sure, was the general topic of conversation all
+over Scotland several weeks before it came off, and on the Friday
+evening, when the Americans arrived and put up at the Express Hotel,
+Glasgow, the excitement was great. The preparations and arrangements for
+the struggle were on a grand scale, and good weather alone was wanting
+to make it a success. That evening several of the Scotch team strolled
+into the billiard-room of the Express Hotel to welcome the young
+Americans, and had a chat with them about football in general, and the
+spread of the rules all over the world.
+
+"The eventful day at last dawned, and a finer April morning could not
+have been desired. Play was announced to begin at 3.30 p.m., and long
+before that time Bruce Park, Cathcart Road, was half-filled with
+spectators, and presented a fine sight.
+
+"The crowd around the field was certainly the most remarkable that had
+ever gathered together in Glasgow. As the game was no ordinary one, they
+flocked from all quarters. Most of the towns in Scotland supplied their
+quota to swell the multitude, and as railway travelling was cheap and
+convenient now compared to the original football days of the Queen's
+Park, Clydesdale, Vale of Leven, Rangers, Dumbarton, Granville, 3rd
+Lanark Volunteers, Partick, Clyde, Alexandra Athletic (of which poor
+Duncan was hon. secy.), and a host of other clubs, a two-hundred-mile
+journey, which was easily accomplished in an hour, was considered next
+to nothing. They were there--young men and maidens from London,
+Manchester, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Blackburn, Darwen, Bolton, and
+Sheffield--all bent on making a day of it. The road to Bruce Park,
+indeed, was a sight to see, despite the fact that the Cathcart Railway
+carried its thousands that afternoon to the south-side. There were not a
+few buxom country girls in the crowd, enticed thither by no great love
+of the game--which, of course, they did not understand--but by their
+sweethearts, just to let the young persons of the place see that they
+had lads as well as their neighbours. There was one winsome lassie among
+them, however, who would have done credit to Burns' incomparable 'Queen
+o' the Glen.'
+
+"Emma was the only sister of a young farmer in the district. It is a
+mistaken notion to suppose that farmers in Scotland are by far too
+plodding a class to indulge themselves in anything savouring of English
+games and pastimes, particularly football, but this is a mistake. I know
+several farmers in the country who love the dribbling game dearly, and
+do their best to promote its interests in the way of supplying ground to
+not a few young clubs dotted over the country. In fact, Emma was the
+beauty of the whole parish, and all the young men for miles around were
+well aware of it. No one could deny it, and even the most unreasonable
+of fellows, Charley M'Gowan, the schoolmaster, and Alfred Walker, the
+lawyer's clerk, were forced to acknowledge it.
+
+"'Talk about Sydney's heavenly Geraldine,' said young M'Gowan to me one
+afternoon on the road to practice, 'she beats her hollow.' M'Gowan,
+however, was a bit of a cynic, and Emma soon cast him off for Walker. He
+was a fine singer, and in after years, when he became a confirmed
+bachelor, delighted to sing songs about the inconstancy of the fair sex.
+He used to hum out Goethe's 'Vanatos,' and more particularly that
+verse with reference to the fickle fair ones, which ran
+
+    "'I set my heart upon woman next--
+              Hurrah!
+    For her sweet sake was oft perplexed;
+              But ah!
+    The false one looked for a daintier lot--
+    The constant one wearied me out and out--
+        The best was not easily got.'
+
+The Yankees, however, had a high opinion of our feminine beauty, and the
+impressions made on the gallant youths that Saturday afternoon were of
+the most favourable order. The Romans, in fact, were not more captivated
+with the beauty of the Sabean maidens than were the young Americans with
+the lovely Scottish girls who gave them such a hearty reception at Bruce
+Park in April, 1901.
+
+"Walt Vanderbilt, their captain, was a fine-looking young fellow, about
+25 years of age. Ere this the young Americans had completely discarded
+whiskers, and Walt formed no exception to the rule, with his
+closely-shaven cheeks and well-formed moustache. Good work in the field
+in the way of practice had made Walt's form show complete development,
+and I am inclined to think that a finer specimen of a football player
+never toed a ball. The goalkeeper of the team, too, young Lincoln, was
+rather a nice-looking fellow, nearly six feet high, and
+well-proportioned, with eyes sparkling with humour, but he lacked the
+fine open countenance of his captain.
+
+"The other members of the team were much of the ordinary type of
+humanity, just like our average football club men, with any amount of
+nerve and energy. If they felt excited at the magnitude of the work they
+had in hand they concealed it well, and looked as if they were merely
+entering the field to do a little practice. They wore the sign of the
+American eagle, dotted over with the emblematical stars and stripes. Our
+fellows had also an imposing appearance, with the lion-rampant on their
+jerseys, and, although looking rather douce and uncertain about the
+game, determination was depicted on every face.
+
+"The names of the gentlemen who entered the field were as under:--
+
+"_Scotland._--F. Wallace (South-Side Swifts), goalkeeper; T. Glen
+(Queen's Park), D. Smollet (Vale of Leven), backs; W. M'Millan
+(Dumbarton), F. M'Neil (Rangers), half-backs; K. M'Geake (Pollokshields
+Athletic), P. Livingstone (Kilmarnock), K. Watt (Edinburgh Rovers), T.
+Stewart (Volunteer A.C.), T. D. Coats (Paisley Combination), and G. F.
+Turnbull (Clyde), forwards.
+
+"_America._--W. R. C. Lincoln (New York Caledonian), goalkeeper; V. H.
+Grant (Texas Rovers), W. C. Vanderbilt (Hamilton State Swifts), backs;
+J. H. Armstrong (Chicago Association), D. Steel (Nebraska Electric),
+half-backs; D. C. Bramey (Victoria Boys), R. S. Chandler (Utah
+Gentiles), P. Whitehouse (Newhaven), J. S. Bryan (Alaska Pilgrims), W.
+D. Bangle (San Francisco Racers), and T. Lawrence (Washington House),
+forwards.
+
+"_Umpires._--J. W. Marindin (South Australia), and D. Y. Jones (Canadian
+Association). _Referee._--W. H. Littleton (English Association).
+
+"Before the game began, the Yankees offered to bet level money, and some
+of their red-hot plungers even went the length of two to one on their
+chances; but they were promptly told that the days of betting and
+wagering at football matches, cricket, horse-racing, and all genuine
+sport, were now numbered with the past in the United Kingdom.
+
+"Gentlemen, in fact, who loved and enjoyed sport for its own sake, and
+for that part of it, ladies too, had voted betting 'low and unmanly,'
+and even degrading, and as Parliament had been repeatedly petitioned on
+the subject, a bill was almost unanimously passed in the dying year of
+the nineteenth century abolishing betting.
+
+"The Loyal Irish Party (late Home Rulers), and the Rado-Toro Democratic
+Party (led by Lord Randy Chapel-Mountain), whose hair was beginning to
+get silvery-grey, and his long moustache to match, did not even oppose
+the bill, and it passed. Never did a legislative enactment work such
+improvement among the masses as this bill. It completely banished all
+needy souls and black-legs from the arena of honest sport, and left the
+field to those who came out of an afternoon and evening to enjoy
+themselves in an honest way.
+
+"The coarse language, too, of which our forefathers justly complained
+twenty years ago, had almost disappeared, whether through the effects of
+the School Board, I would not like to say, but one could now take
+sweetheart or wife to enjoy themselves, provided always, of course, the
+weather was at all suitable.
+
+"As for professional football players, no such thing had been heard of
+for years. They certainly died hard, but eventually no club would have
+anything to do with them.
+
+"'What is that?' 'Oh, it's the bell to begin.'
+
+"Well, the game did begin in earnest, immediately after a fair lady had
+thrown out the leather ball from the Grand Stand at the right-hand side
+of the field. There was no tossing for choice of ends, for a new rule
+had been just added to the revised code enacting in a most chivalrous
+way that strangers or visitors be allowed to select the side of the
+ground they preferred to play on for the first half-hour--for you must
+know, my readers, the term now allowed for the game was one hour, and
+that when the ball was kicked into touch, there was no throwing back
+into play with the hands, but it was kicked from the touch-line straight
+out before play was again resumed.
+
+"For some time the forwards kept the leather close to themselves, and
+the Yankees on the left wing, by a fine piece of manoeuvring, were
+successful in getting it away, amid tremendous cheering. Chandler, who
+was one of the fastest sprinters in the world, and had beaten the record
+in San Francisco in the fall of last year, got through his men in
+brilliant form, and came down on the goalkeeper like 'winkum.' Just as
+he was poising himself, however, for a final shot, M'Neil deliberately
+crossed the field from the opposite side, and after dodging about the
+young American, rushed in and took the leather away, and keeping it
+between his feet for a couple of seconds, kicked it clear of the Scotch
+goal. A good deal of heading afterwards occurred near the home goal--the
+ball getting close on the lines several times, and even passing them.
+Many considered before the game began that the Americans would never
+have a 'look in' at all, and great was their dismay when they actually
+beheld their champions hotly pressed on their own ground, and look like
+losing the day. With a brilliant charge the Yankee forwards crowded
+round the Scotch sticks like a hive of bees on a June morning, and a
+straight shot from the foot of D. Steel, who rushed in from his place at
+half-back, caused the ball to glide past the Scotch goalkeeper like a
+rocket.
+
+"This was the signal for tremendous excitement. Crowds of partisans and
+friends who had come over with the strangers, and many enthusiastic
+lovers of the game and fair play, raised a loud cheer, again and again
+renewed, at this piece of grand play on the part of the Yankees. The
+intensely interested Scotchmen, however, while they certainly admired
+the pluck and fine play of the visitors, and cheered in a mild kind of a
+way, even though an enemy wrung it from them, kept very quiet, and not a
+few white faces might have been seen about the wire fence which kept
+spectators and players apart on Bruce Park on that memorable day. They,
+however, kept their own counsel, and quaintly said to the Yankees who
+chaffed them on the point, that howling was a very good thing in a way,
+but it should not be indulged in till people were out of the wood.
+
+"The teams then faced each other in midfield, and the ball had no sooner
+left the Scotch captain's foot than it was taken away, and dribbled down
+the centre by Bryan, Whitehouse, and Lawrence, and when half-time was
+called the latter was just finishing a good shy, which sent the ball
+over the bar. According to the new rules a quarter of an hour was
+allowed as an interval, and during that time speculation ran high as to
+what was destined to be the final issue.
+
+"To indulge for a moment at the idea of the Americans beating the Scotch
+on their own ground in the great International was a sore point for the
+bulk of the spectators with Scotch faces, but they said very little.
+They had a secret hope that their champions would eventually pull off
+the game, even though they had a goal to make up, and only half-an-hour
+to do it. They had, it was remembered with pride and satisfaction,
+pulled through many a doubtful match before, and Scotchmen, it was well
+known, were not easily beaten.
+
+"The young lady again threw up the ball, and Tam Glen, getting a good
+hold of it at his left foot, made one of the finest fly-kicks ever seen
+in a match, and the forwards on the Scotch side following well up,
+completely puzzled the Yankee backs and half-backs by their brilliant
+passing. Before you could say Jack Robinson, M'Geake shied for the
+American goal, and the ball knocked off the cap of the goalkeeper, and,
+hitting the bar, bounded back into the field of play. A hard and
+exciting scrimmage followed, and amid breathless excitement the Yankees
+cleared their goal. Five minutes of very even play followed, and then
+the Scotchmen set their teeth and made a desperate effort for victory.
+
+"Only ten minutes of the game now remained to the good, and there was,
+you may be sure, no time to lose. One goal behind, and at the great
+International, too! It would never do to allow America to whip creation,
+even at football! One final effort; no, two final efforts, and it was
+done.
+
+"The Scotch captain was seen to whisper something to his team, and in a
+few minutes the grandest run which was probably ever witnessed since
+football became a scientific sport in the world, was started, and,
+before the American backs, half-backs, and goalkeeper could realise
+their position, the Scotchmen bore down on the visitors' goal, and
+literally dribbled the ball clean through. This was, you may be sure,
+the signal for an outburst of cheering, which must have been heard over
+the half of the big city of Glasgow, which now contained over a million
+of inhabitants.
+
+"The game, however, was not yet won--it was only a tie--and when the
+representatives of Brother Jonathan again started the ball only four
+minutes remained, but it proved a bad four minutes for the
+representatives of the stars and stripes. Another run, backed up by a
+shooter from the left foot of Turnbull, settled the great International
+for that year at anyrate. Those who had hitherto viewed the game in
+moody silence began to come out of their shells (talking piscatorially)
+and join in the universal huzzah.
+
+"The Yanks were now fairly cowed, and when another grand piece of play
+by Stewart, backed up at the proper moment by Watt, put a third goal to
+the credit of the Scotchmen, the visitors, in the most gentlemanly way,
+heartily joined in the cheering for the victors. When the referee's
+whistle was sounded, the Scotchmen were declared the winners of a
+hard-fought field by 3 goals to 1. The crowd completely besieged the
+pavilion at Bruce Park at the close, and cheered lustily as the Scotch
+champions made their way up the steps. Nor were the vanquished Americans
+forgotten. They came in for a round of hearty cheers for their pluck.
+
+"There was a dinner given to the distinguished strangers in the evening,
+and the usual complimentary toasts proposed and duly acknowledged; but,
+as I was not present, I am unable to say who spoke best and gave the
+most enjoyable song.
+
+"At anyrate, a happy evening was passed, and, after spending a day in
+Glasgow, the Yankees sailed on the following Monday morning for New
+York, where they duly arrived without any mishap, after the fastest
+passage on record, having covered the distance from Greenock to Sandy
+Hook in twenty-three hours fifty-nine and three-quarter minutes."
+
+Such is "NED DUNCAN'S DREAM; OR, THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL."
+
+
+
+
+_VIII.--THE PATRONS, SPECTATORS, AND POPULAR PLAYERS._
+
+
+They are to be found in all ranks and conditions of life, from the lord
+of the manor down to the apprentice-artizan and newly-fledged young man
+from shop and warehouse. Like love, football, for the time, at least,
+levels all distinction; and albeit I know, for that of it, many a
+well-matched pair, who have met for the first time on the grand stand at
+Hampden Park, looking back with feelings of intense pleasure to the time
+when their "infant love began." Were it not, in fact, that Caledonia is
+at times so "stern and wild," and that football and frost can never
+flourish together, the game would be far more extensively patronised by
+the fair sex. At a cup tie or an International match, it is quite a
+common thing to see the Convener of an adjacent county,[A] the city
+magnate, the suburban magistrate, the Free Kirk minister, and the
+handsome matronly lady, standing side by side with the horny-handed
+mechanic, the office-boy, the overgrown schoolboy, and the Buchanan
+Street "swell." They all watch the game and surroundings in their own
+particular way. I once heard a quaint, but nevertheless true, idea of
+how some of the more familiar visitors give way to a certain failing,
+which in itself can scarcely be called such, but is not unfrequently
+looked upon with amazement by the stranger. The Scotchman, it is said
+somewhere, is not so much respected for the manner in which he goes
+about a thing as the way in which he does it, and the remark, when
+applied to this particular case, will be all the more potent. Here it
+is:--"Where are you going to howl to-morrow (the query is put on
+Friday), Jack?" "Oh! the Queen's and Vale, of course; they will have a
+close thing of it, and there will be rare fun," says Jack. "Old Anderson
+was very indignant last Saturday, and declares that he will never stand
+near me again at any such matches. He was quite ashamed of my howling,
+and positively charges me with digging my thumbs into his ribs, and
+nearly strangling his youngest son at every scrimmage near each goal."
+"It serves you right, Tom. I was always afraid something of that kind
+would happen; you shouldn't be so demonstrative." Tom was silent. He was
+as jealous of his own propriety and good behaviour as anybody could be,
+but being of a most excitable nature, he did things in the heat of a
+tussle for which he was afterwards very sorry, and many ignored the fact
+that he was an old Rangers man, who scored the first goal for that then
+young club in a close and exciting game with the once powerful
+Clydesdale. As the Association rules are very easily learned in theory,
+the great bulk of the spectators show an acquaintance with them which is
+pleasing to see, and when an assumed infringement takes place, it is
+generally heralded from some part of the field by a partisan of the
+contending elevens. The only apparently unintelligible point to them is
+the "off-side" rule, and I have seen a goal kicked in this way hailed
+with deafening cheers and waving of hats and handkerchiefs. These
+manifestations, however, were turned into low growling when the leather
+was sent away by a free kick. The ladies, too, talk about "free kicks,"
+"corner-kicks," "heading," "hands," "beautiful passing and dribbling,"
+as if to the manner born. I cannot, however, dismiss the subject of
+spectators without referring to the use and abuse of a free and
+unrestrained vent to pent-up feelings. There is the low, vulgar fellow,
+whose collarless neck and general coarseness of exterior and language
+indicates that he possesses all the vices but none of the virtues of the
+"honest working man." Work he will not, except he is compelled, and
+although to "beg he is ashamed," he would be the first to do a mean
+action if he had the opportunity. It is he who, by his foul tongue and
+very breath, contaminates the atmosphere he breathes, and brings some of
+the matches into disrepute. Unfortunately he has paid his money at the
+gate (sometimes he gets over the fence), and you can't turn him out; but
+he makes hundreds miserable. He is, in fact, one of the "unimproving and
+irresponsible," and moral suasion has no power over his hard and stony
+heart. Sometimes in an evil moment his vulgar remark is challenged by
+one of the players on the contending sides, and this gives him an air of
+importance. There is nothing, however, which shows a want of gentlemanly
+bearing in a team more clearly than paying the least attention to
+exclamations from excited spectators. They should treat them with silent
+indifference, and if needs be, contempt, and play away as if there were
+nobody present at all. It is sometimes, nevertheless, very hard for
+country clubs to come to Glasgow and play for the city charities, and
+get howled at by this class of spectators at certain stages of the game.
+The great bulk of those around, however, are indignant at such conduct,
+and regret it all the more on account of being utterly unable to prevent
+it. There is another spectator, too, who not unfrequently forgets
+himself, and he is to be found on what might be termed the "touch-line"
+of society. He is the fast young man, who considers you a perfect
+nonentity if you don't bet. I don't mean betting on football pure and
+simple, for he only lays a few "bobs" on it, but on the latest
+quotations for the Derby, the St. Leger, the Waterloo Cup, or the
+University boat race. His "screw" is not very big at the best, but he
+can always lay "half a sov." on the event, whether his landlady's bill
+is paid or not, and touching that little account of Mr. Strides, the
+tailor, why, he'll pay it when he "makes a pile." He thinks too much of
+himself ever to get married, and the young ladies of his acquaintance
+may indulge in a sigh of relief at escaping from the toils of such a
+consummate fool. When he has something "on" a match, and sees that it is
+lost, he not unfrequently opens out, and is not over choice in his
+language. The game, however, goes on, and is greatly enjoyed by the
+general spectator, despite such drawbacks, and if you happen to go to
+the same locality on a similar occasion, you are all but sure to see old
+and familiar faces crowding round the stand and area.
+
+    [A] The late lamented Mr. A. B. Stewart, Convener of the County
+    of Bute, was an enthusiastic admirer of the game, and many will
+    miss his handsome firm and kindly remark when future matches are
+    played on the leading grounds in Scotland.
+
+The modern Association football player is a man of some ability. As a
+rule he is temperate in his habits, with a good appetite, and sound in
+limb. Long before he knew what football was, he was blessed with a large
+share of health. When a boy at school he used to be remarkable for
+punctuality, but occasionally got into trouble from neglected lessons,
+in consequence of a weakness for indulging in out-door sports. He loved
+the rude style of football, then played, dearly (he knew of nothing
+better), although goal-posts, touch-lines, corner-flags, and other
+modern appliances were totally unknown. As for "hacking," it was endured
+by all and sundry with the air of martyrs. Why, if you had not nerve
+enough to "give and take" in that line, your chance of getting near the
+"goal score" was remote indeed, and you were looked upon as a coward and
+the verriest noodle. He, of course, grows older, and by and by joins an
+average club, and gets on very well. The crack football players,
+however, have many maturities. They generally come slowly, but surely,
+and leave behind them powerful impressions. They are like the occasional
+planets, not the stars which are seen every evening if you care to look
+towards the "milky way." They are mostly fine-looking fellows, with
+pleasant countenances and grandly-moulded limbs. They have just passed a
+severe course of probation in the football field, without even an
+outward trace of anxiety. The vagaries of the game admit of no
+distinction of class. The crack player is, in fine, found among all
+classes--in the gentleman's son, in the clerk at the desk, and the lad
+in the workshop. There may be different ways of working out the latent
+ability, but sooner or later it begins to show itself. Some thought it
+was scarcely fair in the Duke of Wellington to say that "Waterloo was
+won at Eton." There is not the least possibility of doubt such a remark
+might be misunderstood, and many feel inclined to charge the "Iron Duke"
+with ignoring the services rendered by the non-commissioned officers and
+men of the British army, for everybody knows that none but the sons of
+the opulent class can ever gain admittance to Eton. It looked, in fact,
+very like the credit being given to the officers for winning that great
+battle. Wellington, however, had his eye on the football and cricket
+grounds when he spoke these words, and no doubt intended to convey the
+idea that these games went a long way in bracing up the nerve which
+served so well on the battle-field. Close adhesion to the practice of
+any game really and sincerely creates fresh possibilities of that
+perfection and discipline. And why should this not be so in football,
+particularly as it is a game regulated by sharply-defined maxims?
+Everyone can't be the captain of an eleven; and as for Wellington's
+remarks, the most humble member of the team may show the greatest
+ability. You may belong to the most "swellish" of clubs, and have a fair
+reputation, but you are not chosen to play in the International. Your
+father may be the "Great Mogul" himself, but that has no effect. The
+coveted place can only be attained by merit, and this is one of the most
+successful and meritorious traits in Scotch Association Football. You
+don't, as a rule, even get a place now by reputation, and so much the
+better. When clubs were few and good players fewer, you were not
+unfrequently favoured with one, whether you deserved it or not, but now
+the matter is different, and justly so, since we cannot go into a single
+town or village in Scotland without seeing the practice ground and
+goal-posts of the now omnipresent football club.
+
+
+
+
+_IX.--A DREAM OF THE PAST._
+
+
+I am getting old and stiff now, at least in a football sense, but have
+seen and played in, perhaps, more big matches in my time than many will
+be inclined to give me credit for now. Somehow or other the modern
+player does not seem to go into the game for the pleasure it affords
+nearly so heartily as his representative of yore, but it may be that the
+Compulsory Clause in the Education Act has made him more refined, or, if
+you like it, a good deal more cunning in hiding his animal spirits and
+exuberance of innocent fun. Be that as it may, the Association Football
+of to-day does not really possess the same charm to me as it did ten
+years ago.
+
+I was once a very fair player, but never considered sufficiently
+brilliant to get my name handed down to posterity as the crack half-back
+of the "Invincible Club" of bygone days, or proclaimed aloud in the
+secret recesses of the great "houf" where football players now retire to
+spend a social hour after finding themselves the victors of a
+hard-fought field. I must admit, however, that I did some clever things
+which the newspapers of that era ought to have at least given me a
+"puff" for, but they didn't; in fact, I never, like Byron (Lord Byron, I
+mean), awoke one morning to find myself famous, because my football was
+that of days long ago, in an obscure (to football, at least) country
+town; and, besides, the game then was conducted in rather a rude and
+undignified fashion. Talk about rules, we had those which might, for all
+I know, have been framed by the "Chief Souter of Selkirk" himself to
+suit the peculiar mode of playing on the streets at Shrovetide (a
+practice still in vogue near that Border land). Our captain knew nothing
+of such new-fangled devices as the Rugby code, and far less of the
+Football Association. Ours, in brief, was a sort of combination of both
+styles of play. To win a "hail," as it was termed, the opposing side,
+with shoving, hacking, and other descriptions of horse-play, had only to
+pass the ball over the line, and it was won. Touch-lines, corner-flags,
+twenty-five flags, and even upright posts, and the usual concomitants of
+the scientific game of to-day, were unknown. This leads me, then, to the
+point of tracing the rise and progress of the game in Scotland during
+the past dozen years, leaving its antiquity and origin, about which
+there are mere surmises, an "open question." That it was played,
+however, in Edinburgh and Glasgow at least twenty years ago, under rules
+somewhat similar to those now adhered to by the followers of the Rugby
+Union I can well remember, and this was the only kind of football known
+by the young athletes of that time. Over a dozen years ago many were the
+exciting contests engaged in by not a few of the clubs still in
+existence.
+
+The oval ball, with its historical associations, has a charm for them.
+They then talked about the Association style of play with something akin
+to contempt. "What," they might have been heard to say, "is the fun of
+looking at people 'bobbing' a ball about with their heads, and the half
+of a team doing nothing, while a couple or so of the players are engaged
+at a time? Give us the closely-packed maul, the exciting individual run,
+with the ball under the arm, the gallant struggle to ground it over the
+opposing line, and, above all, the beautifully dropped goal." "But
+nobody goes to see your matches now," remarks a newly-fledged convert to
+the Association style of play, who has come to see the "Inter-City,"
+"they got disgusted with your never-ending mauls and shoving matches,
+preferring to witness scientific manipulation of the ball in dribbling,
+and passing with the feet." "Pshaw! do you imagine we care a straw for
+gate-money? We play the game for the love of it, and the genuine
+exercise it affords," retorts the old Rugby adherent, "and respect it
+all the more on that account." "Oh! it is all very well to tell one
+that, but don't your leading clubs still charge for admission to their
+matches?" "Yes; but this is more in the way of keeping out the roughs
+from the field than for gain." Such conversation I have overheard
+myself, and none of the sides made much by it.
+
+Well can I remember the birth of Association Football in Scotland, and
+look back to the time when there was not as many clubs as I could count
+on the fingers of one hand. In 1870, a semi-International contest, under
+Association rules, was played in London between Scotch men living in
+England and an English Eleven, and continued till 1872, when, on
+November 30th, the first real International match between England and
+Scotland took place in Glasgow. In that same year, early in the season,
+the celebrated Queen's Park Club (to whom Scotland owes the introduction
+of the game), entered the lists for the English Challenge Cup, and were
+drawn against the London Wanderers. It was at that point that the
+matches which had hitherto been played in London between London
+Scotchmen and Englishmen were given up in favour of an annual match
+between Scotland and England, to be played alternately in London and
+Glasgow, and, if possible, so to arrange the contest that the
+Association match might be played in England the same season that the
+Rugby match would be played in Scotland, and _vice versa_. It might be
+as well here to say that the celebrated Scotch club and the Wanderers,
+then in the zenith of their fame, played a drawn game with no goals on
+either side, but finding it too difficult a job to meet the Englishmen
+again, they scratched. Since then, however, the Rugby and Association
+Internationals take place regularly as each season comes round, in
+Scotland and England alternately. It is a curious fact, and one worthy
+of record, that the Scottish Rugby Football Union and the Scottish
+Football Association were both constituted in the same year--viz., 1873.
+The Union was formed after the International Rugby match at Glasgow, Dr.
+J. Chiene, of Edinburgh, being in the chair on the occasion. The
+Scottish Football Association was formed under the presidency of Mr.
+Robert Gardner, the once famous goalkeeper.
+
+The annual competition for the Association Cup, when the clubs who
+entered for it the first year only numbered 16, were proceeded with in a
+much more gentlemanly way than is the case now, but the reason is
+obvious. Hitherto young and inexperienced clubs never dreamt of entering
+against opponents with whom they knew they had no chance, and,
+consequently, the competitions were left to be fought out among the
+cream of exponents of the dribbling game. As each year came round,
+however, and young clubs began to multiply exceedingly, many of them
+considered they should have a shy at the "Cup," and as the entry-money
+for membership to the Association was only a nominal sum, they competed,
+and were never heard of after the first tie. No one who has watched the
+progress of Association Football in Scotland can for a moment deny the
+fact that the Challenge Cup has been the chief factor in assuring its
+popularity and rapid development all over the Western District of
+Scotland, and when its original promoters inaugurated the competition,
+it was done with the honest conviction of spreading a knowledge of the
+Association rules, together with generating a spirit of friendly rivalry
+amongst clubs.
+
+That it has been eminently successful in the former respect is admitted,
+but I can't say the same thing so far as "friendly rivalry" is
+concerned, and one has only to remember the manner in which some of the
+ties are conducted to point out that the term "questionable conduct"
+would be more appropriate. When I hear of men and lads deliberately
+kicking one another, and charging wildly when the ball is about ten
+yards away in front, I begin to consider that the time has positively
+arrived when the Scottish Football Association, if it wishes to retain
+its hold, should interfere, and make a selection of clubs to compete for
+the "blue ribbon" of Association glory. Quadruple the subscriptions to
+the Association if necessary, and, above all, revise the bye-laws in
+such a way that what is known as a "rough game" would be impossible. It
+is but fair, however, to the Scottish Football Association to state that
+they have long been alive to the fact, and have since taken the matter
+up while deciding protests.
+
+The Association Rules, however, are immensely popular with the people,
+and in some of the big matches it is quite a common thing to see 10,000
+or 15,000 spectators. I have heard of such people as those who actually
+hate cricket and football, and make it a constant aim to prevent those
+over whom they have some influence from engaging in the manly sport.
+They occasionally flit across one's path like an evil spirit, and
+disappear as rapidly, but leave behind a chilling effect on the
+imagination, far more intense than the terrible nightmare after a
+disastrous defeat. They cannot see the fun of spending valuable time in
+such a way. If you follow one of those gentle "cads," however, at the
+close of an evening, he may be seen, cue in hand, earnestly engaged at
+the billiard table. He is not in a happy mood, for he is one of the
+losing side, and there is a wild look about his eyes. He sometimes gets
+home rather early in the morning, and is not particularly careful of his
+choice of companions at times. They are childish amusements, these games
+at cricket and football, "and none but silly people," he continues,
+"would ever think of engaging in, or even encouraging, them any way."
+
+And another thing. There is a sort of prejudice to football, and, in
+fact, to a lot of healthful out-door exercises, in Scotland, among the
+older people, who can scarcely endure the thought of spending time under
+any circumstances; and parents are often the cause of degenerating a
+kind of deception more common than one would believe--viz., playing
+under assumed names. Surely it is much better for the young men to spend
+a spare afternoon on the football field, enjoying the fresh air, than
+being, perhaps, engaged in questionable "time-smashing," in the way of
+playing cards, draughts, or drinking. On asking a well-known dribbler
+the other day how it came about that he played under a _nomme de
+guerre_, "Was he afraid to let his real name be known?" The answer was
+conclusive. The governor was sometimes inexorable, and treated him to a
+lecture on filial obedience and the inevitable consequences of
+neglecting business. He positively debarred him from playing again, but
+Tom was not to be done. Taking advantage of the old fellow's absence
+from home, he yielded to the solicitations of his captain, and played
+under an assumed name, dribbling and passing in such beautiful form that
+thousands of spectators applauded his efforts, and his side won in a
+canter. As the non-indulgent parent did not observe Tom's name in the
+papers, his little deception was never found out, and he continued doing
+duty for his club in this way for a couple of seasons. And of the yet
+fine player who thinks he will retire as each season comes round,
+something must also be said. His eye has not yet lost the gleam of
+honest rivalry, and he snorts like the war-horse as each season comes
+round to be in the thick of the fight. He retired, it may be, last
+season, for good, as he thought, but the fascinations of the goal-posts
+and flying corner-flags was too much for him as a spectator at the first
+big game, and he yielded for another year, but it will be his last, for
+Maud, his beloved and beautiful Maud, will claim him as her own before
+June. "We have been long engaged," he is heard to say to an old club
+companion, "but this blessed football, of which I am very fond, has been
+the cause of putting off the marriage."
+
+I once knew a fine young fellow, a crack half-back, who was so anxious
+to play in an "International," that he positively swore he would never
+get married till he was one of the chosen team. He kept his word. He
+played twice for his country, got married, and, as the "unexpected does
+not always happen," is now the father of what may some day prove a race
+of stalwart football players. His handsome, though now slightly-bent
+form, is still often seen when a great event is being decided,
+accompanied by his wife and children, and woe betide the captain of his
+former club if he allows it to be beaten. "Well played; keep him off the
+ball, can't you!" he is heard to exclaim, till he is red in the face,
+and he goes home to dinner with something like an appetite.
+
+None but those who have positively come through all the grades of
+football probation really know what amount of labour, to say nothing of
+self-denial, is needed to make a crack back, half-back, or skilful
+forward. Sometimes one has to be contented with a place in the Second
+Eleven for years, before some incident, it may be, brings him to the
+front, and reveals true merit. In football, of course, as in other
+things, I have found that the best men were not always in their best
+places, and when this was the case, what is known as favouritism came in
+bold relief, but in the end the club in which such stupidity was rampant
+suffered very severely. It did all very well when the club were engaged
+in ordinary contests with weaker opponents, but it came out in some of
+the big events, in which the guilty club predominated in the selection
+of men to represent a city, a university, and even a country.
+Fortunately, however, I can honestly say that during the last few years
+there has been little of this practised, and Scotch football under both
+rules is all the better in consequence.
+
+While every enlightened mind is willing to go a long way in advocating
+equality, the line must be drawn somewhere, and I am inclined to think
+at that stage where gentlemanly feeling and courtesy are absent. A very
+obscure individual may, by his conduct on the field, show that he at
+least can be a gentleman. In all such manly sports social distinction
+ought to be sunk, and that great and noble equality--that equality and
+love of honest worth which is so dear to the Scotch (and let me also say
+English heart) be ever remembered, when team meets team on the football
+field. We are shown noble examples of how in days gone by, peer mingled
+with peasant on the cricket field, strove with each other on the curling
+pond, and why should not such things exist in football? Let me hope that
+as each succeeding season comes round the noble winter game will in
+proportion show greater improvement, both in club and individual
+integrity, as well as higher scale of moral worth.
+
+
+
+
+
+_X.--THE DUEL NEAR THE FOOTBALL FIELD, AND THE CAUSE OF IT._
+
+
+"And you tell me, Frank, that the old ground is at last cut up to form a
+railway embankment?" said Bob Smith to Frank Green (whose sister, by the
+way, had got married to Pate Brown last season), as they met one evening
+at Crosshill.
+
+"They will be long in finding a ground like Hampden Park, I'm thinking,"
+replied Green, with the recollections of pleasant games and glorious
+victories for the Black-and-Whites, to say nothing of numerous gains to
+Scotland in matches with England and Wales.
+
+Since this meeting of Bob and Frank, however, the said Black-and-Whites
+have got pretty far forward with a new ground quite close to Hampden
+Park, and it is now being levelled up and put into condition. The
+railway embankment referred to is part of the Cathcart Railway, which
+will assist very considerably in opening up rapid communication between
+Glasgow and the whole of the suburban burghs lying south.
+
+While referring to the Southern Suburbs, which, it may be mentioned, are
+closely associated with the rise and progress of Association Football,
+I cannot refrain from alluding to several genial souls who have helped
+to make them what they are. None, however, is entitled to claim more
+consideration and credit than Provost Goodfellow, of Suburbopolis, whose
+official life, so to speak, has been spent in the cause of suburban
+organisation, accompanied, of course, with a due regard for Association
+Football.
+
+You must know, my brave Scotch readers, and those hailing from South of
+the Tweed, that the Provost of a Scotch burgh or town occupies the exact
+position of the English Mayor. He is the head of the municipality, and
+is, in fact, a kind of ruler of all he surveys, but about his "right to
+dispute," particularly when the November election comes on, why that is
+purely a matter of opinion.
+
+Well, the ruler of Suburbopolis was not a despotic man. He was certainly
+a little pedantic, and who, I should like to know, would not be inclined
+to lean that way if they had taken part in a great annexation fight with
+the chiefs of the big bouncing city of Glasgow, and beaten them too?
+
+Some years ago, it may be briefly explained, the Glasgow authorities
+devised a scheme, whereby all the suburban burghs were to be taken under
+the wing of Glasgow and lose their entire independence, and
+Suburbopolis, being close on the touch-line, was to be attacked first.
+Glasgow, in fact, was to act as the veritable annaconda, and swallow it
+up, but she didn't.
+
+Scotch Radicals, talking politically, had not hitherto much faith in
+what they considered an effete hereditary legislature, such as the House
+of Lords, but if there was one thing more than another calculated to
+bring about a Conservative reaction among the Glasgow suburban
+authorities, it was the attention paid to their vested interests by the
+Peers.
+
+The Commons had spurned their entreaties to maintain independence with
+scorn, and even relegated them to Bumbledom, but their lordships, to
+whom the case was appealed, literally strangled the said annaconda
+before she began to devour, and Suburbopolis, along with other five
+thriving burghs, were saved from municipal death, and still retain their
+Provosts. Provost Goodfellow was a most genial soul, and particularly
+fond of Association Football.
+
+He could talk about dribbling, passing, and backing-up, as if to the
+manner born. The only thing, in fact, which he did not fully understand
+was the "off-side rule," and many of greater pretentions were as far at
+sea regarding that said rule as the worthy Provost. He was the life and
+soul of Charity Cup Ties, and never failed to turn out to patronise
+them. Even the charming young ladies of the family (for you must know
+his honour had three handsome daughters) knew a good deal about the
+rules, and had several excited discussions with their brother Archie
+(who was a member of the Camphill), and Bob Lambert (of the
+Black-and-Whites), as to the respective merits of sundry clubs.
+
+These young ladies, too, had a long string of admirers, and no family
+acquaintance was more eagerly sought after than that of the Goodfellows.
+Suburbopolis, however, was by no means devoid of a galaxy of feminine
+beauty and well-developed male forms, who might have been seen of an
+evening leaving the handsome villas and terraces around the Park (for
+which the inhabitants were not taxed).
+
+There were, of course, the families of Colonel Black (an old warrior,
+who had been through the Crimea and Indian Mutiny), the Redpath girls,
+whose mother was a widow, the Snodgrass young ladies (three in number),
+the Misses Bland, residing at Jessimine Lodge, and, of course, many more
+lesser luminaries. The Colonel's daughters, or "Golden Slippers," as
+one of them was called by several members of the Camphill, who had
+caught her in the act of watching a practice game on the eve of a big
+Cup Tie, wearing a pair of fur-lined slippers, and had her heart set on
+the Camphill beating the Black-and-Whites, was, indeed, the most
+handsome girl in the burgh.
+
+I would not dare to attempt a pen-and-ink sketch. It would fail in its
+effect. It's all very good for you fellows who have no soul for feminine
+loveliness to talk about girls, like babies, being all pretty much
+alike, but you are wrong--entirely wrong. Jenny was, in fine, a "bonnie,
+bonnie lass," and scores of young fellows, I know, would have gone
+considerably out of their way to have received "ae blink o' her bonnie
+black e'e." Emma, although scarcely so tall, was very like her sister,
+only shorter in the temper.
+
+After sundry matches at the field, Jack Black used to take a few of his
+companions up to the Hillhouse, and the young ladies received them
+graciously--congratulating them when they won their matches, and
+"chaffing" them unmercifully when they lost.
+
+There were at least three suitors for the hand of Jenny, but one of them
+resided in London, and the other at Skyview Villa, a couple of hundred
+yards from Hillhouse. It can be easily imagined that the local man had
+the advantage in the courtship, being, as the special correspondent
+always prides himself in adding to his communications, "on the spot."
+
+Bob Lambert was, to be sure, a welcome visitor at Jenny's residence, and
+a fast companion of her brother Jack, and what was more, Bob was quite a
+favourite with the old Colonel, who admired his fine appearance in the
+football field, and the brilliant manner in which he could "back-up"
+when that was needed to win a game. Bob, I must confess, was really a
+nice-looking fellow, with black curly hair, and a good broad chest. His
+features were well formed, and he possessed penetrating dark grey eyes.
+There was one thing, however, which told against Bob in many ways, and
+that was his hasty temper. He could brook no rival in his position as
+the best forward in the Black-and-Whites, and a word or two from the
+captain at a practice game was sure to upset him. He sometimes, in fact,
+took the pet altogether.
+
+Once, when playing a Cup Tie with the Athletic Park, he met his match in
+Charlie Walker (another of Jenny's sweethearts), who played at
+half-back, and the work done all through that eventful match was seen
+between the pair. Talk about coming in contact with "mother earth," why
+that was positively child's play when the two met.
+
+Walker was also a powerful fellow, and it was a case of Greek meeting
+Greek. "Bumping at Oxford," to use an aquatic term, why it was nothing!
+At one time Bob was seen tossed up in the air as if from the horns of an
+infuriated bull, and at another Charlie was observed lying on the field
+at Bob's feet. What did they care about the ball being fifty yards off?
+Not a straw, so long as they tackled and kept each other away from it.
+"That's not football," says one, "it is horse play." "Never mind about
+football in a Cup Tie," says another, "let the heaviest team win; go
+into the fellow." "Oh! gentlemen, gentlemen, fie, fie, Association
+Football is an amateur game, and as long as I play it," said the
+captain, "there shall be no cruelty done on either side."
+
+Little did the spectators know the real cause of the inordinate tackling
+done by Bob and Charlie, but the secret soon came out. The pair had
+previously been rivals for the hand of Jenny Black, and Bob was looked
+upon as the winner. At least Charlie had not been seen at the Black's
+Villa for two or three months, and before this he always made it his
+house of call. But what about Harry Carts, Jenny's English sweetheart?
+Why, I had almost forgotten him.
+
+A team of Cantabs had played the Black-and-Whites just a year
+previously, and Harry was one of them. He had been invited to spend an
+evening at the Colonel's house, and had fallen desperately in love with
+the bonnie Scotch lassie. Bob was also specially invited and was present
+that evening, and although trying to be as affable as possible to the
+friendly stranger and opponent, could barely hide his jealousy when the
+gallant English forward kissed the lovely girl's ruby lips in a game at
+forfeits.
+
+Bob said nothing about it to Jenny, but Emma, the youngest sister,
+whispered to her brother Jack that Bob's eyes had a wild look that
+evening. The matter, however, was soon forgotten, as Harry Carts left
+Glasgow the next evening for London, after his gallant team had played a
+drawn game with the Scotch Black-and-Whites--the first one ending in
+that way, be it observed, that had ever been played between them and an
+English team on Scottish ground in the memory of the proverbial "oldest
+inhabitant."
+
+Harry Carts, to give him his due, was one of the best Association
+football players ever England produced. When Mr. C. W. Alcock and a few
+choice spirits in London, it is true, first opened the eyes of many
+football players to the value of the Association rules, and inaugurated
+the Football Association in 1863, Harry was a mere child. Appearing at
+college, however, he soon showed a liking for the dribbling game, and
+never lost a moment in doing his best to acquire everything he was
+likely to know about it.
+
+Just the season before our story opens, he had been chosen from an
+imposing array of names sent in by his club, and also the branch
+Associations, for an honourable place in the "Great International." His
+superiority, in fact, put his place beyond doubt, and he stood to
+represent his country first, and club afterwards, in a tussle which
+proved disastrous to England; but it was admitted by all who witnessed
+the match that Harry was one of the best men on the Field, and, in
+company with his half-back, showed the best form and pluck--the
+victorious Scotchmen notwithstanding. How the pair above mentioned
+tackled and passed up, to say nothing of backing and nursing the ball, I
+know full well, for I saw the game. Harry and his companion, in fact,
+were again and again cheered for their magnificent dribbling, and when
+the eventful game was over Harry was carried shoulder-high, in real
+Scotch form, to the Black-and-White's pavilion.
+
+The incident did not escape Jenny and her sister, who were standing on
+the gravelled walk in front of the pavilion. Jenny was sympathetic when
+she saw the handsome young Englishman cheered by the excited crowd, and
+when the excitement culminated into carrying him shoulder-high to the
+pavilion, a brilliant flash from her eye told the tale of regard. The
+young lady, despite assertions to the contrary, must have at least
+admired the young Englishman; and among the blithe and gentle faces who
+swept their cambric handkerchiefs over their heads, none were more
+demonstrative than the Black girls. They saw, with something akin to
+pride, Harry let gently down at the pavilion door, followed by their
+brother Jack, Jim Wallace, and Bill M'Clelland, all of whom had done
+great work in the big match.
+
+Harry did not lose sight of the handsome face which had haunted him all
+the previous summer, notwithstanding his flirtation with the Italian
+girls in Venice. Venice, beautiful Venice! It was in thy classic city,
+close to the scene of the great Italian poet's labours and triumphs,
+that poor Jack Vincent (who used to play left wing in the Swifts) was
+found drowned, after attending a ball. Poor Jack, I think even now I can
+see his handsome, but withal, comical face, when he used to dodge sundry
+half-backs while playing for his club. Poor fellow! grave hints were
+held out at the time that he had met with foul play, but nothing more
+was ever heard about the matter, and Jack's friends never got any
+satisfaction.
+
+I am, however, going off the line with my brief story. Carts, in fact,
+felt Jenny's face haunting him wherever he went, and on the earliest
+opportunity came back to Scotland, asked the dear little girl to be his
+wife, got the crusty old Colonel's consent, and the pair were all but
+apparently engaged to be married at an early date. Harry was splendid
+company either on the field, at the Black-and-White's room in
+Battlefield Hotel, or at the villa. He could sing a good song, tell a
+good story, and crack a wild joke. Harry used to sing a new song about
+football, the chorus of which jingled out:
+
+    "In measured blow, the dancing feet,
+    Now moving slow, now galloping fleet;
+    With a leap and a curl,
+    With a sweep and a twirl."
+
+He declared that the song was original, but Archie, who was a bit of a
+book-worm, and never neglected taking in the "Monthlies," expressed
+grave misgivings about having seen something like it applied to a skater
+in "Scribner's Magazine."
+
+Bob Lambert and Charlie Walker, the other two young fellows who were
+looked upon as Jenny's admirers, were terribly shaken in heart and
+spirit when they heard of her flirtation with the handsome young
+Englishman; but such a thing as an engagement between them was never for
+a moment entertained. Bob was too much a man of the world to suppose
+that Jenny would ever give him up for another; and poor, soft-headed
+Charlie, why, he was sure the Colonel's favourite daughter loved him
+still.
+
+Matters went on in this way for some time. The football season was now
+about closed, as the month of May was at hand, and all the big matches
+had been lost and won, including the Challenge Cup Tie, which Dumbarton
+had carried off. For several evenings Bob and Charlie had not come
+across one another (although Charlie was also a member of the
+Black-and-Whites, as well as the Athletic Park). Bob had blamed Charlie
+for telling some stories about a fine young girl whom the former had
+promised to make his wife a year previously. The poor girl, it was
+hinted, had been jilted to such an extent by Bob, that she had broken
+her heart, and pined away and died.
+
+One evening the pair met at the entrance to the pavilion on Hampden
+Park, where a lot of the players were lounging about smoking, after
+having done with their sides. Most of the club fellows knew that Lambert
+and Walker had not spoken to each other for a long time, even to the
+extent of exchanging the usual salutations about the weather. They were,
+therefore, much astonished to see them in earnest conversation. Menacing
+looks were exchanged, and something like curses--not deep, perhaps, but
+loud--were heard from the rivals' lips.
+
+The fact was, the men had arranged to settle their "little difference"
+with swords. What do you think of that, my nineteenth century
+intelligent reader, with all your boasted approach to civilisation and
+sacred respect for life? Why, a cold-blooded duel with swords, and in
+the French fashion, too! Both hot-headed youths knew comparatively
+little about the handling of the chosen weapons, nothing more, indeed,
+than what they received while training in the Volunteers; but it was a
+"point of honour," and they would do their best.
+
+Several of the Black-and-Whites, who had heard about the proposed
+"meeting," had a secret consultation with Ned M'Gill and Davie Merricks,
+who, it was whispered, had taken the friendly job of "seconds," and the
+whole affair was "adjusted." With swords this was impossible, and they
+resolved to resort to the respectable and honourable weapon, the
+revolver.
+
+The two men who were to face each other in terrible earnest, you may be
+sure, slept little or none during the preceding night. "Four o'clock
+sharp, mind, at the grass field, near Hagg's Castle," said the brave
+seconds, "and it will be all over in a few minutes." Charlie shuddered
+when he heard the last words (which, by the way, were deliberately
+intended for him).
+
+"_A few minutes, and all will be over_," Charlie muttered; "what if I
+should be killed?" His very teeth (which he used to whiten with cigar
+ashes, and was so proud about), were chattering. Thousands of ideas
+floated across his heated imagination. He saw his past life before him,
+and the only consolation, if it could be called one, lay in the thought
+that, should it come to the worst, Jenny Black's eyes would be dimmed
+with tears at his misfortune. He felt sure the dear lassie loved him,
+and he would brave death a thousand times rather than endure the anguish
+of seeing her married to a useless fellow like Bob Lambert.
+
+Bob, on the other hand, was really a cool and determined fellow; and
+while Charlie was in the throes speculating about probable dissolution
+before the morrow's sun should rise, Bob was actually priding himself on
+superior ability in handling a revolver. He was, in fact, far too
+arrogant a man to imagine that _he_ could be shot by a silly boy like
+Walker. He had made up his mind to shoot straight when the signal fell,
+and indulged in the devilish pleasure it would afford him to read a
+"true and particular account" of the duel in the Glasgow evening papers,
+if good luck would favour him in escaping to the Continent.
+
+"These fellows are not going to come up to the scratch," said Ned M'Gill
+to the other honourable gent--as they passed the Clydesdale Cricket
+Ground a few minutes to four o'clock on that memorable morning. Ned,
+however, was wrong. Through the grey dawn a muffled figure was observed
+crossing the Pollokshields Athletic Club's Park, and making direct for
+the old castle. Almost simultaneously came a second individual from the
+vicinity of Crossmyloof, smoking a cigar. There was no doubt about it,
+for on closer inspection the figure was that of Lambert, who generally
+indulged in a good cigar, as he had a friend in the Anchor Line who was
+always supplying him with "weeds."
+
+A very short time sufficed to measure the distance, but the would-be
+_murderers_, no doubt, considered it an age. When the seconds advanced
+along with their men to the fatal spot, and placed them twenty paces
+apart, Charlie put one in mind of the poor misguided boy in "The
+Rivals." His hand shook, and his knees almost touched one another.
+
+_The signal was given_, and bang went the revolvers from both sides.
+None of the young men, however, seemed to have been hit; and while
+Charlie was almost sinking on the ground from excitement, Bob might have
+been seen examining his weapon with suspicion, at the same time casting
+a glance at his rival and wondering why he did not fall. A second or two
+more, and the latter fired another shot, and this time poor Charlie
+dropped his pistol and fell back on the grass.
+
+Bob was satisfied he had done the business now, and taking the advice of
+Davie Merricks, he fled for his life; getting the early train for
+Greenock and thence per steamer "Golden Eagle," to the Isle of Man.
+
+The "seconds" (and a few strange figures that were seen lurking about)
+of course, lifted the supposed dying man from the grass, and as his
+"life's blood ebbed away," they whispered about being willing to fill a
+last request. Poor Charlie's brow was covered with blood, and as he
+himself expressed the terrible sensation of "feeling a pistol ball
+bobbing about in his brain," arrangements were hastily made for having
+him consigned to relatives. Accordingly his lodgings were sought after
+and easily found by the excited hansom driver who had taken them near
+the fatal spot.
+
+All the time the affair was going on the driver threw out grave hints
+about reporting the whole matter to the police. When they reached
+Greenfield Avenue, however, there was still some life in Charlie, but he
+said he "knew he was dying," and forgave everybody who had taken part in
+the rascally business.
+
+Higgins, the hansom driver, was as good as his word, and after leaving
+the place, went direct to the Suburbopolis Police Office, and got the
+whole matter reported. Not very long after the police surrounded the
+house in Greenfield Avenue, and Provost Goodfellow (who, it may be
+remarked, was the only magistrate at home when the affair took place,
+and had to be aroused for the purpose), came in all haste to take the
+"dying deposition." Meanwhile Dr. Barrister, one of the best of the
+local surgeons, was in attendance.
+
+The doctor, however, suspecting something soon after feeling the
+supposed wounded man's pulse, and judge of the surprise, to say nothing
+of indignation, when the doctor, and then the Provost, began to indulge
+in a hearty fit of unrestrained laughter. The "seconds" knew their
+business well, for they had _loaded the weapons with blank cartridges
+and a few drops of bullock's blood_, and some of the contents of Bob's
+pistol had hit Charlie on the brow.
+
+Poor Charlie, he was so terribly shaken and nervous after being hit that
+he was long in getting the better of the fright. Like the French
+prisoner whom the cruel authorities of the "Inquisition" determined
+should be experimented upon as a victim of imagination in the way of
+supposed bleeding to death, Charlie, although he had not received a
+scratch, thought he was dying fast, till the doctor informed him of the
+imaginary wound.
+
+A few days afterwards the affair was "hushed up," and nobody was better
+pleased when he heard the true state of matters than Bob Lambert
+himself. His friend Jim Campbell had sent a letter to Douglas Post
+Office, to be called for, under a fictitious name, and Bob soon returned
+to Glasgow.
+
+When little Jenny Black was told the same morning of the duel, that
+Charlie Walker had been shot by Bob Lambert, she fainted clean away, and
+afterwards refused to be comforted. "To think that she, a poor weak
+girl, should have been the cause of such a terrible tragedy," she was
+heard to say to her sister, "I'm afraid I'll never get over it." When
+the true state of matters, however, was revealed, and the whole affair
+brought up in its real light, it afforded immense merriment all over
+Suburbopolis, and when football players met to spend a social hour, the
+duel between Bob Lambert and Charlie Walker is, of course, alluded to as
+a standard joke.
+
+A few months afterwards there was a nice wedding at Colonel Black's
+villa, and strange as it may seem, both Lambert and Walker were there,
+together with quite a crowd of football players and their sweethearts.
+
+The reader will, of course, easily make out who wore the bridal dress,
+and looked lovely in it, too. Surprise, however, not, it is to be hoped,
+altogether unmixed with satisfaction, will be expressed, when the
+bride-groom appears in the person of Charlie Walker, Jenny's own love.
+Harry Carts, the handsome Englishman, she certainly admired, but did not
+actually love sufficiently to make a husband of. He, in fact, seemed to
+have been too fond of company, and in correspondence a coldness had
+sprung up between them, and ended in two parting letters.
+
+Jenny loved Charlie Walker best, and accordingly gave him her heart and
+hand. "What he had suffered for her sake," the young lady was heard to
+express to a confidant, "no one but himself knew." They are, however,
+now a happy pair, and when Cup Ties and big matches are being played
+near Suburbopolis, you will be sure to see Charlie and his handsome wife
+on the field.
+
+As for Bob Lambert, who was forgiven, he became more of a man in
+subduing his temper and general disposition, and one evening told his
+old rival that he would never forget till his dying day--"THE DUEL NEAR
+THE FOOTBALL FIELD."
+
+
+
+
+_XI.--THE FINAL TIE FOR THE ASSOCIATION CHALLENGE CUP--1889-90._
+
+_TWO MEMORABLE MATCHES._
+
+
+A couple of matches had to played before the final tie for the
+Association Challenge Cup was decided, and at the earnest request of
+numerous friends I have reproduced my articles on both games, which
+appeared in the Daily Mail, and trust they will be considered worthy a
+place in the volume. The following is the
+
+
+~First Match.~
+
+This important contest, which had to be postponed the previous Saturday
+in consequence of the dense fog which enveloped the city and suburbs in
+semi-darkness, came off at Ibrox Park, and resulted in a draw--each side
+scoring a goal. Early in the forenoon the weather in every particular
+looked like a counterpart of the previous Saturday, and it was not till
+well on in the day that the Association Committee finally decided to go
+on with the match. Even with this short notice, combined with the fact
+that heavy rain came on and continued till well on in the second half,
+the attendance of spectators was large, about 11,000, and this is borne
+out by the cash lifted at the gate, some L500. Of this the Association
+gets a third, and the other two-thirds are equally divided between the
+contending teams. The proceeds of the stand, however, went to the
+Rangers' funds, as that club gave their ground free of charge to the
+Association to play off the tie. Paisley Road and Govan Road presented a
+scene to be remembered from two o'clock till well on for 3.30 P.M.,
+being thronged with vehicles of every kind, from the carriage and pair,
+the hansom and cab, down to the modest van. Pedestrians, too, were
+numerous, and on the Govan Road the Vale of Clyde Tramway Company, with
+extra cars, reaped a good harvest. On the way down, and in the field
+itself, the usual good-natured banter was largely indulged in, and as
+football enthusiasts, like the rest of impatient spectators, are only
+human, they were in better temper at the start of the contest than was
+the case at the finish. The meeting of the Queen's Park and Vale of
+Leven, in fact, revived old times among the once brilliant players of
+both clubs, many of whom were present on Saturday to "fight their
+battles o'er again." "Dae ye ken," said an old man as the game
+proceeded, "I wis present at old Hampden Park on the wet Hogmanay
+afternoon long ago, when the Vale licked the Queen's by two to one in a
+Cup tie, and I wish'd ye'd a' seen the Queen's Park committee men and
+their supporters that day when the bare fac' wis kent. I'm thinkin' they
+didna craw sae crouse, and maybe they'll get a fricht the noo." When the
+Vale scored their goal a wag, primed with a fair-sized pocket pistol, no
+doubt containing the best--well, every public-house salesman will tell
+you at anyrate, it is the "best," and charge for it, too, as
+"special"--began to lilt a verse of the popular pantomime song, "Their
+funeral's to-morrow," hinting heavily about the decline and fall of the
+Queen's Park. Many saw the point, and laughed; while others gave the
+jolly fellow a look that betokened contempt and dismay. "Wait till the
+second half," said a quiet supporter of the senior club, "and ye'll see
+what they can dae; they're only making some fun." In pressing forward,
+leaning against the pailings, were not a few critical rivet boys and
+iron-workers, whose running comments were amusing in the extreme. Of
+some young fellows who came down from the city dressed up in style, one
+of the "black squad" was heard to say, "Don't they look blooming
+'swells,' with their gloves and G.O.M. collars, and you wid think that
+the whole landed property about is theirs, even to Ibrox Park itself.
+Crush up, Bob. We've paid our money as well as the lot, and must get
+share of the view. Crush up." "Man, jock, they've got a new ile for
+training and rubbin' up the fitballers noo. It's whit they ca'
+herbuline, and it keeps out the cauld and warms ye unca' much; but the
+smell's sae strong that it nearly blin's ye." No doubt some kind of
+specific was required on such a trying day as Saturday, for it was
+indeed a clear case of illustrating the old adage, when exclusively
+applied to man, about the survival of the fittest. There is this about
+Ibrox Park, however, which certainly recommends it to the impartial
+spectator--fine even turf, without a flaw, and no advantage even to the
+home club itself when playing matches. It is well sheltered, and the
+arrangements for the big crowd were ample, and well carried out by the
+Rangers' committee and the Scottish Football Association, for whom Mr
+John M'Dowall, the secretary, acted with much credit. The Govan
+policemen (at least most of them) love a good game at football as dearly
+as the old Highland landlady lo'ed a lord, and what is more, their
+respected chief shows them a good example, as he is generally to be
+found at Ibrox Park, in company with other burgh officials, when there
+is a good thing on. The early editions of the evening papers were
+largely in request, not by any means for the purpose of reading, as all
+attention was directed to the game, and in the anxiety to see the
+players before the contest began, but for the sole purpose of being "sat
+on." The supply was soon exhausted, and one speculative newsboy, taking
+in the situation at a glance, disappeared for a short time, but came up
+smiling towards the grand stand ten minutes afterwards with a bundle of
+brown paper wrappers, which he disposed of like penny pies at twopence
+per sheet. The judges of the game had very difficult duties to perform,
+and to their credit be it said they did the work without fear or favour,
+and we are quite certain gave general satisfaction to the players. The
+spectators, however, treated the unfavourable conditions of the
+atmosphere with indifference, and even contempt, and long before the
+time announced for the kick-off they crowded around the pailing and
+surroundings to get a good view of the game. In consequence of the wet
+weather very few ladies were present compared with what has turned out
+at previous finals. The Vale of Leven emerged from the pavilion first,
+and were well received. A few minutes afterwards came the Queen's Park,
+who were also loudly cheered with cries of "Good old Q.P." The toss
+between the two captains was watched with much earnestness, and when the
+Leven team ranged themselves in front of the ball from the gate end, it
+became apparent that they had won. The Queen's Park, by Hamilton, kicked
+off against the wind, and a short run by Berry was successful in sending
+the ball so near the Vale of Leven goal that one of the strangers put it
+behind, and gave the Queen's Park a corner-flag kick. This was followed
+by a close scrimmage, in which the ball came near Whitelaw, who sent it
+down the field. A "foul," however, by Paton gave the Queen's Park a
+lift, and in a second scrimmage the ball was again put behind the lines.
+Another corner-flag kick was the consequence, and it took the Queen's
+Park well in on goal, where the tackling was very severe. The ball again
+bobbed about the posts, but the Vale men showed splendid back play on
+the slippery ground, and sent it clear. After this Bruce and M'Millan
+had a good run on the left for the Vale of Leven, and the former had a
+shy that went past the left post. The kick out by Gillespie was followed
+up by a steady run on the part of Allan, Berry, and Gulliland, and the
+former shied wide past the right post. After the kick out, the Queen's
+Park kept up the pressure, and it was some time before the ball emerged
+from Vale of Leven territory, which it did from the foot of Rankin. Some
+even play ensued, and then the Vale had a run by the right forwards,
+and, in kicking clear, Arnott slipped a bit, and the ball, getting the
+upper of his boot, rolled over the lines and gave the Vale of Leven a
+corner-flag kick. It was taken by M'Lachlan, but he cut the distance too
+fine, and the ball rolled harmlessly over the bar. In turn, Gillespie's
+kick-out was followed by a run on the part of Sellar and Hamilton, and a
+"hand" by one of the Vale of Leven backs gave Smellie a chance of doing
+something with a free kick. It was very hard work, however, for both,
+and the opinion began to gain ground that the team who could keep up
+their stamina longest would be the winners. The ground, in fact, was a
+bit treacherous, and in some cases when the ball landed, after a long
+kick, it bounded clean over the heads of the backs, and some mis-kicks
+now and again occurred. Seven minutes from half-time, the Vale men made
+a smart spurt, and, after some clever passing, the ball was taken
+possession of by M'Lachlan, who jumped in and headed it between the
+posts--just a few inches from the right side--amid cheers and counter
+cheers. The teams then faced up in the centre, and, from a good start,
+the Queen's Park got up to their opponents' lines, and Berry just missed
+the goal by a foot. After this the Vale of Leven had a good run down on
+the Queen's Park lines, and a fast shy by Osborne was caught up and
+punted out by Gillespie, and another immediately afterwards, from the
+foot of Bruce, was cleared by Smellie. The half-time signal, however,
+was given, leaving the Vale of Leven one goal ahead. The strangers had
+now the kick-off, and made considerable use of it, for the forwards
+backed up well, and a slip by one of the half-backs of the Queen's Park
+gave the Vale of Leven a corner-flag kick. The ball was fairly managed,
+but Bruce, who had it at his toe, was tackled by Smellie, and sent down
+the field. The Queen's Park had now a brilliant turn at the Leven goal,
+and several hard shies at the posts were cleverly returned by the backs.
+The Queen's men, however, kept pressing on, and had a corner-flag kick,
+which was taken by Sellar, and splendidly sent out by Wilson. The play
+after this was straggling a bit, and falls were frequent in Vale of
+Leven territory, but the Queen's men were very unlucky at goal, and
+could not get the ball through--Gulliland, with a hard shy, only missing
+by a shave. The ball eventually passed the Leven lines in a scrimmage
+not long afterwards, and as it was put over by one of the defenders,
+another corner-flag kick was the consequence. Time was now wearing on,
+and do all they could, with hemming in their opponents and making
+innumerable shies at goal, the Queen's Park could not score, and a
+corner-flag kick did not mend matters. After this the Vale team improved
+very much in their forward play, and M'Lachlan and Bruce again had a
+fine run up the field, and as Arnott, in tackling, let the ball go over
+the lines, the Leven team had a corner-flag kick. The shot from the
+pavilion end was very well taken by one of the half-backs (M'Nicol), and
+the Queen's Park goal had a narrow shave, as the ball was caught by
+Robertson in the nick of time and cleared. The Queen's Park were soon at
+it again, however, and not only drove their powerful opponents off, but
+completely invaded their stronghold. Crowding round Allan, Berry,
+Gulliland, Sellar, Hamilton, and even the Queen's half-backs had shies
+at the Leven goal, but Wilson saved brilliantly. When time was drawing
+to a close the excitement became very intense, and while the friends of
+the Vale of Leven were jubilant and hopeful about the issue, the
+partisans of the senior club, who came to see their favourites conquer,
+were proportionately sad and crest-fallen. "They cannot do it now," said
+a chorus of voices well up on the stand, "but see this, boys," remarked
+an old football follower, as Arnott rolled up the sleeves of his jersey
+with a determination which gave new life to the game; and as it has been
+said frequently before that the Queen's Park can rise to a great
+occasion, assuredly they did on Ibrox Park on Saturday. One minute or so
+more and all would be over. Pressing their opponents very hard with
+shots at goal, corner-flag kicks, scrimmages almost under the
+goalkeeper's feet, they were again and again repulsed by grand work on
+the part of Wilson, and as the ball emerged out of the pack after a free
+kick it was sent a bit down the field towards the Queen's Park
+half-backs. Here Bruce, the most prominent forward of the country club,
+got possession, and was about to beat Stewart, when Arnott and Smellie
+came to the rescue, and the ball was immediately sent back to the Vale
+goal, where, after a terrible scrimmage, from a "free kick," it was put
+between the posts by Smellie. The vision of a glorious victory for the
+Q.P. had by that time faded away like a dream, and a crowd of the senior
+club's followers had actually left Ibrox Park in disgust, when a
+tremendous cheer burst forth from the ground signalling a point for the
+Queen's Park, who had "turned" the doubtful day again. The scene which
+followed was truly exciting. The Q.P. followers gave vent to their
+strained feelings with an outburst of cheering which must have been
+heard in some of the neighbouring police burghs, including Partick on
+the other side of the river, while those of the Vale kept quiet in
+disappointment. The teams then began the struggle anew, and from the
+kick off the Vale of Leven men made a grand run up on the Queen's Park
+goal, and had a couple of corner-flag kicks in succession, but the
+Queen's Park backs sent the ball clear, and a few seconds afterwards the
+whistle sounded, leaving one of the most remarkable games ever played in
+the final tie for the Association Challenge Cup drawn, with one goal
+all. The following are the teams that played in both games:--Queen's
+Park--Goal, Gillespie; backs, Arnott and Smellie; half-backs, M'Ara,
+Stewart, and Robertson; forwards, Gulliland, Berry, J. Hamilton, Allan,
+and Sellar. Vale of Leven--Goal, Wilson; backs, Whitelaw and Murray;
+half-backs, Osborne, M'Nicol, and Sharp; forwards, M'Lachlan, Rankin,
+James Patton, Bruce, and M'Millan.
+
+
+~Second Match.~
+
+The destiny of the Challenge Cup has at length been decided for the
+season, and the Queen's Park are the conquerors after one of the finest
+games ever seen on Ibrox Park--the victory being the narrow one of two
+goals to one. The game, it may be remembered, was drawn on the previous
+Saturday, when each side had scored a goal, and, strange as it may seem,
+the Queen's Park only saved themselves then, as they have done now,
+towards the close of the contest, and converted what looked like a
+defeat into a victory. Between 12,000 and 13,000 spectators were
+present, and as the weather was fine the match was a most enjoyable one.
+The cash drawn at the gate amounted to fully L600, and, as on the
+previous meeting, will be equally apportioned among the two clubs and
+the Association. The city cabbies made a day of it, and pocketed a good
+round sum. They handled the ribbons with a dexterity which in some cases
+was really alarming, and threatened the lieges with accident. "Drive us
+to Ibrox Park, mind, in ten minutes, or we'll be late for the kick-off,"
+and the promise of an extra sixpence did the business, although Jehu's
+old friend and brother must be passed on the road. In some cases this
+was overdone, and a horseless machine with only one wheel might have
+been seen near Bellahouston Academy, awaiting "alterations and repairs,"
+and on the same road some "spills" also occurred. The remarks round the
+pavilion, stand, and approaches were, as usual, both instructive and
+amusing, and let the impartial spectator know how the land lay, and the
+kind of company he was for the moment keeping. All sorts and conditions
+of men and boys were there to see the match. A hasty glance, in fact,
+revealed the astonishing fact that nearly all classes in the country
+were represented--city magnates, iron-masters, shipbuilders, ministers
+of religion, doctors, schoolmasters, clerks, mechanics of all kinds, and
+a much larger contingent of ladies than we have seen on any previous
+occasion. From the cheers and counter cheers which greeted the
+goal-scoring by the senior club it was apparent that their followers
+were in the majority, but when the young Vale of Leven got the first
+point, the cheers which followed showed that they had also a large
+number of partisans, who honestly believed in the club's ability to win
+the cup. In the first round, indeed, the Vale players showed much better
+combination all over than the Q.P., and reminded many of the Vale of
+yore. The second half, however, revealed the senior club at their best,
+and from the manner in which they acted together and kept up their
+staying powers, they really deserved to win. As we have already said,
+the gossip among the spectators was both bright and original. A
+demonstrative supporter of the senior club was rather personal with his
+remarks, and was asked by a lover of the game, but not a partisan of
+either club, to keep quiet "and not let everybody know he was a born
+fool." "Oh! yes; it's all very fine, but the band at Alexandria 'ill no
+play at the station yet: the Vale canna' win noo," said he, as the
+Queen's team put the ball through a second time. A well dressed young
+fellow on the stand near the press table was very funny, and if ever a
+man enjoyed the game it was he. In the exuberance of his joy at the Q.P.
+scoring, he danced on the little spot allotted to him on the stand, and
+in doing so nearly overbalanced himself. "Ye'll be the better o' a half
+yin after that narrow escape," said one of his friends, handing him a
+bottle. After he had swallowed a fair amount of the liquor he stole a
+hasty glance at the bottle, and found to his disgust he had been
+drinking "The Vale of Leven blend." "It's a' richt," said his country
+friend, "ye'll maybe need it a' yet; the Vale are not beaten the noo;
+the Queen's man tak' anither goal before that occurs," and so they did.
+"Oh! a' say," remarked a born East-Ender, for whom we are perfectly
+certain the Clyde and Thistle, according to his self-importance at any
+rate, had played their best on Barrowfield and Beechwood, "look at that;
+it's no' fair to gie the Vale a free kick for that; it's the auld way;
+gie't ta the yin that mak's the maist noise." "Yes," said another, who
+looked every inch a dyer from the celebrated football county of
+Dumbarton, and maybe the Vale of Leven district itself, "did ever ye see
+the likes o' that, and frae sic a swell club, tae?" as Robertson bowled
+over Bruce on the grass, and cleared the ball away. Wilson, the Vale of
+Leven goalkeeper, came in for a fair share of praise; and so did Arnott,
+Smellie, Sellar, Gulliland, and Gillespie for their brilliant play, but
+many were in ecstacy about young Wilson. "His mither 'ill be a proud
+woman the day when she kens how well he kept goal for the Vale; there's
+nae doubt about it, Wilson's the coming man between the sticks for the
+International on Hampden Park on 5th April next," said a red-faced man,
+wearing a glengarry. Old and respected members of both clubs were again
+present to cheer on their successors to victory, and we observed several
+original members of the once-famous Clydesdale, including two who took
+part in the first final tie for the cup on old Hampden Park. Several old
+Rangers were present, too, who remembered well the series of exciting
+matches played by them against the Vale of Leven, when no fewer than
+three hard battles had to be fought before the destiny of the cup was
+settled for the year. The sad news, too, was announced in the papers of
+the sudden death of another famous forward (Mr. J. R. Wilson), who took
+part in the first final tie between the Queen's Park and Clydesdale on
+behalf of the latter club. Many of the "Old Brigade" viewed the contest
+with mixed feelings. "You seem excited, Bob," said a friend to an old
+Q.P., and no wonder; time is fleeting fast; the game will be done in a
+quarter of an hour, and, dear me, the Queen's have not even scored. "Not
+at all, not at all," said the Q.P. old player, tearing at his moustache
+in a manner that threatened that hirsute appendage with instant
+annihilation, "I think they will, at anyrate, make it a draw, for see
+how they press the Vale now. Oh! they've done it; see that," as Hamilton
+sent the ball between the posts. "The extra half-hour is sure to be
+played now," said another, as the Vale of Leven men brought down the
+ball to mid-field, and kicked off. There was, indeed, great excitement,
+and as the Queen's Park again and again pressed their opponents, and
+finally scored a second goal, it was a dozen times intensified, and the
+subsequent play made the Q.P. men more bold and determined. The Vale of
+Leven, as on the previous occasion, appeared in the field of play first,
+and had a punt about with the ball for a few minutes, when their
+opponents emerged from the pavilion and had some practice round the
+upper goal, while the umpires and the referee were arranging the
+preliminaries. The visitors won the toss, and played with what little
+wind there was in their favour. Hamilton kicked off, and Berry followed
+his forward companion, but Murray turned the ball, and M'Millan and
+Bruce had a nice run, and caused the ball to get near the Queen's Park
+goal, but Smellie caught it on the rise and sent it down the field. It
+was taken up on the left side, and Sellar ended a brilliant run by
+passing the leather fairly across the goal to Gulliland, and that player
+made a rare shot at goal, but Wilson was on the alert, and caught the
+ball very smartly, and sent it out. Here a close scrimmage was followed
+by another shot on the part of Allan, but the ball went over the lines.
+After the kick-out, the Vale of Leven men made a fine run up on the
+Queen's Park goal, and M'Lachlan had a long shy that caused Gillespie to
+throw away the ball in a hurry. The strangers played well together, and
+had by far the best of it, and made the Q.P. backs work about as they
+had never done before. Paton had another shy, and then the left outside
+forward had one that came so close on the bar that Gillespie had again
+to chuck out in double quick time. After this, Gulliland had a fast run
+down the field, and ended the run with a parting shot that went past on
+the right post. Some even play then occurred, but the Leven forwards
+manoeuvred together better than those of the Queen's Park, and a fine
+piece of passing by Sharp, Osborne, and Bruce ended by the latter making
+a shy that touched the tips of Gillespie's fingers and went through the
+goal, close to the post. The point was so smartly made that it fairly
+took away the breath from the Queen's Park friends, and caused the faces
+of the supporters of the country club to beam with delight, while the
+cheering for the then successful team was long and loud. The players
+then faced up in mid-field and renewed the battle, and not very long
+thereafter the Queen's Park gained their first corner-flag kick, but it
+was a poor one for Sellar, and the ball was soon cleared away by the
+Vale of Leven backs. The Queen's team, however, kept well in front of
+their opponents' goal, and another corner-flag kick was succeeded by an
+exciting scrimmage, and then a shy by Gulliland was cleverly cleared
+away by Wilson. When half-time came, however, the Leven men were
+swarming round the Q.P. posts. The contest was then renewed in terrible
+earnest, and the Queen's Park, with one goal against them, had the wind
+in their favour now. The Vale of Leven, however, had the kick-off, but
+the ball was at once returned by M'Ara, and the Queen's Park found
+themselves right in front of the Leven goal, where one of the backs
+fouled the ball close on the right post. The shy was taken by Allan,
+and the ball hit the bar, but after an exciting scrimmage it was cleared
+by the Vale backs. The Queen's Park, however, were soon on it again, and
+the next five minutes' play was nearly disastrous to the Leven team, as
+no fewer than five corner-flag kicks were given to the Queen's Park, in
+consequence of kicking behind on the part of Leven men. The defence,
+however, was excellent, and by slow degrees the ball was worked clear,
+and M'Lachlan had a run down on the Glasgow club's goal, where the
+whistle of the referee told the spectators that the dashing forward was
+off-side. He did not seem to hear the whistle a bit, but coolly went up
+to the Queen's Park posts and kicked the ball through without the least
+opposition. The kick-out in front was followed by a fine run on the part
+of Gulliland and Berry, but Whitelaw managed to tackle the Q.P. young
+forward, and the ball was soon sent back. It did not go far, however,
+for the Q.P. forwards kept it among them for a time. The Leven men had
+now a good run on the left by Sharp, and Stewart sent the ball behind
+his own goal. Rankin took the corner-flag kick, but Arnott got on the
+leather in an instant, and sent it spinning up the field by one of his
+famous returns. From this point till the call of time the Queen's Park
+were fairly in it, and played, perhaps, as they had never done before.
+Defeat stared them in the face, and the game was fast drawing to a
+close. Barely a quarter of an hour and the destiny of the cup would be
+settled. As on the previous Saturday, however, the Queen's men played
+worthy of a great occasion, and won the trophy. Pressing their opponents
+up on the goal, they kept them there for a time, and although the ball
+was seen to go out and in among the shoal of busy feet a few yards from
+the posts, Wilson and the backs cleared brilliantly. At length, however,
+Allan had a corner-flag kick, which was managed so neatly that Hamilton
+got the ball in a good position and headed it through. This gave new
+life to the senior club and their supporters, and the cheering was again
+renewed when a few minutes after the next kick-off the Queen's Park
+drove the Vale team before them, and again had hot work near Wilson. The
+Queen's half-backs, who had hitherto not acted so well together in the
+earlier stages of the game, metaphorically speaking, "came out of their
+shells," and, along with the forwards, took an active part in the siege.
+Shots were aimed thick and fast at the goalkeeper, and at length
+Stewart, with a shooter, sent the ball spinning through, making the
+second goal for the Queen's Park. The teams then faced up in the centre,
+and the tremendous cheering which greeted the scoring of the second goal
+had scarcely died away when the Vale team made one last but brilliant
+effort to equalise, but they were driven on by Smellie and Arnott, and
+at length the whistle sounded, leaving the Queen's Park the winners of a
+match in every way worthy of the final tie for the Challenge Cup by two
+goals to one. Although the strain now and again was pretty heavy on the
+players when at close quarters, the contest all through was conducted in
+the most friendly way, and showed a marked contrast to some final ties
+played a few years ago. It may also be mentioned that the premier club
+have not held the trophy since 1885-86, when they defeated Renton by
+three goals to one; but of the seventeen matches played in the final the
+Queen's Park have carried off no fewer than nine, while the Vale come
+next with three.
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+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE LEADING HOUSE for GOLD and SILVER BADGES.
+
+DAVID DOW,
+
+Wholesale Watchmaker and Jeweller, (Late 3, 5, and 7 Trongate)
+
+68 ARGYLE STREET
+
+(Between Miller Street and Queen Street).
+
+MR. DOW, having removed to more central premises, has much pleasure in
+again thanking his numerous patrons in all parts of Scotland for the
+large measure of support accorded him during past seasons, and would
+again call the attention of Committees and others to his large and
+choice selection of Gold and Silver Badges, Medals, and Athletic Prizes.
+Committees are cordially invited to inspect his Stock and compare with
+any others before placing their orders. The style, finish, and general
+excellency of his designs are unsurpassed, and taking quality, etc.,
+into consideration, the prices will be found the cheapest in the Trade.
+
+New Designs always being added.
+
+Special designs to order, and estimates given. Samples forwarded on
+request. Inscriptions at specially low rates.
+
+Estimates and Designs furnished for Silver and Electro-Plated Challenge
+Cups.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FOOTBALL AND TRAVELLING BAGS AT LOWEST PRICES.
+
+Splendid Selection of Electro-Plate Goods, Marble Clocks, &c., suitable
+for Athletic Prizes and Presentations.
+
+_Patronized by over 200 Associations and Clubs._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE ACKNOWLEDGED CYCLING OUTFITTERS
+
+Suits to Order from 21/ to 50/ in a Shade of Surges, Vicunas, Tweeds,
+and Worsteds.
+
+C.T.C. CLOTH, all pure Wool and thoroughly shrunk, 35/ the Suit to
+Order, with Cap.
+
+All inside Trimmings pure Wool.
+
+Suiting and Fitting by practical Cyclists.
+
+Club Secretaries or unattached riders respectfully requested to write
+for samples, and compare prices.
+
+Forms of Self-Measurement Sent,
+
+or Clubs waited on by one of our representatives if an Order for three
+or more Suits, fifty miles from Glasgow.
+
+NOTE.--Gentlemen should be very careful in ordering a Cycling or any
+other suit to know that they are not made under the sweating System (we
+have reason to believe many of them are), the dangers of which are
+well-known.
+
+All garments made by us are made by our own Tailors, in our own
+work-rooms, adjoining our warehouses.
+
+Private Fit-on Rooms, and all accessories to a large Tailoring Business.
+
+Waterproof Cape, Leggings, and Cap, 12s. 6d. the lot. Can go in the
+smallest space.
+
+Hygienic Underwear, Cycling Hose to match Uniform, etc., etc.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PENMANS',
+
+101, 103, 105, 107, & 109 Canning St., Bridgeton,
+
+And 122 MAIN STREET, ANDERSTON, GLASGOW.
+
+
+
+
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