The morning call., 1893-10-30
AFTER A SPHERE.
Football in It's Various
Phases.
A VERY POPULAR PASTIME.
The Association, Gaelic and Inter.
Collegiate Games as Played
on Several Grounds.

A hotly contested game Of association
foo, ball was played at Central Park yes
terday afternoon between the Rangers and
Thistes.
The blue-shirted Thistles won, with a
score of 3toO The attendance was only
fair, but the gams was none the less ex-
citing for that, and those who were pres
ent enjoyed the sport most hllariously.
Every spectator was a red-hot partisan,
and though no one lost his temper. every
one was bent on giving his advice to this
or that player or team in a not inaudible
tone.
Patrick A. F. Keefe acted as referee,
and succeeded in getting himself mildly
hissed at once or twice, but when 1t was
all over he was freely forgiven for his re al
or seeming mistakes, and the best of good
humor prevailed.
For the winning team Klag was line
man, while Reiss watched the chalk for
the Rangers. King made a couple of de-
cisiOns that were manifeStly wrong, but it
could hardly be said that either or both of
them in nfluenced the result in any way.
In the first half the Thistles scored two
goals. though not without fighting zeal
ously for them. The Rangers were out
kicked, but only alter the hardest kind of
battle, and the Thi>tles have good cause
to be proud Of their victory.
Goalman Brown. for the Rangers. made
several good plays. and saved more than
one score that was nearly made. As much.
though. could be said for Low. who stood
at The Thistles' stile. Again and again the
Rangers got the ball to him and tried to
pass him, but could not. He was very
much awake all through the game.
Association football Is the game to look
at. TO the uninitiated spectator il is far
more Interesting than either the ipterc0l-
legiate game or baseball. 1t is a vigorous
moving game, and lacks many elements OF
danger contained in the rougher play,
| where hands are used as we'll as feet
You know at once what they are trying
to do, and you can't help getting excited a
bit when the Rangers have succeeded in
kicking the ball from their own goal past
the forwards and half-back and into the
| back division, only to he met with sly
kick or butt from the Thistles at the most
unexpected moment, which sends the ball
almost to the goal it was started from.
| That's the way it went yesterday after
noon. The Rangers made good fight, but
| they seemed to lack in cleverness. all that
the Thstles possessed. The Rangers
| kicked as hard and as high when the ball
came their way. but they seemed to lack
the skill to MAKE it come their way very
often.
1t was rather defensive game from the
tine the first goal was made, the Rangers
realizing that they were going to have their
hands iull to prevent the Thstles from
gaining more goals.
The quickest work of the game was i'm
mediately after time was called for the
second half 1t took the Thistles just
about three minutes to get the leather into
the goal. They made a brilliant dash for
| it. and kicked and ran and butted so
fercely for the time that they carried the
field by storm.
Could they have kept this high pressure
up throughout the inning they might have
added one or more to their score; though
even that is doubtful. for their quick work
made the Rangers even more watchfui.
The teams and positions of the men
a fnIInWs