The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-15
Association Football.

When some weeks ago 1t was announced
that arrangements had been completed
for a visit to this country by team repre-
senting the Corinthian Association Foot
ball Club Of England all who are inter-
ested in sport in America were delighted
with the news. Now their joy Is turned
to regret by the present announcement
that the tour has been declared of.
If the general understanding that
the Corinthian management has aban-
doned the plan through fear that it
would not be conducted on the principle
OF pure amateur sport is true, then
it is in order to state very frankly and
with emphasis that the Corinthian man
agement is in error. Americans are
far, very far, from having lost their
love of pure amateur sport. The
recent agitation against "commercialism
in college athletics is a sign OF the
healthiest possible spirit on the part OF
the public, from whom ultimately all
sport derives it's support.
Only very short time ago our oarsmen
the Vespers received the heartiest kind
Of a welcome to Engand's principal
aquatic meet; there was never a thought
of questioning their pure amateur status.
Oxford and Cambridge, we are quite
sure, have never had occasion to protest
any representative Of Yale or Harvard
on grounds OF professional practises.
Why, then, should, our own houseolean-
ing conducted within our own doors
for the sake of our own proud purity in
sport, be made the basis for holier than
thou refusal to consort with us? Some
body's vision is distorted.
The concomitant announcement, how
ever, that an independent team will
come over this fall is pleasing news.
The tour planned for it is an extensive
one and will exhibit the English game
to us thoroughly. If games are arranged
with our Metropolitan Association Foot
ball League, and negotiations for such
matches are now in progress, New York.
ers will enjoy an excellent opportunity
to judge the sport on its merits-and
with first class play as basis for their
judgment.
The plan to arrange games for the
British visitors with some Of the associa-
ton teams recently organized in our
colleges is good. The game has been
tried in Harvard and Columbia with
good results and bids fair to be popular
not as a substitute for the present inter-
collegiate game but AS a supplementary
sport. The game played at present
mistakenly called Rugby although
it is a distinct form developed by
our own students of it and should be
called American" footballs too firmly
planted ever to be uprootod from the
soil of our college fields.
Association football is a clean, hard,
genuinely athletic game, calling for
wind and nerve and stamina, with plenty
of science, and especially adapted to
please the spectator who wants to see
an open game. As such it deserves
place in our colleges, and we sincerely
wish for the visiting players pleasant
and successful tour and one that will
help to establish the game among US.
Why should we not get as much fun out
of soccer" as from our adaptation Of its
twin sport ruSSer
At any rate, we think that the Maryle-
bone Cricket Club, lately departed from
this country after a pleasant tour, will
Join with us in assuring their British
brothers that they may visit here, win
and lose games in the spirit of true sport
and return to their native Albion with
the skirts Of their amateursm unsullied.
Now, when the early commuter is "think.
ing OF putting in" his coal and grumbling
at the size of the bill. Cincinnati is having
happy days. See Cincinnati Enquirer:
Competition for business among the retail coal
dealers Of the city has become 10 aggressive that
coal merchants are beginning to size up the situa
ton very seriously. Yesterday one of the big com
panes announced that II will give thirty trading
stamps with each load OF COAL and hardly had the
tremor caused by this startling announcement
passed OF until II was known that another company
has under consideration closing contract for 1000
good substantial coal buckets, one to be given
with each ton Of coal"
These gifts are but beginnings. Cases Of
beer, gold watches, "round trip" tickets to
Europe may be looked for Even the ap-
palling wickedness of the Hon. GEORGE B.
Cox, as pictured by word painters and NOR
alists Of the Fefawfum School, can't keep
Cincinnati from being little paradise.
Is JOSEPH b. FORAKER OF Ohio really after the
Presidential nomlnaton!-P Philadelphia Record.
What's the use of getting nervous so long
before the game? Mr.. FORAKER is a wise
old bird, not to be caught with chat. He
has enough to do getting after DICK and
the rest OF the brethren.
Last month SOL licenses to teach in the
public schools were granted, all except
thirty to women, after searching examina-
TONS From this eligible list" appoint
ments Of teachers are made, and it is ex-
pected that fully half OF those licensed in July
will be appointed at the opening Of the school
year next month. So far as we can judge
from the names on this list, two-thirds Of the
men and at least half Of the women licensed
to teach are Jews. yet Of the population OF
New York Jewsform less than fifth.
The Hon. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, a dis
tingu,shed Cracker maker Of orstions and