The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-05-24
GOOD PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL.
As II Is Played in Great Britain Accord
ing 10 London Truth


sity boat race among AL classes i the
sity boat Ease among all classes i the
highest testimony 70 the purity of anna
tour sport so is the keen enthusiasm
that is taken in the final competition
for the Football Association Cup exceed
ing good evidence of the genuineness of
the professional play. The paid player
has good deal OF abuse hurled at him.
II is said that he is no sportsman. that
he makes not only money but his liyli-
hood out of the game. and that he sells
himself 10 the highest bidder. Writers
who think imperially and play football
not at all denouncc him and oil his
works as being the cause OF the decad
ence Of our native physique. and the
Immediate RUNE of our national trade.
Young men, we are told pay him To
| play for them instead Of playing them.
selves They take more interest in play
thar ip aipslrss. Vi they really uHdsr-
stood thn1grs insteal OF giving Them
selves up 70 football, the decade Of Tory
ism would never have occurred. Mr..
Salfour never made greater mistake
than in going TO the country during the
football season. The proletariat we're
capable OF considering only football and
they has no time for politics Naturally
men who pay people TO play football for
them expect their representatives to be
paid for playing the game at Sc. Ste
phen's,
Each year twenty-five OF these
wretched hirelings come up TO play in
the final at the Crystal Palace for a lit
tie silver cup. And so utterly lost are
they to all sense Of deccncy and sports
manship that they rarely produce their
true form during the game. No one is
ever heard to say that player has been
bought or that he has sold his side. The
thousands who watch the game year
after year have absolute confidence in
the honesty and integrity Of these play
ers. Association football Is the only
sport in which professional players are
exclusively engaged that has not gone
to the wall, either owing to games and
results being faxed, or owing TO the
men losing control Of themselves. Pro-
fessional rowing, sculling, boxing. and
running have all gone under. But pro
fessional football. at all events in the
cup tie, is above suspicion. The fact
that the players lost their form shows
that there i d genuine anxiety to win
which would be utterly foreign to men
who were not playing q straight game.
Their Joy when goal Is scored is not
the Joy TINT is stimulated by talent
money. They are as keenly happy as
the winning team IN university match.
Whatever may be the result Of any cup
tie final eacl game il an annual tcsti-
mony to the standard Of high sports
Inanship that prevails among the play.
ers themselves
The final this year was played be.
tween Newcastle United and Everton.
The Tynesiders were in the final last
year when Aston Villa beat them. while
this was the third TIE that the Ever
ton club had reached the same stage.
Newcastle were the favofitcs. They
had what the football press describes rs
a scientific team More important. there
was only one pan playing who had not
played IN the final last year. unfdrtn
natetly for their supporters experience
does not always do Il, and they soon