The San Francisco call., 1908-10-18
Soccer Football Gains
in Popularity
Quality of the Sport Provided,
However, Not as Good as i'm
Previous Years
BY Bob Shand

Soccer football seems to have gained
IN popularity since last season, as the
crowds attending the games this year
are much greater. 1t can not be said,
however, that the quality of ball pro-
V1ded is as good as has been seen in
previous years, but this can probably
up.
The Rovers and Vampires retained
their unbeaten records last Sunday
and with the thstles are the only
teams in the league to have SO far
escaped defeat.
The The e, Thistles opened their season; and
grounds, and made merry with the
Builders from San Francisco. The
Scotchmen did not have to display all
/ in sight, but they showed just enough
to win by three clear goals. The
Builders have whole lot to learn
about the soccer game before they will
practice through the week would do
them world of good. The Thistle
men played nice game, the work of
the backs being at all times clean and
working very harmoniously, had little
to contend with and easily scored
when the opportunity presented itself:
The Scotia is another team that will !
have to be braced up considerably II
the management expects to be in the
running for league honors.
The game at Alameda between the
Independents and Hornets was at
times burlesque on soccer.
Pomeroy has been busy for week
gathering new material and announces
course excepted has been fired a., and
that the Insects will win Sunday. The
! forward line. now looks like this:
Waeber and Gilchrist, right wing Ell
hot center; Worlidge and Lees lett
wing.
A woeful lack of class lost the game
for the San Franciscos last Sunday
against the Albion Rovers.
| left the Oakland team and will here
after be found in the Independent
! lineup.
The Jubilee Rovers of Sacramento
held a meeting recently and elected
the following officers:
| President W. P. Boyce; vice presidents, w
H. Button. r. o.. Cramer. G. Howard, w
Wicks; chairman, William Boyee; secfstarS' ret
E. Button; vice captain, G.. Mortimer; selection
committee l. Jones, A. Ismay. w: H. Boyce
Gates e. hufon MormeG nea Royee sroand
mittee. G. Mortimer, f.. Trowbridge, X Moyen
r. E. Button; property man, J. Mortimer.
The schedule, teams and referees for
! today follow:
Burns VS. ThistIes. at San Mateo; referee, G.
| d. Bennett. Vampires VS.. Hornets. at Ala
media; referee, ]. Lamb. Building Trades vs.
San Francisco at Presidio; referee, w. Can
ming Independents VS.. Scotias. at stadium
referee. W. Chown.
| Burns = Buchanan, Black, Sharp. Mcintyre
Doig, Young. Brown, Jackman, Welsh, Harris
Alunroe and Grant.
Thistles-AlcRitchie, Shanks. Gore, Christie
Townes, f. jackson, Duncanson, Gray, W. Jack
son, Nicho and Scott.
vampres-aicEarlane, Scott, Hunter, A. Nc
Kenzie; Guttman. Swain, Bernard, Robertson, j.
| Mckenzie, Lee and Seeley.
Hornets = NIcRitchie, buckingham. Lynch,
Massey, GIarner, Williams, Gilchrest, Waeber.
Elliot. Wolridge and Lees.
Building Trades-Smith. Bell, Dewar. Mckin-
| ley. Brown. Orr. Bloomfield. Bremener, Carsweu.
| Ireland and Haig.
| San Francisco-Storr. Dewhurst, Evans Per.
kins Sgg, Spencer. Wills. Wheatley, Hailes,
| Dowding and Riding.
INDEPENDENTLY MILL Kirvin, McGran. High
ett, Grant. Anderson, Mathieson, McGee, t. Mill,
Fay and Airey.
! Scotias-Williamson. Trueman. J. Sommervlle.
Armer. Hamilton, Copeland, w. Sommerville, De-
war. Wardaw, Glendenning and LeCoutier.