Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-13
FOOTBALL IS run
STRICTLY In
ENGLAND
By G. +. BLACK

bail and the latter for football. The
difference In price Is in favor of Amer
lea, being due to the higher prices for
admission to the baseball games and
consequent larger revenue. The two
atiye interest
| The football season lasts eight
months, from Sept. l to April 80. No
games are permitted on Sundays. Pro-
fessionalism was legalized by the foot
ball association in the summer Of
1885, after a considerable agitation on
the part of many clubs in Lancashire.
who probably knew that men were be-
ing paid In defiance of the regulations
then existing. A story is told of a
lcertain player who was persuaded to
| Join another club. After hisr first
match with the new club he was Just
putting on one of his ordinary boots
when, to his establishment, he found a
gold sovereign inside. He showed the
piece to one of the older players. who
said Pocket tn brass, lad, and shut
tn face; IL l doan't find sovereign in
each of my boots ther,ll be - row"
All players, amateur and professional,
are under the laws of the Football As
lsociation. All leagues are under It's
government. Leagues are managed
by their own committees.
10 First Professional Club
The first prominent club to adopt
lprofe was Preston North
Ends, Lancashire, who established the
Wonderful record of winning the
league championship without losing a
match, and the same season won the
English challenge cup without having
| 4 goal scored against it. The extra
lordinary success gave it the name OF
ltsProud Preston" and resulted in the
development of paid players to such an
Iextent that today any player OF merit
lean be sure of good salary, and out
Iside of the university and other pure
lIy amateur clubs all the best teams in
THE country are paid That the game
has improved by the system Is proved
lby the enormous attendances at the
matches and the strict Observance o.
rules. Asa proof of<the paiblic inter-
Test in games. compare the enormous
Eattendances at american, National and
other league baseball matches and En-
glish leagues, football with amateur
matches-always executing fnterunl-
Iyersity contests = and note what q
| tremendous balance there Is In favor
of the paid players. The recent final
association match in England attract
ed 121 1000 spectators.
Train Like Baseball Men.
The system of training prior to the
opening of the football season resem-
bles the training trips OF baseball
teams, the only difference being that
| the footballer trains on the home
ground under the ever watchful eyes
of the official trainer and committee.
Good players last for many seasons,
due to their healthy lives. One oil
the most remarkable men OF today ID
Robert Crompton of Blackburn Roy
ers, who has represented his country
in about thirty international matches
extending from 1902 up to the present
day. This is the English record.
Crompton's position Is fullback and,
although his speed is not equal to
Younger players, he more than bal
ances this by his knowledge and 1udg-
ment. Special training for cup ties
or important league matches Is under
taken as required through the season.
One of the most favorite places In
Droitwich where the players have the
benefit of the magnificent and power
tuI brine baths noted all over the Unit
ed Kingdom.
raining Trips Are Costly.
These training trips are very ex-
pensiye, but to men who work so hard
for eight months they are very bene-
fetal. One popularity is that for most
of the training a football is scarcely
touched. Consequently when the men
assemble on the field to the match
they are as nippy as terriers after the
ball and their play is keen. Some
wise heads say that football should
be played during training, but there
is a strong argument against practice
matches, the risk of injury. Many a
fine baseball player is manned in a
practice game before he has his mus
cles working under the direction OF
his brain. This calls to mind the adj
vice given to me when boy. Our
gym instructor saw my crude efforts
AT fancy work on the rings He
said: TRY the horizontal bar until
your arms are strong enough to con-
troll your body then the rest OF the
gym work will come easy to you.
The same rule holds good in baseball
or football, get the principal muscles
under control first.
Have a Transfer System.
Crompton was presented by the COM
mittee of the football association with
an enlarged portrait of himself as
token of appreciation. He is in bust ,
ness as a plumber in Blackburn and
is widely respected.
A transfer system is in operation IN
football very much on the lines OF
baseball transfers, and on Jan. l, 1908,
many times at Schofield, and the fans
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