Widnes Examiner. — 1905-02-25 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

BEST GOOTSIN LANCASHIRE.—Advt. Boy's Sad Discovery. _ Mr. S. Brighouse, coroner, held an inquiry at the •Poelice Station on Monday, touching the death of I.l_o rge Edge, gas stove fitter, aged 33 years, of 47, . Marbury-street.— Thomas Percy Edge, son of the deesased, said be and his father retired to bed at 9.30 en Thursday night. His father had had some drink, -and appeared rather strange. On the following morning about six o'clock his father rose, but for some reason returned to bed. About 7.30 witness awoke' ~, d missed hls father. He went downstairs and saw n nini hanging by a rope attached to a hook in the kitchen wall. He rushed out and told a man who was 'on passing. Witness's mother was away from home a visit to her father in Cheshire, and during her absence • his father did not go to work, and commenced I. drinking, and scarcely partook of food. He had his .`ieast injured some years ago, and since then when in -drink had been strange in his mind.—Thomas Morris, Carter, of 65, Chorley-street, said he was called in to the house, and found dsceased hanging'by a rope. lie at once cut li'm down and sent for Dr. Smith.—A 'verdict of " • Suicide whilst of urisound mind " was 'returned.  football just yet. However; youth will be served, and there is no doubt that he will get a hearty welcome from the crowd. Harris also comes in again, ishile ' Brookes and Kenyon are relegated to the "A " team. The latter pair have deteriorated somewhat of late, and the change may do them good. J. Davies supplants his namesake, and on last Saturday's form ought to increase the effectiveness of the rear division. The forwards will be uncommonly light, for Preston, Boardman, and Shugars are all absentees, the places of the latter pair being taken by Morrison and Harmer. It is expected that the first three will be all right for next week. The teams for to-day are : Warrington : Hallam ; Fish, Isherwood, Berry and Harris; J. Davies and R. Bate; Thomas, Belton, Cook, Jolley, Naylor,Swift, Morrison and Harmer, forwards. -Swinton : Dixon; G-artrell, A. Valentine,Wallivork, Flynn; Holyneux and Kewin ; Barnett, Cheetharn, Jones, Pomfret, Massey, Coletrup, Cooper, dan Larkin, forwards. Warrington "A" : Knight;; Kenyon, Brooks, Dickenson and Short; D. Davies and W. Bate; Foster, Lunt, Coleman, Fairhurst and Owens, forwards. The cup-draw has left the League clubs admirably placed, and nearly all have easy journeys to the second round. Warrington entertain Morecambe and should have little trouble in disposing of the seasiders. Leigh v. Wigan will be a deadly affair, while Widnes v. Wakefield gives promise of a close game. Runcorn are again unfortunate in having to go to Broughton. The other draws are published elsewhere in this PaPecHockey. [By R.G.P.] Last week Stockton Heath first eleven entertained Chester at Grappenhall-road, and as the visitors had been defeated the previous week by no less than 13-1, the hornesters were fairly confklert of victory. In the first ten minutes of the game, to everybody's surprise, the visitors had considerably the better of the play, and only weak play by their forwards in the circle kept them from taking the lead early on. Then the Stockton Heath forwards took up the attack,and after several smart raids on the Chester goal, W. Longdin put on the first goal, and this proved to be all tha scoring at the interval. During the first half the Chester team may be said to have had most of the play, their efforts being full of dash, and with a little more combination they would have crossed with a substantial lead. As it was the home side were now playing with the wind, and it was a case of how many goals the Stockton Heath forwards would put on before the end. During the last twenty minutes four goals were added to the score, S. Baxter obtaining three and C. H. Bond one. The final score of 5-0 hardly represents the play,and had Chester obtained three goals, which they ought to have done, this would have been as much as the home side deserved, viz., a victory of 5-3. The second team visited Chester, and were defeated 3-1, after having the bet4er of the exchanges, only weak shooting by the Stockton Heath forwards enabling the home side to claim the victory. The goal for Stockton Heath was scored by W. Howard. This week most of the hest teams have cancelled their fixtures, so as to be present at the North v. South match, which takes place at Bowdon this afternoon, and for this reason both the Ist and 2nd team engagements, namely, Eccles and lVrexbam, have been abandoned. Latchford entertained the soldiers on Saturday and won by no less than 14-0, a score which would have been much larger but for the good form of the Barracks goal-keeper. The " Tommies ' are a bit new to Hockey. Latchford second sustained their third defeat of the season at Sale on Saturday,when Sale Moor beat [them by 3 goals to 2. The score about represents the run of the play, the unevenness of the ground handicapping the Latchford men.