... PLAIN SPEAKING. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Gloucestershire Football Association, the presi- dent (Mr. J. A. Taylor) alluded to the enormous amount of time the Council had to devote to the investigation of cae«* of misconduct. It was true many ...

... FACTS SPEAK. Sir, —No doubt your reader E. D. Verney has a very poor idea of football. Fads speak louder than words. A team playing Inferior football does not win Leagues and cups. His excuse for the 'Spurs extremely poor. It reads as if the cross-wind ...

... PLAIN’ SPEAKING. In interests of Scotland, I think It hich time that were applied to those members of the Union who tre doinf all they can to bring ridicule on the functions entrusted to them by throtting players into petitions in repretentatire teams ...

... WHEN MACARTNEY SPEAKS— Andrew Ducat and the Dearth of Bowling. WHEN Charles Macartney speaks most of us lesser mortals are content listen (Andrew Ducat, the England and Surrey batsman, writes in the Sunday Herald and Sunday Graphic). Ho says there is ...

... REFEREE SPEAKS OUT. Few men In Rugby football can speak with the intimate experience play and players of Mr. T. H. Vile, the Welsh International who became an International referee. His remarkable tflreer covers not only United Kingdom, but the Dominions ...

... HE SPEAKS AGAIN. MANY years have rolled by, and during those times Harry Walker has become revered figure m British football, and much-travellc-d manager of F.A. touring teams. All these experiences are unfolded in lus remarkable Life-Story, to be bom ...

... rAbl SPEAK IMI The Casuals continued their Northern tour with a mutch with Bishoo Auckland, the ex- Araatenr Cup-bolder*. Owing to the heavy state of the ground the ‘mart puenng the i aniats was not »s would otherv.».-e have been, and the Bishop*' won ...

... naccustomed as I am to public speaking. They all pull that one . . . and then long you’d think they were bcoo dictionary in their mouths. talk so with a Well, watch me get through in less than a gross of words. Gentlemen, Afrikander has been called the ...

... naccustomed as I am to public speaking.. They all pull that one . . . and then talk so long you’d think they were bom with a dictionary in their mouths. Well, watch me get through in less than gross of words. Gentlemen, Afrikander has been called the ...

... F.A. Cup-ties speaks for itself. welcome a return to the old off-side law. , ~ The public nowadays know the difference between good play and poor play (he says). There is too much rushing about and not enough the real football, even in the First Division ...

... HENRY SLATER SPEAKS. HENRY SLATER SPEAKS. Mr. BENRT SLATER, Manacar of Slater's Detective and Enquiry Association, 87, BaatachaJl-street. London. K.C.. Mays:—Some three yean a«o I contracted rhenmatiaas, combined with other ailment*, causing my limbs ...

... ATHLETIC NEWS. MONDAY. DECEMBER 31. 1928. Speaking of Tests” and Ashes” I’ve been in few Tests in my time. Not in a series of five, though. More like 5,000, I reckon. Testing tobacco, I mean. Trying this, that and the other, hoping to find a ’bacca ...