The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . he action to culpablelatter-day presumption, and he used to cry con-tinually, whenever the ball came into his neigh-bourhood, Dont charge me, dont charge me !An old man and grey, old man and grey ! Thereis no room in the Rugby game for such a playeras this ; but we do not tell the story as any testof the superiority of the old man and greysfavourite game of Association. For younger players, though the point is hardlyworth noticing, one game is as dangerous as theother, but neither produces more serious accidentsthan cr
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . he action to culpablelatter-day presumption, and he used to cry con-tinually, whenever the ball came into his neigh-bourhood, Dont charge me, dont charge me !An old man and grey, old man and grey ! Thereis no room in the Rugby game for such a playeras this ; but we do not tell the story as any testof the superiority of the old man and greysfavourite game of Association. For younger players, though the point is hardlyworth noticing, one game is as dangerous as theother, but neither produces more serious accidentsthan cricket Of course, under the Rugby rulesit is easier to indulge in what the Yorkshiremencall a bit o scrappin, but a bit o scrappin ?probably does less lasting damage than a goodhack, which is a rare event in Rugby is a story of a Yorkshireman who, coming toplay at the University, thought he should have tomoderate his usual methods in a game, as he put it,against almost schoolboys. In the first few minutesof the game a particularly burly Scotchman, playing. A HOUSE MATCH(Photo: Mr. Herbert Baker.) school days an old master—we do not dare tosuggest how old he then seemed to us—who usedregularly to turn out for football. He was dressed,according to the old fashion, in long flanneltrousers, and it was generally supposed that theywere put over his cloth dittos. In spite of his three-quarters for Oxford, jumped on him, gave hisneck a slightly unnecessary twist, and when thevictim protested asked him if he was made of York-shire wool. That, said the Yorkshire man, mademe feel at home again, and he subsequentlyenjoyed his bit o scrappin - ?- with the rest. 2IC THE SPORTS OF THE WORLD. But even Association football is not without its scrappin. In the neighbourhood of one of thebig public schools operated—the word is not toostrong—a team commonly known as the marketgreens, who played with the school two matchesa year. There was no device known to the tradewinch the
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