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Football Notes. (BY "VIGILANT.") Saturday last was what is considered, a slack day as regards robust football. The North Wales Coast League battle had a cessation of hostilities. It was Cup-Day. But the only cup fighters were Conway and Colwyn B.ay, and Ruthin and Rhyl. The former drew at Con- way, and the Vale of Clwyd men vanquished, the seasiders, The Conway-Colwyn Bay fray will be renewed on Penrhos Ground on Satur- day next, and if! the team that Conway manage- ment have; selected for the occasion turn out there will be a stiff struggle. Whilst writing about the doubt that exists in several quarters, as to teams not turning up as selected iIeminds me of the fact that the genmal football-loving spectator has but a very small idea of the anxieties and troubles inseparable from the duties of a committeeman, or higher official. To them, one and all, as having passed the mill myself I offer them my heartiest sym- pathy. It .is .all very well for the spectator who has paid his "dibs" for watching a match to growl "Why don't the committee play so and so when they are quite ignorant of the fact that possibly that committee has done its level best to placenpon the field the best possible t,alent at their service. The cause is not far to seek. Coast players are amateurs, and as such the players are open to play fast and loose with the managements and give them no end of (trouble. And I suppose that one cannot p hope whilst there are in amateur ranks some players who take a lot of patronising before they promise to pi and act like babes, the regretable cause will long be with us. The only thing that remains its for such committees to use tact, tempered with firmness, and then the player will see with whom he has to reckon. Conway has not on,ce yet bec-n, able to place the selected team in the arena, and, of course, this means a depleted team, and, what is more. loss of points. Even the persuasiveness and practical zeal of Mr. James Wallwork, or the assiduity of Mr. Roberts, the Secretary, has failed to impress some players that they (the executive) also make at time great sacrifices for the interests of the game, and it is only an inmate love of sport that causes them to stick to their posts and give of their best in the interests of football. It is not a question of pleasure for the true lover of the game to see any team not properly represented. It is -in having the best on both sides that makes: the battle a grand one. There are some teams, if they have a spell of victorious matches and are defeated at the end of a joyous triumph, run to the unsportsmanlike excuse that so and so was not playing. Granted so far as it goes. But the reason is further to be found in the fact that such a pre-conceived notion of superiority pervades certain combina- tions when they analyse their player that they never look for defeat, and when it cotnes, as come it will sooner or later to the best-con- ceived team, extant, they receive their defeat with a plethora of excuses, instead of admitting like unvarnished sportsmen that they were pro- perly beaten. Even great, men have made mis. takes, and they have made themselves greater by acknowledging iÍhose mistakes. '11: '1'0 "J\ It is surprising to observe the pluck of Connah's Quay in the Welsh Combination. Good old Connah's Quay, who would think -of you joining the Combination a year or two back? And your perfoxmandes are very fair for your first season, lads. You have done infinitely better than Bangor. More luck to you, boys! PoOtr Bang or, and poor Rhyl! Down in the dumps again. One trounced away from home, and the other defeated before its own displeased crowd. Is it class you are lacking, lads, or what? For goodness' sake, buck up, both of you, or come back to the North Wales Coast League. You may do worse, aye, indeed, you may. Pwllheli are glad to have whacked you, dear little Amateurs of Llandudno, for you are the descendants of the team which was the shining light of North Wales football some years ago. You are amateurs, or (indeed you were in its full sense on Saturday. You played a game as though nothing depended upon it, whilst our good friends of Port Heli felt they were there to beat you if they could. And they did. No flies, but raiim, about that victory. Bravo Pwll- heli and Bob Ellis' crew. Compliments to Mr. F. E. Young as referee, and kind regards to Secretary Heaton when you return home. Sorry to have missed you on Saturday.

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