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FOOTBALL NEWS AND NOTES
FOOTBALL NEWS AND NOTES By 11 Corinthian." The canting humbugs who are car- rying on the "stop ioot,ball" campaign ;n view of the "European crisis," are continuing their contemptible game in many of oit- leading dailies, in spite of Lord Kitchener's emphatic state- ment at the Guildhall, when he said: "I have no cemplaint whatever to make about the response to my ap- peals for men." It is now demanded by these hum- bugs that the "English Cup-tie" Tour- nament .should be abandoned. The correspondence columns are f-seeiy open to Lord So-and-so" and Mr. Xever-played-a-game," to expa- tiate. at length, and with a sort of out- raged indignation, on the "unpatriotic sport-lovers who play football, or who attend football matches." I am told that one humbug who was speaking in the North of England re- cently went so far as to any on a public platform that he wished a Zeppelin would drop a bomb on to the players and spectators at a certain match! One (-an imagine the ecHtors of some of these papers giving orders for the curtailing of football match re- ports with a sort of religious fervour; but the funny part is that no one ever s&jris to think about protesting ag- ainst horse racing or shooting. But they are the s^x>rt of kings," and the newsboys still run out with the "3 o'clock winners." Some of the leading clubs in the country are the means of obtaining something like £ 50 a, week for the va- Ti i) us j-el I ef funds. The following report appeared in a contemporary on Monday last: — A sad shooting fatality occurred at Lingfield, Surrey, on Saturday. A PARTY OF GENTLEMEN from Croydon WERE OUT 8HOOTING. and one of them stood his gun against a tree. The weapon fell over and went off, the full charge striking Phillip Clarke, a beater, who was 20yds. away. He died soon afterwards. One hears little protest against golf playing, shooting parties, or other garner peculiar to the middle and up- per classes, in which even clergymen and ministers are interested. We can't always think of death and blood- shedding. If we did, we should all soon go mad. But, of course, relaxation is something to which the workers and artisans, who are the principal sup- porters of football, are not entitled to. At least, that is what one is forced to infer fllQm the campaign that is goidg on. Saturday's Results. SOUTHFRN LEAPUE -DIV. II fibbw Vale 2, Barry 1. Ll&nelly 1. Coventry City 2. ;Pontypridd 0, Stoke 1. SOUTHERN LEAGUE.-DIV I. Gillingham 0, Reading 5. Brighton 4, Croydon Common 1. Cardiff City 7, Bristol Rovers 0. Exeter City 0, Millwall Athletic 1. Portsmouth 1, Southend 0. Crystal Palace 3, Swindon Town 1. Plymouth A. 1, Watford 1. Norwich C. 0, Southampton 0. West Ham 1, Northampton. ENGLISH LEAGUE.-DIV. I. Bradford City 3, Blackburn Rov. 0. Burnley <3, Bolton Wanderers 0. Chelsea 4, Notts County 1. Everton 7, Sunderland 1. Middlesbrough 1. Bradford 1. Newcastle U. 1, Oldham A. 2. Sheffield U. 2. Liverpool 1. Tottenham H. 2. Manchester U. 0. West Bromwich A. 0, Sheffield W. 0. The Manchester City v. Aston Villa match was not played owing to the fog ENGLISH LEAGUE.-DIV. II. Ba rut-ley 2, Wolverhampton 1. Birmingham 2. Lincoln City 0. Blackpool 3, Glossop 0. Brif:tol City 3, Clapton Orient 0. Bury 0. Leeds City 0. Grimsby 1. Derby County 2. Hndders.fi eld T. 3, The Arsenal 0. Leicester F. 0, Fulham 2. Notts F 1. Stockport County 1. Preston N.E. 2, Hull City 1. WELSH CUP. Merthyr 'town 1. Mid-Rhondda O. I Merthyr T. I, Mid-Rhondda 0. j This match in the third round of the Welsh Cup Tournament was played at Penydarren Park oc Saturday be- fore a small crowd. The teams were; Merthyr Town Gibbon; McCormack and Johnson; Thomas, Kirby and Yar- j wood; Morris. Clay, Stoodley, Law- rence and Gibson. -Mid-Rhondda: WÚ; Bain and Hol- 111es; McCullum, Sherman and Cole- man Cunningham, Copestake, Pons- ford, Lane and D. Evans. Referee, Mr. Lloyd Williams, Ponty- pridd. The Town had the better of the open- ing stages, and after Clay had made a clever opening, Lawence headed into the net from a splendidly placed cen- tre by Morris following a fine combined movement. Plav veered from one end of the field to the other, both sides ma- king spasmodic attacks, but no furtJier score was effected, although the Town improved considerably during the sec- ond half, during which Morris was the outstanding player on the field. I Bargoed 6, Merthyr Reserves 0. The following were the teams in the Welsh League match at Bargoed on Satu rday Bargoed Evans Hancock and Mor- gan Jones. H. Evans and A. Evans; W. Pentou. 1). Wind. Geo. Morgan, ii Clark and D. Hamblin. Merthyr Evans Lewis and Gliddon Davies, Bowering and Simons; Jones, Hancock, Thomas. Halloran. and Ni- cholas. Referee: J. Havard. Aberdare. George Morgan obtained two goals for the homesters in the first half and two in the second half. Clark, the captain, also scored two goals in the second half, bringing the total to half- a-dozen .Welsh Schools' Shield Competition. The Schools1 Leagues from eight towns have entered the competition this season, and have been drawn to- play in the first round as follows: A: Barry v. Merthyr, at Barry. B: Cardiff v. Swansea, at Cardiff. C: R" yniney v. Penarth. at Pen- arth. 1): Bbbw Vale v. Tredegar, at Ebbw Vale. Second Round—(1) Winners of A v. Winners of C: (2) Winners of D v. Winners of B. It will be seen that Merthyr and Barry, the finalists of the last two seasons, have had to face each other in the first round. The match was played at Jcnner Park, Barry, laat Saturday. Mr. Amos, Cardiff, refereed. The teams lined out as follows: •— Barry Forbes, Barry Island. G. G Price, County, and W. Robinson, Hoi ton Road. T. Hunter, County; J. Thompson, Holton Road: and E. Griggs. High Street. E. Edmondson, Homilly; H. M. Havard. Gladstone Road D. E. Whitman, County Stone, Romilly; B. J. Green, Gladstone Rd. Merthyr: W. Ainsworth, Merthyr Vale. L. O. Morgan, Abercanaid, and D. Prosser. Penydarren. Ivor Jones, County; E. Jones. Cyfatrthfa; H Hughes. Abermorlais. R Owen, Cyfarthfa; A. Mcygan, Abercanaid; W. Sullivan. Merthyr Vale; S. Scott. Aber- fan; and W. WillTams. Cyfarthfa. The game was played on a heavy ground with a keen east wind blowing. Merthyr boys appeared at the start to be suffering from the effects of the fine met prepared for them on their ar- rival at Barry. The clever inside for- ward trto could do nothing right, and the half-backs were disappointing. Thompson, at centre half for Barry, was indefatigable, and managed to be nearly everywhere the ball was. A great rush started by this player led to an attack on the Merthyr goal. Ainsworth cleared the first shot, but Stone, the Barry inside left, received the ball and shot again right into the far corner of the net, giving Ainsworth no chance. This reverse steadied the Merthyr boys, and they were a diffe- rent team. R. Owen went on the right wing. and Ivor Jones took his place at half-back. A glimpse of the brilliancy which has made the play of the Merthyr forwards famous was then shown, and at last Sullivan sent in a shot which the goalie failed to clear, and Williams, the left wing, was just able .0 tap the ball into the net. Half-time score: I Merthyr Boys 1 Barry Boys I During the second hatf, owing to the great, display of the Merthyr forwards, and of Eddie Jones at centre-half, the yisitoNJ held the upper hand all the tiro?, and about 15 minutes before the end their efforts were rewarded after a clever dribble, in which all the for- wards partook. Sullivan added The winning goal for his side. Thus at the third attempt the Merthyr lade de- ieated the Barry boys. The game was not as great as the one witnessed at Merthyr last season, when the two teams met in the 1913-14 final, but the Barry supporters, in a sportsmanlike I fashion declared that owing to our very superior forward combination, we i tully deserved the victory. Final score: Merthyr Boys 2 Ba rry Boys. I Eddie Jones, the Merthyr centre half, is a brother of D. J. Jones, the lcnhyr Town outside left. League Tables. SOUTHERN LEAGUE.-DIV. I. —Goals— P. W. D. L. F. A. P. Reading 15 10 2 3.31 15.22 Brighton v- U. 15 0 3 3.20 15.21 9 2 2.22 12.20 Watford 14 7 5 2.19 10.19 Pot-tseulo-Litli 13 7 4 4.19 13.IS Exeter C. 13 7 2 4.23 14.16 West Ham U. 14 7 2 5.23 23.16 Cardiff City 13 7 1 5.23 10.15 Northampton 13 5 4 4. 17 15.14 Swindon T. 14 5 4 5.24 26.14 Luton T. 16 5 3 8.25 33.13 Plymouth A.. 14 3 6 5.22 21.12 Southampton 14 5 2 7.25 31.12 BriMoi hm.. 15 5 2 8.25 36.12 Southend U.. 13 4 3 6. 12 15.11 Norwich C. 13 2 6 5.12 19. 11 Croydon C. 14 3 3 8.19 23. 9 0n;stal P. 13 3 3 7.13 20. 9 Queen's P. R. 13 2 5 6.12 20. 9 Gillingham. 14 2 2 10.15 31. C SOUTHERN LEAGUE-DIV. II. —Goals— P. W. L. D. F. A. P. Stoke 9 8 1 0.19 4.16 Merthyr T. 9 6 2 1.19 12.13 Stalybridge 11 6 4 1.19 15.13 Swansea T. S 6 2 0.24 10.12 Coventry C.. 9 4 5 0.22 14. 8 Llanelly 8 4 4 0.16 11. 8 Newport C. 8 3 3 2.11 7. 6 ENGLISH LEAGUE-DIV. I. Goals P. W. D. L. F. A. P. Oldham A. 13 9 3 1.3i 18.21 Sheffield W.. 14 8 3 3.28 15.19 Manchest'r C. 12 7 4 1.18 8.18 Blackburn R. 14 7 3 4.27 22.17 Everton 14 6 4 4.28 14.16 W'st Brom. A. 14 6 4 4.22 13.16 Bradford C. 14 6 4 4.27 21.16 Burnley. 13 6 3 4.25 14.15 Middlesbro' 13 4 7 2.20 17.15 Aston Villa 12 6 3 3. IS 19 15 Newcastle U.. 14 4 4 6.17 15.12 Liverpool 14 4 4 6.23 32. 12 Sheffield U. 13 3 5 5.14 16.11 Chelsea 13 3 o 5.20 26.11 Sunderland. 13 5 1 7.22 31.11 Bradford 13 5 1 7.19 29.11 Tottenham H. 14 3 4 7.20 32.10 Boiton W. 15 3 2 10.26 41. 8 Manchester U. 13 2 3 8. 14 25. 7 Notts C 13 2 3 8.14 26. 7 ENGLISH LEAGUE-DIV. II. Goals P. W. D. L. F. A. P. Hud'ersfield T. 14 10 2 2.26 12.22 Darby O. 13 8 2 3.26 8.18 Bristol C. 13 7 4 2.26 13.18 Arsenal. 15 7 4 4.27 18.18 Preston N. E. 14 7 3 4. 19 16. 17 Fulham 14 7 2 5.25 19.16 Bamsley 13 I 2 4.15 18.16 Bury 13 7 1 5.25 25.15 Birm'ghaan 13 5 4 4.22 15.14 Wolv. W 14 5 3 6.22 13.13 Clapton O. 14 5 3 6.15 16.13 Grimsby 14 4 5 5.13 26.13 Hull City 13 5 2 6.17 18.12 Stockport C.. 13 4 4 5.14 16.17 Notts F. 15 4 4 7.20 28.12 Leeds City 14 4 3 7.21 22.11 Blackpool 13 4 1 8. 16 23. 9 Lincoln C. 14 3 3 8.14 24. 9 Leicester F.. 14 4 1 9.14 27. 9 Glossop 14 2 2 9.14 27. 7
Struggle for a Watch at Dowlais.…
Struggle for a Watch at Dowlais. AN OLD OFFENDER. Gwilym Davies, a labourer, was at Merthyr Police Court on Friday charg- ed with stealing a watch, value E2, the property of Dav;d Daniel Lewis, a lodgeman, at Dowlai Works. The latter described how he saw pri- soner take the watch from its hanging place on the cabin wall and put it in his pocket. "We had an entire strug- gle for it," he declared. Witness, how- ever, succeeded in obtaining the watch from the prisoner. Chief Inspector Phillips said that in April last prsoner was bound over for the theft of three razors at Swansea. There was in his possession at the time of arrest a china clock which, prisoner said, did not belong to him, but the polioe were unable to trace the owner. Prisoner was sentenced to two months.
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OUR RELIGIOUS LEADERS AXDI…
OUR RELIGIOUS LEADERS AXD I THE WAR. (To the Editor). I Sir,—Please allow me a little space of your valuable paper to express my views on the above important subject, which was raised by "A Working Man," Bedlinog. L was a member of a Welsh Nonconformist Church for many years, but I have recently been compelled to stay outside, owing to the attitude of our religious leaders with regard to the present European Crisis. The work of our leaders as recruiting sergeants," etc., has finish- ed me. I have decided to join the "peace lovers" oiit-side, viz., Lord Mor- ley, John Burns, etc. In time of peace, when it was as much as our leaders" could do to save people—the most important of all things—the parsons and ministers were fighting each other For supremacy, re Disestablisment of the Church in Wales, but when it came to recruiting men to kill their brothers, they are united 1 Where is the consistency? What does the Church stand for? It stands for the same as it has stood throughout the ages. "As it was in the beginning it is now, and ever shall be for ever and ever." The church, and, indeed the Christian world, since she 1st Century of its power (the 4th entury) is sadly described by Baxter as "a cockpit." Tens of thousands of lives were sacrificed in the Arian and Donatist struggles, and these were but the precursors of a hundred others. The early Christians had gone to the culpable extreme of frowning on the soldier who fought the legitimate bat- tles of his country, but Christendom soon habituated itself to an atmos- phere of violence and bloodshed that makes readers of mediaeval chronicles recoil in horror. w* en to the ordin- ary and eternal causes of friction bet- ween State and State, we add the long list of religions wars, massacres, and crusades of the Middle Age. and even later, the vast numbers of witches, Jews, and heretics sacrificed, the le- gions that succumbed to ordeal or tor- ture, or were swept away by famine or plague that the discouragement of science made so rife, we do not feel dis- posed to entertain seriously the eleam of the apologists that Chritianity brought into Europe a new apprecia- tion of the sanctity of life. To these vast disorders the Reformation brought no remedy. The religious wars that succeeded dwarfed all that had gone be- fore—the population of Germany sink- ing from 80 to 12 millions during the 17th Century—and helped enormously to evolve the national armies that are the chief disgsaoe and curse of our civilisation. Rome, with its vast em- pire, had not had more than 406,000 soldiers under its eagles. In the 20th Century we have the spectacle of Christian Europe main- taining 15,000,000 men for the pur- pose of war, and spending £ 300,000,000 a year on its military needs in time of peace. We know now what. the cost of the war reckoned in money is to be for us: £ 1,000,000 a day is the estimate! Where were the ideals of the Christ- ian Church during the centuries that this terrible burden was augmenting, What: effort did she make. in the days of her supreme power, the days when armies were relatively small, to in- stil into the Christian nations some sense of the wisdom and humanity of arbitration on international quarrels? Xone whatever. It. is true that she secured some hours of tranquility with her "peace of God"; it is true that certain individual Churchmen shrank N'om the horrors of war: but it is equally and lamentably true that the influence of Christianity on the mili- tary- BVstem has ben pne predomin- antly of stimulation and of "blessing." and that the nobler protest of our time against this nefarious cult of Mo- loch was largely begun by sceptics and radical heretics, and was coldly ignor- ed by the solid mass of the clergy, of all churches, during the earlier de- cades when it most needed their sup- port. Once more modern humanitar- ianism. instead of being born of Christ- ianity, has had to farce tself upon the notice of the long-reluctant churches. —Yours, etc., A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF HUMANITY. I Bedlinog.
PENSION SELECT COMMITTEE.…
PENSION SELECT COMMITTEE. I A SUGGESTION. (To the Editor). I S;I r,-Qii the Select Committee which has been appointed to deal with the question of pensions to disabled sold- iers, and to widows, orphans and other soldiers' dependents, every political party has been represented, but the women and children who will form the majority of those whom the decisions of the Committee will affect have been left out. This is a. very grave omiesaon, for the advice of women would have been most important in settling both the larger principles and smaller de- tails of this most vital and important question. Surely, it would be possible to place on the Select Committee two women: one who would be represen- tative of the officers' wives, and the other would be able to speak for the working women, who will form the vast majority of those to be pensioned. just as their husbands form the vast majority of the army. It is also most important that the Select Committee, in taking the evid- ence on which it will base its decisions, shall receive cvidence from working women, who will be mainly affected by the result of what the committee de- cides.—Yours, etc., E. SYLVIA PANKHURST. I 23rd November, 1914.
Local Haulier Fined.
Local Haulier Fined. PONY WORKED IN AN UNFIT STATE. John Evans, a haulier, was charged at the Merthyr Police Court on Tues- day with ill-treating a pony by work- ing it whilst in an unfit state. P.C. Russel said that he saw defen- dant driving the pony and cart through Ash Road, Troedyrhiw, on October 27. The pony was restless, and upon exa- mination he found two wounds on the animal, from one of which blood and matter were oozing. P.C. Price corroborated the evidence of the previous witness. Chief Constable Wilson said defen- dant had been previously convicted at that court foa- a similar offence, and fined L-2 and costs. Defendant was fined £ 2 and costs.
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GERMAN ATROCITIES.
GERMAN ATROCITIES. (To the Editor. I 8ir.-In the I IOKBEK ot 7th Novem- ber, front page, Mr. Hardie refers to German atrocities in Belgium. One case reported was from a clergyman's son, but ).lfr. Hardie adds: -1 A mili- tary man at once pom ted out the ab- solute impossibility of this, and de- manded proof. Nothing more was ever heard of it." I should be obliged if Mr. Hardie or you would kindly state the name of the military authorty re- ferred to, and the newspaper (presum- ably) in which he demanded proof.—I anI, etc.. A. MANN. Glasgow. November 28. 1914. [I am not sure whether I kept this particular cutting or not—they gather so—but I shall go through -tpch press cuttings as I have and reply next tweek. It was in the quite early days of the war,—J.K.H.].
Foundations of the Empire.
Foundations of the Empire. The report of the Bethnal Green Medical Officer to the local Public Health Committee shows that the re laxation of the Government rule that army work shall not be done by home woi kers, is resulting in shameful sweating. The Committee states that the work passes through the hands of so many "middlemen. that the rate of pay received in their borough by those who actually do the work is quite inadequate. The following are some exa-Inples: Making and finishing blue serge tunics, 2/6 each, complete finishing. Thread and silk purchased from the firm. Black canvas kit bags.—2/6 daz- Thread purchased from the firm. Fawn "Jean" kit bags.—lOd. doz. Thread found. Khaki haversacks.—2 /6 doz. Have to purchase own thread from firm at 6d. spool of 2oz. Two spools make three dozen bags.. "Jeaii" kit bags.—4/6 doz.. fin- ished. Have to purchase own cot- ton and thread. l-iiiishing khaki trousers. 2 doz. Have to purchase own thread. Trouser finishing.—2 £ d. per pair. Have to buy cotton at 2d. spool and thread at Jd. spool (average co-st 1/6 weekly). Making kit bags of browpn canvas. —19 per doz. finished. Thread sup- plied by employer. Woman's sphere is the home. and thus is woman sweated in the home. --If. B. in the "Bradford Pioneer."