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Reports of football mate-has must ba received not lat:1r than Tuesday night, great inconvenience and disappointment being cans-ail by their coming to hand later. The Combination goes on merrily, and all the CIbSII have Ecored points except Staff >rd County, which seems, indeed, in a sad plight. One must, however, admire them for the uluckv way in which they come up after every knock-down -blc!\v. Wrexham did a very good performance against Hyde on Saturday, at liyde. Hyde had beaten DentJD, at Denton, and as Denton had beaten Wrex- ham, at Wrexhun, another defeat was expectad bv the Wrexham supporter.?. It is the unexpected that happens, however, al:d with a little luck, the game, instead of ending in a draw, would have ended in a win for Wrexham. a s we'Ll patronise d but The special train to Hyde well patronised, but the majority of t'tosa who v-.er.t by it journeyed on to Manchester, On leaving Wrexham, the team was one short, Evan Williams failing to turn up at the station, and a substitute had to be played. The ground of the Hyde citib is nicely enclosed. The tuif was in good cor, litim, and the vjame waa a fast one throughout. Neither team had the beat of mattiss for long, the bail I-el;.ig kept travelling from goal t J goal throughout the match. The Hyde men were considerably astonished at be form shuWII by Wrexham, as they had expected rat!!er an easy victory. Their back division is very strong, but the forwards did not play well, and no doubt the way the Wrexham half-backs broke up their combination had a lot to do with this. Coming to the Wrexhrun team, Turner played his usual tine game in goal. The backs were all right, and their play was streets in front of that shown by them against Nantwich. The half-backs were very good, fisher plays a very good game, and has im- proved wonderfully. The forwards have not played a better game this season. The left wing combined splendidly, Turner and Roberts seeming to understand each other thoroughly. Pryce-Jones played a much better game than on the previous Saturday, and Lea and John Roberts did some neat passing in mid-field. The special train reached Wrexham ag"in at a quarter past one on Sunday morning. The three games played under the auspices of the Welsh League, on Saturday, resulted in close matches. Weatminster Hovers did a good performance in play- ing a drawn game at Bangor. bleld do not appear to be such a good team as we were ltd to expect they would be, and a little atten- tion to passing and combination generally would greatly improve the team. Iiiios by their victory over Kuabon are top of the League, but tha two matches which they have played, have both taken place at Johnstown. We fancy that lihos will not have much difficulty in defeating Corwen in the Welsh cup tie to-day. The first round of the Welsh Cup id set down for decision tu-day. Two ties were, however, played last Saturday, and curiously enough both ended in drawn games. That between Overton and the Wrexham Hibernian", at Wrexham, was keenly fought out. The Overton men showed up well during the tiist half, hut afterwards the Hibernians had the best of it. G. Bihington played well amongst the home half-backs, and G. Thomas and J. Burke were the best of the forwards, who require more combination to become really effective. The tie at Brymbo was closely contested, and there was practically nothing to choose between the teams. The half-backs of the Gresford team were in excellent form, and the defence all round was good. Parry, the goalkeeper, who was called upon at a moment's notice, owing to the non-appearance of the regular custodian, saved well on several occationr. The left wing and centre were the best of the forwards. Of the home team, J. Conde played a fine game st half-back, and the forwaids a:l played well, showing better combination than their oponents. ULir k and Druida gave a poor exhibition of football at Chirk, on Saturday. A good game may be expected to-day, when the Fame teams meet on the same ground in the Welsh Cup. At the annual meeting of the Chester and District Football Cup Committee, it was resolved that the last day for receiving entries should be November 24th. The clubs that have entered already are—West- minster Rovers, lthos, Chester, Chester Reserve, Mancott United, Saltney, Chester St. Oswald's, Chirk, Crewe Athletic, Crewe Steamaheds, and Ruabon. Alterations were made in several of the rules. The Rhos Club sent in a proposition uiging the impoition of a lesidential limit, but the meeting, instead of imposing any fresh restriction, abolished several of those previously in force. Whereas a player previously had to be a bond jidc member of his club for twelve weeks' standing, hit membership qualification is now reduced to four weeks tl:e restriction requiring him to have played in six matches," is reduced to "shall have played," and the rather hard and fast rule that he shallllot have played with any other club during the season ia abolished altogether. The ride providing that in cise of a drawn match the clubs shall compete again was altered to read "shall play an extra half hour in all matches except seini-tinal and final ties," &c. In future, the semi-finals and final ties have to be played at Chester, the ground of the Chester Club not beiny indicated as the place where the final shall be played, as was the case previously. A suggestion that, instead of dividing the clubs into Weh-h and English Districts, as hitherto, the whole of the clubs should be put into the hat at the same time, was received very favorably. We understand that Nantwich have scratched to W estminster Rovers, and Crewe Alexandra to Wrex- ham in the Welsh Cup. Wrexham play Whitchurch on the Racecourse to-day. The Whitchurch Club is top of the Shrop- shire League, and the team plays a veiy pretty game, so that no doubt a good exhibition of football will be given. The London Welsh Association failed to get thrrugh the second round of the London Senior Cup, ¡ on Saturday, Ilíord beating them by five goals to one. them liy tive goals to one. On the play, the better team won, though the number of point" scored by the winners does not represent the difference between the two teams for in the early part of the game the Welshmen showed remarkable energy, and were the first to score after twenty minutes' play. Ilford, however, led at half-time by two goals to one, and in the second half, want of condition telling its talf,, the Welshmen were overplayed. The London Welsh Association can End pol ace in the fact that it is a newly-formed club, and that the players are comparative strangers to one another. They could hardly be expected to show the same form as that shown by the favorites for the London Cup. We may mention that the Welshmen presented a very smait appearance in their daik blue knickers, and white shirts with badges. The badge was a pretty combination of the red dragon surrounded by the leek, the whole being worked on a green ground. The names of the London Welsh who took part in the game were .—Goal, S. O. Roberts (Carnarvon); backs, Ben Simon (Ruthin) and Rumsey Williams (Banger) half-backr, O. Elias (Swansea), Clenyg .Tones (Pwllheli), and A. Knight (Bangor) forwards, D. Jones (Aberystwyth), T. Evans (Aberystwyth), 0. ltobeits (Bangor), J. C. Rea (Aberystwyth), and A. Jones (Aberystwyth.) To-day (Saturday) the London Welsh open the new ground of the Polytechnic at Paddington by playing their first team. We are informed that Sam Gillam has promised to assist the London Welsh, except in cup ties, when he will play for Clapton.

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WREXHAM RESRKVE v. WREXHAM…

I CHIRK v. DRUIDS. j

THE WELSH CUP. I

THE COMBINATION. I

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1 ! THE WELSH LEAGUE.

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I THE LEAGUE GAMES-

THE ALLIANCE GAMES.

FOOTBALL FIXTURES FOR NOVEMBER…

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.…

LABOR AND WAGES.I

IARMY, MILITIA, AND VOLUNTEERS.…

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