A VICTIM TO FOOTBALL.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2179, 1 July 1890, Page 1

A VICTIM TO FOOTBALL.

I didn't play this season ; it was a disappointment, I can tell you. Early in the aeason. 1 had a bad eye. Poulter gave it me — in the Engiueer match. The ball was near their goal. I stooped to pick it up. Somehow I tripped. Of course, Poulter didn't know what I was going to be up to. He kicked at the ball, and instead of the ball he kicked ray eye. I was a sight ! And then, hardly was I able to show again when, in the match with the St. Galen's men, Thistlewaiie, a great giant, over six feet high, picked me up when I was runniug ; and pitched me on my head against one of the iron posts on which we hang the rope to enclose the ground. Of course he didn'o nienn it, but I thought iliac game had seeu the last of me. It was all I could do, a month alterwards, to toddle down to thngiound to st-e the match with BtUdiehatn. Play, worse nick, was out of the question. My mother didn't pL>y either. Miss Blake ol jected. She used to be awfully fond <f tae game before she became engaged uo him, but since that event she seems to have cooled off a bit. She says that when a inun is going to be married she iiiukd he ought t n st-op that kind of thing. There's something in it. Jack dill, two days before his marriage, got compound fracture in both his leg«*. It was to be his last mateh — and ii- wai. But the wading was postponed. — F ova 'Tub Match of the be»soii," ill ilia ' Cornluli Magazine ' for M-.y.