FOOTBALL FACTS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9323, 25 January 1896, Page 4

FOOTBALL FACTS.

" Weekly Press aud Referee.'* [By Drop Kick.] It is probable that the Union F.G.wul send, two teams from Dunedin to meet the Linwood F.C. at Easter time, and it in likely the Kaikoura I.C. will send up o team to meet. Linwood about the same time. Since the inauguration of the Glasgow Charity Cup some years ago £15,360 hW been divided among the charities. What is believed to be the highest score . recorded since the introduction of the present system of scoring was made by tbe second fifteen of the Gigglewick School against Ilkley Grammar School in a recent match (says an English exchange). I» amounted to 114 points, and, as we are tow that twenty-four tries were gained, beside* a dropped goal, it may be inferred that nineteen of the place kicks were successful. The first team of Giggleswick School scored nineteen tries on the following Saturday against Merchant Taylors (Crosby). The ■, absolute best on record is the 100 points under the old scoring of Radford School, Exeter, 1886, and it is hardly likely that this will ever be surpassed in a genuine game. '' Turnstile faking " is a good old game (says , a London correspondent) well-known to all and sundry who have ever had the controlof gate-money meetings, We therefore cannot >* compliment the eleven employes of the Ever* ~, ton Football Club on their ingenuity u»,;,-,; manipulating the turnstiles of the club meet* * : ing at the pay gates. The game is a wen- * worn one, and it is not surprising to leant. - that they were sentenced totermsof imprison-. ment varying from one to three months tot . their trouble. At every meeting one goes to it is easy to observe the " fake" being practised, and we hope the punishing on the . E verton toffee fellows will operate in a salutary. '> manner upon others. No matter how . " tricky " they may be they are bound to get bowled out at the finish.