CHAPTER XXVI 



OTHER TIMES, OTHER MANNERS 



Great Changes in Football Association unknown in the Sixties 

 Rugby as it then was Cricket perennial Dalton on Bridge 

 First Notice at the Rutland Arms, Newmarket My Surprise 

 Dalton still the Authority My own Incapacity Horrible Names 

 of Rugby and Association Football Croquet Past and Present 

 Bowls Golf The Filey Course Convoys Marbles 



NOTHING is more remarkable to anyone who 

 lives a long time than the change which comes 

 over the tastes of the public as regards sports 

 and games during that period. I have tried my best 

 to keep abreast of the times, and in some respects have 

 succeeded, but not in others. Thus, as already told in 

 another book, Rugby football, when I was at school 

 there, was practically unknown, except at Rugby, and 

 the Association game had not loomed above the horizon 

 at all. That vast crowds of the public would ever 

 become madly enthusiastic over watching football had 

 never at that period occurred to the mind of man. 

 Cricket was a perennial attraction, and it still remains 

 as the cleanest and best, having never at any time 

 developed into an attractive medium for betting ; but 

 football, which in popularity is but of mushroom growth, 

 has gained a quite enormous vogue, and, it is safe to 

 say, is more largely attended by crowds of people, and 

 more considerably speculated on, than are the very 

 greatest race meetings. 



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