124 OLD COACHING DAYS 



bring back ? But it was principally the 

 last two that were connected with coachine 

 recollections. Cricket In those days was 

 the only idol of a schoolboy's worship. 

 There was no tennis then, and football, 

 which we played in w^inter, of course, was 

 not by any means the passion it has since 

 become in the north. The school boasted six 

 minor clubs, through which every boy had 

 to work his way to his final promotion to 

 "the Eleven." This was no mean one, for 

 in those days it could hold its own in the 

 north of England, and such clubs as the 

 Walton and Sefton were Mad to come from 

 Liverpool, and try conclusions with "the 

 boys," who, of course, except in school 

 matches, played their professional. 



It was to many of our "out" matches that 

 our coaching trips were made. Burton-in- 



