SPORT ANCIENT AND MODERN 



His services to the game were not long allowed 

 to go without recognition, and he was given a 

 seat on the Rugby Union Committee in 1875, a 

 position he retained up to the time of his death, 

 occupying the presidential chair in 1882. 



Other famous International players hailing 

 from Manchester were R. R. Osborne, A. S. 

 Gibson, Roger Walker, E. E. Marriott, and 

 W. E. Opcnshaw. At a later date A. N. Hornby 

 the famous cricketer, the Hunts, H. C. Rowley, 

 and J. Scofield added lustre to the powerful 

 city club. 



The Liverpool Football Club, for many years 

 the most formidable rival of Manchester, was 

 founded in the same year, 1866, and matches 

 between the two have been played ever since. 



E. Kewley, an old Marlburian, was for many 

 years captain of Liverpool, and after playing in 

 numerous international matches was elected 

 captain of the English team in 1877, being the 

 first north-country man to attain that distinction. 

 Two years previously he had been given a place 

 on the Rugby Union committee. 



F. Tobin, an old Rugbeian, and the Hon. S. 

 Parker, from the same school, did yeoman service 

 for Liverpool in the seventies, and both played 

 for England. The club was one of the first 

 northern combinations to visit the Metropolitan 

 district. In season 1875—6 they played both 

 Richmond and the United Hospitals in London ; 

 the former match is still played annually. Other 

 Internationals contributed by the Liverpool Club 

 are C. W. H. Clark, Hay Gordon, now well 

 known on the golf links at Nice, H. H. Spring- 

 man, C. L. Verelst, and A. T. Kemble. 



The Broughton Rangers is another club 

 which until the formation of the Northern 

 Union played a conspicuous part in Lancashire 

 football. Founded in 1869 it has numbered 

 among its ranks such famous players as C. M. 

 Sawyer, J. H. Payne, A. Teggin, and R. L. 

 Sedden. All of them played for England, and 

 the last-named captained the first English team 



to visit Australia, but was unhappily drowned 

 during the tour. 



Though dissolved some years ago, mention 

 must be made of the once famous Preston Grass- 

 hoppers, at one time one of the most powerful 

 teams in the north. Founded in 1869, the club 

 in its prime was a formidable rival to Man- 

 chester, and on occasions beat them. From 

 this club were trained such Internationals as 

 the Hunts and A. N. Hornby, to say nothing 

 of the Hultons, Marriage, and others. Subse- 

 quently these famous players drifted into the 

 Manchester ranks and the old club broke up. 

 After having been in abeyance for some years 

 it has recently been re-started. Other clubs 

 which did much to popularize and further the 

 game in the early days were the Rochdale 

 Hornets, Rochdale Athletic, Manchester Free 

 Wanderers, Southport, St. Helens, Swinton, and 

 Salford, which produced respectively the famous 

 Internationals James Valentine and T. Kent. 



Among clubs still flourishing are the Liverpool 

 Old Boys, who for many years have kept up the 

 best traditions of the game as a strictly amateur 

 body. Of the distinguished players they have 

 turned out, R. P. Wilson, who gained his Inter- 

 national Cap in 1 89 1, may be mentioned. 



In addition to those already named the 

 more prominent teams of the present day in 

 Lancashire comprise Bolton, Brighton House 

 College, Eccles, Parkfield Old Boys, and the 

 Engineers, late TrafFord Rovers. In 1907 the 

 county contributed two forwards to the English 

 team in the persons of L. A. N. Slocock and 

 G. Leather. The secretary to the Lancashire 

 County Union is Mr. I. W. Fletcher, and Mr. 

 A. M. Crook of the old Manchester Free Wan- 

 derers has been the county representative for 

 many years on the English governing body. Mr. 

 Crook, who did much to place the county foot- 

 ball union on a constitutional basis, has this 

 season {1907) been elected a vice-president of the 

 English Rugby Union. 



GOLF 



The county of Lancaster possesses more golf 

 clubs than any other shire in England, and is 

 adding to the number every year. The ma- 

 jority of the Lancashire golf courses are inland ; 

 but on the seaside links may be found golf as 

 good as any in England, while three members of 

 the most famous of the Lancashire clubs have 

 won the Amateur Championship nine times in 

 the twenty-one years since its institution.^ 

 One of these has won the Open Champion- 



' Mr. John Ball, jun., in 1888, 1890, 1892, 

 1894, 1899, and 1907 ; Mr. H. H. Hilton in 

 1900-01 ; Mr. C. Hutchings in 1902. 



ship twice,' and on five occasions members of the 

 premier club have been runners-up for the 

 Amateur Championship. 



It will be convenient to divide Lancashire 

 golf clubs into those whose courses are by the 

 water-side, and those which are inland ; and in 

 the first place, both by reason of its antiquity 

 and the fact that it owns the finest links in this 

 country, must be set the Royal Liverpool,' 



'Mr. H. H. Hilton in 1892 and 1897; Mr. 

 John Ball, jun., was open champion in 1890. 



' Royal in 1871, when H.R.H. the Duke of 

 Connaught became its president. 



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