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BRITISH ASSOCIATION.
That this game has come to stay
was made abundantly manifest at
the meeting on Wednesday night,
when the association reported that
very satisfactory progress had been
made. Theattendanceatthismeeting
was even larger than that m the
previous week, when it was resolved
to form an association, and this
evidence of the growing popularity
bodes well for the future of the
association.
Four clubs have now been formed,
all the members being old devotees
of the game. The recent resuscita
tion, amid great enthusiasm,
of the Perth British Foot
ball Association again demon
strates that once a person is
initiated -into the mysteries of the
' socker ' game, it rapidly becomes,
with him, a favorite outdoor
pastime, and he never, at all
events, shows failing interest in
this form of football. Mr.
Sedergreen, at the meeting of
the association on Wednesday
night, gave an interesting
account of the early struggles of
the first assoemtion, formed four
and a half years ago. It included
little over a dozen players of British
Association football, and, as the
majority of the members had a
knowledge of the Rugby game, it
was converted into a Rugby asso
ciation. The two games were at
first played alternately, but the
B.A. football was eventually alto
gether dropped.
The clubs already formed are
called the Perth, Crusaders, and
Civil Service club. Mr. Stanton,
an old Scottish player, and lately
of Victoria, is organising another
team. Efforts are being directed
towards forming a club in Fre
mantle, and the association is to
visit the Port on Tuesday evening
to see what can be done in the
matter.
As has already been stated in
these columns, there are a great
many old players of this game in
Western Australia at the present
time, who have come both from
Victoria and from the old country,
and these gentlemen have come
forward at the present juncture
and given the association the
benefit of their former experience.
They include international players
in Britain, among their number
being Mr. Gibbs, an old member
of the Queen's Park, already men- i
tioned as at one time the premier
exponent of this game in the
world.
The association will be in a posi
tion to formally open the season
with' inter-club matches on Saturday
week, while practice games ?will be
engaged in this afternoon and to
morrow. Mr. E. Pope is the
secretary both of the association
and of the Civil Service Club, and
Mr. Sedergreen is secretary of the
Perth Club.
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