The Football Association, a manifestly wealthy body, is offer- ing
priies amounting to £3,000 for the best painting of " a game of Association football in England, or any scene directly connected with it " (the referee being mobbed, for example ?). The idea is to produce something to match the fine series of cricket pictures at Lord's. That is all to the good, but what is the Rugby Union going to do about it ? To my mind there is no question which code offers the better opportunities. The scrum-half whipping the ball away to his partner, with the threes, perfectly aligned, ready to move—what is there in soccer to equal that ? To demonstrate my broadmindedness I may say that I have-never played rugger, and to demonstrate it still more clinchingly I would consent that it should be an Oxford half, at Twickenham—at least I think I would.
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