Molyneux, the goalkeeper of the Chelsea Football Club, has a reputation at Stamford Bridge for seldom being beaten by the shots of First League forwards. The other afternoon, however, eight goals were scored against him in half an hour by the blind men of St. Dunstan's.
'A soldier who played football while in the Army cannot get away from the desire to have a kick at the ball, even though he is sightless, and as all things seem to be possible at St. Dunstan's, goal kicking by the blind has been developed there into @ popular and even exciting sport, writes respondent in "The Times." During the past fow weeks 18 teams connected with the institution have fought through a competition for the Arthur Pearson Challenge Cup, and the other day the final tie, was decided.. The match was between the "Durkonians" and "Knight's Rangers." and each team played six men-
The way of the game was this. Molyneux, who seemed to be well known to most of the players and spectators, took up the attitude between the posts in which he would wait for a penalty-kick, and called out, "I'm ready." One of the Durkonians put in a shot from a distance of 14 yards. The ball went wide, and a second effort was also unsuccessful.- Then another player was led up to the line, and after some banter with the goalkeeper, he felt where the ball was lying at his feet and kicked. Each Durkonian had two shots, and between them they scored three times. Knigkt's Rangers could only reply to khis with. two goals, and wera one behind at the interval. In second half they did much better, and eventually won the match by five goals to three.
Some of the shots were remarkably good ones. Molyneux, after showing a good-natured indulgence at first, settled down to keep his goal in earnest when he found that he had to deal with testing drives. The victory of the Rangers seemed to be popular with the crowd of blind men who "watched" the game. They followed things by asking who was Kicking the ball, and the whistle of the referee (Dale, the Chelsea forward) told them when a goal had been scored. Everyly was so cheerful and eager about the match that one could almost forget the sadder side of the sport under such conditions.
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