Av. Lewis officiated at. the first Cup "Final between Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion in 1895
At Crystal Palace, and was the first "outsider" to have charge of the deciding game for the English Cup, Me refereed the "Aston Villa-Everton game at the Palace in 1897, and the following, year was appointed for the third time in the final between Notts Forest and Derby County..On the latter occasion he had the narrowest escape from permanent injury. How he survived was a miracle to himself. Immediately play ceased a huge crowd swarmed on the ground to witness the presentation to Notts Forest. Mr. Lewis was caught and thrown down, several people falling upon Since 1901 Mr. Lewis had been member of the Football Associntion Council, and he was on the Consultative Committee, the Intornational Selection Committee, and the Rules Revision Committee, and for 25 years was officially connected with the Football League, of which, service, was senior president." He gave many lectures on the varying phases of the game, snd a few days before his illness, he was very active in the district addressing school and ether gatherings on lessons from the Australian tour, He was a pronounced tee: totaller, and was never tired of advising young spertemen to leave liquor severd;: alone. His outspoken views brought him many orities, but very few enemies, and almost at the last he stuck' to his guns" in a reference he made to the cricket eleven's performances in Austral A Howe paper publishes the story of an Aberdonan who was engaged to a young lady employed in a telephone exchange. When her birthday arrived he generously gave her where Sir Robert Smirke's concoption of this whole block has been the inspiration, Fleet Street has a new ling of some character in Messrs. Ben's new offices, designed by Messrs. Campbell Jones. and Lowthers, which has some connexion with Smirk's Hoare's Bank, one of the chief ornaments of Fleet Street.
It is good to see that the stepped-back attic between the towers gives a wide balcony, All Fleet Street should surely have balconies, for it is the processional way to London's "Duomo."
LB
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