As may be gathered, there is a shortage of halves and an outside left. On the other hand it is more than probable that the number of eager centre-forwards will have o be cut down. It is also deemed somewhat doubtful that the Refs will take to the idea of facing two custodians in the same goal—their task of locating the net quite hard enough even without the encumbrance of a keeper.
Having had plenty of experience in reporting these affairs, the Pressmen are well up in the etiquette. In their best tradition, two powerful Press teams will engage in strenuous combat—to give themselves some idea of the game and the selectors other ideas of the task ahead of them. The entire Race Course has Been placed at the complete disposal of the Type-ribbon Kings, but they have magnanimously decided to confine their activities to one ground only—either R.G.1 or R.G.2—depending on whichever is located by the Press sleuths first. Once the venue has been discovered, it will be swamped at once by the hordes of the invading reporters who will lose no tine in engaging in the turmoil of battle.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.