West Australian, Tuesday 23 November 1920, page 8
BRITISH ASSOCIATION GAME. To the Sporting Editor.
Sir,-With regard to the cable published to-day concerning rowdyism at London association football matche. A little amplification might be permitted to throw some further light on the subject. Association football in England is this season drawing crowds never before erperienced. Every Saturday the 66 principal league matches (there are 22 clubs in three divisions, and not much to choose between any of them) draw between them 750,000 spectators, or an average of about 12,000 per match, but in the big centres, happening to have winning clubs, the attendances are frequently over 60,000, and once recently 75,000. This year the bonus system, of giving players extra pay for winning and a .consideration for drawing games, has been substantially increased with the result. That very much more spirit has been engendered into the games and has led the spectators to show a corresponding anxiety for victory for their side. The professional's wages are as high as £10 per week this season though not all of them get that much, but about £7 per. week is the lowest wage now for a playing professional. A great deal of illegal gambling goes on and players are now and again proved to have had illegal understandings about results. Only last year a whole team, ground and directors was wiped out Leeds City, a team capable of drawing a 40,000 gate, being so severely dealt with because of nefarious practices. As the association game has proved so immensely popular in (Great Britain it could not help going professional, - but being professional it has around it all the evils that paid sport is beset with.
-Yours etc., PENALTY, Perth, Nov. 22.
Pilbarra Goldfield News (Marble Bar, WA), Tuesday 30 November 1920, page 3
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/146335399
IRELAND.
Wholesale Murder TERRIBLE HAPPENINGS.
SCENE IN THE COMMONS.
London, Nov. 22,
Serious shooting has taken place in Dublin whereby fourteen were killed, and later two shot at the Gresham Hotel. Military reinforcements surrounded the hotel and fighting was renewed. A civilian and two soldiers were killed. The Centred Hotel was commandeered by the military and the staff/and guests given two hours notice to, leave.
It is officially announced that 12 officers and two civilians were killed and three officers wounded by murder gangs. All the victi s were associated with, the recent Courts Martial. The official theory is that the assassins object is to paralyse the legal machinery, as many recent arrests have been made of persons belonging to the inner circle of the murder gangs and others.
During a Gaelic football match at. Croke Park, Dublin, in the presence of 60,000 spectators, armed forces, accompanied by armed cars and mounted machine guns, entered the field. The crowd tried to escape, but were seized with panic. Shots were fired in all directions and many were injured in the stampede. Seven were shot dead and hundreds wounded by gunfire. All the hospitals are full.
According to a later message from Dublin there were 15,000 spectators present and the game had been in progress a quarter of an hour when the armed forces appeared. Ten persons were killed and 20 wounded.
TELEGRAMS
London, Nov. 25.
In the House of Commons the Chief Secretary for Ireland read the details concerning the murder of the thirteen officers in Dublin on Sunday, which made a deep impression on a crowded house.
Mr. Devlin attempted to speak but members shouted him down. [https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/a0vyjg/at_first_sitting_of_parliament_after_bloody/eal3e49/]
In answering a private question Mr. Lloyd George said he shared in the general horror at 'the cold; blooded murders. If experience showed that the Government's powers were insufficient he would ask for further powers. ;
Devlin asked why nothing was said about the appearance of military forces at the football match. Major Molson, sitting behind, seized Devlin round the neck and attempted to drag him over the bench, Devlin struggling violently.
Another member attempted to force Devlin into his seat, Devlin shouting "Is this English courage, English chivalry? Six hundred attacking one man."
Seeing that the scene was highly threatening the Speaker suspended the sitting.
London, Nov. 26.
Mr. Asquith moved in the Commons that this House condemns the outrages committed against the forces of the Crown., Civilisation in Ireland expresses its deep abhorrence at the brutal assassination of officers and other British subjects in Dublin on Sunday last. The House also deplores and condemns the action of the Executive in attempting to supress crime by methods of terrorism and reprisals which involves the lives of innocent people contrary to civilised usage, and believes, that pacification in the matter to be of immediate urgeny. The motion was rejected by 328 votes to 83.
London, Nov. 27.
The second reading of the Home Rule Bill has passed the House of Lords.
In compliance with the Government's wish business in Dublin, was suspended during the procession in connection with the funeral of the murdered officers.
Thirty-three soldiers were killed and 18 wounded in Ireland during October.
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