Got to play the game, eh, Duckworth ?" Duckworth's face grew fiery red.

"Yes, certainly," he said.

"Rather an awkward rule but--" "You see, Mother, we want to eliminate every sign of professionalism," said Larry, "and emphasise the principle of local material for clubs." "Ah, I see, and a very good idea, I should say," said his mother.

"The Eagle Hill team, for instance, will be made up of Eagle Hill men only.
That is really much better for the game because you get behind your team all the local pride and enthusiasm." "A foolish rule, I call it," said Switzer abruptly to Kathleen, "and you can't enforce it anyway.

Who can tell the personality of a team ten, twenty or fifty miles away ?" "I fancy they can tell themselves," said Jack Romayne.