["Professionalism is illegal."--_First "New Law" adopted by the Rugby
Union for the control of Rugby Football._]
ROWLAND HILL, and gentlemen all,
Thanks for your efforts to "keep up the ball"
Out of the Moneygrub's sordid slime!
"Professionalism" and "Broken Time"
Wanted the touch of a vigorous hand
To keep the Amateur Football Band
From the greedy clutch of the spirit of trade
And speculation, alas! arrayed
In spoil-sport fashion against true sport,
On turf and river, in course and court.
Keep it up, gentlemen! Let not the shame
Of money-greed mar one more grand English game!
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"THE NEW WOMAN" AT THE LYCEUM, _i.e._, Mrs. PATRICK CAMPBELL as
_Romeo-Robertson's Juliet_. Heartily can we "pat CAMPBELL" on her
delicate shoulder for her rendering of her share in the "Balcony
Scene." That "The CAMPBELLS are coming" we all know; but whether
this particular CAMPBELL, "of that ilk," has yet "arrived" is the
question on which we shall have more to say "in our next." Scenically,
satisfactory. Dramatically, doubtful.
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