' The Romance of League Football'
WALTER BURY
This evening Walter Bury , who Rave a Sports Talk on the badging of race-horses some little time ago, is to trace the romantic history of the Football League, which was formed in the year 1888, with twelve leading clubs of the day represented in it, the present Notts County Club being the oldest.
He has interesting stories to tell of several of those original clubs-of Preston North End , of the Wolves, of Stoke, of Blackburn Rovers and Aston Villa (two clubs that have always figured in the First Division). Followers of Tottenham Hotspur will learn the history of the rooster that perches on a large copper football on top of the grand-stand at White Hart Lane ; Arsenal followers will learn why their colours are red; and Bolton Wanderers fans how their club first started with a subscription of a penny a week.
The rise of the eighty-eight League Clubs of the four Divisions from humble beginnings into the present-day strength is indeed romance, as listeners will hear this evening.