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Show MUCH FOOTBALL, NOT ENOUGH WAR I London, Nov. 23, 11:10 P m Indignation Indig-nation against the hitherto universally popular game of football !& expressed by nearly the entire British press today to-day because almost no men enlisted as a result of the recruiting at Saturday's matches "It Is time to eradicate the football cancer," says the Pall Mall Gazette in an article which goes on to say that not a single man was recruited at London's principal football match, which was attended by 15,000 spectators. specta-tors. A colonel who lost a son at the front and was himself returning to the firing line appeared at this game, says the paper, and pleaded ) with the men to enlist. "As a soldier I ask you," said the colonel. "I say come, your country' needs you." His words were drowned by shouts as the teams came on the field, continues con-tinues the paper, which adds that in other parts of the country the same stolid refusal greeted the bands of speakers and recruiting officers No re mils Were obtained at Nottingham, where 7000 spectators attended a match, and no one was recruited at Brighton. The Evening Standard says that the result ot" the country-wide movement was one recruit "Is football such a curse that nothing noth-ing on earth can stop if7" says the Standard. "Vigorous youth should be powerfully persuaded that this Is not the time for the development of any ! passion save loe of country." The Westminster Gazette says there is only one way In which the football association can put itself aright tn the eyes of the public, and that 1b by discontinuing itg program. |