Australian Football

Round 1

Premiership Season 1919 - Round 1 Review

THE OPENING DAY

An Increased Interest.

NOTES BY OBSERVER.

The opening dav of the football season saw the game for the first time in many years resumed on the pre-war basis It was such a beautiful day both for players and onlookers that large attendances were general At Carlton 2,000 season tickets—the greatest number sold by them on any single day—were exhausted long before the game started, and hundreds of people were passed in on emergency cards.

The match between Carlton and Fitzroy was the only game that appears lo be one-sided on scorns and this was largely due to Carlton getting in early and often. All the indications in the League point to keen and close competition.

In most of the teams there were new faces, and the value of the system of numbering the men was never more emphasised, The League has renewed its arrangements whereby the Victorian Football Record has the sole right to the publication of the numbers, and by this means spectators were enabled to pick out the new men.

The only drawback to play on Saturday was the hardness of the grounds which are sadly in need of rain

R-1, Ladder