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ANOTHER PROUDFOOT ?
T HAVE hoard It said that Footscray
In tho.courso of time will bo like
tho CoIUngwood team. Everybody
will bo pleased to see them advanc
ing In one rcspoct they aro now
iiKo coiungwood — tney have a. police
man, Webb, as full back," and for
many years Colllngwood'8 goal guar
dian was a policeman — Bill Proud-
foot. who wits a thorough sportsman.
May Webb's earner, both on the field
and in the force, be as bright as tho
Collingwood man's. BUI Proudfoot
rose to ' the rank of Superintendent
William Proudfoot, and rotired some
years back I remember on one oc
casion there was a distrubance In
Little Bourke Street. The proceed
ings were decidedly willing, and when
the police, with Proudfoot at their
heud. arrived the crowd waa ripe .for
a concerted .attack on .them.- Sud
denly ono man called out with a voice
like n bull's. "Uey. blokes, here's old
Bill Proudy. who was' tho Magpies'
captain." proudfoot laughed; and
j that laugh w bettor than a baton
I charge for it --ut tho mob tn good
I humor and sav an awkward situa
tion, Tho man -ho had . pointed out
I Proudfoot was, football hero wor-
ahlppor, and fq ijuite a long: while
regaled the crov.-d Mlth reminiscences
of Proudfoot's fcMbnPing days.
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