OLD KINGSTONIANS JOIN ATHENIAN LEAGUE.
Interesting Decision and the Reasons.
Perhaps the most interesting news of the week-end in regard to arrangements for next seasons football is the successful application of the Old Kingstonians' Football Club for admission to the Athenian League. It will cause not a little surprise, too, for the intention to apply was scarcely known outside the committee and the most intimate supporters of the club, and was only made when two vacancies in the league were announced. Altogether there were eleven applications for these, and they were considered at a special meeting of the league on Friday evening with the result that Old Kingstonians and Townley Park were elected. This means the O.K.'s secede from the Southern Suburban League, the championship of which they have won for the past two seasons. In this transfer of alliegance, they were largely influenced, we believe, by the decision of two neighbouring Southern Suburban League clubs, namely, Tooting and Summnerstown, who had already joined the Athenian League.

Matches with those two clubs have proved particularly attractive to spectators in the past, and the O.K.'s rightly having an eye to business, did not want to miss the opportunity of meeting them in league competition in the future. It was also considered that the Athenian would provide better matches generally than those to be obtained in the Southern Suburban League, although the away fixtures would necessitate longer journeys than those to which the O.K.'s have been accustomed, most of the Athenian clubs lying to the North of London. The secession of the champions and two other of the best clubs is to be regretted by all those interested in the Southern Suburban League, but those clubs cannot be blamed for considering their own interests.

Report from Surrey Advertiser dated 10 Jun 1914- see report in original format.


FOOTBALL
ATHENIAN LEAGUE
Latest recruits include the Old Kingstonians.
The comparatively newly-formed Athenian League has recently enrolled a number of successful teams at the expense of the Southern Suburban League. At the last annual meeting of the league, Tooting and Summerstown were successful applicants for membership in the league, and last Friday the Old Kingstonians, head of the Southern Suburban League for the past two seasons, were unanimously elected to fill one of the two vacancies caused by the withdrawal of two of the original clubs in the league. Consequently the Western Division of the S.S.L. has lost its most prominent clubs on last season's form. The O.K.'s having been unsuccessful in their candidature for the Isthmian League vacancies, only decided to apply to the Athenian League at the last moment, and their success in getting into the league will, for the most part entail a league campaign away, carried on North of the Thames instead of the South as heretofore. The other club elected with the O.K's was Townley Park.