Soccer ENGLISH AMATEURS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 93, 6 May 1937, Page 14

Soccer ENGLISH AMATEURS

Opening Match of Tour with Hawke's Bay PERSON AL PARAGRAPHS The English * , amateux Soccer team, whicb is fiow on its way to New Zealand, will open its tour by playing Hawke's Bay at Napier oa May 27. Practieally tbe wbolo Englisb team bas bad amateur international or professional experience, and tbe Britisb Press wai loud in its expressions of amazement that sucb a strong side could be induced to make sucb a tour. From tbe 18 players a side could *be selected wbicb would beat any , other amateur combination in England, and would .bold .its « own against most of tbe professional sides. "There are eight internationals in tbe party, with an aggregato of 28 "caps" between them, four having been members of Great Britain's team at tho Olympic Games last August. E. TUNNINGTON, captain of tho . team, ds a brilliant ce'ntre-half, playing ■> for Corinthians and Lloyd 's" Bank, of which latter club he is captain. - Ho can also play the wing-haJf game, as ho demonstrated against Scotland in 1935i"

The brilHance of Joy has kept Tunnington from being England 's international choice. He was a member of the Northern Nomads Clnb and has had considerable experience with profes*> sional teams, having played with Accrington Btanley at Chelsea., and is another Corinthian playera The outatanding player of the party, is • undoubtedly BERNARD JOY, thij tall centre-half, who, although ;a mem" ber of an amateur si,de, the Casuals, is renowned throughout England and, the Continent as first reserve for tha. great professional ATsenal team, for whom he has played some sterling games. His display against Sunderland in the FootbaE Shield' this season was outstanding. He has twiee assisted Corinthians in the English Cup,- and is the possessor of nine international caps, havang played against Scotland^ Ireland, and 'Wales in every game dur« ihg the last three years, He also gaia*ed an Amateur Cup medal last season* His wedding day vvill be long xemembered, as so keen is he on the game that he turned- out for his club against Dulwich Hamlet the eame day, to the - accompaniment of the strains of "Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day," played, by the Dulwich HamletT Band. * ... H. "S. ROBBINS (Dulwich Hamlet)/ has been chosen by the Football Assoeiation to take the place of G. G. Holmes (Hford) in the New /Zealand Touring Party. Robbins is surely the most versatile player in the amateur game. Since he joined the Dulwicb Hamlet as a boy ;of eightcen twelve years ago, he has played in every posN tion in the field. He gained Amateur Cup' medals as an outside-left ahd a left-back, and now fills the right-baek position for his club, in which position he played great game in an mateur Cup tio when Dulwich defeated tha holders, the Casuals last February, Robbins played for England against: Wales in 1934 and received the highest honour of all — a "cap" against Bcotland — tho following season. He

has also played in an Amateur Trial match, for the Southern Counties v. the Northern Counties last season, for the Isthmian League, for London and for Surrey. Further personal paragraphs will appear next week.