SOCCER TEAM ARRIVES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 109, 25 May 1937, Page 8

SOCCER TEAM ARRIVES

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Due in Napier To-morrow

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AUCKLAND, Last Night. Thorougihly fit after a pleasant voyage the English amateur 'Soccer team wihich will undertake a short tour of the Dominion during the nexf five ^ weeks arrived at Auckland to-night by the Tamaroa. The team, which comtprises 18 players, is looking forward to an enjoyable visit and is conlident that it will show the New Zealand crowds good football. The joint managers of the team are Measrs. Wreford Brown and Thorne, while Mr. Stollery is coach. Mrs. Wreford Brown -is also accompanying the party. The team was wclcomed by Mr* F. H. Campbell, vice-chairman • of the New Zealand Soccer Council, Mr. L. Munro, cthairman of the Control Board of the Auckland Football Association and several members of the Auckland body. There was also a fairly large gathering of players and enthusiasts. v The visitors will leave for Napier by train to-morrow afternoon. They will be received by the Governor-General, Viscount Galway, at Government House to-morrow morning, and will be ten--dered a civic receptiou by the Mayor, Sir Ernest Davis, wtho is also president of the New Zealand and Auckland Football Associations. The following English amateur soccer team has been A$hosen for the first match of tho visitors' tour against the combined Hawke 's Bay-Poverty Bay side at Napier on Thursday: L. T. Huddle, G. A. Strasser, H. S. Bobbins, J. W. Lewis, B. Joy (captain), T. H. Leek, E. C. Collins, S. Eastman, E. J. Mathews, L. C. Thornton, L. C. Finch.