WIN FOR ENGLISH SOCCER TEAM

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 126, 14 June 1937, Page 8

WIN FOR ENGLISH SOCCER TEAM

—Press Association.)'

Auckland Provides Strongest Opposition So Far CAPTAIN INJURED

iBy Tele^rapb

AUCKLAND, Last Night. ' The Engiish amateur Sdccer team met the best opposition it has experionced on the New Zealand tour to date when the visitors played the Auckland provincial representatives at Blanford Park yesterday afternoon. The Engiish side gained the decision by eight goals to four, which was fairly representative of their superiority. The early stages saw Auckland rather over-ayed by the briUiant record of the visiting te&m, .but the local side, adopting bustling tactics, upset .the combination and Etrategio play of the visitors and at uma stage appeared likely to cQmmand the lead. The Englishmen, by -reason of their better combination and thrus.t ea attack and their greatly superior work! in the air, quickly ran to a :lead of twoj goals, but Auckland hit back gamely] to reduce the deficit to one. England! ■ then applied the pressure and ran to al 5 — 1 lead, but Auckland, realisisg ib was outclassed in the finer pointqJ adopted aggressive methods which ®&rnW ed it two further goals. The crowd- efj about 7009 waa wildly onthusiastiel when Auckland, shortly after tho xo« sumption in the second spell, took the score to 5 — 4 and for an exciting IS minutes the teains hanunered away te gain supremacy. Unfortunately for Auckland, Cameron, who had given a brilliant. exhibition/ badly misjudged •' soft shot from one of the Engiish for-f wards, allowing the ball to triekl®, through his fingera, The morale of the provincial side was broken by this tun expected reverse and the visitors presn , ed home their advantago to win fortably. In view of the eontroveny regard] lng the replacement rule, it was pec».) liar that the Englishmen should be thej first to avail themselves of the opporsi tunity of substituting a player owing, i * to injury. E. Tunnington, the Engiish i captain, in a collision with Hooton,! suffered a broken leg, and Pickering rfe-j " placed him. Although outclassed both ta| positional play and strategy, Auckkndl aanaged to hold the visitors, probablyi . by reason of the fact that the halves: " " compensated for their bad passing by aggressive tackling. Hooton and! Blackie, the wing halves, played excel-i lent games under the circumstamces.! Cameron, with the exception of two| j grave errofs which cost goals, again! played brifiiantly, while Ahgus, KAyj and McCallum showed ability to takel advantage of the few ©pporfctmitieBi which came their way. The brilliance of the Englishmen wa^ a revelation to the crowd, which show«' ed its full appreciation of the eubtlitjj of the visiting players. Collins, Eastham and Thornton were the outstand' ing players in' the Engiish side. Goall were scored for the visitors by Thora ton (S), Eastham (2), Mathews, Leel and Finch, while Angus (2), Kay ani McCallum netted for the home side.