AUSTRALIAN SOCCER

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 14, 9 October 1937, Page 17

AUSTRALIAN SOCCER

. - ' - - v3stf from africa wanted wa; qf scottish players SYDNEY, Sept. 30. Because & team of English amateurs *%ent big" In Australia recently, certain Commonwealth offlcials favour liringing a Scottish amateur team here next season,' writes A. J. Boyd in the Referee. Why bring another team of amateurs all the way from Scotland? We hjpat the Englishnien, and the Scotsipen won't be any bother. WU1 the fiublie tuni up to see them. I doubt i|. ' * " What has happened to, the invitatkm wf are suppq§ed to have sent to 4outh Africa? If there is a chance of getting a team from the Union next season we wpujd he crazy to worry about Scottish amateurs. The South Africans gave Aberdeen's b^st professional side some awful hpadaches and two lickings. They would probabiy give us "a series of high-powered shocks. But how would the money roll in? 'Soccer in Australia might make the move which every round-ball enthusiast sighs for, were the Africans to arxiye and put ap big battles. T know they are cunateurs, but they would come here representing a nation, and wearing the Springbok emblem— not the old sphool'tie. Ite Cream as Hehb. A seasonal suggestion to Sydney. Soccer clubs which are calied upon to play matches dUring the next few Weeks. Tnstead of presenting winning players with medals, give them ice ereams, a sand heap on the touchline, ceaseless showers in the dressing xpoms, and get "Mr. Spoouers permission for them to play in shorts'ohly At Lidcombe Oval on Sauirday, pne of Ihe spectators at the Go'dyear v. Wallsend State piexniership final wore a p anama. * In thf circumstances, it was a good game. and Goodyear would be pxemiers now had they possessad a piyot. John failed to fasten on to several eentres. Artie Quill was shadowed l|kf a bad character, but "fcipped between Whitelaw and Evans. Lonergan lashed one through and so the feam will have to replay. Harold Whitelaw has improved greatly as a left winger, and so have brother jack and "Digger" Evans. They are a pair of sound backs. Goalkeepers Conquest and Dellaway ara 200 per pent. efficient, but referee MpLaren was not in the same' paddock as Reay. Quill brought his seasoh's tally to 72 .... the brothers Whitelaw, on Wallsend's left-wing, ireza born on the same day 24 yegrs ago . * . . Wallsend are hlways fit, &anks to trainer Tommy Kelly, whd fought Harry Collins, Billy Edwards, and other top-notchers ahout 22 years