Soccer Football.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1922, Page 4

Soccer Football.

From Press tiles to hand the Soccer code of football is in the ascendancy at Home. Whilst there it is the national gainc so it can bo truly said that Rugby L the national game in No/■■aland. League football is making a strung endeavour to capture many devot,‘os ot it anti other forms of sport mi as in multiply its n.embers. while Socter is also in the field for coiii|licm. it woliM be idle to deny tlie claims of the rival i odes of tb"s purl.ctilar winter jiastini . Throughout tlie Dominion the t. cliimal element is so strung, that despite attempts to the contrary, the v " lib i.f i-uiu is entering lai" Iv ill f ’• proui'itiini of the spurt, (ij'e.vn i.i'" piacticaliy foreign to SV.erer football, nm! mu soldiers who were participants in the late war acre also tlie piivib'g.'d eye-witnesses of many As: a ial:': > t . hall mac! es by the Tommies w! , n He •upudug forces allowed a respile Tic. ir opinion which is undoiihti'illy unbiased gti to lavuiir the u ore seieut' 1 niili. When it is considered that no lass than 150,01)0 witnessed the last English clip filial it gives some idea and guarantee that it. must have some attractiveness.

The New Zealand Coiimil if Ax-mo::: lion Fooiliall in arranging L - it it. ra r. for an Australian vis't im lnded \\ e. land as l he must favourable c litre lor the ( oast. Grevmoulli has hern selected fur the rendezvous and as ii will he the only game played nil the \\ es! Coast there should b ■ hi" e nUcudan ■ at Victoria Park on WAsluesday. June 7rl l . to witness it. Apart from curiosity, those who have an inner knowledge ol tho game aver that the pick of AAVsthiiul will put up a strong light, against the Australians. AY h i I -1 recognising

that , Australia is strong in its iepi'Cr sentativcs, it must not Im ov-ei looked that in Westland there arc many players who have graced the lanks nl‘ iirst league and divisional grades oi' In : • ball. U*racarj«»X'Krr