SPORTING GOSSIP.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 118, 28 January 1926, Page 8

SPORTING GOSSIP.

£40,000 has been paid during the present season by English Soccer clubs to secure good Scotch players. Half the Scottish team which defeated England last season has now been persuaded to join English clubs. The last man to be secured is Hughie Gallacher, the international centre forward of Airdriconians, for whom Newcastle United paid £6OOO. A proposal has been made in England for the test team to meet Australia to be picked by Hobbs, Woolley and another player sure of his place in the team. Though the suggestion was made by the famous W. G. Quaife, it has little chance of being carried out, and a more likely idea is that the present committee of three, Messrs. Leveson-Gower (Surrey), Daniells (Somerset) and Sharp (Lancashire), will be augmented by the addition of Major Lupton (Yorkshire) and A. W. Carr (Notts). To judge by the news flickering through from London, the Maori matches next season in France are creating some interest. An effort is to be made to have the team play in tne Old Country. For a team belonging to a distant part off the British Empire to travel to France to play the game and not to be invited to play in England would be about the last straw in holding colonial Rugby countries together with the Mother Country. The general attitude of the sponsors of the game in Great Britain towards the colonies is unsporting and churlish. It is really worse than that, for it has all the appearance of being anti-British. —“ Cynic,” in the Sydney Referee.