Thistle Soccer

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1039, 1 August 1930, Page 10

Thistle Soccer

WHAT AUCKLAND Owe, TO THE HOME OF 8 FOOTBALL

THE CLAN MrDOUGALL

What Auckland owes to Cal. donia in Association football L?,' be told in the sports THE SUN tomorrow evening the history of the Auckland Thi2? Association Football Club will s! reviewed.

The world's finest exponent* round baU gafiae an still to North of the Tweed or on retail English clubs at enormous fee* a large percentage of the Associati** football players of A uckland' come front Scotland. It Is from &J?* that Auckland has drawn her « strength in the game, which ovS** 1 long period of years has maintaL!; her at the top of the Soccer tree in New Zealand. The founding of the Thistle Cho. —originally a branch of the Gran;'' Club—will be told. The work Clan McDougall has been chiefly „ sponsible for the placing of Scotth* Soccer clubs in Auckland In the k. They have had many ups and don. but In spite of all have come off —A a most Impressive record In the Em,,’ In addition to a review of the reomi of tho Thistle Club, the stars of and present days in the jersey oftjT: famous Queen's Park Club— the famous amateur Association footh2i club in the world—-will be told. tk. article will also feature a picture tho Grafton team of 1901. the for.' runner of Thistle, and of two of the best subsequent teams the Scottish dob has placed in the field.