LATE FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8510, 13 August 1907, Page 5

LATE FOOTBALL.

THE PROFESSIONAL TEAM,

THE PROSPECTS OF SUCCESS.

Ey Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, August 12. With reference to the prospects of the professional team the Auckland members generally think that the tour will be a success. Smith, who went Home with the "All Blacks,' believes that the professionals will do as well against the Northern Union Clubs as the "All Blacks" did against the amateur clubs at Home, but that the margin of victory will be less. The members who left by the Victoria for Sydney, this evening, were:—W. H. Mackrell, A. Trevarthen, W. Tyler, L. B. Todd, R. Wynyard, H. Rowe. J. C. Gleeson, of Hawke's Bay, playing manager, also left. G. W. Smith, W. Wynyard and C. Dunning, who was only selected this morning, will proceed to Sydney next Monday. After flaying three matches in Sydney the team will leave Melbourne for Home by the Ortona on the 27th inst. THE MOVEMENT IN SYDNEY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Received August 13, 12.51 a.m. SYDNEY, August 12. At a meeting of the newly-formed Professional Football League about sixty players were present. It was announced that 160 players had handed in their names as members, including Messenger. It was decided to give the New Zealand team a welcome in the Town Hall on Thursday.