LEAGUE FOOTBALL.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20262, 3 August 1937, Page 8

LEAGUE FOOTBALL.

AUSTRALIANS ARRIVE. TOTTEY TO TOUR WITH TEAM. (By Telegraph.—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Tuesday. The Australian Rugby League team arrived by the Awatea at mid-day and will play the first of three matches in Auckland next Saturday. The team, which includes 28 players, is regarded as one of the best that has left Australia, and has a leaven of young Mr R. Savage, the business manager, said in addition to thirty matches In England ten matches will be played in France, and the managers would report to the Australian' Board of Control on the -standard of French play \Vith a view to France being invited to send a team to tour Australia and New Zealand. Mr H. Sunderland, the team manager. said four years ago League football was only a dream in France, where now they had 200 teams, including 150 amateur teams. Regarding League, football in Victoria. be said it was not intended Jo push it there until Ihe Rugby mind was cultivated. Players on tour receive £4 weekly and a bonus at the end of the tour. The players, on the way to Auckland. held a meeting and decided lo invite F. Tottey, originally selected but unable to pass ihe medical examination. to join the team. He is following by a later boat, the team members and managers having agreed to pay the cost of his trip. F. Tottey, the Eastern Suburbs and New South Wales wing-threequartei*, is an ex-Hamilton boy and played in Ihe Hamilton High School Rugby first fifteen. He played in Hamilton when Hie Eastern Suburbs League team appeared at Steele Park three years ago.