AMATEUR SOCCER XI FOR “DOWN UNDER'
FA
12 INTERNATIONALS IN TOURING PARTY
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BERNARD JOY INCLUDED
London, January 26.
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 17, 1937.
AN EMPIRE CRICKET TEST MATCH?
TO MARK COMMONWEALTH'S 150TH ANNIVERSARY
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Sydney may see the first Aus- tralia vs. the Rest of the Empire- cricket match negotiations to bring a visiting team to Australia during the Commonwealth's 150th anniversary celebrations early next year are successful, as the organ-. isers hope.
Negotiations are" also in
pro- gress with the baseball National League, in New York, for the visit to Sydney of an American team in cluding Babe Ruth; during the same period Baseball, says Aus- way in Australia during recent years.
NE of the strongest amateur teams ever to leave England" is the description applied to that which is being sent by the FA. this year to tra News, has made great head- Australia and New Zealand. The party will leave London on April 16. The side consists of 18 play- ers, two managers, and a trainer. Of the players, 12 are amateur internationals, and three others are aspirants for "caps" before the team sets out on its tour.
SPORT NOTICES
THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUBTM
VANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1937
20th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 27th
February, 1937. -
On Saturday, 20th, Monday, 22nd and Tuesday, 23rd February the first bell will be rung at 11.00am and the first race will be run at 11.30 a.m. On Wednesday, 24th February, the first bell will be rung at 11.30 am, and the first race will be run at 12 o'clock NOON, and on Saturday, 27th February, the first bell will be rung at 130 pm, 2nd the first race run at 2.00 pm.
The tiffin interval will be taken
Monday and Tuesday, and after the
after the fifth race on Saturday,
MEMBERS BADGES AND ENCLOSURES
Wales and Ireland; 1934 vs. Scot-fourth race on Wednesday- half with great powers of construction. fland, Ireland, and Wales; and a right Bernard Joy (Arsenal, Casuals, and
Members are reminded that they player in the party. Gained his "full" OF THE TEN ENGLISH PLAYERS WHO TOOK PART IN Corinthians, is the most colourful
prominently displayed THE OLYMPIC TOURNAMENT IN BERLIN, AS MEMBERS OF international cap against Belgium last and their ladies MUST wear their THE BRITISH TEAM, SEVEN ARE IN THE PARTY-FOR May, and has been styled the King of badges
per of the British team to the Berlin
No one without à badge will be "DOWN UNDER" THE THREE ABSENTEES ARE LESTER present-day amateurs Went as skip throughout the Meeting.
Members' En- FINCH WHO COULD NOT OBTAIN LEAVE, MAURICE EDEL-Olympia Has also travelled exten
closure: SON AND H. A. HILL, THE EX-BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY sively in Europe as a member of the admitted to the
Badges admitting non-members GOALKEEPER, WHO RECENTLY TURNED PROFESSIONAL Middlesex Wanderers a club which
Fabroad FOR THE BOURNEMOUTH THIRD DIVISION CLUB THE undertakes missionary work for soccer
Others amateur caps include: 1934 to the Members' Enclosure and Club-: REST OF THE BRITISH OLYMPIC TEAM-CONSISTED OF TWO3D,
Ireland, Scotland, Wales; 1935 Ireland, Rooms at $10.00 per day including IRISHMEN AND FIVE SCOTS.
and $20.00' Mr. Wreford Brown is to be senior manager of the team. One Scotland, Wales: 1936 Ireland, Scot-tax or $40.00 including tax for the
land, Wales.
are.. obtainable. of the leading football legislators in the world. Mr. Wreford Played with Arsenal against Sheffield Meeting (ladies $5.00
through the Secretary upon intro- Brown has had a distinguished career both as a player and organ-Wednesday in the F. A. Charity Shield respectively)
Leek (Moor Green): Leek was iser. For many years he has been a member of the English FA, final in 1935. Is a centre-half besides being a member of the international selection.committee.ved with Moor Green which duction by a member, such member Badges admitting to Members In 1934 and 1935 he managed College Gained Varsity Blue in 1935-club played in the Birmingham Mid- to be responsible for all chits, etc: Birmingham University. Played in Enclosure will NOT be on sale at English professional representa- 36: a very solid type of keeper, parti-week League. Is an ex-student of
cularly brilliant in the air.
1936 against Wales and Scotland and the Race Course. tive teams which toured Ger-
is a left-half, BACKS many Holland, Hungary, Aus-
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Sutcliffe (Corinthians): A centre- The Secretary's Office, 1st floor, tria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, G. G. Holmes (Ilford), right back of half who played at the Berlin Olympia.XCHANGE BUILDING, (Tel. and Italy. In 1928 he managed
powerful build; played excellently in Is a product of the Public School and the English team which toured season's amateur Cup final against Varsity ranks. Played for Hyde and 27794) WILL CLOSE AT 10:00 am at 12.00 NOON ON THE FIFTH Africa under the cap- Casuals at West Ham Stadium. Se-St. John's Colleges and gained Varsity ON THE FIRST FOUR DAYS, and:
DAY. tainey of Jimmy Seed, present cured international caps 1934 vs. Ire- Blue with Cambridge in 1934
land, Scotland, Wales; 1936 vs. Ireland Cunningham (Lloyd's Banks) manager of Charlton Athletic.
and Wales; also played in the last came to the fore as a versatile half-
back in the London amateur ranks last A limited number of tiffins will season. Gained representative honours be obtainable each day at the Club At Oxford he gained his Blue Olympic team in Berlin..
G. A. Strasser (Corinthians), left with the Southern Amateur League. House, provided they are ordered in in 1888-89, skippering the team against Cambridge. Later he back, a product of Shewsbury School, Is the second player from the Lloyd's joined the famous Corinthian Pembroke College, Cambridge, secured Bank Club to receive amateur cup. The advance from the No. 1 Boy, Tel
his Varsity Blue in 1935 and 1936 other was A. Tannington. Club, and also made frequent ap- very powerful kick and speed in re- pearances with the Old Car-covery. thusians. He was capped in 1895 w Pickering: A 16-year-old player against Wales, in 1898 against recently gained from local football by Scotland, and in 1898 Ireland:
Sheffield Wednesday's manager, Mr. Billy Walker, ex-Aston Villa, and Eng lish inside forward. Walker declares Pickering to: be one of his best "finds to-date:
His co-manager on this touri will be Mr. T. Thorpe, a. Cam-
Probably Pickering will enter the bridge Blue (1922), and also onel professional ranks at the conclusion of of the outstanding legislators of the tour. the younger generation.
The Players
GOALKEEPERS
FORWARDS
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On no pretext will children be permitted in either enclosure dur LC. Thornton, centre-forward of ing the first four days of the Meet-
ing. Derbyshire Amateurs Played form-
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE erly with Kingstonians, a strong Lon- den club, in the Isthmian League.
caps The price of admission to the Thornton gained international against Scotland and Wales in 1936. Public. Enclosure is $2.00 per day Had the honour of scoring three goals against Wales at Portmodac last Feb-including tax for all persons in- rary. Can also play inside right, or cluding ladies, and is payable at lett
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform The release of this youthful star Lance Corporal Eastham speaks volumes for the generosity of Army); although selected as a for-
reliable right-half are admitted to the Public En the-Sheffield club. Readers must not ward, is also a confuse this lad with international in Early this season Eastham refused closure at $1.00 per day including side right, R. Pickering, of the Sheffield several offers to turn professional Is tax. United Club.
HALF-BACKS
T. Huddle (Casuals) gained inter- national cap with the 1936 Olympic team; secured amateur cup medal with J. W. Lewis (Walthamsto Casuals last season. A spectacular nue), one of the most powerful "keeper and a product of Public School clubs playing in the Athenian
Ranger football
He joined Queen's Par
ago, and
A. C. Woolcock (Cambridge Univer as an amateur two yea sity), educated at Brighton and Hovelcided to remain an ama Grammar School, and St. Catherine's Has gained international caps.
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a product of Lancashire School Football Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, etc. and the outstanding player, in the Services (Army, Navy, and Air). Play will not be permitted to operate Aveled against Wales, Scotland, and Ireland within the precincts of The Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Race teur in 1936.
EC. Collins (Walthamstowe Ave Meeting. mb zue), formerly with Leyton Gained
Tiffins will be obtainable in the dezmateur caps against Scotland- and
Ireland in 1934. Is a great snap shot Restaurant in the Public Enclosure.
SERVANTS PASSES --s 1932, and a powerful finisher. Also plays
midweek games with Islington Corin Passes for Servants will be
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Any persons found loitering with of the fastest of the combination.
F. A. Davis (Walthamstowe Ave-Servants passes in their possession me), an inside forward whose spark-will forfeit the same and will be ing play in last year's cup ties brought removed from the Enclosure.
him under notice at the selectors
3. Gillespie Harwick) gained his amateur cap by selection in this team. Made a name in Public School football. J. Sowerby (Ipswich Town: A new man to representative football His club is a powerful one, playing in the Southern League and consists of pro- fessionals- 28/
amateurs Sowerby has
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C. B. BROWN.
Hong Kong. 15th
Secretary.