LEAGUE FOOTBALL

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 119, 22 May 1928, Page 14

LEAGUE FOOTBALL

DEVONPORT IN LEAD.

CLASSIC GAME WITH RICHMOND

HIGH STANDARD OF PLAY,

A period of elimination, the first three matches of tiic season, has had the resuli of putting Devonport definitely in the lead for the League championship, tht result of a trio of clean-cut victories, although they will have to light hard to retain their position at top of the table. • irnat interest was evinced in the meeuiisjf of Devonport nnd Richmond, and an uttendanco of 9000 spectators was in keeping with the importance of the i eeasion. The district interest displayed was reminiscent of the time when district football was the vogue in Auckland. Itight through the week the form and chances of the opposing teams had been an absorbing subject of discussion. The opposing club's colours were prominently displayed in rosette form by a big section of feminine Auckland. This reason the club standard of play has been high, and favourable weather cireiimstanccs —a radical departure from Hie plethora of wet. Saturdays of last «enson —have enabled the salient feature* of the code to be brightly displayed. Individual form is being keenly watched, as there is a big representative proMiimme ahead, and the cream of the . ndo will be necessary to resist the Mritish invasion which is shortly due.