SOCCER FOOTBALL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 250, 22 October 1928, Page 11

SOCCER FOOTBALL.

THE SEASON ENDS.

FALCON CUP TO TRAMS,

The curtain fell on the 1928 Soccer season on Saturday with one of the most stirring club games of the season, when Tramways defeated Ponsonby, adding the Falcon Cup to the senior championship, as the outcomo of the season's efforts.

From staTt to finish the game was of a brisk and lively nature, without a dull moment, and with flashes of sparkling play. Ponsonby threw away two penalties during the game, and probably by that means lost the trophy, but on play there was little between the teams.

In the first half Tramways took a decisive lead as the result of goals by Davis, McElligott and Spong, while Stewart registered only score, though the side were unlucky in not having another one. Early in the second half E. Williams put one through for Ponsonby, and in a rattling finish no further score was made, the game ending:—

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FOURTH GRADE FINAL.

In the final of the fourth grade championship North Shore defeated Burnley by 4 goals to niL

YOUNG PLATER HURT.

INTERNAL INJURIES.

During the fourth grade competition final on Blandford Park on Saturday afternoon, W. Horsley, the right back of North Shore, and residing at Hanlon Street, Devonport, met with somewhat serious injuries in a collision with an opponent. Horsley broke a rib and sustained internal injuries, that necessitated his admission to the hospital as an urgent case. He was treated initially by the members of St. John Ambulance on the ground.

GAMES AT HOME.

RESULTS OF SATURDAY'S PLAT.

Association football matches played In Great Britain on Saturday resulted as follows:—

ENGLISH LEAGUE.—First Division. Aston Villa 8, Bolton Wanderers 5. Burnley 2, Blackburn Rovers 2. Bury 0, Sheffield Wednesday 4. Cardiff City 0, Sunderland 1. Leeds 4, Manchester City 1. Leicester City 2, Portsmouth 0. Liverpool 2, Huddersfleld 3. Manchester United 1, Birmingham 0. Newcastle United 0, Woolwich Arsenal 3. Sheffield United 2, Derby County 1. Westham United 2, Everton 0.

Second Division. Hull 1, Stoke 3. Middlesboro' 4, Blackpool 1. Mill wall 2, West Bromwich 2. Notts County 1, Notts Forest 1. Oldham Athletic 1, Chelsea 0. Port Vale 3, Clapton Orient 0. Preston North End 2, Swansea 2, Southampton 0, Barnsley 2. Tottenham Hotspur 2,. Grimsby 1, Wolverhampton 2, Bristol City 1.

SCOTTISH LEAGUE.—First Division. Airdrieonians 2, Falkirk 3. Ayr United 4, Queen's Park 2. Celtic 1, Rangers 2. Cowdenbeath 2, Raith Rovers 0. Hearts 1, Hibernians 1. Motherwell 4, Hamilton 3. Partick Thistle 2, Clyde 0. St. Johnstone 2, Dundee 2. St. Mlrren 5, Kilmarnock 4. Third Lanark 0, Aberdeen 3.