UNITY IS STRENGTH.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 85, 11 April 1929, Page 14

UNITY IS STRENGTH.

Grafton and Kingsland Amalgamated.

Kingsland Athletics has been the name chosen for t lie new composite team which has been created by the amalgamation of the Kingsland and Grafton Athletic: Clubs. The new team, which ic striving tor admittance to the senior A division, will play in maroon, with a blue shield and monogram K.A. (Irafton have had more than an ordinary share of vicissitudes since the original Grafton team came into being, largely through the influence of Karl Jfwersen, who at the peak of his form abandoned the Itngby game to assist League. Last frca>on (Irafton went into the B grade. where they were too strong for the opposition. and now, merged with Kingslaiul, they have prospects of getting back among the high lights. From the amalgamation a. very strong team, particularly in the back division, will emerge. In the 1 hree-quarter line.)

( laud List, the New

Zealand representative, will be partnered with the brilliant Longville. while other members of the back division will be (..'arter, Angelo, Lucas and Martin. The forwards will include Herring,- York. Flower, Wilcox, and Nelson. Out of the combination a very good senior thirteen will be welded, and the supporters of the merger are confident that Athletic of the future will lie a power to be reckoned with. The forwards will be heavy, and the backs promise to lie oil the brilliant side. As mentor the team will have the services of Kelt Avery, the captain of the All HI ark team tliat, went to England, and whom the English critics said was the greatest forward in the game.