SOCCER CURTAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 250, 21 October 1932, Page 12

SOCCER CURTAIN.

LAST GAMES TO-MORROW. CHARITY CUP FINAL TIE. SENIOR GRADE CHALLENGE. To-morrow afternoon the curtain will fall on the Soccer season, and two games of more than passing interest will signalise the end of activities for 1932. The principal attraction is the first game for the Scott Ramsay Charity Cup, donated this week, which will be contested by Y.M.C.A., senior champions and winners of the Falcon Cup, and Thistle, runnersup in the senior competition. Y.M.C.A. have a chance of scooping the pool in the senior grade, for victory to them would mean that they have possession of all three senior trophies this season, an accomplishment not achieved for some seasons past. Thistle, on the other hand, will have their last opportunity of winning something ere the season dies. These teams met last Saturday, when Y.M. won the Falcon Cup, but Thistle are confident of reversing the order to-morrow. There is every likelihood that the season will go out with a stirring climax.

The curtain-raiser will stage the claim of Abels, second grade champions, to senior status next season, in their challenge of New Lynn, the bottom team in the senior grade this. New Lynn are certainly at a disadvantage, in that they have not played for many weeks, but the team will be anxious to avoid relegation, and a keen encounter should result. The Abels eleven has very few players who have not had experience in senior grade football, and they will make a great bid for promotion. St. Andrew's Pipe Band will be in attendance, and during the afternoon will discourse a" selection of Highland music. Teams are as follows: — Y.M.C.A. Cowie, Mowat, Ross, Bentley, Christie Tliornes, Humphries, Chalmers, Bell, Hamilton, Kay. THISTLE. Gerrard, McCosh, Williams, Watson, Wright, Watson, Cummings, E. Williams, Williamson, Hislop, McGrory. NEW LYNN. Morris, Blockley, Reid, Twinn, Munro, Watson, Gallnway, Dunsraore, Jones, McIntyre, McDiarmid, Carr, Low, Haycock, W. K. Munro. ABEL'S. Lucas, Mellor, Guthrie, Nicholson, Jaffray, Mooney, Owens, Eimmer, Howlett, Anderson, Hart, Marshall, Wilson, Meek, Ekrnan.