SOCCER FIXTURES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 162, 10 July 1936, Page 12

SOCCER FIXTURES.

CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES. SENIOR DIVISION STRUGGLE. COMRADES V. MOUNT ALBERT GRAMMAR. The extension of the Soccer first division senior championship to three rounds brings added interest to the positions of th? teams and will prolong the struggle for supremacy and to avoid relegation. The game at Blandford Park will be between Comrades, who have lately been showing rapidly improving form, and Mount Albert Grammar Old Boys, who are the leaders of the competition, and in view of the surprises which Comrades have sprung of late, it is difficult to foretell what the result may bo. Both teams play a forceful game, with flashes of combined football, and a close contest should result. At Western Springs Ponsonby will meet Metro-College, who also have been showing surprisingly good form of late. Ponsonby will b weakened by the absence of Bob Ilines and Alf. Smith, who are at Wellington with the New Zealand team to meet Australia, and as a result the side will undergo something in the nature of a reshuffle. Nevertheless. Ponsonby are hopeful of holding the vigorous Metro side and retaining their position near the to- of the table, three points behind Mount Albert Grammar. A dour struggle should eventuate at Devonport, where Shore United and Thistle meet. Thistle are a little higher 011 the competition ladder than Shore, who lately have disappointed their supporters, but never fail to give of the best against the Scots. The game should be a strenuous and exciting affair, with little between the teams at the finish. Championship table:— Goals. Ch. P. W. L. D. F. A. Pts. Mount Albert . 7 5 1 1 25 18 11 Ponsonby .... 6 4 2 — 22 13 8 Thistle 6 3 S — 25 22 B Metro-College . 7 2 4 1 22 28 5 North Shore .. 7 2 4 1 17 28 5 Comrades 7 1 3 3 23 27 5 Teams are:— COMRADES. First Division.—Yearlrary, Bently, McKenna, Twlnn, Ilooton, A. Hayward, Evans, M. Francis, A. Francis. Marvin, Carter. First Reserves. —A. Other, Paul, Gilmour, Nolan, Crockett, Gardner, Bunting, Page, C. ITayward, Fletcher, Smith. Reserves: Watson, Ritchie. MOUNT ALBERT GRAMMAR CLD BOYS. First Division. — Warren, Macfarlane, Ilorrocks, A. Turley, Ward, G. Iloldswortb, Needham, Spencer, .Tepson, F.vvie, Woods. First Reserve. —Saunders, Dykes, Mackie, Brownrigg, Woodhall, Ailsopp, 0. Turley, •T. B. Woods, Berriinan, Robinson, Pollard, Tremain. Third Intermediate.—lliggison, Kerr, J. Mortimer, Broad, Woods, Davis. Garliek, B. Turley, Maguire, Brownrigg, Morrln. NORTH SHORE. First Division. —Cnmeron, Gerrnrd, West, Sale, Corbett, Walters. Blackie. Stevenson, Archer, Ekman, Sime. First Reserves. —Moore, Moorcroft, H. Smith, Hawkins. James, Saunders, Muncaster, Chubb, McGregor. Lithberg, Waters. THISTLE. First Division.— Watson, Williams, Stone, Kennedy, Wright. W. Watson. Wood, Wiseman, Angus, Wallace, Kay. First Reserves. —Hunter, Pnlwin, Constable, Nicholson, Watson, Brown, Simpson, Bisley, Nlcol. A. Wood, McDiarmid. Second Reserves. —Bellchamber, Plillmore, Jones, L. Clark, Wilde, Cole, J. Clark, McLauglilan, Bodman, Bell, Price, Parsons. METRO-COLLEGE. First Division. —Gavan, S. Holman, Jones, Gonan, C. Fl.vger, Burton, McCallum, Speed, A. Flyger, P. Holman. First Reserves. —R. Williams, Morrison, Elliot, K. Williams, r>. McMurehy, Graham, Robertson, Crooks. R. McMurehy. H. Goodsell, Ilodder. Reserve : L. Goodsell. PONSONBY. First Division.—Fraser, Ilaggett, Sims, Cooke, Chapman, Masters, MacFnrlane, Mulliolland. Caisley, Mullane. First Reserves. —Porter, Howlctt, S. Bouglitwood, I. Watson, Crabb, W. Boughtwood. Aliern, Swales, Sckerill, H. Watson, W. Kennedy. Reserves: Glover, R. Kennedy, Hindmarsh. Second Grade.—Default to Eastern Suburbs (owing to injuries and promotions due to players representing N.Z.). Fourth Grade.—Dobson, Gnttell, Jackson, McLellan, Groves, Wooster, Lcuselike, Jerome, Humphries, Horsburgh, Borgolte. Y.M.C.A. Second Division. — Hilliard, Mowatt, Sims, Roper. Ross, Swift. Deoki, Churchill, Murane, J. Jones, Rollins. Second Reserves.—Veart, Davies, Davies, B. .Tones, Martin, Kerr, Stone, Dowding, Blrt, Ililliard, Brown. ONEIIUNGA. ' Second Division. —Webster, A. Blockley, Everson, A. Lindsay, Sagar, It. Lindsay, Blockley, N. Grant, Lamond, Hitclien, Tornquist. Second Reserves.—McDermott, Clark, Williams. Humby, Phillips. Pine. Wolfenden, Hopkins, Chatham, Adams, Heatlcy. ABELS. Second Division.—Blreliall, Gill, Alexander, Jones, Chalmers, Owens, Robinson, MacLeay, Wright, Hamilton, Donaldson, Foster. Second Reserves. —Murray, Lavery, Chapman, Ripley. Meek, Owens, Scott, Taylor, Williams, Watson, de Rose. NEW LYNN. Second Division.—Brunning, Low, Hitclien, Bosson, Rudd, Twinn, Munro, Carr, Asliworth, Jackson, McCurdy. Fourth Grade. —Brunning, Vear, Hambrook, Palce, Glover, Smith, Chalmers, Brunning, Kent, UfFendill, McCurdy. EASTERN SUBURBS. Second Division. — Smith, Caltlwell, Welch, Gay, Hamilton. Williams, Matthews, Marlow, Cummings, Flasliraan, Krausc. Second Reserves.—Black, Ritchie, Kerr, Kidd, Bllsby, White, Howison, McKellar, Still, Munro, East. N. Brown. Sixth Grade.—Norton, Esple, Gisby, Drake, Cooper, Smith, Fraser, Norris, Alder. Higgs, Cammell. Seventh Grade. — Watkins, Asliford, Gisby, Pratt. Welch, Fraser, Smith, Shoebridge, Brookflelxl, Hooper, Hart, Bowler, Wallace, CLUB'S GOOD WISHES. N.Z. CAPTAIN GOES SOUTH. There was a representative gathering of Ponsonby Club officials, players and. supporters at the station last night when Bob Innes, Ponsonby captain, and also captain of the New Zealand team to meet Australia in the second Test to-morrow, left for Wellington to join the All Black

eleven. A presentation of a travelling rug was made by Mrs. Hickie, wife of Mr. W. J. Hickie, a vice-president of the club, while Mr. L. S. Downes, hon. secretary of the club, presented Innes with a pair of military hair brushes. Mr. Walter Dawson, president of the Ponsonby Club, handed over a travelling rug to be presented to Alf. Smith, the club's goalkeeper, who will make his first appearance for New Zealand to-morrow, and who left for the South on Wednesday evening.

REFEREES INDISPOSED. Owing to indisposition, Mr. A. E. Caisley and his son Mr. H. D. Caisley, both of whom are confined to bed, will be unable to fulfill their engagements tomorrow afternoon as referees in the second division games, Y.M.L.A. v. Eastern Suburbs and Abels v. New Lynn, respectively. This will necessitate the clubs making mutual arrangements for referees.