LEAGUE FOOTBALL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 69, 23 March 1937, Page 15

LEAGUE FOOTBALL.

SCHOALS' BIAITAOEMENT.

ANNUAL MEETING AFFAIRS.

Presiding at the annual meeting of the Auckland Rugby League schools' management association last evening, the presitlent. Air. b.. h. Newport congratulated (Uncials upon the marked success gained lui*t season. The report, as published, was adopted, and atter a vote of thanks to trophy donors and supporters, the secretary, Mr L. .Kout. gave an interesting outline of the progress made by this unit in the game since 1929. Officers were elected as follow:—Patron, L»r. AI. (~. Pezaro; president. Mr. Newport; secretary, Mr. Rout; executive committee, Messrs A. Stanley (chairman), J. Armstrong, roster. Jenkinson, Rowe, Lose, Ihompson and H. Green Opportunity was taken to present to Air f>. Dickey an enlargement of the representative team in token of appreciation oi his services as selector and coach. Brown in France. According to information received in Auckland yesterday a surprise wag created at Bordeaux last month on the occasion of the arrival of an English team. Lou Brown, the Aucklander, arrived in the Jrench city on the morning of the match and signed up to play for the local club. Knowing the calibre of Brown, the visitors were taken aback, and raised some objection to his qualifications to play in line with the rules, but he took the field It was claimed that Brown was still on the English register for York, and that the I rench authorities had erred in not obtaining a permit under the circumstances. Albert 1-alwasser, the ex-Maori All Black, is the playing coach of Bordeaux. Goodwill Trophy Donor. Mr. Roy O. Courtney, donor of the international trophy, won by the English team last season, is at present in Auckland on his way to Australia. He has numerous reports that the trophy is being widely exhibited and admired in England, and the French _ League has written expressing appreciation of the opportunity of competing for it. Mr. Courtney is working out a plan for the re-fashioning of his trans-Tasman Cup, which' will now be the emblem of supremacy as between Australia, and New Zealand. He is also the donor of the silver football played for between the North and South Islands since 1931.