CANTERBURY TO PLAY OTAGO

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21577, 13 September 1935, Page 18

CANTERBURY TO PLAY OTAGO

SOCCER ATTRACTION

The principal Association football attraction for to-morrow will be the Canterbury v. Otago representative game. Otago have not played here for more than eight years, and. it will be interesting to see the outcome <rf th?s match. The last match played between these two provinces was in 1933 lor the Football Association's trophy, when Otago won by three goals to one. The Otago team for to-morrow's match contains no member of the team which won in 1933, whilst the Canterbury side has three, namely, M. B. Mitchell, S. Cawtheray, and A. Sutherland. The Canterbury selector, Mr B. O.Priddis, is evidently finding some difficulty in selecting a good forward line. Some players have gained places on their reputations rather than on their form. An interesting experiment will be the playing of J. Souter, of the LytteKon juniors, as the inside left. An equally good experiment would be the playing of A. Almond, of the Technical juniors, at inside right. Almond played an exceptionally fine game for the Canterbury Dewar Cup team last Saturday. The representative teams for tomorrow are:— Canterbury—M. Mitchell (captain); S. Cawtheray, A. McMillan; M. Gordon, A. Sutherland, A. Ellis; F. Craggs, G. Smith, R. Pattinson, E. Ellis, J. Souter. Otago—L. Holden; G. Taylor, J. Pickerill; A. Stenhouse, A. Brown, A. Sutherland, J. Truesdale; L. Smith, G. Henderson, H. Balk (captain), W. Rogers, Dalziel. One to be omitted. This game will be preceded by the final of the primary schools competition, with St. Michael's and Addingtan Convent the contesting teams. NESTOR.

ENGLAND'S TENNIS PBESTIGE

AMERICAN CRITIC'S TRIBUTE

Reviewing the Davis Cup challenge round in which England beat the challenging United States team by flva matches to love at Wimbledon, "American Lawn Tennis," in an editorial, pays a generous tribute to the British team.

"Champion nation for the third suc- ' cessive year, Great Britain is firmly entrenched and more secure that at any time since the Dohertys, Smith and Riseley occupied the foremost place in the lawn tennis world," says the editorial. "No one will say ought to detract from the last and in some respects the greatest victory of Great Britain. It was clearly earned, and achieved overwhelmingly" The. conn? try in which the game was invented and developed soundly, sanely, and intelligently has come more completely into its own.

"From the nation we naturally turn to the individuals who have set her on the heights. We gave most'attention to Perry and Austin, Tuckey and Hughes lurking very far back In our minds. ... It is now a quartet,* a galaxy of talent, that scintillates in the British firmament. We conceded that Perry was invincible We remembered that Austin was greatest when bis country's title was at stake, and felt that the issue really hung on him and on his play. How splendidly he rose to the %:casion in the all-important first match is now a matter of history. What he accomplished was a tocsin, a signal that beckoned on to victory." "American Lawn .Tennis" ranks the world's best amateur players as follows:

1..F..J. Perry (England). 2. G. von Cramm (Germany). 3. H. W. Austin (England). 4. J. D. Badge (United States). 5. J. H. Crawford (Australia). W. L. Allison (United States), R. Menzel (Czechoslovakia), and C. Boussos (France) All the sixth place. Camera as Wrestler? Primo Camera plans on returning from Europe to America as a wrestler. He has been offered a substantial guarantee to meet Man Mountain Dean.