SYDNEY LEAGUE CLUB

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 September 1938, Page 5

SYDNEY LEAGUE CLUB

| ARRIVAL AT AUCKLAND j (PIE press association.] I AUCKLAND. September 19. To play three matches at Auckland. Eastern Suburbs Rugby League team arrived from Sydney by the Monterey. 16 players and the manager John ’ Quinlan, secretary of the Club. “We have had a phenomenal seaI son,” said Mr. Quinlan. “Owing to I the retirement or departure of noted I players, we had to reorganise the I whole back line. We recruited fine [young players. So well did the team I perform that it defeated Balmain and South Sydney in the semi-final games, and was just beaten by CanterburyBankstown in the final. That was the best game of the season. Ten minutes before time we led six to four. They got a converted try and yet another try. Our two five-eighths were absent, that day.” The captain of the team <is Ray Stehr, an international front row forward. Other internationals are Harry Pierce and Joe Pearce. Harry Pearce was the constable who played a conspicuous part in. a thrilling rescue of a boy from drowning at Rose Bay at the end of July. “The boy got all right later,” Pearce said. “It was a pretty close shave, but is all forgotten now.”

Harry Sunderland, who has managed the last four Kangaroo teams to England, is a through passenger by the Monterey, to become secretarymanager of the Wigan League Football Club. England. He has for 25 years been a member of the Board of Control in Queensland. He spoke optimistically of the League game in Australia. He is accompanied by his wife. who. on the Tasman trip, was thrown to the deck when the ship lurched! and was severely bruised. Mr. Sunderland goes direct to Wigan, and his wife to Oxford, where their 27-year-old son. Dr. Sydney Sunderland, is a lecturer on anatomy.