FOOTBALL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 16 January 1926, Page 6

FOOTBALL.

SOCCER IN AUSTRALIA. INCOME £I9,97S—PROFIT WAS ONLY £76. MELBOURNE, Jan. 5. One of the motions before the an. nual conference of Soccer associations of Australia, now sitting in Melbourne, urges that the future international tours should be run more economically. The balance-sheet of the last tour shows that the expenditure was £19,889 Is 2d and the income £19,975 8s 9d, leaving a credit, balance of only £76 7s 7d. Included in the expenses were the items guaranteed to English Football Association £5300, and steamer passages £3296 9s 6d. Bonus to English players £423 19s Id, honorariums to Australian players £275., The report also recommends discussion on tli o proposal to import more coaches and that Scotland should be asked to send a team to Australia in 1927.

There is a likelihood of a team of Fijians being asked to tour Australia. The council will consider suggestions to alter the name of the association to Australian Soccer Football Association.

The council decided to invite South Africa to play in Australia on their New Zealand tour this year; and permission was granted to the Queensland association to invite New South Wales to tour Queensland in June. The trophy presented to Australia by tlie English Football Association will nor, be competed for bv the States until 1927.

ALL TOGETHER. SOCCER EQUALITY. lIV C AISLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPXBIGHT. LONDON, Jan. 14. There is an unprecedented situation among the 22 clubs forming the first Soccer division. Only 12 points separate Woolwich Arsenal, the leaders, from the bottom team, Manchester City, which lias scored more goals' than the Arsenal. The danger zone extends to Liverpool, which is in fourteenth position. This extraordinary bunching enabled Leicester to leap in one match from the bottom to sixteenth position.