LEAGUE TEAM
ARRIVES IN AUCKLAND. , (Per Press Association —Copyright.) AUCKLAND, September 10. To play three matches in Auckland, the. Eastern Suburbs Rugby League .team arrived from Sydney by the Monterey. There are sixteen players and a manager, John Quinlan, secretary of the club. “We have had a phenomenal season,”. said Mr Quin lari “Owing to the retirement or departure of noted players, we had to re-organ-ise the whole back line. We recruiter live young players, and so well die the team perform; that we defeated Ralma{n and;, South i> Sydney in tin semi-final games, fin'd were just beater, by Gaitterbury-Rankstown in the. final That Was -the best game this season. Ten minutes before time, we led by six to four, and they got a converted try and yet another try, to our two. Our five-eighths were absent that day.’ 7 The captain of the team is Ray Stehr, an international front row forward. Other internationals are Harrj Pearce and Joe Pearce. Harry Pearce was a constable who played a conspicuous part? in the thrilling fescue 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 all is forgotten now.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1938, Page 6
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