LEAGUE FOOTBALL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17902, 6 April 1920, Page 5

LEAGUE FOOTBALL

PROPOSED AUSTRALASIAN TOUR. THE TEAM SELECTED. PreM Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 4. j The Northern Union tour of Australasia has been finally arranged. The team consists of Bacon, Stockwell, and Reese (Leeds), Millies, Stacey, and Lloyds (Halifax), Gallagher, Dewsbury, and StonehullParkin (Wakefield), Doyle (Barrow), Wood. Davies, and Shelton (Oldham), Bowers and Jones (Rochdale), Cartwright (Leigh). Cimliffe and Skelthorne (Warrington), Eeed and Johnson (Widnes). The players will be accompanied by Messrs John Wilson. (Hull) and Sidney Foster (Halifax), managers.—A. and N.Z. Cable. VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND. ALTERATIONS IN ITINERARY. (Phb United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, April 5. At a conference of League footballers the coming visit of the English team was discussed. The Hawke's Bay fixture was cancelled, and a North Island match substituted. The South Island match will be played at Greymouth, if acceptable to the v local league. It was decided to recommend the sending of a New Zealand team to England in 1922, and to make inquiries as to the possibility of arranging such a tour. A ;series of trial matches will be played before the selection of the representative team to meet the Englishmen.