ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL

Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1933, Page 10

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL

SATURDAY GAMES AND TEAMS ■ DRAW for; duff rose bowl. GLASGOW “INTERNATIONAL” DAY. Grounds and referees for Saturday’s matches in tire Duff Rose Bowl competition are as follow; — Waitara v. Caledonians, at Waitara. Referee, Mr. R. Swan. Moturoa v. Albion, at Fitzroy; Mr. F. Farley. Pirates v. ■ Stratford ,at New Plymouth racecourse; Mr, G. Lawrence. Teams will be:— , Moturoa: L. Penny, R. Johns, Bensley, B. Thompson, F. Roper, J. Thompson, R. Roper, Christensen, White, Anderson, Smith, H. Johns, Simpson. Albion: Lloyd, Wood, Rendgll, Berry, Parkinson, Upshall, Atchley, Ibbotson, Phillips, Nicoll, Jones, Shelley and McIver. ' ■ s - ■ Caledonians: Lawson, Fagan, Bennoch, Sewell, McKay, Hill, Riley, Strain, Marr, Rae, Mowat, Cardiff, Bremer,. Thorne, Payne, White, Harris. Other Rose Bowl Fixtures. The remaining weekly fixtures in the first round of the Duff Rose Bowl competition, have been drawn as follow; three matches will take place each Saturday, except where there is an interruption for a representative fixture:—' Stratford v. Albion,, at Stratford. Caledonians v,.-Pirates, at New Plymouth racecourse. Moturoa v. Waitara, at Fitzroy. Waitara v. Pirates, at Waitara. Moturoa y. Stratford, at New Plymouth racecourse. Albion v. Caledonian, at Fitzroy. Albion v. Waitara, e at Fitzroy. Stratford v. Caledonian, at Stratford. Pirates y. Moturoa, at New Plymouth racecourse. Second Round. Pirates v. Albion, at Fitzroy. Moturoa v. Caledonians, at New Plymouth racecourse. Waitara v. Stratford, at Waitara. Caledonian v. WUtara, at Fitzroy. Albion v. M<SteS®®» at New Plymouth racecourse. Stratford v. Pirates, at Stratford. Albion v. Stratford, at New Plymouth, racecourse. P Pirates v. Caledonian ,at Fitzroy. Waitara v. Moturoa, at Waitara. Pirates v. Waitara, at Fitzroy. Stratford v. Moturoa, at Stratford, Caledonian v. Albion, at New Plymouth racecourse. Waitara v. Albion, at Waitara. Caledonians v. Stratford, at New Plymouth racecourse. Moturoa v. Pirates, at Fitzroy. “International” at Glasgow— Unless they have witnessed the spectacle, colonials can have no conception of the intense excitement amongst the vast crowds that attend the “internationals” and cup finals in Great Britain. Describing the scenes in Glasgow on Saturday, April 1, the day of the Scotland-England international, the Evening Citizen said that special trains disgorged hordes of Hampden-bound enthusiasts all the morning, while many other people came Jong distance by motor car and bus. Restaurant staffs from an early hour were working at full pressure supplying breakfasts, and a flourishing trade in thistles, while heather, and roses were done by street vendors.’ Restaurants near the Central ' Station had to cope with wave upon 1 wave of hungry Sassenachs, and one I manager told a reporter that he had | served over 1000 breakfasts by 9.30. It j

had been expected that the main demand would be for porridge, but, somewhat to the surprise of the restaurateurs, Aberdeen ‘babbles" were preferred.

Nine hours before Scotland’s eleven met England’s at Hampden, Glasgow was already agog with international- excitement. In the centre of the city at 6 a.m. the dialects of Lancashire, Yorkshire and London had almost wiped out the local versions. The first international arrivals in the city were from England. Several hundred Englishmen, wearing roses, marched through the Central Station at 5.30 from the first of 25 special trains from the South.

Trains to Move the Crowds. 1 Owing to the exodus of holiday matters to the South coinciding with the international stupendous train schedules had to be arranged at Glasgow. The L.M-S. Company expected to carry between 30,000 and 40,C00 spectators to Mount Florida from Central Station between 12.30 and 2.30. The Glasgow Corporation Transport Department had arranged to provide 22,100 seats ner hour from all districts of the city to Mount Florida. There were 281 trams per hour converging on Hampden, while the number of buses per hour was 100. Nearly all the South-going I trains the previous night had to be duplicated—for London, Blackpool, SouthIport, Morecambe, and numerous other centres. The L.M. S. Company had arranged 40 extra trains for that day, 15 for the next day and 80 for the following Monday. To cope with the spring holiday traffic on the L. and N.E. railway system, 20 extra trains were booked for April, mainly to Edinburgh, Fife, and the Borders, and there were to be 60 on the following Monday.