CANADA’S SOCCER REPRESENTATIVES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 8 April 1927, Page 4

CANADA’S SOCCER REPRESENTATIVES.

STRONGEST SIDE EVER IN

DOMINION.

The Canadian team, which is due to arrive in Auckland oil May 23 for a ten-weeks' tour of .New Zealand, has now been finally selected. When one has read of their achievements, ifc will be realised that New Zealand representative teams will be up against the fitiflcst proposition i!t lias ever boon tlieir lot to meet. Some of the players are natives of Canada, several of thorn

were born in the nursery of Association football, Scotland, - and learned to play with teams of considerable reputation. They have a tine combination of weight, epced and good tactician?. They have at least two firstclass centre-forwards, one of them 6ft. in height and over 12 stone in weight. First of all, they have one man for each position, accustomed to play in the place wh.tli ho will occupy in the team, and there are three or four of those versatile players who can till almost aid position with equal facility. The dol'eneo of tho visitors appears to be what on© might describe as cast iron, and will call lor tho utmost endeavours of tho New Zealand forward pack to penetrate. They have three fairly easy matches to start with, Taranaki, Wanganui and Manawatu but those should put them m good tune to meet Wellington on June 3, and from then oil they will be a team to be reckoned wilth, for they will have got into tlieir stride. The first test is on June 25, at' Dunedin, by which li'me they will have played ten games, and this will bo a real trial of strength. The second and third tests will follow on succeeding Saturdays at Clir.btchurcli and Wellington,, and the last at Auckland, just before they leave.

The tour will cost New Zealand £7,000, which means an average of practically £350 per match for 21 games. In addition ’ there are other heavy expenses to ho incurred, and the assembling of the New Zealand representatives teams for tho Test matches will bo a considerable- item. It looks as if the total expenses will figure round about biOJXJO, which will require an approximate average of £SOO a match to cover. Most of the guarantees have already come to hand, and the lemauuler arc expected to reach lieadquarttrs very shortly. It will be upon the four Test matches and the four games with tho four main centres upon which the council will rely for the greater portion of the receipts, and as it will be first-class football there is little doutb that the public will throng to see it.

The Canadian team fs a far stronger one than that which visited Australia, two seasons ago, and no side as good lias hitherto visited New Zealand.

Alderman James Adam, of the City of Vancouver, 8.C., manager of the Canadian team, was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, and went to Nanaimo, 8.C., with bib parents as a boy in 1893. Ho has been associated with Soccer in the Province of British Columbia, botli as a player and officiul for 35 years, and as a centre-forward his equal has never been seen in that Province. He has been a member of the Dominion Association Council for five years, and is an ex-president of the British Columbia and Victoria Football Associations, and he is a past president of the Victorian Rotary Club. Ho managed the Canadian team which visited Australia two seasons ago, and played in Auckland 'on the return trip. He will bo accompanied on the tour by Mrs Adams.

Malcolm Moon, a Scottish youth, sot -sail for Canada two years ago. He soon caught the eye of provincial and Dominion Soccer officials, and was selected for several representative matches. Last year lie appeared for Canada at right half-back in the imter-nat-'onal match with the United States at- New York. Moon is small, but built on sturdy lines. Aggressivo and clever, he is equally at home in either the half-back or full-back line

A full-back by preference, a goalkeeper by accident, Henry “Hank” Noseworthy;, of the Car,steel Club, Montreal, is the only member of the Canadian team who was with the team from the land of tho Maple Leaf which toured Australia two seasons ago. Stanley Tait, a representative of British Columbia, was born in Nanaimo 21 years ago, and is recognised as the finest custodian in the province and one of the bc-st iln Canada. Standing sft. 9ins. in height, he scales lOst 101 b, lias a safe pair of hands, the agility of a cat and quick eye for dangerous situations.

Janies McKenzie Mnrtvn, an ex-S,sot-tish player, now of the C.-.P.R., Manitoba, who was in the original selection, is unable to make the trip, and his place lias been taken by Duncan M. Graham, of Tort Arthur War Vets. Graham is a first-class back or halfback and an all round athlete. He commenced the gai*n in the. Royal Air Force. He was horn in 'lreland and learned Ins football in Edmonton. Is now one of the biggest goal scorers in Canada. Age 28, height sft. 9JJns., weight l ist7 61b. Ernie Edmunds is one of the outstanding fnll-breks of Soccer in British Columbia. Ho is 25 years of ago and, was - developed and coached by .Jimmy Watson, the Scottish international and formerly of Sunderland.

Jack Monaghan, a native of Liverpool and 27 years of age, has been eight years in Canada, and played for Canadian and Cumberland Collieries until tho end of the 11)25-26 season. Height, sft. 10ms., weight 12st. 21b. “Speedy and possessing a tremendous shot with cither foot.” Thus says tlie “Sunday Province” of Don Archibald, centre-forward of the- North Vancouver ex-High School team, which has a sensational run of success. Don is a native of Vancouver, 20 years ot

Born at Beaumaris, North Wales, in 1899, 11. L. Williams migrated to Canada 13 years later, and served with the Army Medical Corps m the war. Speedy hard to pass, with a quick recovery, “.Dick” stands sft. Sins, lr.igh and scales 11 si. II lb.

D. Thompson is a member of St. James. E.C., playing under the Manitoba Provincial Association. Versatile

at half-back or irside foiward, he played a groat game. He is a Scot by birth, so Soccer it second nature to him

W. Brolly is a typical Irishman of colid build, cud is said to have few espials as centre-hall in Canada, and lias the stamina to he is fit at the end of 90 minutes’ play as at the beginning. F. Crawley, of Bell Telephone F.C., Toronto, is an experienced "full-back or centre-forward. 27 years of age, and has played in Old England with such teams as Accrington Stanley, Blackburn Rovers and Lincoln City.