THE CANADIAN TEAM

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19844, 19 May 1927, Page 5

THE CANADIAN TEAM

PARS AND PERSONALITIES (By “Afton Lad.”) The Canadian Soccer team arrives in Auckland on Monday next, May 23, and open their tour with Taranak’ on May 25 at New Plymouth, thence coming to Wanganui where on Saturday May 28 they meet the Wanganui lads on. Spriggens Park. The game is already creating widespread interest and with all senior Rugby games postponed for the day the visitors will receive a Wanganui welcome. The team is arriving eighteen strong and Canadian critics consider it the finest soccer combination which has ever left Canada. The manager of the team is Alderman James Adam, of Vancouver (8.C.), a native of Kilmarnock, Scotland. Mr Adam, however, has been connected with soccer in Canada for thirty years. He is also a past president of the Victorian Rotary Club, and he was in charge of the Canadian team that toured Australia two years ago. He is regarded as a born organiser. Prominent amongst the players is the name of W. Brolly, a typical Irishman of solid build and reckoned to have few equals as a centre-half. During the English team’s tour of Canada last season Brolly played against the tourists and was congratulated by the Englishmen at the end of the game for his brilliant display. Speedy and possessing a tremendous shot with either foot and one that will give New Zealand defences a great deal of trouble is Don. Archibald, cen-tre-forward of North Vancouver High School team.

He is a splendid product of schools football, standing 6ft. high and weigh- ' ing 12st. 71bs. P. Francis, Calgary, Winnipeg, comes with the reputation of having pierced the defence of the English team on three occasions and that is a performance which requires little other commendation. Truly the visitors will have a team of sharp-shooters. Francis is an outside left and played for the team that led the English tourists three times but were eventually beaten, 7—4. Another star player is the Rufushaired Jack Monaghan, a native of Liverpool, weighing 12st. 41b. and standing sft. Ilin, in height. This player is a right-half and agaiAst the famous wing, Smith and Tunstal, of England, Monaghan more than held his own. The. only member of the team who toured Australia is tho goalkeeper, Henry (“Hank”) Nosworthy, of the Carstock Club, Montreal. “Hank” has represented Canada in tho United States and his height and build—6ft. lin. and 13 stone—stamp him as one who will take a lot of beating between the sticks. The other members of the team arc all players of outstanding ability and a. great exhibition of the round ball game is expected when the visitors arrive in- Wanganui on Saturday, May 28. The Local Committee Tho local officials who have been hard at work recently preparing for the Canadian reception are men who require little introduction in soccer circles —Messrs W. G. Herd, D. Stiratt, A. Webster, T. Glover and L. Clapham deserve all praise and encouragement and it only requires fine weather and a good crowd to reward tho committee for their efforts on behalf of soccer football.