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TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND . HITCH IN SYDNEY CLUB BLOCKS PLAYERS FURTHER ACTION LIKELY SYDNEY, May 8. The management committee of the Metiers Association Football Club passed a resolution that the four players fro rnthat. club selected for tl« tour of New Zealand with the Australian team “be not allowed to go.” A full meeting has been convened for Tuesday night, when a move will be made to rescind the resolution. It is probable that officials of clubs and State and Australian associations will be deputed to wait upon the management committee with a view to getting unqualified leave of absence for the players. PUPILS NOW MASTERS AUSTRIA BEAT ENGLAND LOMDON, May 7. England is no longer able to claim pre-eminence in association football, as last evening an Austrian team defeated a strong English eleven at Vienna in the presence of 60,000 spectators, including the Vice-Chancellor (Prince Starhemberg) and the president (Herr Wilhelm Miklas). The Austrians were faster and more scientific than the visitors, from whom they received their first lessons 40 years ago. I Hungary and Czeschoslcvakia defeated England last year.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 109, 9 May 1936, Page 6
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182SOCCER Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 109, 9 May 1936, Page 6
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