LEAGUE FOOTBALL.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15294, 25 July 1923, Page 8

LEAGUE FOOTBALL.

(By " Vorax.")

Harold llorder is not playing as well in Sydney this scaso.i and Hr, former star, whose name is a household word in the ,;.uiie there, intends to lake a spell from the game. A feature of the present season in New South Wales has been the number of coaches d by Hie country districts and a higher standard of play is in evidence during the term than was the case last season with the outside districts. Frank Burge, the Glebe (Sydney) and international forwrd who liss retired from active football, wis playing first grade at the early age of 14. He toured New Zeali:il when onls 16 and achieved. remarkable success in England during the Kangaroos' tour of 1920-21.

Writing of the selection of Brownie Pake in a team that recently toured Newcastle district, a writer' in the Sydney Rugby League News states that it has given great pleasure to the officials and supporters of &t. George. Since making his sojourn in Now Soulh Wales, P.iko has ne.en playing well and the writer in question was of the opinion that he would ably justify his inclusion in the side referred to.

Singe, the captain of lhe Taumarunui team which came lo Hamilton in quest of the Endean Shield, was a former prominent player in Auckland League circles. In the Rugby code Singe was also a noted ilgure, and during the war was a member of the New Zealand Army team which made a good name for itself on foreign fields. That there will be great joy in the ranks of Rugby League oflicials and followers of the game in the Northern Stale goes without saying (says a writer in the. Rugby League News). By their two glorious and impressive wins against strong Metropolitan and N.S. Wales teams they have confounded many of the critics thai their brilliant win last season, when the cream of the State players were touring the land of snakes, was only a flash in the pan, and good must result, not only in Queensland, but to lhe League game in general. It is a long lane that has no turning, and now that the Maroons have turned the corner, future contests will bo followed forward lo with unabated interest. Should the Rugby League be firmly established in Victoria, and from all accounts there is no reason why it. should not be *o, and further seeing that it was Harry Sunderland who put Rugby League on the map of Queensland and that energetic gentleman is now handling the destiny of Hie game in the southern State, what a glorious time is in store for football fans when the lime arrives in the very near future for teams from Queensland. Victoria and New South Wales lo be battling it, out for supremacy on the classic green of the world-famed Sydney Cricket Ground in the one and only game for the football public, Rugby League!