The San Francisco call., 1909-10-17
Ready to Name
All Star Local
Soccer Eleven
Team VIII Be Selected After
Today'S Trial Game at
the PreSidiO
By BOB sHAND

With the exception of the trial game,
for places on the California team,
which will play Vancouver for the
championship of the coast, there will
be nothing doing in soccer circles to-
day. Two teams have been picked by
the California football association to
play each other in order to get line
on the best men. The game will take
place at the Presidio grounds. The
elevens selected are as follows:
a. R left bsas seEs E right sssa
Watson tT.), left half; Grant ID, center half;
left; Mclaughlin (r.), inside left: Aitken "a.
r., center forward; 0llerdessen (Barbs-), in
side right Walters G. R outside od night fddoto,
shaw shaw ie5t w. oafe left hSnifF Salf Maen e'
outside LETT Downey W.). inside left; Elliot
tBarbs.l, center forward; welch (Burns). in
side right; Bernard (v), outside right
The selection committee will be on
hand and the eleven players making
the best showing will represent Cali
fornia in the big game next Sunday.
The northern team will arrive today,
and if the boat docks on time the men
ecutive committee of the association
will meet the visitors on their arrival
and preparations have been made to
show the Canadians the various points
of interest about the bay.
Although the teams are named the
Possibles and Proba bles there is really
noe distinction in the names. In Sc
Letting the players; y the committee nm idei
game and, for the sake of differen-
tiating between the elevens. named
them as they did. While the Possibles
team would appear to have little the
better of it in the matter of stars there
is no guarantee that the other eleven
will not contribute its quota of players
e. 4l,n Nn1f ffrT. a o . m
appear to be evenly matched.
McRitchie (Thistles), Anderson and
Selkirk (Albion Rovers) will probably
he the final choice of the committee.
of the type to stop the whole souled
rushes of the northern forwards, and
the lesson taught the locals in the
series with Van couver last year should
The northern players still adopt the
old rules, and with the forwards bear
ing down on the goal keeper all the
time 1t was necessary to have a couple
of husky boys in the back line in order
to stand off the opposing forwards
On form the halfbacks of the Probable
team should secure places on the Cali
fornia eleven. Watson, Grant and
Perkins are superior to Bradshaw,
Mizen and Harris, although to the
critic it would appear to be a mistake
to omit the ability of Tom McKiernon
of the Albion Royers.
Harry Walters, heretofore considered
the premier outside right in the local
game, will have to show bunch of
California team. Harry was the un-
doubted star of his department last
season. but this year he has unaccount-
ably fallen away. Bernard of the Vam-
pires is the other candidate for the
outside right position and it is up to
Walters to show his best ability today.
otherwise the selectors will choose
Bernard.
There will be hot contests between
the other forwards for positions on the
tion committee picks to represent the
state there will be a number of dis
gruntled players and fans
Jim Duncan has been chosen to ref
cree the game today, and Mckenzie and
Askam will officiate as linesmen.
the British Columbia and California
players will take place at the park
stadium next Sunday, and the contest
promises to be the most important ever
played in the west. The boys from
the north are rated as the best players
in ali Canada and the team which will
line up against the Californians in
cludes several men who have made
names for themselves in international
games between Scotland and England
the homes of the soccer game.
Since the association football game
took a firm footing in California in
1902 the sport has advanced rapidly
and the game has increased in popu-
larity year by year. The lads who are
playing in the teams this year are far
superior to the players of former
years and the game between California
and British Columbia gives promise of
being a really first class exhibition.
Charlie Pike, who played with the
Rovers last year but this season Joined
the Independents, has applied for
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