New-York tribune., 1919-04-15
Foreign Soccer
Four on
Finals Result
Scandinavian Trip Likely
Goes With National Cup;
1t. Col. Manning Home
By c. A. Lovctt

Dy ". ~. LOVCCl
Not only the championship of the
United States but also probably the
coveted opportunity to be- the second
american soccer team TO cross the
Atlantic for competition on foreign
nelds rests upon the outcome OF the
hhai OF the national challenge cup com
petition, conducted by the United States
footpalI Association. which is to be
played at Athletic Park, Fall River.
Mass, on the afternoon of next Sat
nrday, Lexington Day, state holiday
IN Massachusetts,
Bethlehem Steel Football Club and
the Paterson eleven, who also arc final
ISIS tor the American Football Asso-
cation Cup, are the teams which arc
TO meet in the battle for the national
title OF soccer. Both teams have en-
tered upon special ,ralning for the
big match, Bethlehem working every
day under the direction of two coaches
on Schwab Field in the PENNSYLVANIA
steel town. and the Paterson PLAYERS
beng quartcred on the Aime Nande-
Weghe farm several miles outside of
Paterson. The followers of both clubs
as we'll as the footballers themselves
are most confident and the added prize
OF a foreign trip depending on the re-
suit OF the game undoubtedly will pro-
duce one Of the bittercst fights ever
seen on an American soccer pitch.
According to reports published in
Stockholm sporting papers, the invita-
ton for visit this summer by an
American soccer team is for late july
and August instead of June and July,
as was first reported. 1t is understood
no one club has been specified in the
tentative negotiations, and that the
Swedish Football Association is await
ing the decision of next Saturdays
match before choosing between the
Paterson club and Bethlehem-for it
is reasonably certain that it will not
be selected eleven of truly interna-
tlonal callbre, but a private club, re-
lnforced, perhaps, by some replace
ments, that will make the tour of Nor
way, Sweden and Denmark this sum
mcr.
Field New to Teams
The big Fall River ball park will be
strange to both teams in the final. All
of New England is displaying great in
terest in the big game-more interest
than ever before, perhaps for the rea-
son that that section has not had much
of share Of the more important con-
tests on the soccer schedule this season.
The Washington's Birthday % battle
between Paterson and Fore River at
Quincy, Mass, in the n. c. c. c. fourth
round is really the only match of any
consequence with which New England
has been favored to date.
George Lambie of Southbridge,
Mass, will referee the national final.
He handled the tie game at Quincy
and its replay at Paterson in mastery
fashion, sauelching every attempt at
10 ha hrn Ia.
tanned by one of the Fore River players
ea.ly in the replay was the result of
a natural miXup. George Mitchell, of
New Bedford, and Edward Pemberton,
of Pawtucket, will be the linesmen.
Chairman A. NJ. Brown and Secretary
T. W. Cahill will be in charge for the
national body.
Lieutenant Colonel G. Randolph Man
ming, NJ. c., attached to the 9th Field
Artillery (Michigan), arrived home
his regiment He viii go to Camp
Custer with the artilerymen for the
rehabilitation process, will attend the
sixth annual meeting of the U. :. f. A.
Council at Chicago next month, and
soon thereafter expects TO return to
France for relief work.
Colonel Manning is n New Yorker,
hlthough he was born in England,
studied medicine in Germany, and WAS
the first secretary of the German en-
prc's football organization. He also
was the first president of the Z. s.
=. A., and it is expected he will be
elected again to the head of the Amer
can Soccer Association if Peter j. Peel
o. Chicago, does not run to succeed
| himself and providing, Of course, that
'Dr. Manning can be prevailed upon to
accept again the highest Office in the
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