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Sport Club to Hold Tourney Here
The Sport club of Forest Mark closed their soccer schedule Sunday when the American Eagles won 4 to 1 from the reserve team. The Eagles opened the scoring. In the first half the Georg club tied the score on a penalty kick by Kt. Koeps shortly before the end of the first half. In the second half with the wind at their backs the Eagles scored 3 more goals, 2 of them from offside. Sunday, June 4, the two teams will participate in a soccer tournament given by the international league at Park Ridge. On Saturday, June 10, the Sport club will by bus to Fort Wayne to play against Fort Wayne Sport lathe. On July 14, the Sport club will stage a soccer tournament in Forest Park bringing eight leading soccer teams of the middle west to Forest Park. Invited are such teams as the Davenport F.C. champions of the Birds Soccer League, Fort Wayne and Gary, Ind, Swedishs American International League Champs, Chicago Kickers last year Peel cup finals and the Schwaben and the German-American last year's Ahendpos cup winners. The winners will receive a trophy donated by A. Krabser, Desplaines tavern, and there will also be a homecoming of the club's former soccer players when the Sport's club old timers tackle the Schwaben old timers in the curtain raiser. The public are cordially invited to give the boys a hearty reception.