Mayor James J. Walker and Mrs. Alfred E. Smith will head the reception committee which will welcome the soccer team of the Hakoah Sport Club, when it arrives here from Europe today. The Hakoah team will rest a week in preparation for its opening game at the Polo Grounds on Sunday, April 25.
More than one hundred organizations will be represented at the pier. A parade to City Hall, where Mayor Walker will officially extend his welcome, has been arranged.
Others who will serve on the reception committee are Mrs. Sidney C. Borg, Joseph V. McKee, Col. Herbert Lehman, Dr. Henry Moskowitz, Benjamin F. Schreiber, Dr. Jaroslav Novak, Czecho-Slovakian consul, Dr. Sylvester Gruszka, Polish consul, George Schmidt, Austrian consul, Commissioner Louis Harris, James A. Farley, William Collins, Congressmen Emanuel Celler and Nathan Perlman, Julius Miller, Judge Max S. Levine, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Judge Jacob Panken and Louis Lipsky.
The Hakoah soccer team will play two practice matches before its opening contest at the Polo Grounds, Sunday, April 25, against a picked team from the New York State Football Association. Next Tuesday the all-Jewish eleven will meet the Brooklyn Wanderers in a practice tilt at Hawthorne Field, Brooklyn, and the following day the eleven will have a work-out at Jasper Oval, 137th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, against New York University.
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