Director Spiegler, president of the Maccabean World Organization, will arrive in the United States with the Hakoah Football Club of Vienna on April 9. The Maccabean World Organization has branches in many countries.
The Hakoah team, consisting of eighteen players, will be accompanied by Dr. Ignatz Koerner, president of the Hakoah, and Otto Barr, trainer.
A schedule starting in April and extending through June has been arranged for the team, the Hakoah headquarters at 31 Union Square announce. They will play in most of the larger cities in the country.
In the last fourteen games played by the Hakoah team in the Austrian Football League, the Vienna team lost but three matches and now stand second in the ranking, a much better place than that held by the team of 1926, when they had seventh place, prior to their first tour in America.
A cable despatch received from Vicenna states that the newspapers there published a lengthy interview with Dr. Koerner upon his arrival from the United States this week. Dr. Koerner, who was in the United States to arrange for the second tour of the Hakoah, stated that the Hakoah on its first tour contributed largely toward stimulating greater interest in soccer in the United States.
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