A photo postcard from 1919 showing a football match between from the name clearly a Jewish team ‘Maccabi’ and the British Wanderer team that was the local Bornova team which boasted players from the La Fontaine and Whittall families. The playing field was by the Greek Orthodox cemetery of Michael Archon (Archangel) of
Darağaç, as can the tombstones be seen in the distance. This field was at the time home to Panionios (the local Greek team) and is today’s
Altay Alsancak stadium. Presumably this was used in other matches of the area as well as attested by the outline of the cypress trees in the background of the top photos. The chimney in the background belonged to Şark Sanayi, a major cotton thread manufacturer, the tombtop visible on the right of the picture could well be the relict shown above. The location (see yellow pin below) is next to the Alsancak stadium, within the 9 Eylul University grounds. - information courtesy of Andrew Simes.
