Garbarino, Laureano Spósito Arrieta and Oreste Rutta. The same year Gimnasia also won the Copa de Competencia Adolfo J. Bullrich and the División Intermedia league championship. On April 27, 1916, Gimnasia faced Estudiantes for the first time. The match was played at Estudiantes field, the Estadio Jorge Luis Hirschi, being won by Gimnasia y Esgrima by 1–0. On April 27, 1924, the club inaugurated the stadium located in the intersection of the 60th avenue and 118th street, later named Estadio Juan Carmelo Zerillo. Gimnasia y Esgrima remained a record-15 months unbeaten there (from its first official meeting until July, 1925). This year achieves the second place, behind San Lorenzo, with 15 victories, 7 ties and 1 defeat. First title in Primera and European tour In 1929 Gimnasia y Esgrima won its first Primera División title, after a campaign that finished with 14 victories and 3 defeats. The squad got 28 points in 17 matches played, with some highlights victories over Estudiantes (4–1) and River Plate (1–0). The championship final was played on 9 February 1930 at old River Plate stadium (located on Alvear and Tagle), where Gimnasia defeated Boca Juniors 2–1, winning the title. The line-up was: Scarpone; Di Giano, Delovo; Ruscitti, Santillán, Belli; Curell, Varallo, Maleanni, Díaz, Morgada. Between December 1930 and April 1931, Gimnasia, which later would be known as "El Expreso" (in English, "The Express"), toured Europe and Brazil. Gimnasia became the first Argentine club outside Greater Buenos Aires to compete in Europe, and the first ever to play in Portugal, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Italy. The tour began on December 8, 1930, and the team disputed a total of 27 matches in four months, something unusual for that time. Gimnasia played two matches in Brazil, the first of them against the Vasco da Gama, which ended tied at one goal. Four days later Gimnasia was defeated by a "Carioca" combined team by 4–0. Another important fact about those matches was that Gimnasia played in stadiums with night lights, service not yet implemented on Argentina by that time. After the games in Brazilian lands, the team went to Spain on board a ship "Asturias". Gimnasia y Esgrima played its first match in Spain facing Real Madrid, winning by 3-2 and becoming the first team in the country to beat Real Madrid as visitor. The next day, Spanish press entitled: "The Argentine players seem to have been born to