THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 29, 1937.
PETER KANE BATTERS WARNOCK
FOOTBALL PAY DEMAND LOOKS NEXT WORLD
PLAYERS CASE FOR HIGHER WAGE HARDSHIP IN THE
NT "POORER CLUBS
Manchester, August 24.
Another thing we want altering is the divergence between the Foot- ball Association and the League rules concerning the minimum wage
at which players may be retained.
"The F. A. gives the minimum as
208 year, but the League merely
refers to a "reasonable wage." We want both bodies to put the mini-
On the eve of the new Asso-mum at $260. ciation football season, which opens on Saturday, the Associa-
£500 A TEAR PLAYERS
CHAMPION
EARLY FIGHT WITH BENNY LYNCH
Liverpool, August 27.
"One League club last year offer PETER KANE, of Golborne, the North's brilliant young fly-weight champion, overwhelmed e Anfield tion Football Players and Trained. 13 players a wage of ers Union, meeting here to-day, in summer and £5 a week in winter, Jimmy Warnock, the Irish champion,
•£2 a week
has decided to ask for better with an extra 30s a week when in
the first team. That is the sort of football ground, Liverpool, to-night, the refere
wage conditions.
we
are fighting stopping the fight during the form Mr. James Fay, the secretary, sliding scale
Kane, a blacksmith's striker- stated after the meeting that he agamst.” had been instructed to write to: The pay of players in the Foot-earned, by this latest triumph, the the Football League asking for ball League varies from about 2500 Benny Lynch for the fly-weig .concessions. "We are prepared to to £220 a year, according to the and the world. make a definite stand,” said Mr. man's ability and club. The Play- Warnock had already met right Fay, "and all over the country ers' Union's request for a revision Lynch twice, and on each indignation is growing at the of the present retaining wage of sion beat him on points, and sliding scale which clubs have £208 a year will meet with a mixed though
reception. Some of the bigger clubs fights, the lately introduced.
"Not 10 per cent. of the League may support it and a number of the Kane smashed his
tory over so clubs pay a flat rate of wages. Play-smaller ones will cry poverty.
and rugged a fighter ers are given a certain wage, but it
to-night was incredible. is dependent on their being in the first team.
THE BOTTOM END -
these were
a display which caused
asm not far short of hysteria among the vast crowd of 35,000
and a lit
Sught blow
was
mock
Tat
seconds, and
ractical
only by he pluck and
A League player said last night "The League has increased the "As soon as they drop out of the earnings of the higher-paid players
A right to the jay put him down first team their wages go down, pro-this season by reintroducing talent
WHIRLWIND ONSLAUGHT bably by £1 a week. This is con- money, and they can now earn up
Kane's domination was asserted for a further count, and in the to $500 a year from football alone, sidered unfair.
plus a benefit after five years of and assured from the first ten fourth round, after one more fatale
seconds of the fight, when he rush effort to attack, Warnock rece NO COMPENSATION
any thing up to £650. "At to-day's meeting our mem- "But in helping these members of ed Warnock to the ropes and began punch in the stomach whic bers pointed out that the speeding-teams which finish in the leading a whirlwind onslaught which was him down for nine seconds.
to rise, but was down 39 up of the game had shortened the positions in the League and Cup to be continued, except for the in-was virtually the end. He
Ben careers of players, but they had competitions, the League has done tervals, until the refer
eree, rightly stopped been given practically nothing to nothing for the players at the other the utterly exhausted.
scious Warnock as he lay in a heap.
MAGNIFIC PUNI compensate them for their shorten-end of the table.
Warnock had no excus "I hope the football authorities sent Kane to his corner and declar- ed period of usefulness.
brow injury, sustained "I am instructed to ask for a gen-will hold a sympathetic investiga-led the fight over.
~That reverse stance with which
recently, did not affect eral increase in the rates of pay, tion into the question of the £208 with an extension of the maximum retaining wage, as, in the Third Warnock fights, right hand fore of £8 a week in winter and £6 in Division, among the poorer clubs, most, so far from puzzling Kane,
Iseemed to open up. target there are certainly hardships."
with his incessant t
summer.
AT 6.30.
EVERY EVENING
BOOTH'S Old Matured is carried into the Library. Whosoever it was that founded this
tradition was a man of no mean judgment, icr
~
establishing 200IES as the gin of his househo
he had recognised the mellowness
born of maturity that distinguishes
BOOTH'S as the one FINE GËR....
the one afted Gin--
mellowed by time.
BOOTH'S Matured GIN
THE ONE
SOLE "AGENTS
CALDBECK MACGREGOR S
ing and swinging, prac cided the fight towards the first round when, having ed much fury, he shot a right hook to the stomach, by another similar blow. From the second of these, Warnock collapsed The Irishman rose at the count eight, just before the bell He clearly hurt, and spent practically the whole of the second.
ence ing to conceive some sort of
circled against the youngster, on his toes and swooped in with a shower of punches from all angles.
IRISHMAN TAKES CHANCE S
and he was. terwards that
punching
boxi
had done
nach for him Lynch he added, all the luck in the
Kane's rest him good. The which were app were completely abse ter stronger. than ever and
reight He
m by
w at the exa mit of nock being two ounces Fighter.
Kane is gro
and he will ne doubt welcome chance to m Lynch as early as possible. On East night's form he seems destined
next world's fy-weight
In the third round Warnock evi-the dently decided to take a chance. He champion. realised that his only hope of mak
The attendance was 35,361 and
ing a fight of it was now to attack the receipts were £7,300 both being and land a damaging blow himself. a record for the North of England. Hardly had he opened gut, however, Kane and Warnock each received than he ran headlong into a clean £1.000.
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