THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 3, 1938.
PLAYERS TO SHARE IN TRANSFERS?
UNION'S LETTER TO THE LEAGUE
London, March 17. Footballers are not only de- manding an increase in wages,
20 but also a share up to
per cent. of transfer fees and that benefits should be made compul- sory.
The Football League received yesterday the reply of the Asso- ciation Football Players' and Trainers' Union to their request for more information in respect of the union's appeal for increas- ed wages, revision of the transfer system, benefits, insurances, &c.
Final Standing Of Scottish League (First Division)
The concluding games in the Scottish League, First Division, were played last Saturday, Celtic regaining the title they last held in 1936, with a total of 61 points, while Hearts were runners-up, with 58 points. Rangers, last year's champions, finished third.
Dundee United and Morton finished second-last and last, respective- ly, and will be accordingly, relegated to the Second Division next season.
The following is the final League standing: Celtic
1
2 Hearts
3 Rangers
4 Falkirk
38
27
7
A
114 42
61
38
26
6
6
90
50
58
38
18
*13
7 75
49
49
38
19
9
10
82
52
17
5
Motherwell
38
17
10
11
78
69
44
6
Aberdeen
38
15
9
14
75
60
39
7
Partick
38
.15. 9
14
68.
70
39
8
St. Johnstone
38
16
7 15
78
81
39
9
Lanark
38
11
13
14
68
73
35
10
Hibernian
38
11
13
14
. 57
65
35.
11
Arbroath
38
11
13
14
58 79
35
12
Queen's Park
38
11
12
15
60 75
34
13
Hamilton
38
13
7
18
81 76
33
14
St. Mirren
38
14
5
19
58
66
33
15
Queen of South
38
11
11*
16
58
71
33
16
to
Clyde
38
L
10
13
15
68 78
33
17
Ayr U.
38
15
14
· 66
85
33
18
Kilmarnock
38
12
9
17
65 91
38
13
. 19
70 74
33 32
38
6
29
64
127
15
The Union in their letter ask the League Management Committee meet a deputation of the players. They adhere to their requcst for an increase in the maximum wage from $8 to £9, but withdraw the request for an increased minimum wage from £4 to £5. They ask that a player, if not offered the retaining fee of £208 per annum, may be given a transfer.
the
The Union point out that suggested increases are intended to apply to parttime professionals en- gaged in other works, if the club permit, and are not meant to do away with benefits, bonuses and talent money.
SLIDING SCALE PLAN
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19 Dundee
20 Morton
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Last Of The Border Rugby "Sevens"
ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL'S RECORD TRIUMPH AT HAWICK
(By "AIR MAIL")
Glasgow, April 18.
"REVIEWER'S" SPORTS COMMENTARY
HE local football
season
con-
cluded, officially, during the past week-end, with South China "A" and "B" carrying off the ma- jor honours, in the Senior Shield, and First Division of the League respectively. South China "B" were very lucky to secure the senior League title as, strange as it may seem, they definitely deteriorated in their play following the visit of | Islington Corinthians. Their defeat at the hands of Middlesex, whom I nominate as next season's League champions, was no fluke and they had to go all out to take both points from Royal Scots on Saturday to make sure of the championship.
The actual season comes to an end next Sunday with the senior Champions versus the Rest match.
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ANOTHER POPULAR local sport
day
stars
seen
resumed last when the "swat" and "batteries" were in action on
the Caroline Hill diamond. Baseball has not yet taken ja stranglehold in Hong Kong, but the time is not far distant when League fixtures will become just as crowded as in soccer.
I
*
*
*
AM not a little disap- pointed regarding the Hong Lawn Tennis League's
·
It was as appropriate as it was unexpected that at the conclu- Referring to wages offered on a sion of Hawick's seven-a-side tournament at Mansfield Park, Mr. sliding scale, the Union are prepar- A. A. Lawrie, president of the Scottish Rugby Union, should present ed to produce evidence of "disgrace- the trophy to Royal High School (F.P.), one of the original mem- Kong ful" cases, and quote instances of bers of that body. Last winners there in 1914, the Schoolmen main- decision not to revise the, rul- footballers being unable to meet tained the city club's monopoly of the Patterson Trophy over the ing concerning the make of the past five years, in addition to setting up a scoring record in the ball to be used for League games. their weekly liabilities during close season owing to insufficient final, when they defeated Hawick by six goals and two tries (36 At present any standard make of
points) to nothing.
ball recognised by the Amateur Lawn Tennis Federation is allow- ed to be used for League games, and there are at least six different standard makes!
wages.
The Union consider that trans-
ferred players should receive a fair share of the fee, and suggest 20 per cent. if the fee amounts to more than £4,000 or £5,000, 18 per cent. if a fee is more than £7,000 or £8,-
000, and so on.
RETAINING-FEE-
Not even the warmest admirer of
the Jock's Lodge representatives would ever have imagined that they could beat the best Hawick seven for some seasons by that margin, but the logical reason for the as- tonishing anti-climax was that the runners-up had had a much stiffer
and
It stands to reason that different with a little luck, was their hardest makes of ball are more or less of- runner, and had a highly successful ficially adopted by various clubs, afternoon with seven of
their 17 as a result of which players be- tries. D. Murray-was-an-astute Dealing with the many cases of path ̄to the final than their con- scrum-half, and an expert at tiring
come used to that particular make: querors, and had to pay a heavy his opponents by employing well- hardship under the rule concerning price for the pace they had set directed kicking; G. O. Bell, a staunch "B" team, who use another make Therefore, when "A" team visits players on the open to transfer list, earlier in the tournament.
defender and capital goal-kicker; R. of ball, they have two disadvan~. the Union make an urgent request J.
M. M'Arthur a winger who his Beattie and
colleagues
seemed tages to face (a) Away conditions that such men should be paid a re-launched
to make more ground than many their effort to reassert
and (b) make of ball. taining fee of £3 per week if the Hawick's claim as "Queen o' a' the faster player in other teams;
J. Watt, R. Bisset, and P. W. Tait. This ball question could quite fee is $500, and £2 if under £500. Borders" on a positive wave of en-
thusiasm, and before meeting the a trio of forwards who got a big sup- easily determine a championship in, The Union desire compulsory be-School they had expended a prodi ply of the ball. Watt often revealed what I consider, an unfair man- nefits for players completing five gious amount of energy accounting unsuspected pace in the open for a
forward. full seasons with a club, and re- for Heriot's (F.P.), winners at Mel- week; Stewart's quest a special agreement covering rose the previous
College (F.P.), the holders, and players outside the Workmen's Edinburgh Academicals, who had got Compensation Act.
a bye into the second round. It was not physical power was limited relation to that of the School, whose previous victims, Langholm, Jedforest, and Watsonians never looked
like providing much trouble.
HUDDERSFIELD BEAT STOKE AT HOME
TRANMERE WIN AWAY
London, To-day. The following wore the results of yesterday's Home football matches:
FIRST DIVISION.
HuddersfieldTM
Wolves
3 Stoke
2 West Brom.
... THIRD. DIVISION. (SOUTH) Walsall
**2 Mansfield
Doncaster
THIRD DIVISION. (NORTH)
2 York. 5 Southport Tranmere
Gateshead Lincoln'
-Router.
TWENTY POINTS IN TEN MINUTES
tourna-
ner.
The question was raised last year, and I fully expected the Lea- gue Committee to reconsider this League ruling.
HAWICK'S CONSOLATION Hawick will more readily forget the disastrous final when they consider the part they played in some of the
the in most thrilling ties of
ment... They may have been a trifle
Heriot's Goldenacre did not see overmuch of lucky to get the better of (F.P.), but at least they "filled the the ball. unforgiving minute with sixty
J. Beattie played a captain's part conds' worth of distance · run” and in the overthrow of the favourites, adopted a destructive policy to en-but, nevertheless. Hawick's support-
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At all events, Hawick could produce none of the fire that had caused so much elation among their followers when E. T. Gollogly ran. almost the length of the field to open the School- men's account in the final.
..
At the end of ten minutes Hawick were 20 points behind, and there was an appreciable thinning out of.
the crowd, which was estimated at 7000;|
increase as the Schoolmen began to their lead at will. It was 'not ( 80 much a case that their combination was so superlatively good as that Hawick had run themselves to a stand-' still.
DETERMINATION.
Without a really fast player like J. Park, the School could feel satis fled that they ran up a total of 78 points in four ties. Never as 'specta- (F.P.). or Ocular as either. Heriot's
Edinburgh Academicals had been at Melrose the previous week, they
TO- and
0 vealed plenty of determination,
were quick to make capital from the
1 mistakes of their opponents.
0
Gollogly, who has for some years
1 now been accopted as one of those
players who might have gone
far
8e-
sure that the polished backs from
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