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"I keep on looking ahead, and people tell me iny ideas are fan- tastic. They told me we should not get anything like £14,000 for a player, but we got it."
Major Buckley, Wolverhamp- ton Wanderers F.C. manager, said this to me yesterday when discussing his plans for the future, which include a 10-acre sports stadium: in Wolverhamp-| ton built on the lines of the huge| Continental arenas, and with ac- commodation for 100,000 specta- tors.
"If we continue to make money like we have been doing." Major Buckley went on, it has got to be spent on the club.
"We are very closed-in at Mo- lineux, and we have gone into the question of enlarging the ground at a cost of £50.000, but the scheme is not satisfactory.
CROWD RISE TO FEET 16 TIMES
AND THEN PROTEST
London, August 8.
After rising to their feet for each of the 16 National Anthems which were played, spectators at the Empire Pool, Wembley, who had come to see the European Swimming Championships on Saturday, protested at the length of the opening ceremony by stamping their feet and handclapping.
These outbursts continued until some of the speeches were curtailed. Even the competitors, some of whom had to swim, showed how tired they were of the pro- longed affair and began to talk among themselves.
Three women competitors from one nation actually broke the ranks where they were lined up beside the bath and went to their dressing rooms.
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Finlay's Revenge On Tolmich
Inter-Village Match At
Houghton Hall
(By BEVIL RUDD)
** London, August 8. S. C. Wooderson ran a magnificent 1,500 metres at Ibrox Park, Glasgow, on Saturday. Even if he failed by just over a second to beat the world's record established by J. E. Lovelock at the Olympic Games of 1936, his time of 3 min. 49 sec. was more than 2 sec. faster than the winner has done in any other Olympic Games.
I am conservative in translating times for this distance 'into approximate equivalents for the mile. It is suggested that Wooder." son's time is worth 4 min. 6 sec., but it may be more accurate to regard it as something over 4 min. 7 sec.
In any case, it was a splendid Both the Canadians, W. Fritz and exhibition of tireless running. J. Loaring, beat W. Roberts in the Had an Olympic title, or an in- 440 yards. Fritz and Roberts were ternational match, depended on on scratch,' and 'Fritz avenged "his the result perhaps the amazing defeat in the Empire Games by win- little Blackheath Harrier might ning handsomely in 48sec-another have found the impulse to catch Scottish all-comers' record. up some, if not all, of the 15 The Americans again had a good yards that, at the finish, separat-day. M. Walker, their high-jumper, ed him from D.-B. Pell.
needed to beat 6ft 11in to win after
Pell, starting from, the 30 yards conceding a huge handicap; but he mark, ran the fastest race of his cleared 6ft 51⁄2in, and P. Walker, life. His mile equivalent was about the sprinter, raced away with the 4min 11sec.
120 yards from scratch in 11.7sec. NEW RECORD
It was not a disappointing race, even if the insatiable public ap- Their finest performance was C. petite for records was not satis-Warmerdam's pole-vault of 14ft fied, but there were other events (3in.. This not only beat the Scot- that must have thrilled the large tish all-comers' record of 14ft by | crowd of more than 60,000.
the South African. A. S. Du
"My idea-and it is shared by the
D. O. Finlay got his revenge on Plessis, but it is also an inch above board is that Wolverhampton is
the American, A. Tolmich, and in the British record held by another bound to grow, and provision for Glamorgan are not retaining beating him by 12 yards in 14.7-American, E. Meadows, who last. sport generally will have to be look-Duckfield and Aubrey Davies after sec. set up a Scottish all-comers' re- year set up a world's record of ed after. The idea is to build a this season. Instead they are im cord for the 120 yards hurdles. 14ft 11in. stadium, but it can't be done for porting two new bowlers who will
ROBERTS BEATEN
At Plymouth a very strong
team two or three years, and we have not be qualified by 1940..When Mercer
A. J. Collyer, the A.A.A. half-Achilles
easily won the and got the site yet.
Dai, Davies will also finish mile champion, running in the in- | Travers-Stubbs inter-club trophy. their first-class careers. Duckfield|vitation race' from scratch, finished They scored full marks (30 points) holds the Glamorgan record for the second in 1min 52.8sec. This time by getting first place in each of the highest individual score-280 not was just inside the English native five events. alout against Surrey at the Oval in record held by F. R. Handley until
1996.
Wooderson smashed it last Monday.
"The time will come when every shilling spectator will have covered seat.”
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The Achilles gained further dis- tinction at Loughborough when T. L. Lockton beat J. J. Cotter and several others in the A.A‚A. Decath- lon championship.
INTER-VILLAGE RIVALRY
I was much Impressed with the possibilities of inter-village athle- tics when I was at Houghton Hall, near King's Lynn, on Saturday.
Three years ago the Marquess of Cholmondeley presented each of the three neighbouring villages with a field for an athletics ground, and, at his home at Houghton Hall, he laid out a sports ground where these villages-Houghton, Rudham and Bircham-compete annually.
He also encourages physical train- ing during the winter months. At first he found that the. volunteers, who administered the conventional system of physical training did not draw much response. He therefore sought the services of án exponent of basic physical training, and this caught on like wildfire,
FINE ACHIEVEMENTS The villagers turned up in force, and keenness, was unabated after four hours. Some Norfolk County cham- pionships were included in the pro- gramme, and in these there some very fine achievements.
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A. H. Bond (Great Yarmouth 'A.C.) cleared 21ft in the long jump from a slightly uphill run-up. D. V. Cushing (Norfolk and Norwich A.C.) won the 100 yards by a foot from K. W. Crowe (Manchester A:C;); The off- cial watch recorded 9.8aec for the slightly downhill" course. Crowe got his revenge in the 440, which he won in: 82.8sec.
The result of the inter-village' match depended on, the last event the tug- o'-war. Finally Rudham beat Hough- ton by 67 points to 68. Rudham also won the shield for the boys' and girls": events. with 52 points to Birgham's 82. If such enterprise could be shown in other districts our champions, would really be the best in the country, and not just the best of the 10 per dent. who now hava, faolli