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Distances Between Clubs And Previous Results
(BY "LEFT. OUT").
The distances visiting Clubs have to cover to meet their -engagements to-morrow and the record of their last three eNCQUE- ters are given below to assist readers in making their own selec- tions"
"Left Out's" selections were given yesterday:—
DIVISION I
**RESULTS
Arsena!
Birmingham
MILEAGE
90 80 V.
V.
Lelcester
Huddersneld
1931 1932 1933 2-1 80 20 SŮ 0-2 1-3
Blackburn
70
V.
Derby
3-3
Leeds
50.
Freston N. End 4-1
Liverpool
175 V.
Tottenham
Manchester City 160
Middlesbro
150
Portmouth
"..
7 380 V
Chelsea
1-1
Aston Villa
1-1
Sunderland
'Sheffield W.
60 V
Everton
Stoke
40 7.
Wolves
W. Bromwich
115
Y,.
Grimsby
DIVISION II.
IIIIII
* Southampton
Manchester U. 3–1
Blackpool
210
Bradford
30
Y.
Brentford
150
Y
Barnsley
Bury
65
Y.
Notts County
2-1
Fulham
135
V.
Port Vale
Hull City
85 .
Bradford City
Newcastle
95
❤
Oldham
Norwich C.
170
Y.
Purnley
Notts F
70
T.
Shefeld U.
Plymouth A.
.90
Y
Swansea
West Ham U.
175
Bolton W.
DIVISION YIL (NORTH)
DIDIRI
VIPIDIC
11 3-4 4-0
Barrow
75 7.
Carlisle U.
100
Y.
Darlington York C.
11
Chesterfield
115
V
Gateshead
Halifax
80' T.
Hartlepools
2-0
Lincoln City
110 Y.
Chester
4-0
Mansfield
65
Rotherham Ü,
80
Accrington Crewe A.
Rochdale.
45
¥
N. Brighton
Tranmere
30 Y.
Southport
Walsall
5.5 V
Stockport
Wrexham
85 የ.
Doncaster
DIVISION HII. (SOUTH)
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2-1 3-0 1-1
5-0 1-2 3-4
3-4 5-0
1-0 0-3 00
31 10 0
4
Bournemouth
75
Torquay
Bristol C
120
7.
Brighton
Clapton Orient
110 Y.
Bristol R.
Coventry
110
น.
Southend U
0-2 2-3 2-0
Exeter
60
T.
Cardiff C.
Gillingham
14 105 7.
Charlton
Millwall
20 T.
Luton Town
Newport C
Aldershot
Northampton
60
*.
Queen's F. R.
35
V.
Crystal Palace
70 Y.
Swindon T.
Reading
Watford
100 T.
SCOTTISH LEAGUE
V. Hamilton
2-1 1-2
3 2-3 0-0 4-1.2-
5-02-15-1
Aberdeen
Albion
V.
Hearts
Aşir
7.
Dunfermline
Clyde
บ.
Queen's Park
Dundee
Y.
Airdrie
Falkirk
Y.
St. Mirren
Hlbs.
▼
Celtic
Motherwell
F
Partick
10 1
Rarigers
Kilmarnock
St. Johnstone
▼
3-0 20-2 Queen of 6. · 2-3
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POLAND'S FOREIGN
POLICY
Lipecial to the "Hong Kong Daily Pross" (Copyright.33
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1-0 4-2 4-14-2 1-42-3 2-1 1--2
ANGLO-GERMAN TRADE AGREEMENT
London, Dec. 11.
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Asked in the Commons if the Arglo-German Trade Agreement
Warsaw, Dec. 12. Deploring the view of certain
was working satisfactorily, and if politicians that the basis of the he was aware that exporters were pattey towards Germany
finding it difficult to do trade with bound to the that of encirclement, Germany, owing to the difficulty Prince Radzivill, President of the on the part of nome. German im- Committee of Foreign affairs, the porters of obtaining import certi- Follah Sejm, defined the aims of ficates, Colonel Colville, Secretary Poland's foreign policy in an in- of the Overseas Trade Depart terview with the "Kurper Flus-ment, said it was as the case that travani" on Wednesday. Stating difficulties of the character refer- that Poland had adopted a justi- red to were experienced in con- fable co-operative polley with nection with the early working of Germany in all felds where in the agreement. ⠀ terest was in common, and, in pursuance to a policy of finding taken up, as they arose, with the These points, however, had been modus vivendi with all neigh-German authorities by the British bours, had signed a non aggres- Embassy at Berlin, and he under ston pact exactly as she had done stood that the arrangements were
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY DECEMBER 14, 1934.
GOSSIP FROM THE CAMPS
Big Offers For Reserve Players
(From a Correspondent)
London, Nov. 24.
Road. His tackling is very keen and under the coaching of Jimmy Collins, the former Swansea Town player, the improvement needed in his passing should come along.
This lad from the Barnsley dis- I asked a club “secretary a ques-trict is shaping well at Bealand tion the other day about players benefits. I was seeking guidance from a man who has been years in the game. He looked at me rather queerly and replied. "It's so long since we paid a playera bene- At I've forgotten all about the rules on the subject. And a few more secretaries could make juster, the same reply: "..."
OFFERS TO GRIMSBY Grimsby Town have asked £2000 for the transfer of Ponting, their reserve centre-forward. The club asked this sum have seen the play-
usual I accepted, the law of averages speaking for me...
Then the Stockport man reveal- ed that he had been drawn away nineteen times on the run. "Out came, the draw, and Stockport re- gistered number twenty. Have a
cigarette?
TRIBUTE FROM SCOTTISH SELECTOR RE
I listened the other day to a pret- to compliment paid to Ray West- wood, the Bolton Wanderers for ward. It came from Scotland, Mr. George Graham, secretary of the Scottish FA, has seen Westwood on occasions when he has been Ray's partner, Wille watching Cook.
MANCHESTER CITY'S PRICE
believe that Manchester City, in a recent effort to land a play-
recentis offered Fletcher, their This is Mr. Graham's impression reserve centre-forward as part of of the Burnden favourite: · "West- the inducement. It seemed that | wood is a bonny player. He usually the Maine Road omcials put a kicks the ball with the wrong foot value of something like £500 on I mean the loot you don't ex- this player.
pect him to use!"
I wonder If Manchester City know that one or two other clubs
er but have reached the opinion that he would not answer the rehave the idea that Fletcher will quirements. The chief point, how ever, is that Grimsby Town are prepared to consider the transfer of certain reserve players.
This news
will interest other clubs, because for a long time the Town have refused all offers for
their second team players. TALENT SPOTTING What Mr. Petter MeWilliam, former manager of Middlesbrough, I
Is to Arsenal, Mr. Bob Brown, form- er manager of Sheffield Wednes- day, is to Chelsea. The former Hillsborough pilot, now nearly fit after a lengthy and dangerous lines. is supervising Chelsea's scouting in a boast to coast Mid- land area.
Several people have been anxious to know which club Mr. Brown was serving. There they have the
-news.
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SURPRISE FOR OLDHAM I hear the signing by Kilmarnock of Thomson,
a junior outside right from Kilwinning, came as something of a shock to certain officials of Oldham Athletic.
The Latics had been impressed by this winger's form and had practically completed arrange ments for his transfer." Then came the news that he had gone to the Scottish League club.
TAKING PRECAUTIONS
The other day in the Mid-Wask League game a club was very, very wary. They played a young out sde-rght under an assumed, name, And that, too, notwithstanding that the player has signed amateur forms' for the club. "".
Perhaps the, reason for this great caution is that the boy is a player of exceptional promise. He looks like Stanley Matthews did a year or two ago.
AN EASY RECORD
That fee paid for the transfer of Reg Baines, the Sheffield United centre-forward, was easily a record for Doncaster Rovers. The fee didn't need to be a big one to be a record.
In seven years the Rovers have spent only £150 in the transter of players from League clubs. £100 went to secure Wilkinson from Shefeld Wednesday and £50 for Jock McHale, the Aberdeen centre- half.
BLACKPOOL TALENT
develop into a more than useful centre-forward. Leaders of that descriptions are very scarce to-day.
THE OTHER CONSIDERATION
You're tellin' me, echo the Wan- derers' supporters!
·A SUNDERLAND SIGNING This is how Sunderland "secured one of their most promising young- sters, an inside left named Percy Saunders. A Sunderland man who “A club not a hundred miles away | travels regularly from Newhaven from Old Trafford are now, losing to Dieppe watched minor game their feeling of disappointment at the English seaport. He wrote over the transfer of Billy Bryant, | to Manager Johany Cochrane about the Wrexham outside-right. to Saunders, Manchester United.. This club offered a good fee and were prepared to put in one of their players as well. That didn't suit Wrexham.
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The Welsh club, in fact,, were bound in an agreement with the Wolves. An exchange of players didn't silt that agreement. It had to be all transfer fee. Half the fee goes to Molineux.
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CROSSWORD PUZZLE
80
31
17
Nota:---Figures in parentheses indicate number of letters in the words required.
ACROSS
3. Summerhouse (b 8-Unaffected (8). 9.-Eminence (0). 10-Nichs in a church wall (5) 13.-Step (7)
18—A man of middle age' th 20.-Term for a simpleton (71. 31. To splash with mud (7). 22.-A train may be disconnected.
and shunted to "reunite" (anagram) (7). 26.-Ordinary standard (7) 34-Way out (5). 32.--Flower usually yellow (5) 33.-Almost (8) 34-Fegrtul (5)
DOWN 1A trick (4), 2.-Fine Work (4)
Johnny travelled right away, saw the lad play and approached him. Children were playing Holstly at the door and the lad's mother was in tears when the Sunderland manager produced the forms. Saunders looks like making a real 10. Tiger-skin: 11, Uptake; 18, 'un.
NOT YET SATISFIED
3-Tolerate (4) 4-My-catcher (1 5.-Welsh resort (4). 6-A sound of disapproval (41.
-A wheel-drag (4)...,
11.-A disease of cattle (7). 12-A form of poem (7).. 13-A person of full age (5) I-Anything (bị 15.—Marriage (5), 17.—A famous bowler (5), 18-Shin-bone (5),
19.--Old 'English magisträte (5). 23-Peer (4).
24. Part of a foot (4)... 25.-Scottish laland (4) 27-OEer for sale (4) 28-Interpret (4) 28-Deceive (4). .31—Aggregate (3).
The following is the solution of yesterday's puzzle:---
Across-1. Animation; D. Bellke:
Tid: 17, Reverse; 18, Outcrop: 19, Wan; 21, Gentle; 25, Moth-eaten: 26; Lining: 27, Adventure.
They set out to mark him. One the Leicester half-backs was allotted a special task. Gordon would not be held. He scored a "hat-trick". He "was, in fact, the one effective forward on the field. The Filberts left puzzled.
I doubt if Leicester City's search for a centre-forward ends with the QUEER MOVES
signing of George Gibson, from
whole- Trodden, an amateur inside-left Sunderland. Gibson is a from Dick Kerrs, was released the hearted player but my information other day by Preston North End, from Filbert Street is that a play-of for whom he had signed forms.er of much more experience is re- Almost immediately he was given quired before the City will be satis- a trial by Manchester City." Dickinson, the Everton centre-forward who scored two goals in the semi-final of the Lan cashire Cup at Preston, had a trial, earlier in the season with Man- chester City. It's funny how these things happen.
reserve
filed.
Meanwhile disturbing doubts re- garding the defence have arisen. The defast at Liverpool drives home the point.
Leicester, by the way, “are im~ pressed with the form of Snow, the Wrexham inside-forward.
JACK HILL UNLUCKY
CAME UNSTUCK Football plans often go astray. Jack Hill Hull City's manager, Take the case of Leicester City. isn't finding it an easy matter to They had a plan of campaign when land the new players urgently they took the field against Liver needed at Anlaby. Road. Que pool, The Leicester folks reckon- } player whom Jack fancied is ed that Gordon Hodgson was the Alan Hall, the Blackpoor reserve danger man in the Anfield team. centre-forward who travelled from Doncaster to Middlesbrough, Brad- ford City, Lincoln and Tottenham before getting to Blackpool.
Seems Jack didn't have the right sort of inducement to offer and the plans came unstuck.
SACRIFICED SUMMER WAGES
I should say there aren't many football players keener on their j football than Jack Pears, who is doing well for Sheffield United fol- lowing his transfer from Preston North End. Here's a sample.
After Jack had been at Oldham for a season the Athletic decided to given him a free transfer. Jack got to know that the club couldn't
afford to pay him close season wages. On the receipt of this in- formation he went to see Bob Mell- or, the Boundary Park secretary, and told that gentleman that if close season "pay, was the trouble he would re-sign without getting any. The next season Jack' was about the best forward on the "club's books.
A hint from & First Division club regarding Gubert Wassell, the Blackpool right back, doesn't seem to have met with any response at Bloomfield Road. This Midlands boy, however, isn't the old young back on the Seasidera' list qualify- ing for a touch of the limelight. Another is Hurst,
a lad from get to sleep on the eve of interna- Boltam.
played on the other flank in order Eric Brouk, is not fond of strange
He is a right-back but has been successful
tional matches. One of our most internationals to-day, to develop his left foot. The re-beds. Eric's South Yorkshire pal, sults are highly encouraging. Jack Barker, had this in mind
Hurst's signing was unusual.
IN THE NIGHT Dixie Dean, I recall, could never
with the Soviet Union Prance's working on the whole satisfactor- Two or three days after Alec Man when he phoned Eric, up in the
wiew that this polley with Gerly.
"many indicated that Poland had British Wireless.
xelaxed her watchfullness re
- specting Germany was not sub- stantiated since the signature of the non-aggression pact did not mean that all questions at isabe for centuries between Poland," and Germany were settled at a stroke. This was not the case, said Rad
vill, and neither the Polish nor the German pubite was under such delusion-Tramuotean Kua Min..
DEATHS IN - SOMALILAND INCIDENT
Rome. Dec. 12. Despatches just received from the Italian Somaliland state that.
FLOODS, IN PORTUGAL
Lisbon, Dec, 11, The lower stricts of Lisbon, Oporto and other towns have been flooded owing to exceptionally heavy rains and galea which have swept the country, rel
The ports of Leixoes and Oporto have been closed to navigation. Many trawlers are endangered by asloop which is adrift. The crew of four have been drowned, -Router!
at the last frontier incident at Alo, numerous dead and injured
Ualual, 100 dead Abyssinians were counted in front of the Italian
positions while airmen also re- port that between Ualual and
The Abyssinians 8.000 rounds 175 tents
middle of the night after the farlane became the Blackpool match with Italy. Jack was un manager a wellwisher of the club brought the player to the ground ép-get-trim a tried: (The day a them went out on fo the ground. Hurst showed his paces, He was promised and duly got his trial.
FRIGHTENED AWAY -
able to sleep because of the pain of his injured hand. He wanted someone to talk with Sure en- ough Er was awake and the two held a lengthy conversation over the 'phone.
FIFTY-FIFTY
I believe Burnley didn't know what to ask when x Flist Division successes in international football. Jack Barker does not boast of his club asked how much was required Gays the Derby County pivot to for the transfer of Hetherington, me: I owe my present position the Turf Moor goalkeeper. Burn-nity per cent, to our manager, Mr. ley mentioned £2500 and practi-Ceorge Jobey and the rest to my cally frightened the First Division own ability and hard work a folks away
They had a Agure somewhere be tween £750 and £1000 in mind. Evidently, there are no bargains to be had at Burnley.
PEROCHESTER HOPES
When Jack goes on the field to do battle on the international oc- casion, by the way he is primed with Mr. Jobay's advice which be ands inval
I met
Chester had hopes when they signed Guy Wharton, a young balf- | pört back from Broomhill Athletic, to- wards the end of last reason!” “The hopes are growing.
Haid Pred,
UCKY AGAIN
the Stock
eam
HOPES DASHED
Down-2, Nall; 3. Mien; 4, TO88:
5. Oribi; 6. Despite; 7, Rivalry: 8. Receipt; 12, Fragile: 13. Evening: 14. Prolong; 15, Yew; 16. Don; 20, Avoid: 22. Ghee: 23. Cast: 34. Rear:
HOME RUGGER
London, Dec. 12: At Tunbridge Wells to-day Kent registered a win of 28 points to 9 in their match with Sussex, while at Richmond Surrey defeated Hampshire by the narrow margla of one point the score being 8 points to 5 in Reuter,
A new face appears in the Wolves attack, that of Clayton, the inside- left. I do not know how many First Division clubs are disappoint- ed to see this clever young player get into the Wanderers first team. Half a dozen at least. These clubs Leicester City are one of the `in- - have been hoping that the Wan-terested clubs. The City, I under- derers would overlook Clayton's stand, were on the point of bidding claim to promotion. They have for him. What they do now doesn't been watching him with an eye to mean a thing to the Wanderers. business.
Clayton has arrived.
The Gift
for Christmas
CAPSTAN,
in the bright blue carton, makes just the better holiday gift. It is. specially packed with six 50's fins, 300 cigarettes, at the usual price.
Christmas
the preferred cigarette!
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