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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1,
FOOTBALL'S GOAL
LTHOUGH the
football
season is a few weeks old, already we have had more complaints, squabbles, prob- lems and other ls than formerly was the case in two or three whole
seasons.
Football is more "difficult" than ever. Its difculties will continue to Increase.
All the time, opposing forces inside the game are working up towards the 'big upheaval which must inevitably Football is almost at the
como.
parting of the ways. ·
The clash is between the modern big-money interests and the old- fashioned amateur control. The two do not blend. They cannot. They never will. In boxing the same clari has come and gone. The old regime passod out limply, weakly: without a fight.
It had no resources to combat big money. And big money has ruled whatever boxing there has been from that day.
The football elents have not sur- rendered. There is no reason Why They should, Whatever happens, they will al- ways march proudly at the head of the boya and the amateur young 'meh-roughly 95 per cent. of Brit-
ain's footballers.
an-
But sooner or later, Their route is going to be different from that taken
by
the
big
Mul on y intercala, There must come a split, with no alde obvious losers, but with ench going in its own atrection,
It is impossible to estimate how uch money has been sunk in League football in post-war years. Staggering sums have disappeared. Mr. John Dean, the Fulham chair- man, estimates that he has put £30,000 into his club.
can
NORTHERN business hins seen kuns of equal value gradually dissolve like a spoonful of sugar that is balanced Just below the surface of a cup of ton. Modern football swallow money with a terrifying appetite. And, gradually, these club directors of the new school, whose cash in so necessary, are he ginning to want more power; be- ginning to demand that they should have more to say about the use, or abuse, of their own money. They complain of pettifogging restrictions, imposed in the days when football was of the mous- tached-Corinthian vintage, which prevent them apeculating in such manner that they could at least be reasonably sure of a fair return. Always, in the hackground of football, there are pictures of the dead-and-gone pioneers and real 1}[¢..._studies_of those who rental, strugging-yes. struggling is the word to retain a complete control over a game which has spread Into avenues beyond their wildest and most imaginative conceptions.
It takes roughly three years to
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İNO MONEY'ACTURNED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES,
Turnstiles click and the cash rolls in. But "modern football can swallow money with a terrifying appetite."
put over a new idea in football, or to have a new idea definitely turned down. Unless you inove in the more exclusive football circles you cannot have the faintest idea of the amazing number of cross- currents that are always at work:
The county F.A. member, who has been interested in local Soccer all his life as a'mild and refreshing hobby, must of necessity come up against the businessman director who is, first and foremost, looking not necessarily for profit but for same means to prevent that com- plete disappearance of his capital.
Can the two have anything In cammon? Obviously not.
THESE opposing forces are always looking at their football from vastly different angles and view-points. I am convinced that the deterior-· ation in the quality of professional football is largely due to the can- tinual clashing of inside interests and the consequent neglect of
rid-of-play ideals.
The referee problem is but an- other product of the clash. Men, taught, nurtured and sponsored by the old-fashioned amateur section of the game, are thrust into the professional field, with its six- Agure money interesta. its ten thousand players and Its Wall Street.
atmosphere, and are
by Clifford Webb
where the appointment of League referees is concerned, that power is strictly limited to men who have first been put forward by the amateur section. The vicious system under
constantly between two fires. A referee who had 27 years of ofciating in the "good old days" has told me that he is convinced that the three guinea fee paid to refereca who control League matches, to-day is at the bottom of л good many refereeing aliments.
"TO many officials," he said, "that Saturday three guineas represents almost as much as they can earn during the rest of the week: they are not going to risk having their salary cut in half by displeasing anybody.
They are always looking for the middle course, steering clear of trouble. They are neither one thing nor the other; neither parcly professional referees nor old- fashioned amateur ofcials of the type who time and again would hand back the guinea fee that ob- tained in my day-beenuse it was against their principles."
ofcfuls That is
I am convinced that ʼn good many Football League are of the same opinion. why they have suggested that "Tees" "for" "referees should" ve "M=" creased to as much as ten guineas, to make the role self-supporting and purely a profession.
While it is true that League clubs. have a certain amount of power
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which each club issues a secret report on the conduct of the referee after a match is most from unsatisfactory many points of view.
It in the supreme example of the clumsy results that Inevitably follow an attempt at compromise between the ever-warring Inc- tors of football.
The most recent sign of the rapid ap- proach of the inevit- able spilt In football is the demand of the amateurs for a new and separate selection committee for inter- national matches.
Thnt la just one more example of the com- plete absence of blend 'between the two see-
tions of the game. It) Is the lack of cohesion and agreement among the controllers of Association football that has reduced the professional inter- national tournament to a on match afair-England v, Scotland -supported by a series of Jarelen! matches between the other coun - tries which might well be aban-. doned, so unimportant have they became.
One more example of clumsy compromise. The money-men say, We are not going to loan our expensive players to any inter- national alde. to risk
them being injured in match that
not does
interest
In the slightest, and does not bring us in A penny."
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And the panjandrums of the other side have replied, "We see your point of view. We will fix International matches, not only at the beginning of the season. when League points are comparatively uniimportant (this does not obtain to-day!),
'on but
mid-week afternoons, when your players will not be required for League
Kames.
"WE should like you to Joan your players to the Scottish, Welsh, or Irish -Annulations when such players are requested, but we should not think of compelling you to do so."
And so the clubs please them- selves, and all internationals, save one, are played between' elevens which are never truly representa- tive of the football strength of the countries, and on mid-week after- noons, which relegates them, in importance, to League clubs' reserve team games.
The FA Cup competition, which ts controlled absolutely by the amateur section but kept alive ab- Eolutely by the professionals, pro- vides yet another example of the clash of opposing interests in big football.
The professional clubs dislike being called on to travel leng dis- tances to meet the smaller fry, on grounds which cannot possibly hold enough people to pay more than the visitors' bare expenses.
They have, to a great extent, al- ready frozen out the Corinthians. They dislike Intensely the incon- venience caused by the overcrowd-
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has been won Inrgely by virtue of a number of drawn and replayed ties.
They complain continually of the unfairness of the system of com. pensation which applies when League matches have to be put off for Cup-ties. They are, you see, caught between two sets of rules pertaining to fixtures-the League rules and the F.A. Cup rules,
BIC football cannot : possibly continue much longer under present conditions. The signposts denoting the cross ronds are already In view. In a nutshell, big foot- ball must be one thing or the other; Just a game or just a vast financially controlled in- dustry, And the big-money men have obtained too strong a hold for the Arst alternative to be even con- aldered,
Before the war one would have sald without hesitation that the complete submersion of profes- sional football beneath big businers must be bad for the game.
To-day, in- view of post war dopments, one in forced to 151 view that it is the only way
out.
Spectator. Ordered Off
October 10 saw the first ordering off in English first division football since the F.A, issued their "cleati- up" nemorandum.
But the strange part was that I was not a player, but a spectator who was sent off. This incident occurred at St. Andrews in the Birmingham-Leeds match. Captain Hamilton-Jours gave the order.
1936.
Gunnar Barlund Is Promising
MAY FIGHT FOORD NEXT YEAR
In the event of Ben- Foord defent- Let him explain the incident:ing Walter Neusel Harringay "The ball was kicked into the Stadium on November 10, it is more crowd. A man caught H. When | than probable that the very promis- the players asked for the ball being Finn, Gumar Barlund, will op- refused to return it. The lesinan pose the South Africans as the top- then made a request. He still re- | liner of an attractive programme that fused.
Then I spoke to him. He is being arranged in London in con- called me Homething that didn't nection with the Coronation, next sound like Hamilton-Jones, and de-
manded that I simuld send one of year, writes James Butler in the
Daily Herald. the Leeds players off. tic then threw the ball over his head Into the erowit. I promptly summoned two police offlesrs and had the man removed from the ground."
Some one in
the crowd also threw a rubber ball which missed
the referee.
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Hockey Final And A Neutral Ground
The Spoels Editor,
It is announced that Barland may be selected to oppose the winner-Hongkong Telegraph. such a match would be improbable if Neusel is successful, because the Board of Control rules prohibit two foreigners meeting In opposition
Sir-May I use a short space in your popular paper to be enlightened on the following.
B|Carski, who also looks after Neusel'n Grupu Desportivo Argonauta
DONALD
LEACH'S
CENTURY
To Start And
Finish His Season
21"
I noticed that the hockey match Sunday between the Burlund is in Amerien with Paul played dust
Hongkong Hockey Club and the.
loos interests, Danski has a high opluton place on the former's ground, which of Darlund's ability, and says that
obviously n home he is confident the Finn will even-Hongkong Hockey
ground for Club. I cannot Lually fight his way to a match for reconcile this with one of the rules the world file.
of Association Inter-section Tournu-
Bagarrel in unquestionably the bestment, which spectieally states that heavy-weight prospect in the busi-any match must be played on neutral
ground, and I am sure ness, and I know one boxer's' man-
many will I share the view that this has not been Lauger who is ready to buy hly con-
track for a
fair Io the Grupo substantini four-figure Argonauta. What if this team hind Desportiva
ebegun.
But Damski is not selling his in- terest. He is content to take his ehriner and I feri sure he is shrewdly wise.
protested on the field there and then? Are there no remedies on an occasion as this?
1 in not t fate yet to make amentis, 'an this match having been a drawn game in to be replayed oguln. Barlund might conceivably earn But why at Club Ground when there £28,000-und more --within the next are others available? Where is the few years, The Flim possesses all- | fairness and justice we are wont to round ability, skill, a henvy punch boast about so much I wonder. and a gentile fighting temperament.
STILL WONDERING.
CRICKETER WHO INVENTED
THE "GOOGLY"
DEATH OF B.J.T. BOSANQUET OF TEST MATCH FAME
Mr. Bernard James Tindal and the rubber for England. Four- Bosanquet, Inventor of the "goog- teen months later, at Trent Bridge, ty," died last month at his home Australia's only chance of escaping In Surrey at the age of GD. He defeat rested on their staying in for was a good all-round cricketer at four hours and abak. Bosanquet
of their both Eton and Oxford, but it was took eight
nine wickets as the first real exponent of the (Tramper being disabled), and Eng- "googly" that he will be rentem- and won.
Born on October 13, 1877, Bosan- bered.
quet went to Eton, gained his place in the eleven of 1000 against Harrow Galog up to and scored 120 runs. Oxford, he was given his Blue In 1808, and kept it for the next two years.
Afterwards he played for Middle- sex, from 1900 to 1903. His Krent
Two sparkling knocks were added Lo the season's account before the curtain was rung down on ericket at the S.C.C. last week, Donald Leach celebrating his first appearance since his return from furlough with a glorious century and a line bag of six wickets, while Lt.
Shaforce star.j Bowen, the opened his shoulders to the bowl- ing and put the balt over the boundary on four occasions. of his shots landing on the upper deck in the pavilion writes C. W. Tambs in the Shanghai Times. The occasion was a meeting be- tween the United Services and the Club, the, Servlees electing to bat first on brittle wicket and knock- after butting out the ing up 104
He was understood to have experi- morning and Into the afternoon,"
mented originally with that remark- Bowen scored is total of 0 able. ball somewhere about 1900, but in 75 minutes, including seven A. L. Ford insisted that Basanquet: fours and four sixes, three of the coplest the "googly from his father, latter being bit off Austice when Lieutenant-Colonel 13. T. Basanquiet, the Club slow bowler was brought, who bowled to his son from the time on for a second spell. Ifis fours the latter' was six years old. were distributed with magnificent In any case, the introduction of the year was 1904, when he made 1,405 impartiality, among the bowling. "googly."
y, which is a ball possessing runs, average 36, and took 132 wickets distinct off-break though delivered for less than 22 runs aplece. Twice with a leg-break action, aroused he put together two separate hund intense interest among the players of rects in a match, scoring 130 and 136 the day, and puzzled everybody to against Leicestershire at Lord's in such an extent that even F. 5. Jack-1900, and 103 and 100 not out against son confessed that he had not the Sussex at Lord's in 1905, In the LEACH'S SUCCESS
least idea how it was done. Hosan-latter match, he also obtained eleven
ined wickels. quet, however, never quite attained
Among his bowling feals, outside Leach dealt with the middle and the same command of length with tail end of the Services In short
"googly" that he showed with those performed in Test matches, runs, includ- time, taking six wickets for 21 runs orthodox deliveries. On his day he were: 15 wickets for 65 in 1 overs, four of which were was the most difficult-slow-bowlering nine wickets in_one_innings,
Oxford against Sussex, maitiens. Jenkins look three for 56, in the world. He was about six feet oxford, 1000; 14 wickets for 100 while Leekle was responsible for the tall and brought the ball down from Ox remaining wicket at a cost of 21 a great height. runs.
Lt. Phillimore, the Service's open- ing bat, also had a sturdy knock, putting up 44 on his individual - count, while Dyer added 37 na fast as Lench would allow him.
t
the
TEST TRIUMPHS His two grentest triumphs were The Club fielded a powerful side for the match, every man on the side scored in Test matches. The first was at Sydney in 1903. Boshnquet having a knock with all but two go went on when Australia, wanting 329 ing
double figures. Donald Leach reached, his century in exactly to win, had lost three batsmen for 74 100 minutes, hit, wicket falling a few runs. He took five wickets for 12 minutes later with his score at 108. runs, and so helped to win the match
Into
Bis total included 14 fours.
LARWOOD ΤΟ COACH IN INDIA
Invitation To Nichols
Larwood, the England and Notts bowler, has accepted an invitation From the Indian Board of Cricket Control to go out to that country this winter as one of the two professional coaches to be engaged by the Board.
Hendren, who was at one time dis- posed to go, bus changed his mind. Sandham also has refused. An in- vilation has nccordingly been sent to Nichols, the Essex fast bowler. And Prince Victor of Couch Bihar, who Is acting as the Board's agent in the matter, hopes to conclude the nego- tiations within a short time.
The plan to that Bombay and Delhi should share, the coaches, who will be able to return to England by the middle of March.
Nichols went out to India In the winter of 1933-34 with D, R. Jar- dine's M.C.C. side, but Larwood has never visited that country.
Dil Hitch, of Surrey fame, has ni- ! rendy reached India, where he is to coach at Secunderabad and later at Calcutta:
runs for Middlesex against Sussex, at Brighton. In 1904; and nine wickets- In one Innings for the M.C.C. against the South Africans at Lord's, in 1904. He also took part in tours to America, New Zealand and Austraila, and the West Indies.
He represented Oxford at Hammer Throwing in 1809 and 1900 and at Billards in 1898 and 1900.
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