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Davis Cup
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Australians End Their Travels
Melbourne, Sept. 25. Three members of the Australian Davis Cup team, Jack Crawford, Vivian McGrath and John
Brom-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER
19,. 1937.
Baseball
Can Pay Star NOT TO RUN AT
£16,000, Soccer £470
FANS BACK
NEW DRIVE
(By Gordon Beckles)
!
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Professional footballers
want more money.
wich, arrived in Melbourne in the Ormonde this week. They have come back "le get down to business for a while," as Crawford put it
suld he Crawford
considered. Donald Budge, the American uce, aij the No. 1 tennis player of the world.
Their fans-Judging from letters He thought that last season Budge had reached the top of his form. It written by Daily Express readers was hard to imagine him playing also want to know why that money
is not forthcoming. better tennis.
P
It give
He was particularly pleased with the perfomances of Bromwich and McGrath in the German champion ships and tournaments.
Why should good players be ret Amerten, and especially Californiating as little as £4 a week, they ask, was producing the most promisit when baseball in America can afford young tennis players at present. The to pay decent wages to its stora long months of Californian sunshine!
The lowest paid U.S. baseballer in
£1,000 were largely responsible.
first-class cum gots time for much practice and developed year: the most an English Soccer week, with the physique of players.
player can get is £8 a
bonus of £2 a win and £1 a darw. Terribly low is how Tommy
describes of Chelsea,
wages Law,
by the majority of clubs. "Some Paid pay less than £4 a week. A man Speaking of England's chances in can't play football all his life, und the next Davis Cup, McGrath saldi is up to the players to improve they were slender. There were few their lot." young English players coming on and he thought America would be the winner.
From the point of view of spori, he considered Australians were the must adaptable people in the worT. They learned surprisingly quickly compared with other nations.
or
Australia
Bromwich sald that as a result of the tour he had decided to change his tennis tactics slightly. Befo:e had been going abroad his game characterised by its steadiness. It bad lacked aggressiveness, Unfor tunately be bad found that many in ternational stara played the BRgressive game, and so, after som jainful experiences, he had declen on a more aggressive gume for the future.
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CLUB TEAM CHOSEN
The following have been chosen to represent the Hongkong Hockey Club in the semi-final of the elvi Han petion of the inter-section knock-out ournament to-morrow on the Marina ground at 5.15 p.m.-Y. W. Benwell; J. E. Potter, E. V. Reed; R. A. Dates, W. A. Reed, G. Sommer: S. Fowler. T. Whitley, C. E. R. Divet, B. 1. Bickford, Bond.
450,000 TRANSFER
Louis Gehrig, of the Yankee busê- year: £7,000 a ball team, gets Dimaggle, youngest member of the team, is paid £5,000; and one player, Joe Cronin, was recently transferred to them at a record transfer fee of
£50,000.
The famous Babe Ruth, once got £10,000 a season,
To arrive at the maximum a foot-
boll star can expect to make in year would be reasonable to take the following' amounts:—
admission is four shillings; in Üle country it is 'one shilling.
·GATE-PROBLEM --
admission "If we were to raise prices we would have to do so all round, And that would hit the small clubs badly. A shilling is already high enough,
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We put our surplus money- when we have any-inlo building up our teams, training new players, searching for talent.
"And it's, the team that the publle pays for
tram "Football is essentially Fame. Baseball is not; it is a game The batter for individual prowess.
is a star, standing up there all alge, with not even another man at the end of the pitch to worry about, as In cricket.
"There is scarcely a player who nt least can be said not to have doubled
his
enterbig income by foelball.
"Even if we re-scaled our admła- it iy still slon prices all round doubtful if it would be in the in- terests of the game to introduce the stor system."
THE CESAREWITCH Latest Call-Over For Race Next Week
"
Landon. Oct. 18. The following is to-day's call-over for the Cesarewlich to be October 27:
run on
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Summer wages for eighteen
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£108
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Win or draw bonuses (£2
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If baseball can do it, why not fotball. is the thought behind the minds of the English professional players, whose union is about to begin a new enmpatim for money.
What are the facts?
The manager of one of the richest clubs put their case like this:-
"Where is the money to come from?
"In the United States the average
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Winger Collapses
ASTON VILLA, beaten by
only goal scored at Norwich recently, had a shock at half-time which probably cost thom the game.
Maund, their outside loft collapsed suddenly in the dressing.room. A doctor was summoned and said: "I think this man is suffering from pleurisy. He must be taken to hospital. A call was put through to the police and Maund was rushed to the Norfolk and, Norwich hospital under observation of two.doc- tors, believed to be suffering either from pleurisy or, pneu- monia,
MATCH AGAIN DRAWN
(Continued from Page 8.)
several occasions, but through on
came to the Hayward and Heath rescue with Ane, clearances. There- after, except for brief priods when they made two or three dangerous breakaways, the Police were more or less in their own territory. •
The Police had a larger share of the exchanges, particularly in the Arst half, but their forwards failed. to seize
opportunities the scoring
Woll offered them. Parker,
and Jackson formed a speedy attack, with Brown the best defender. The Rees. showed considerable improvement In the second half. L. G. Gosano phone in the attack and was well-supported by AM. Xavier and' Ozarlo. man who deserves.most credit in the Recreto defence, however, was young Marques, who gave a brilliant dis- play at right half. Gonsalves, at right back, was as, sound as a rock. It was a good match with a foir end-
ing.
The
The third replay is to take place
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SYDNEY Wooderson Has
His "Exam"
Three outstanding English athletes, S. C. Wooderson, world mile record holder, A. G. K. Brown, British quarter-mile champion; and Alan Pennington, Oxford sprinter, are not available for the Empire Games, in Sydney. The
will be on- nounced later,
team
Mr. Evan Hunter, secretary of the British Olymple and Empire Games Association, said that, of all the sec tions of the team the athletes were inding most dificult to obtain the four months' necessary leave. The team, leaving on December 4, does not return until the first week In April, 1938.
Mr. Hunter added that when the athletics selectors meet they will have from twelve to fteen places to fil, from a list much curtailed from the number circularised.
STUDIES FIRST Wooderson's employers-ite articled to a firm of salleitora in the City-akd that he is at present on As he is concen- his annual leave. trating on an examination next June. he will not risk absenting himself from his studies during the Empire Games.
Taylor, the
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British backstroke Gwimming champion, is another whose studies, at Sheffield University, ure clashing with his Empire Games aspirations.
Surprisingly, the boxing section of the team is likely to be selected from full strength. "About thirty letters were sent," said Mr. Harry Fowler, secretary of the A.B.A. "Much to our surprise--for the boxing boys their husually have difficulty with tenve-the whole bang shoot have written back, 'O.K.' "
According to Mr. Hunter, the most likely composition of the team, whose numerical strength will depend on the money available will be: twelve to fifteen athletes, four boxers, three or four cyclists, seven swimmers, one wrestler and sixteen women com. petitors. One sculler and eight pars- men also may be chosen.
HOCKEY UMPIRING
A short series of lectures on Hoc- key Umpiring will be given by Capt. C. W. P. Kimm, A.E.C., in the Arca Educational Centre, blocks A and B. every Wednesday at 6.30 p.m. The series commences on Wednesday, Oc- tober 20,
These lectures should prove of in- valuable assistance to local hockey, and any civilians desirous of attend- ing will be heartily welcomed.
SPORT ADVTS.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
The Ninth Extra Raca Meeting will be held (weather permitting)
Gull And Zephyr Take HAPPY VALLEY on Saturday,
Leading Places
Gull, sailed by Mrs. L. Stanton won the "A" class and Zephyr, soiled by. Mrs. J. Pattullo, the "y" class in the first women's race held by the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club yester- day over 8.2 miles.
A class started at 14.45 and "y" class at 14.85. Results:
Gull
"A" Class
(Mrs. L. Stanton)
True Blue.... 10.49.33
Finished Pós
10.48.12
PIs.
1
10
2.
B
(Mrs. G. D. Adams)
Jean
18.50.51 3
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(Mrs. E. R. Edwards) Redshank...... 17.00.08
d
0
Eve
(Mrs. M. J. Hopkinson) ..................... 17.01.49. (Mrs. J. Bader)
3
5
Artemis
..... 17.06.10 (Miss M. Whitham)
0 4
Kittiwake
..... 17.08.12
7.
Class
17.18.04 1 10
(Miss P. M. King)
Zephyr
Winkle
(Mrs. J. Pattullo)
2 17.10.40 (Mrs. G. M. McClatchie) Widgeon
17.20.03 3 (Miss H. Crowhall-Wilson)
17.20.05.
Heron
(Mrs. D. M. Hodgkinson) Nanneito...... 17.37.26
(Miss O. Patchett)
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