KARUNYANSERVATION IN NOON
THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, JULY 11, 1938.
BEHIND THE SPORTS THAT MILLIONS ENJOY FREAK GOLF
PEOPLE in England pay on the average ninety thousand pounds every year, or roughly one half- penny for every member of the population, to watch county cricket.
In addition to that, the total subscriptions paid
3-Cricket
every year to the various county cricket clubs amount to £1,100. The same cricket week time as being nearer to 400 than about £30,000.
There are
in a wet season recently brought 300 This £120,000, if it were distributed evenly among in £3791 Derbyshire provides But that is not the end. It is the the different counties, would about meet their joint receipts from its matches during grounds alone, ccores (two for every another example. Derbyshire's groundsmen, probably 500 in county
barcst beginning, expenditure, Northamptonshire calculate that it costs one year raised £4,549. In the eleven), umpires. them £7,123 to run a season's cricket and the figure may following year there was more be taken as 'a fair indication.
At least 5,000 people are engaged rain and the figure sunk
full time this first line stands the whole array
me upon
the game; behind
of makers of pads, wickets, cricket balls, cricket gloves, cricket bats.
£3,792.
Professional's Pay
to
SHOT OF NO AVAIL
AUSTRALIANS VICTORIOUS
London, June 14. Representing North Berwick In the fourball at East Lothian against the Australian golfers, Nettletohl and McKay, to-day. J. McKinna played a most unusual shot.
the 18th the ball hit a boundary wall, When McKinna skied his drive at rebounded, hit a motor car, ricochet- ted back on to the wall and then bounded on to the fairway.
But various factors which have been aggravated in recent years upset this balance of profit and loss and have done so now so continuously that the whole financial
On an average year 60,000 cricket future of the game looks like being threatened unless strain on the professional cric- number are made for export,
bats are sold in this country worth Such uncertainty puts a heavy about as many pounds and an equal luck was of no avail, and McKinna However, even this piece of good there is a drastic readjustment all round.
and his partner, Whittaker, lost the Entertainment tax deprives the clubs of one penny his pay is irregular and his go down so do the hopes of the tained three for a win at the 13th.
keter. His status is uncertain,
And as the sales of bats go up. and match, 2 up, when Nettlefold ob- in every sixpence of their takings.
growers of cricket bat willows. For terms of service vary from the cricket bat the wood must be at the turn and were then durmie Nettlefold and McKay were 2 up This reckoned over five years has come to £75,000, a county to county. In some cases seasoned to just the right degree, two. figure exactly £1,000 higher than the combined losses of he is paid weekly, anything the tree felled at precisely the right MeKinna holed a chip shot at the the same counties over that period. Many people have in other cases he gets a fixed grower to pick up on a bad season
from £8 to £12 on an
time.
17th and kept the match alive, but average, So it is every bit as hard for the Nettlefold's three at the 18th settled tried to persuade the Exchequer to remit this tax, or at sum for each match in which an it is for the player. Cricket in
the issue. any rate to mitigate it, to the degree allowed by law he takes part. £10 a match is fact, from willow grove to cricket for live entertainers, among whom cricketers apparently not reckoned, but their prospects have never minimum of 24 matches for could well imagine.
the normal rate of pay. Every pitch, is a ganic of fair prospects first-class county plays
possibilities all through, been encouraging.
a game as full of chance us you the championship every
And then there are people who call it dulli Then, there are extra fixtures,, had games against a test team on games against the Uni-
Money in Clubs
are
Hon.
If it is small, or has lost its old character
never
or
Then the burden is un- much character to lose, then tour,
sea-
evenly distributed. There it has no reserve of subscribers versities and other similar fx-
are many
to full back upon and has to tures, so that a professional factors which weigh for and against a in a bad
depend on gate-money which should earn £300 in any average
season like that of senson, particular county. If it is 1938, when 146 fixtures were match in which he plays, unless As he is paid for every large, well populated and cancelled between Junc full of local patriotism it August, may be a very hazard basis, his position is not im
and he is engaged on a fixed salary can generally count on a
ous thing on which to depend. mediately affected by a rainy
The case of Leicestershire, a summer. long list of faithful sub- club which has been in great scribers, like Yorkshire.
THE DEVIL THREW
A PARTY
That only death could crash!
Victor McLAGLEN
The DEVIL'S PARTY
with
WILLIAM GARGAN
PAUL KELLY BEATRICE ROBERTS FRANK JENKS Screen play by Roy Chestor Based on the novel "Hell's Kitchen Has A Pantry" by Borden Chase Directed by Ray McCurdy
A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE
TO-MORROW
at the
QUEEN'S
difficulties recently, is typical of the way that a change in the character of a county may affect its cricket.
year round,
Like Farmers
and grim
COUNTY CRICKET MATCHES George Pope Bowls Well For Derby
ru119,
gome
Glamorgan v Northampshire 299 for 7 wickets in
At Pontypridd, Glamorgan scored their match against Northamptonshire, Emrys 78 not out. Davies contributed 78 and Dal Davies
London, July 9. AL Chesterfield, in the But indirectly he can be very the former were all out for 198 runs. between Yorkshire and Derbyshire hard hit indeed. A county im- George Pope was in brilliant bowl- Leicestershire 22
few years poverished by one bad seasoning form and took six wickets for ago had many residents who will have to reduce the number 3 runs. Derbyshire at the close of stayed in the county the whole of its professionals in the sea-play had lost three wickets for 37
felt themselves son following and most players members of it, and subscribed must inevitably look up at the generously to its cricket club. gathering storm clouds with a Lately they have almost all sigh over their prospects of a gone away. In their place there job next summer. came winter migrants from the Besides, the cricket professional surrounding Midland towns who generally lives for the whole year on simply occupied their houses what he can earn during the senson. for the hunting season, felt no livelihood on the weather, but un- for 135 runs against Surrey. Watts Like the farmer, he depends for his
At Blackheath, Kent were all out interest in the county's cricket, like the farmer, he cannot set the and Berry and left the club with a deficit advantages of a fine March against form; the former took four wickets that in 1936 stood as high as the drawbacks of a wet May.
In good bowling £1,375.
for 45 runs and the latter four, for There are, of course, certain com-48. At the close of play Surrey had pensations. Most popular players lost two wickets for 114 runs, Fish- can count on at least one "benefit, lock contributing 55.. and some, Hendren, tor
Rain and Ruin
instance,
Kent v Surrey
wore
Leicestershire v Lancashiro
A club deprived of its back- have two. A good benefl: may bring bone of reliable subscribers is in. from the combined result of a driven
At Leicester in the match between back upon its gate special-eneflt match, a whip-round Lefcestershire and Lancashire, the money. If the season is a
among the crowd and a levy from former were dismissed for 119 runs. the county subscribers, as much as Lancashire at the close of play had £1,000.
lost a wicket without a run.
By George Edinger
fine
one and the cleven is popular. there may not be any
great harm
is that. Northampton shire reckon that it takes £150.
to make a game
The numbers whose lives are
Nottinghamshiro y Middlesex directly and indirectly affected this why run Into many Surrey alone employs 30 profes- latter team scored 304 runs for nine thousands. Nottinghamshire and Middlesex, the At Nottingham in the game between
sional cricketers season. Even wickets. Robertson D1, Allen 58 and
#
the minor counties employ two or Hart 100 were the top scorers.
ree professionals optece, so that
is fair to compute the number en- gaged in county cricket at any one
TENNIS TITLE
RAKERNACLETA Budge And Mako Win
In Semi-FinalTM
Prague, July 9.
In the mixed doubles, Malecek and
for
Somerset v Hampshire
At Yeovil, Somerset were dismissed. 110 runs against Hampshire. Boyes was in good bowling form and took 9 wickets for 57 runs.
Sussex v Essex
Worcestershire v Gloucestershire At Stourbridge, Gloucester
had
GREAT PUTTING
The Australians met a tenm drawn from four North. Berwick cluba, in- cluding MeKinna and Denholm, who are Scottish internationals.
Hattersley and Ryan beat Denholm and Callender, 3 and 2.
Hattersley and Ryan were one down at the turn, but great putting at the 12th and 13th gave them the lead.
Hattersley sunk a 10-yarder at the 14th and the match ended at the 10th.
SCHMELING
MAY RETIRE FROM RING
Still Showing Effects Of Recent Fight
Bremen, July 9. Max Selimeling arrived here on Saturday, his wife, the film actress Anny Ondra, having met the steamer before it arrived at Bremerhafen. During the final days of his voyage, cast in which he has lain since his Schmeling had been relieved of his
fight Joe Louis, and was sitting
with UD when he received visitors and re- porters in his cabin.
Although he still showed the effects
refused to discuss the fight or his of his fight and days in hospital, Schmeling was in cheerful mood, but plans for the future. He intends for the time being to place himself in the hands of a Berlin specialist, Pro- fessor Erwin Conrdandt, until he is completely recovered from the in- jury to his spine.-Trans-Occan.
May Retire from Ring
Cherbourg, July 8. Max Schmeling, recently badly beaten by Joe Louts in a world cham- planship Пght, disclosed to inter- viewers here to-day that his wife had suggested his retirement from the ring.
Max said: "I have made no deci- sion yet."-United Press.
A COMEBACK VICTORY Bob Nastell Wins By A T. K. O.
San Francisco, July 0. Johnny Romero (187 lbs.) of San Diego scored a knock-out victory over Johnny Rossi (103 lbs.) of Boston in the second round of their ten-round fight.
The Heavy Weights
Los Angeles, July 0. At Los Angeles, Jack Roper (200 lbc.) of San Diego knocked out Patsy Perroni (188 lbs) of Cleveland in the second round of their ten-round fight. In an auspicious comeback, Bob
round of their over Frank Rowscy In the third ten-round fight.-- United Press.
At Hove, Essex were dismissed for 188 runs agains Sussex. O'Connor pay its way. BAIHANE ELDEST Games Cornford took five wickets for
was the top scorer and it should not be difficult to
with 36 while raise £150 on a three-day match.
In the semi-final of the Czecho- had lost five wickets for 140 runs, 48 runs. At the close of play Sussex At a shilling a head it would be Badge and Gene Mako (America) 57.
Slovakian championships, Donald Harry Parks being undefeated with covered by an average daily defeated Joseph Malecek and Victor attendance of a thousand people. Benda (Czecho-Slovakia) by 0-1,
But supposing it rains. A 6-2 and 0-2, wet summer often confronts Miss Zdenka Drlinova defent Mako scored 122 for 4 wickets at the clasa Nastell scored a technical knock-out poor club with complete ruin. and Miss Helen Straube, 12-10 and
1931 was a particularly wet 8-0. year.
At the end of the season
The singles final between Budge Yorkshire had lost £3,000, Gla- and Hotch will be decided on Sunday.
At Lords, Eton were all out for 230 morganshiro £2,500 and War-
United Press.
In the first innings against Harrow. wickshire and Leicestershire!
Holder Beater
Hayward was in good bowling form £2,000 each. The ease of Dover
and took Ave-wicke's for 40 runs. Cricket Week shows what a
Dublin, Juls D. Harrow was all out for 200 runs. Playing in the Irish Singles final, In the second innings Eton could difference the rain can make. Miss Thelma Jarvis of Britain, 6-4, had lost a wicket for 16 runs when Mrs. Helen Wilis Moody defeated only put up 118. At the end, Harrow Dover Cricket Week when the 6-4. weather is fine. has realised United Press.
Miss Jarvis was the holder the game was abandoned and ended
in a draw.
DONALD DUCK
PARDON!
of play against Worcestershire, Allen contributing 79.
Eton v Harrow
I Want To Be Alone
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WIN FOR BRITAIN'
national athlette meet held at the
London, July D. Britain beat Norway in an inter- White Clly, by 72 points to 67-
Reuter
Jel. 28151.
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