BEHIND THE
THE
THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JULY 11, 1938.
SPORTS SPORTS THAT MILLIONS ENJOY
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.
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In addition to that, the total subscriptions paid every year to the various county cricket clubs amount to £1,100. The same cricket week like the farmer, he cannot set the about £30,000.
Volunteers' Sports
For July 22:
It is announced that the Hongkong Volunteers aquatic meet, which was postponed from last Saturday, will be held on Friday, July 22. at the V.R.C. at 9.30 p.m. irrespective of the weather.
in a wet season recently brought advantages of a fine Murch against This £120,000, if it were distributed evenly among in £379! Derbyshire provides the drawbacks of a wel May. the different counties, would about meet their joint another example. Derbyshire's There are, of course, certain com- expenditure. Northamptonshire calculate that it costs one year raised £4,549, In the can count on at least one "benefit," receipts from its matches during pensations. Most popular players them £7,123 to run a season's cricket and the figure may following year there was more have two. A good benent may bring
and some, Hendren, for Instance. Baseball be taken as a fair indication.
rain and the figure sunk to in, from the combined result of a £3,792.
special benefit match, a whip-round hmong the crowd and a levy from the county subscribers, as much as £1,000.
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 future of the game looks like being threatened unless there is a drastic readjustment all round.
Professional's Pay
from £8 to £12 on an
sea-
are
the minor counties employ two or
strain on the professional cric- curectly and indirectly affected this
Such uncertainty puts a heavy
The numbers whose lives Entertainment tax deprives the clubs of one penny his pay is irregular and his Surrey alone employs 30 profes- keter. His status is uncertain, way run Inta many thousands. in every sixpence of their takings.
terms of service vary from
sional cricketers a scusun. Even This reckoned over five years has come to £75,000, a county to county. In some cases three professionals oplece, so that it figure exactly £1,000 higher than the combined losses of he is paid weekly, anything is fair to compute the number en- the same counties over that period. Many people have in other cases he gets a fixed time as being nearer to 400 than average. gaged in county cricket at any one tried to persuade the Exchequer to remit this tax, or at sum for each match in which 300. any rate to mitigate it, to the degree allowed by law he takes part. £10 a match is But that is not the end, It is the for live entertainers, among whom cricketers the normal rate of pay. Every barest
are
beginning,
There arc apparently not reckoned, but their prospects have never minimum of 24 matches for grounds alone, scores (two for every first-class county plays a groundsmen, probably 500 in county been encouraging.
the championship every
eleven), umpires.
At least 5,000 people are engaged Money in Clubs If it is small, or has lost its
the Then there are extra fixtures, full time upon old character or
game; behind had games against a test team on of makers of pada, wickets, cricket this first line stands the whole array Then the burden is un- much character
to lose, then tour, games
against the Uni- balls, cricket gloves, cricket bats. evenly distributed. There it has no reserve of subscribers verslties and other similar fix-
to fall back upon and has to tures, so that a professional bts are suid in this country worth many factors which
On an average year 40,000 cricket depend on weigh for and against a in a bad season
gate-money which should earn £300 in any average about as many pounds and an equal
like that of season. particular county. If it is 1936, when 146 fixtures were match in which he plays, unless
As he is paid for every number are made for export. large, well populated and cancelled between
and he is engaged on a fixed salary And as the sales of bats go up and full of local patriotism it August, may be a very hazard- basis, his position is not im- growers of cricket bat willows. For go down so do the hopes of the ous thing on which to depend. mediately affected by a rainy the cricket bat the wood must be can generally count on а The case of Leicestershire, a summer.
seasoned to just the right degree, the tree felled at precisely the right time.
are
long list of faithful sub- 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 Chans'or Based on the naval "Hell's Kitchen Has A Fantry" by Bardan, Chese Directed by Roy McCarey
A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE
TO-MORROW at the
never
June
club which has been in great
difficulties recently, is typical
of the way that a change in the character of a county may affect its cricket.
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Like Farmers
And then there are people who call it dull!
So it is every bit as hard for the But indirectly he can be very grower to pick up on a bad season hard hit indeed. A county im- as it is for the player. Cricket, in Leicestershire few years poverished by one bad season fact, from willow grove to cricket ago had many residents who will have to reduce the number pitch, is a game of fair prospects stayed in the county the whole of its professionals in the sea- and grim possibilities all through, year round, felt themselves son following and most players could well imagine.
game as full of chance as you 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 crickel professional surrounding Midland towns who generally lives for the whole year ou what he can earn during the season. simply occupied their houses Like the farmer, he depends for his for the hunting season, felt no velihood on the weather, but un- interest in the county's cricket, and left the club with a deficit that in 1936 stood as high as £1,375.
Rain and Ruin
A club deprived of its back- bone of reliable subscribers is! driven back upon its gate money.
If the season is a
By George Edinger
fine
BRILLIANT GOLF IN GOLF U.S. PRO SHOT OF NO TOURNEY
FREAK
AVAIL
AUSTRALIANS
VICTORIOUS
London, June 14.
Harry Cooper Leads The Field
Shawnee-on-Delaware, July 10. Brilliant golf was seen In the Arst round of the American Pro- fessional Golf Association's tourna- Representing North Berwick in ment to-day, many splendid per the fourball at East Lothian against dormances being recorded during the The Australian golfers, Nettlefolday. and McKay, to-day, J. McKinna played a most unusual shot.
of
Giants Win
But Yankees Were Beaten
the
New York, July 10, Several teams were engaged in double-benders in the Baseball section, Brooklyn Dodgers and the Lengue to-dny, In
National Philadelphia Phillies shared the honours, each team winning a game, but Pittsburgh Pirates trounced St. Louis Cardinals in both
frames. Washington Se
Senators were success-
ful in the American League in both their engagements against Philadel- defeated New phin Athletics. Boston Red Sox York Yankees 6-4, Cleveland Indians nosed out St. White Sox had the better of Detroit Louis Browns 6-7, and Chicago
Tigers 3-4. Scores:
Glants).
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
R. H.
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Boston New York
2
8
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Brooklyn
6
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Philadelphin Brooklyn Philadelphia
7
8
2
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9
2
Cincinnati Chicago
$
1
1
4
(Vandermeer pitched for the Reds). Pittsburgh
5 11
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2
1
St. Louis
3 7
1
AMERICAN LEAGUE,
New York
11
Boston
12
Philadelphia Washington
2
8
10
St. Louis Pittsburgh
- ON
2
(Finney homered for the Phillies and Wasdell for the Senators).
Philadelphia
Washington
St. Louis
Cleveland
7 10
ย
14
7
11
2
B 13
1
the
10
0
(Sullivan homered for Browns).
Chicago
Detreit
4 # 0 (Kuhe homered for Chicago and York and Greenberg for the Tigers. ---Reuter.
EXCHANGE
Selling
,1s. 27%
TT London Demand
Harry Cooper, regarded by many T.T. Shanghal judges as the most consistent golfer TT. Singapore When McKinna skied his drive at in the world, led the field with a card T.T. Japan the 10th the ball hit a boundary wall, of 07, which is, five under par and T.. India ebounded, hit a motor car, ricochet- one above the competitive course re-
T.T. U.S.A. ted back on to the wall and then cord.
T.T. Manlia one and the eleven is popular
bounded on to the fairway.
T.T. Batavia Frank Moore, of Mamaroneck, shot TT. Bangkok However, even this piece of good there may not be any great luck was of no avail, and McKinnu and took second place, while TT, Salgon harm is that. Northampton- and his partner, Whittaker, lost the
Teri Johnson,
Norristown, TT. France shire reckon that it takes £150 match, 2 up, when Nettlefold ou-ennsylvania, another comparatively TT. Germany to make a game pay its way tained a three for a win at the 18th. unknown golfer, and Sam Snead died TT. Switzerland and it should not be difficult to at the turn and were then dormie
Nettlefold and McKay were 2 up for third place with 69,
TT. Australia raise £150 on a three-day match. two.
No fewer than 17 players betiered 4 m/s L/e London
Buying At a shilling a head it would be McKinna haled a chip shot at the the par score of 72 and six equalled m/c D/p covered by an average daily 17th and kept the match alive, but
4 m/s France 4 m/ L/C U.S.A. attendance of a thousand people. Nettlefeld's three at the 18th settled
30 d/s India But supposing it rains. A wet summer often confronts a poor club with complete ruin.
the issue.
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All the prominent players in the tournament returned cards of 77 or better.
Indications are that 150 will be sufficient to quality. in-playing his 67 and exceeded par only Cooper shot seven "birdles" while on two holes.
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The Australions met a team drawn 1931 was a particularly wet from four North Berwick clubs, year. At the end of the season cluding McKinna and Denholm, who Yorkshire had lost £8,000, Gln-are Scottish internationals.
Hattersley and Ryan beat Denholm morganshire £2,500 and War- and Callender, 3 and 2. wickshire and Leicestershire
Hattersley and Ryan wero one £2,000 each. The case of Dover down at the turn, but great putting Cricket Week shows what at the 12th and 13th gave them the
lead. Dover Cricket Week when the 14th and the match ended at the Hattersley sank a 10-yarder at the weather is fine, hus realised 18th.
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