1929-06-26 — Page 9

WEDNESDAY, JUNË 26, 1929.

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SCOTTISH FOOTBALL İ

FINANCIAL TROUBLES OF

LEAGUE CLUBS

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WARNING BY THE JOCKEY CLUB

The action of the Jockey Cluḥ stewards in issuing a stern warn- ing to a professional owner, the chief patron of a

great jockey who has just become trainee, was still a subject of comment in all circles in mail week..

Mr. William MacAndrew, the secre- tary of the Scottish League, is not the only one who considers that the clubs are carrying an unreasonable burden in players wages. The annual moet ing of the Lenggae is to be asked by St. Johnston to pass an alteration in the Without judging the merits of rules which will give the clubs the right, any particular case, general satis to retain a player to whom an offer faction is expressed that the respon of £156 per season is made. The pre-hould not be deemed so often to lay ability for the running of horses

sent figure is £208.

chiefly with the trainer and the remains. It is also felt strongly that, this that almost every club in the League is line of action should be extended to in the unpleasant position of having every type of owner, even a patris clan member of Jockey Club, who muy dover even bet on the horses which are trained for him in the most fashionable establishments.

The proposed reduction may appear jockey. revolutionary, but the fact

to report & logs on the season. The clubs of the Second Division are feel ing the pinch; even more, and East Stirlingshire are unming forward with

proposal that an offer of £60 per annum should entitle a club in that

Division to retain a player.

Rangers £8,000 Prafil

In view of all this there is something extraordinary in the fact that we find the Rangers reporting a profit of 48,016)

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and paying dividend of 10 per cent. Not only so. but they have paid £23,000

This would help to stimulate many wealthy patrons into keeping

closer watch than may be, the case at present on the running of their horses.

Blunt Statement

A prominent bookmaker of long experience said to a correspondent of a Home paper: "We know two particular owners who fe straight- minded теп in their racing ventures, but we have seen their horses perform at Newmarket and. as bookmakers, we know that before long each of those two unplaced borses of theirs will be

strong market orders, and probably win.

"General and irresponsible ac cusations of pulling horses,"

towards the cost of their new grand-added, "are harmful, and 1

stand.

How in this to be explained? Why is it that one club should be in a posi- tion of financial luxury when others are groaning under the pressure of financial loss?

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particular to state that in neither case was a horse actually stopped openly from winning, but what I term "getting a good horse, ready on a racecourse is open to abuse, and a policy certainly not to be re- commended to a small owner and trainer who wants to avoid inter- viewa later on with acting

Rangers, to start with had no special advantage over their riyals. They had to begin at the hottom' like the rest.; stewards."

crisis.

on the

They have had to face more than one There have been other incidents Like the others, they had to at Newmarket which have set begin all over again after the Wut of the judge are frequently criticis- Longues wagging. The decisions and they had suffered more than someed, and will continue to be because by their players having to go into of the deceptive angles khaki,

broad courke.

-The elimax was reached when. players and backers alike saw the number of Lord Derby's favourite Grazzio go up instead of that of

Secret of Success During the war period Rangers won cnty a single League championship. Since 1919 they have won eight. There raust. be something more than luck in | Mr. J. B. Joel's Black Spot in a it. It is suggested that the secret is shorthead finish.

simply

this: directors, manager and

players all pall together. The happy

family atmosphere is maintained as far SPORTING CRICKET as it is possible to maintain it where men of different temperaments are con- cerned.

LESS PREPARATION FOR

COUNTY WICKETS?

We may not have the ideal weather for cricket yet; but the cricket has been ideal, says the "Sporting Life." It seems appar eat, from the happenings on some grounds, that need has been paid to

The whole history of the Rangers club tells. of the spirit of enterprise, which, in many ways, compels success. When they set out to build the new grandstand and enlarge Ibrox Park at a cost of between £60,000 and £70,000, people wagged their heads ominously. but now that the huge scheme has al- ready justified itself everyone is agreed the appeal to county clubs not to that enterprise, with a spice of daring thrown in, pays in the end.

overprepare their wickets. The

What Scotland requires is more of Lord's wicket, for instance, has re- the happy family spirit and greater ceived little preparation, apart all-round enterprise. One Rangers, is from thorough rolling. The re- not enough. We want a lot of them, sult has been much more sporting and there is no reason why we shouldn't games at headquarters this season. have them, making all allowance for than for a long time past. geographical differences.

The big thing in recent

games

Celtic have placed William McStay and James McFarlane on the transfer was. the stand of 368 for the Arst list. The fee asked for McStay is Sussex wicket by Bowley and James £1,000, but it will take more to Require; Parks. On only nine previous McFarlane.

occasions has this figure been sur- Dumbarton are now in debt. to the passed in an opening partnership, tune of $2,094 7s. The gates have and never by Sussex batsmen. been far from satisfactory, and some- thing will have to be done to cartail ex- Bowley's great innings of 280 not penses. The Supporters' Club are doing out, made in the amazing short all they can to help.

time of four hours, is the highest ever played for the county, beating by one run the 279 of the immortal "Ranji."

At the National Sporting Club, Kid Nicholson, a well-known bantam-weight, and Guy Benaguri, a Frenchman. were ordered out of the ring by Mr. Eugene Corri for not trying.

Killick 'Century Yet, in its way, the brilliant century obtained for Middlesex by B.-T. Killick was not leas great. Killick did not go in until six wickets had fallen for 61, but he The larger and lighter golf. ball which the Royal and Ancient have rsmashed the South African bowling jected, is to be used in America after all over the field, and incidentally January 2, 1931. This may make made the first individual hundred things awkward in international com against the tourists. Following petitions

so close on his 200 not out for the

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One match was finished. North- amptonshire. won д remarkable game with Glamorgan by 103 runs. 27 wickets falling during one day's play for 289 runs. Vallance Jupp, of course, had a big hand in his side's victory, capturing 11 wickets for 81 in the two innings. But young Jack Timms also played his part nobly with a masterly 17.

A century by Leyland got York- shire out of an awkward situation at Leyton, for Holmes and Sutcliffe were out with only 18 runs scored. Gallant little also had a hand in the recovery.

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Kent's failure against Notts at Trent Bridge was rather prising, although they were handi- capped by the loss of Freeman, who was in bed with stomach trouble.

sur-

Surrey again owed much to their captain, Mr. P. G. H. Fender. Losing four wickets for 60 odd rans in their second innings, they seem- ed to have lost their advantgae over Warwickshire. more hit bravely, and

But Fender once the crisis was passed.

Miss Helen Jacobs, second ranking American player, is off for Europe to reinforce the American continent of cennia stars who are invading Earo-. pean courts this summer.

Walter Hagen, left, captain of the U. S. Ryder, cup teamh, re- ceives the cup emblematic of the British Open championship from. A. W. Robertson-Durham. This was the Haig's second consecutive victory and his fourth win. He entered in the Yorkshire Evening News tourney, only to be infested by George Duncan, British Ryder cup captain. on the eighteenth green, when Duncan sunk a forty-foot putt

OLD SEA-DOGS/'

WHEN PIRATES BAY AWATTING

Bravo days on the

Seven Seas when East and West India merchant men were regularly boret by pirates and a voyage in a cutter was a real adventure, are recalled by the an- nouncement that

a receiving order has been issued against Samuel Dobree and Sons, merchants and

in of

Samugate, E.C:

Dobrec started the i business in 1721 the firm has carried on throughout eight reigns, It is among the

oldest in London, and Samuel Dobree and Sons was one of the original companies that fought to establish

the cecoa trade with the west and Indies, and the Indian fibre trade.

When Samuel Dobree fitat sent ships to sea he could never know whether for

not they

would come back. His cutters were armed to the teeth, and their crews were trained in the use of weapons. A merchant man laden with sugar from the West Indies might have to fight five or six battles with pirates, privateers, foreign ships of war before sho could bring her cargo safely into Southon (Southampton) or some other British port.

Augar.

A Channel Capture Among the early papers of the firm is a letter to another Arm dat

ed August 27, 1742. It narrates the sailing of the "Daniel Pitoa" froin Guernsey to Southampton in com- pany with three or four more ves- sels, and goes on:

when

about half-way " hence (Guernsey) they were took by a Spanish or French pirate row-boat, and

a small boat from hence to Alderney saw three of the above" sloops lock by the said pirate, who brought them to. And this small boa: was also chased near two hours, but happily escaped by a thick fogg."

While some of the early adven- tures showed a very good return on the money invested, as is seen from the old ledgers still in the posses sion of the firm, some were natural- ly anything but profitable in their result

Though a receiving order has now been issued, the firm will carry on business.

The King of Italy has conferred on Major W. Stormont, manager of the Italian Travel Bureau in Lon- don, the Order of the Crown of Italy in recognition of his services Italy.

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Intensely cold weather prevailed last month in West Germany and Coligne, and parts of the Rhineland were swept by snowstorms.

This year's American Davis Cup team aces younger players than have been in the team for some years. Big Bill Tilden and Little Bill Johnson had so dominated the tennis world that the young people have had a hard fight to get recognition. Now they are having their day. Fritz Mercur (left), John Hennessy (centre) and Wilmer Allison (right), all just over the college age, are seen. here in Montreal practising bard for the first round of the Davis cup matches with Canada.

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