1937-10-05 — Page 22

LIA FOOTBALLS

CHIEFS ON INCREASED WAGES co REQUEST

RUGBY CIRCULAR SENT TO CLUBS

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SHOULD BE DROPPED Certainly they should never have been given higher honours, but most Rugby followers could name England players - and representa- tive players from other countries- who should never have been allow- ed on a football field.

LEAGUE AND F.A. TO CONSIDER IT

London, August 25.

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I hope, therefore, that the Rugby Association Union will set an example by re-League fusing to select for trial or inter- Yesterday Mr W. Pickford, national matches any man who is the newly-elected president of known to sail close to the wind the Football Association, and where rules are concerned. No Mr. C. E. Sutcliffe, president of lurking back-row forwards, no the Football League, gave their tricky-scrum halves, no hovering personal views on the subject.. three-quarters, however brilliant they may be - -keep them and their like out of representative football.

J. RALSTON,

Director.

PUBLIC AUCTION

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TREE-Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public fuction on

Mr. Pickford said: "Some of the clubs could probably, afford an in- crease, but all of them cannot. Many in the lower part of the League can-Thursday, the 7th October, 1937

commencing at 10.30 am. not pay their way without voluntary help and overdrafts. Indeed, many Then it is up to the club captains of my own friends are heavy guaran- and committees to follow suit. If

ONUS LARGELY ON CLUBS

Itors.

a player is not merely ignorant, but deliberately foul, he must be REASONABLE CONSIDERATION dropped at once."

"

"However, we are not indifferent The remedy for the whole matter, to the question. I quite agree with as the Rugby Union circular suganybody wanting to get as much as gests, lies fundamentally with club they can, and I am sure the Foot captains and committees, if, that is ball Association and the Foot- to say, the captains and committees ball. League will give their reason- themselves understand the laws able consideration to any request." zad the fundamental aims and principles of the games.

THE OLD SLOGAN

Like Mr. Pickford, Mr. C. E. Sut- cliffe, president of the Football Lea- gue, is not turning a deaf ear the request.

to

at the premises of The Talkoo Sugar Refinery, Quarry Bay for account of the concerned 125 Bales Cotton Yarn 205 Bales Fly Cotton

45 Bales Silk 25-Bales Silk

6 Cases Silk Yarn

31 Bales Cotton Jeans

(all more or less damaged by seawater)

Terms: Cash on Delivery,

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 5th October, 1937.

THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public

any Un-Auction

So we come back to a slogan

FROM PLAYERS' UNION. which the Rugby authorities must "We have not yet received apply to their ways of thought application from the Players

simplification and unification.ion." he said, "but when it comes Simplification first of all of the we are bound ot consider it." laws, and then unification of the Mr. Sutcliffe, pointed out that it way in which the simplified laws was too late to do anything about an are applied. Let us know where we increase this season. are in fact and have done with it "All the contracts are made for The Rugby player, I repeat, is the present campaign," he stated, for the most part a simple soul."and it is unlikely that anything He is not really a Machiavellian will be done until the next annual schemer, but just a decent sort of meeting of the League in May, 1938.

game on a

fellow who likes his Saturday afternon. Give him a few cbscure illegalities. plain rules which apply in Wales,

I suggest, in short, that the first Ireland, England and Scotland

thing we should do this season is alike, and he will accept them and to take ourselves less seriously, and shape his game accordingly.

INCENTIVE TO CHEATING

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On

Friday, the 8th October, 1937

commencing af 10.30 am. for account of the concerned at the premises of The Taikoo Sugar Refinery, Quarry Bay 140 Packages Sundry Goods comprising:-

Sik Piece Goods, Silk Goods, Silk Dress, Linen Goods, Cotton Goods, Grass Cloth, Cotton Filet Lace, etc... fetc.

10 Cases Tientsin Carpets (all more or less damaged by

seawater).

LAMMERT BE

Hong Kong, 5th October, 193

remember that Rugby football is at Terms: Cash-on Delivery. game intended for the enjoyment of the players. With that firmly Give him a complicated tangle fixed in our minds, we can then of rules which may be applied one proceed to search for the factors way in Maesteg, and another in which produce the cheat. We shall Manchester, and tell him that what-find them, I suggest, not in the ever the rules say he must win the players, but in the laws and the match, and we will ponderously set general administration about devising sundry tiresome ar game.

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