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SQUASH RULING BODY AND THE PROFESSIONAL

PLAN TO TAX NEW BALL MAY BE DROPPED

London, November 19.

The Squash Rackets Association

NEL TAXI

Er Chai

RETIRE

Follows

London, November 24ur Net Tarleton, former fe weight champion, has decided to retire from the ring.

juries received in a me over the week-end, in whic

and

have virtually abandoned their pro-ceived injuries to his feft posal, announced at the beginning of the season, of putting a táx of 3d on the price of all standard makes of ball They state that "legal and technical difficulties arose which may prevent any fur- ther action on our part.”

his head. "From now onwards I shall concentrate on the manage- ment side of the game," he said yesterday.

This announcement is contained in a long statement issued yester- day by the S.R.A. on the subject of their dispute with the Profession- als Association over the ball which the professionals have adopted and placed on the market..

Tarleton, who fought for the world's championship against Fred- die Miller, the then holder, three years ago, was the first Liverpool boxer to win a Lonsdale belt, and eventually he won it out right. He first won the British championship from Johnny Cuthbert in 1931.

Softball

(Continued from Page 19)

THE CHINA MAIZ

FRANTIC SEARCH FOR SOCCER

PLAYERS

£3,500 Asked For Unknown

London

Football Scouts are securing Great Britain and Ireland for play- ers, especially the latter country. But the old idea that Ireland is, a better hunting ground than Scot- land is beginning to fade.

England is littered with Irish stars who have for one reason or another failed to make good on this side of the channel. But the search [goes on.*

As a result of the scarcity of first-rate players clubs are being asked fantastic prices for quite or- dinary men.

BIG SUM FOR UNKNOWN Mr. Robert Smith, the chairman of Manchester City, says that the club has been asked $3,500 for an unknown youngster. -

It will be remembered that this move by the professionals followed! closely upon the news that the

mer vacation at college!" he prond- In view of such unreasonable de- S.R.A were contemplating the 3d tax, and that it at once, incurred exclaimed (The "Pig 'n' Whismands it is not surprising that the the uncompromising opposition of tle" was a famous restaurant and City intend to make their own

and-mark on Second Avenue before players. the governing body, who, after pointing out that the S.R.PA were to benefit financially by the sale of its ball now say:

SR.A'S STATEMENT.

of

it was destroyed by fire in 1930). They have five or six teams

"Most youngsters picked apples carefully picked young players around Wenatchee at one time or engaged each week.

"How many do you expect to other when going to school.

develop into first class men for you?"

I worked in the your League side?" Mr. Smith was

Lasked.

"No, I didn't. "The serious aspect of the whole apples at Yakima.”

APPLE ARGUMENT And here is: where

began argument

Did

28.

"I suppose we shall be satisfied if we get one in 20,” he replied.

business lies in the fact that the SR. P.A. aim at organising 120 profession- als, who occupy responsible positions in our members clubs, into a trading spirited organisation. The S.B.A. bold this is to the relative merits of the apples not in the interests of the game. no manufacturer or trader could under from each district. Your correspon such circumstances ignore the SR.PA dent had the pleasure of living for demands and it is obvious that the n-twelve years in the Apple Capital » timate result would be the payment by of the World" and, quite naturally, the trade of an additional remuneration to that body which must in the end believed that the apple grown there come out of the pockets of the players is the largest, reddest, sweetest and of the game. It we should approve of juiciest in the world. Remaining ada- the S.R.PA exploiting the game to their own financial gain we sacrifice amant in his belief that the Yakima fundamental principle.”

apple is the better of the two, he

It is difficult to see why the S.R.A. squelched our arguments by telling should object to the S.R.P.A. filling a story.

the functions of a trading organisa-

SQUELCHED!

tion and benefiting financially from! "Say," he belligerently concluded, the game, for that is in effect what "I was packing apples one time in the SRA was proposing to do Yakima when one of your cheap when they approved the proposal Wenatchee apple-knockers came down for a tax on the ball

our way looking for work. He was

pense, for the new ball was to be

all the rest.

Nor is it at all clear how the in-a smart aleck and, pointing to troduction of the professional ball watermelon, he asked the straw boss, can involve players in more ex-Is this little pill the largest apple|

you got around here?" "Boy, oh, boy, sold at exactly the same price the straw boss sure finished him by It is understood that the profes-retorting, 'Hey, you, leave that Ya- kima grape alone!” "I guess that l sionals held an extraordinary gen-

hold you!" It did, even though it eral meeting on Wednesday to con- sider their action and an announce had whiskers on it.

The comparative life of ease to ment of their decision may be ex- pected shortly. If, as is probable, which Emil came to know here after they decline to take the ball off the those hectic years of hustle and bus- market the S.R.A. have stated that tle in the States has been rudely dis- they will refuse to recognise either persed, but there's a different gleam the new ball or the professional in his eyes now. He suffers no more body.

from ennui. ».

WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED OUR NEW SHIPMENT OF

MARMET PRAMS.

THE

BRAND

PUSH CARS AS ILLUSTRATED.

From 2350

MARMET FOLDERS.

112.00

MARMET CARRIAGES.

OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP CHANGE

+

London,

November 24. The championship committee of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews announces that the con- ditions of the open championship of 1938 have been slightly altered. The maximum number to qualify will be 130 and the maximum num- ber to play on the last day of the championship will be 40. The championship will be played on the Royal Cinque Ports Club's course, Deal, during the week commencing July 4

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