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BETTER

THE HONGKONG

PAY MENT

SHOULD HAVE BIGGER SHARE OF "GATE"

AUSTRALIA'S EXAMPLE OUGHT

TO BE EMULATED

1 (By D. J. T. Bosanquet)

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1984.

FOR CRICKET "STARS"

K.C.C. ́SNOOKER HANDICAP

Final Scheduled

To-morrow

The final of the K.C.C., snooker, handicap will take place at the club to-morrow (Friday) evening at 6.30,

The contestants are N. M. Raku- son and E. C. Fincher, who start Finchor, who receive 15, int scratch, and C. Wigg and E, F,

1

I have for long been concerned about the remuneration ac corded to professional cricketers who reach the top of the tree.

It has always seemed to me entirely inadequate, when one considers that comparatively few ever achieve that lofty position. Of those who have played for England v. Australia during the last 57 years (taking the figures as given in the Cricketer Spring Annual) we notice that 116 professionals have made 985 appear-000, or under 3 per cent. of the ances, an average of under nine apiece. Now, remembering that to play for England v. Australia Is the ultimate goal of overy cricketer's ambition, and that during the above period there have been 129 Test matches played, we And that a player who contrives to get into more than eight matchen is very

lucky.

What is his reward? Taking this figure as an average, oven at modern rates of pay the average professional who attains to Test match rank receives in a year, as the reward of outstanding ability,

about £300, leas expenses, etc.

Can we say that they do so under present conditions? Let us put ourselves in the place of the professional who is chosen for England this year. I believe that {I

am correct in saying that he gets £40 per match.

At any rate in the last series of Test matches against Australia in England the professional received £40 per match, plus railway fares. Those who played received a bonus at the end of the tour of £10 (12th man, £5), a total of £50 per niatch.

We will anniyae what this really implies. Each Test match means missing two county matches, one of which (on average) would be at home and therefore involve no expenses. For each of theso matches he would receive 10

When we consider that some thing like £20,000, or more, repre- sents the net profit to each side on a tour of an English. team in Australia, or an Australian team in England, it semms that the pro-fis net receipts would therefore fessionals share of these imposing be 240 leas £20-£20 (plus bonus suma is almost negligible,

if one is given). Out of this sum Take other games. The pro- he has to keep himself at an hotel fessional who gets to the top of for about six days, and pay all the tree in golf makes from £2,000, other out-of-pocket expenses. If to £3,000 a year in England and more than double that in Amerients away with £15 he is going to be lucky. Surely this is not fair The leading baseball players in

remuneration! America make anything up to £20,000 a year. Some recent con- verts to professionalism in lawn tonnís are making as much, or

more,

FAIRLY REWARDED?

I am going to admit being suf. ficiently prejudiced to regard cricket as still the greatest and the loading game in the world. I say, therefore, that the men who help to make largo profits for the M.C.C. and the counties should receive their fair share of those profita.

average of eight professionals as playing in cach Test match, the professionals received about £2-

money for the taking of which they were mainly responsible. The professional, as I have always known him, would be the last person to do such an unsporting thing to inalat on receiving his proper remuneration. I admit to having dim recollections of some- thing like "strike" once by some professionals to secure about £10 per Test match.

PITCHERS HAVE NIGHTMARE

DAY OF HUGE SCORES

LATEST BASEBALL RESULTS

scores

SPORTS MEET

INTER-SCHOLASTIC

*UNION

655 ENTRANTS

The

Hongkong

Inter-Scholastic Union sports medling was hold yes-| terday at Carolino Hill, when

055 competitors entered for the ovents

Soveral heata wore run off yester- day, and tho meeting will be con- tinued to-morrow and on Sunday.

The following are yesterday'

results:

3.

Now York, June 20. Pichera in both American and National baseball longues Boys (Group 1), Chan Yuk (Wah

100 matres heats for "A" Genda: had nightmares to-day, when Yan); 2, Li Chan-chung (Ying Wah); resembling football, Yung-fook (Ching Wah). Group rather than baseball were re-2, George Chan (Wah Yan); 2) turned.

Yung Poon-wang (Ching Wah);

Agure mark in run-gotting. The "C" Grade Boys (Group 1).-1.

Seven teams topped the double Wu Sik-ng (Wah Klu);

800 metres low hurdles heats for Senators scored ten against De George Lee (Wah Yan); 2, Li Hon troit, but had to concedo 13. kum (Sai Nam); 3, Chin Ting (Sal Boston Red Sox rattled up 14 Nam). Group 21, Ho Kwalewing against Chicago White Sox, and (Pun Lep); 2. Ma Pui-tung (Sai the Athletics had eleven chalked Nam): 3. Chan Kai-chung (Wah up against them.

I can also remember an amateur 10 runs, the Phillies came back This may have been wrong-but In reply to the Cincinnati Reds who arrived to represent the with 15, while the Giants were in Gentlemen at Lord's and an- the same frame of mind and help- nounced his intention at not "puted themselves to a dozen at the ting his boots on until he was expense of Chicago Cubs, guaranteed his expenses."

to

"

I like to think, and I am proud

think, that I had many good friends among the professionals, and that some of these friendships

st remain to me.

conditions a professional who I consider that under modern

plays for England in this country should receive the equivalent of 100 per match. Let us see how this works out. Taking £20,000 as the figure for net profit on the series of five matches, this repre- sents £1,000 per match. Suppose eight professionals play in cach mutch, they would receive collec- tively £800, or 20 per cent. of the Possibly & per cent. of profes-profits. Surely not too much! sionals are invited to play for England; and the man who geta to the top of the tree in any other profession usually reups corres ponding financial rewards.

The men who attract the money are entitled to their fair share of IL,

Large payments were out of the question in my day, as the takings were on a much lower scale. In 1930 gross receipts from the Test matches alone were over $70,0001 Out of this sum, if we take an

AN EXTREME CASE. Again let us take an extreme ease-that of Jack Hobbs. Hobbs has played in 41 Test matches against Australia. He has been playing since 1908, 26 years, or if we omit the war, 20 years. On this basis, had he received £100 per match, he would have made an

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Yan).

50 metres heats for "C" Grade Nam); 2, Choung Man-hin (South Boys (Group 1)-1, Po Dun-lin (Sal China); 3, Lok Pik-leung Ying Wah); Group 2-1, Wong Kah-po (Sal Nam); 2, Ho Wan-sang (South China): 3, Ng Sin-tat (Ying Wab); As against this the Yankees won Group 21, Wak 11o-wong (Pul " low-scoring double-header Ching); 2. Liu Kin-yuen (Sai Nam); against Cloveland Indians. They 41. Lui Tat-ming (Sai Nam): 2. 3. Li Ping-tam (Ning Tung); Graup nosed out their opponents in the Fan Cher-lin (Pul Ching); 3, Au first game and blanked them out Fook-chu (South China); Group 6-1, Wang Yat-shing (Pui Ching); 2, Ma Shiu-chup (Fong Lam); 3, Lam Ko man (Pui Ching); Group 8-1, Kwok Wing-choi (Lingnam); 2, Chiu Yat- ki (YMCA.); 3, Wong Man-kes (Fong Lam): Group 7-1, Tai Kaf- chee (South China); 2, Leung Wing- chee (YM.C.A.); 3, L Kal-foo (Lingnam).

in the second.

follow.

Full scores as cabled by Renter

AMERICAN LEAGUE,

R. H.

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+

E.

Cleveland

2 (Trosky homered). New York

(Gehrig and Crosetti homered) Cleveland

B

0

G

0

0

2

("Red" Ruffing pitched) New York Detroit

3 13

11

18

(scored in eleven innings) Washington

10 (Manush hit two home runs and

Greenberg one)

17

2

Grado

Chan-lam

(Wah

11 13

1

Yan); 2, Cheung Wan-chat Yan); 3, Kwong Sik-wong Fang).

(Wah

(Tung

St. Louis

(Johnson homered) Chicago Philadelphia

Boston

Philadelphla Cincinnati

*4*

60 metres heats for "D" Grade Boys (Group 1)-1, Loo Kal-du (8n Nam); 2, So Kin-ying (Ying Wah); 3, Chung Moon-ch! (Pan Lap); 0Group 1, Kwok Lok-aing (Sal o Nam) 2. Yeang_Kan-alk (South China); 3. Choy Hon-kwong (Y.M. C.A.). Boys1, Chung

Long Jump final for "D"

50 metres heats for "A" Grade

3 Girla. (Group 1)-1, Lau Sook-ying 8 (Sai Nam); 2, Chan Slu-lam (Sai Nam); 3, Wong Yiu-ying (Ling To); Group 2, Kwan Pik-har (Sai Nam); 2, Leung Kit-sang (Sai Nam); 3, Cheung Hun-kiu (Ling To).

HIS ARMS HELD HEARTBREAK Yet many woman yearned forthem]

GEORGE RAFT

Bolero

14

14

18

NATIONAL LEAGUE.

7

G

7

t

(Koenig homered)

Philadelphia

15

18

3 Brooklyn

16 0

(Todd homered)

(Cuccinella homered)

Cincinnati

10

16

3 St. Louis

5

New York

12

18

0

(Rothrock homered)

(Ott hit two home runs

and

Boaton

11 2

7

AT

THE

Chicago

Moore one) 7

12

2 Pittsburgh

6

15

(Berger hit two home runs) ·

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