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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1935.

WHERE IS FOOTBALL'S GREAT GOLD

RUSH LEADING US?

LEAGUE MAY BE THROWN OFF ITS BALANCE BY GREED

HISTORIC CLUBS IN GRAVE DANGER

By Frank M. Carruthers

MONEY-CHANGER FINED

EXTRADITION

DELAY

TREATY POINT

RAISED

LICENCE TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER

A further week's formal remand was granted whon Young Kin- Choung Shing-tong, a money ping, whoso extradition is being changer, was summoned before Mr. Bought by the Chinese authorities W. Schofield, at the Central Magia in Shanghai on a charge of tracy this morning for having embezzloment of money from the If Kirchen's value to the the clube who have shared in the dia-but although they are driven by their transferred his licence to Leung National Postal Savings Bank, benefited. In this desperate needs to pay the prices, hot Yick without permission, and was appeared before Mr. Schofield, at Arsenal is correctly represent-tribution hav ed by his transfer fee of £6,000, way, as well as in many others, the more than a dozen can afford to do soj fined $25.

the Central Magistracy this morn- what is the value of Bastın? Arsenal, in fact, have been general, without impoverishing their resources)

or running into debt.---

ing. I do not suppose the question

for the fugitive, anked that a date Mr. G. S. Hugh Jones, appearing occurred to the Arsenal in their keen-f

They have not been alono elther

be fixed, and if the case was not neas to secure an outside right, buti

in spending freely. It is not so it in a highly important one in ita

long ago that Everton paid about, In the circumstances there is a real

proceeded with by then, that the bearing on the great gold rush which;

£30,000 for players in a season, danger of the Lenguo being thrown

Mr. F. X. D'Almada (snr.) ap-fugitive bo discharged. Mr. is at present taking place in foot-

Chelsea have approached this sum. off its balance. Tho tendency which) bail.

and it has been stated that Aston I have repeatedly pointed to of power peared for the first defendant, and Hugh Jones said his grounds for I am looking forward to seeing

Villa have paid out at the rate of passing to the centres of big popula. pleaded guilty to a technical offence, the application had been given at Kirchen in the match at Tattenham

According to $10,000 a year for men for the past tions every day becomes more marked, while Mr. C. Y. Kwan, appearing the last hearing. to-day with unusual interest. I would

right years.

and I do not see how, with the pacer the second defendant,, did like the

the requisition,

Chinese not put any false ideus into his head,

no furious, several clubs with first-wise.

authorities were in possession of for the player who requires an out- One may regret the system, al-class rank can hope to continue to Acting Inspector J. Fender and the facts in 1932, and should have size in hats is in serious dangor, but though I can see nothing immoral in maintain their positions.

the first defendant was a licenced been in a position to send them bla transfer in the must remarkable it, and the game han developed so

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forward,

bonefactors.

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THE DANGER

Leung Yick was summoned for. carrying on business as a money changer without a licence, and was lined $10,

that has ever taken place, and it sug-; für along specialised business lines The danger is already emphasised money-changer, and on February down before now. gests that he is a most exceptional that it is now too late to say that the by the present situnilon in the First fendant, had his ligence, and would Attorney General, said the posi- 27 reported that the second de- Mr. J. A. Fraser, the Assistant clubs shall not shape their own Division, where Imlf the clubs have Bix thousand pounds for a player destimes. Grounds which have ecst no sense of security and are compelled not return it to him. It then tion was still the same. Ils posi wh has been in Arst-class football £200,000 to construct meet publie to go to almost any length to find transpired that about the fifth ortion was that they were dealing no more than three months? Wir demands bring heavy financial

ro-Halvation.

sixth moon Inst year, the first de-with a treaty between China and chen has indeed been put on a plno, sponsibilities, and they stand

fendant had lent his teence to the Hongkong, and not a treaty be Here plainly is the reason for the second defendant for $25 a month.tween China and Great Britain, nacle,

white elephants unless they can be I auspect, however, that it is only filled, which means that the team gross bißalon of the value of the and second defendant had carried and he could give the assurance | through his potential value that he must be good enough to draw the Player. It is entirely false, except as on the business na a money-changer that there would be

it fts particular, clubs,

no undye at No. 120 Johnston Road. In delay. The pace is too swift even in a February last, the second defendant Mr. Schofield remarked that gann in which there are still abund-wanted to start a shop at No. 122 according to the treaties between But where in all this spending lealant, possibilities to be realised, and, Johnstone Rond. There WES Great Britain and other Powers,

commoned such an astonishing fee. crowds,

It will be remarkable, too, if it in not revealed in First Division matches that there are still mung rough edges} to his football.

135,000 LAID OUT

THE END?

ing and what in to bo the result of as I have insisted for several years, quarrel, and he refused to give the it can only be erunterneted by reduc-licence back to the first defendant,

结

I wonder what the position will being the severity of the competition

five years hence. The change which which all clubs have to meet. has taken place during the past five years in enormous, although I do not think it la appreciated.

legallon within such narrow limits

The system of promotion and re

strikes fear into the clubs, and I can not imagine how directors tolerate the worries it crentes.

There need be no concern on the part of the public that the Arsenai are prepared to gamble in this way in their quest of players. It is not true, either, as has frequently been The transfer fee of £2,000 five years suggested to me, that they alone have oga in 'to-day £5,000. This point is, been responsible for forcing transfer shown by the fact that of all the men fees to their prevent record level. in the present Arsenal team who cost Mr. Bendle Moore, the Derby Coun- AL B rough estimate, the new more than a trivial sum Bastin is the ty chairman, has shown how to a players the Arsenal have obtained herpest, and it is only about five large extent they may be avoided by within the past year have cost 15,000. years since he went to fighbury from Increasing the number to go up and This means that this prodigious sum Exeter.

down, and I have no doubt that the has been put back intò circulation in I am afraid that the clubs are too proposal will be accepted. the game instead of being hoarded engrossed in their own nailonunt the big population are to be saved. for a problematical future use, and sider this uncontrolled development,

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Washington, Apri 2. The State Department to-day an nounced that a provisional com- mercial agreement has been nr- ranged with the Government of Czecho-Slovakia by an exchange of Notes. The agreement was signed on March 29,

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varying periods of two to three

months had been fixed, and in the

present Cake, he thought the Chinese Government should be allowed at teast three months to say when the evidence would be rendy. He thought the question of whether a date should be fixed. for not should be postponed for arrest of the fugitive, which would three months after the date of the be about the middle of May.

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MEETING will be held (weather permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on Saturday, 6th April, 1935, commencing at 2.00 p.m.

default, on a Chinese doctor, Chan LI-kwong, who pleaded guilty to exposing an indecent placard at Cooke Street, Hunghom district.

Sergeant Nolan, for the pro- The First Bell will be rung at secution, atated that the de- 1.30 p.m. fendant'a daughter, aged 13, was present at the stall. There were Blao two baskets of medicine. At the time, some 20 to 30 school children were passing and they wer looking at the placard:

The Magistrate requested

the Sergeant to burn the exhibit.

EAST INDIES MINISTER

Nanking, April 2. Mr. Hardy, M.nister of Economy of the Dutch East Indies, accom- panied, by his wife, arrived hero this morning from Shanghai and will pay a courtesy visit to the Nanking Government. He will call on Mr. Wang Ching-wel, Pre- sident of the Extcutive Yuan, to-l morrow-Central News.

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