1938-11-23 — Page 21

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1938.

SOFTBALL TOURISTS HONOURED

Manila, Nov. 22.

The American softball girls, who from are touring Manila, returned Bacolod to-day, and were given a reception by President Quezon at the

Maluconan Palace.

They will begin a four-day series #oing to on Wednesday prior to

ShanghalUnited

Hongkong Prces.

and

OUR GUIDE TO THE CINEMAS

"Hich Man, Poor Girl" (King' Theatre, to-day) --A third Alming of the good old Cinderuila play called "White Collars," telling how the wealthy man helped the poor family and married the daughter. Robert Young, Lew Ayres and Ruth Hussey have the three chief ports.

"Women Are Like That" (Queen't Theatre, to-day).--Pat O'Brien looks unhappy ALS the understandably

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a drunkard when his wife he had in a deal which Bucceeda

the abandoned. Kay Francis, wife, wears some dazzling gowns,

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"Prison Farm" (Alhambra Theatre, to-day).A shocker about the girl who loves a man who, although she criminal, does not know it, in They are caught together and sent a prison farm, where scenes of brutality are enacted. Shirley Russ, Lloyd Nolan, John Howard, J. Carrol Naish and Porter Hall are the prin- cipals.

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"Stolen Heaven" (Oriental Theatre, to-day).-Young love and beautiful music make a rare combination in a tale of crooks who reform after meeting an old music master. Gene Raymond and Olympe Bradna are the young jewel thieves,

"My Dear Miss Aldrich" (Majestie Theatre, to-day)-Comical drama of Ands herself who a country girl owner of a great metropolitan news- paper. Walter Pidgeon. Maureen O'Sullivan and Edna May head the cast.

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REFEREES MEETING

The half-monthly meeting of the Hongkong Football Referees' Asso- clation will be held at the Bank of Canton Bullding, fourth floor, at B p.m. on November 28.

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Too much Money

OR many of you, to- day, football means that

sands of pounds for a few pence; a correct line on

** velvet your coupon and for the rest of your life; visions of showers of banknotes as you jot down your I-2-X.

For you, football has become a potential gold-mine. Maybe, in these cireum- stances you can be for- given for overlooking, temporarily, the money menace that is creeping up-or, if you like, has crept up-on the game itself and is threatening to overwhelm it. No need

to disguise the fact that I am refer- ring to the transter system in foot- ball, which, I say emphatically, is now more of a threat to the future of this great game than it has ever been.

If it is not curtailed.

there is grave danger of complete financial chaos in professional football. The game is fast being which money overloaded with cannot possibly be recovered from the spectators, who, after all, are the only people who put hard cash into soccer without any expecta- tion of getting any portion of t back again.

Professional football has grown into a bad business proposition. For some Inexplicable reason men who, in their own lines of bust- ness, would never dream of laying out money which they could not possibly recover, are indulging in crazy football finance.

Two years ago, when we thought the transfer fee foolhardiness had reached its limit, we consoled our- selves by the thought that it would settle down to the normal level of sensible business trans- actions We were wrong.

The

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London, Nov. 22. Henry Cotton, former British open golf champion, plans to tour America next March. He will play leading American golfers, provided the terms are worth while.

A cable from America says that an attractive schedule will be arranged, including matches against Som Snead, Ralph Gudahl, American open cham- plan, and Paul Runyon, American Golfers' Association Professional

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highly priced Arsenal atar. playing his parl in "a £100,000 siruggle for the Championship."

transfer business in football is crazier to-day than ever it was. In their wild efforts to strengthen teams, club directors are commit- ting themselves to sums of money which they cannot possibly recover from gato receipts.

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The brake must be applied to this ridiculous riot of spending. Already it has become the fashion for cluba to buy players on the in- staiment plan. For one player- who may be incapacitated in his directors are first match-club willing to mortgage a portion of their clubs' incomes for as long as How can complete three years.

in Football

says Clifford Webb

chaos be avoided in such circum- stances?

"Bills of sale" on players are now the rule, rather than the ex- ception. It is time the foot- ball authorities stepped in and put a stop to the whole silly system.

initiat not be Transfer fee limited. They must be prevented. Loopholes in any system for the limitation of fees were exposed years ago.

If the limit is £1,000, you simply pay £3,000 for three playera, one you want and the other two as make-weights to put the fee within the laws.

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Those early would-be chockers of hysterical football Wave of

finance placed the limit as low as £350.

Since then, Arsenal have paid £10,000 for one player, David Jack; Aston Villa, £10,775 for James Allen.. Gallacher cost Chelsea £10,000; the same feo was paid by Manchester City for Doherty.

This season, Arsenal paid £14,- 000 to Wolverhampton Wanderers for Bryn Jones, the Welsh Inter- national forward; and a firm offer of £12,000 has been made for Inter- Stokda Matthews,

City's national wing forward, who asked to be placed on the transfer list, but was refused by his club,

Transfer fees of £5,000, £6,000 and £7,000 are commonplace in these days. Yet how many clubs

PONY CLASSIFICATION POLICE AT HOCKEY PONY CLASSIFICATION

On the police ground yesterday, The following alteration has been made by the Hongkong Jockey Club Police A defeated University at hoe pony classification lists.key 1-0. The goal was scored in the to the

Arst half. Brutus to "B" class.

Ruth Hussey, a newcomer to the screen, plays opposito Low Ayres and Robert Young in "Rich Man, Poor Girl," now" showing at the King's Theatre.

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⚫ can actually afford fees of this sort? The answer is found in the balance-shects.

Not 25 per cent, of the clubs in the Football Leaguo showed a pro- ft on last season's working. Debts and overdrafts among the profes- sional clubs are such as to shock the senses of any business man.

And because of this, the players (with maximum wages of 8 a week in winter, £0 in summer) suffer. Always-or nearly always- they are working for clubs in debt. no matter how great the crowds before whom they perform.

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OW let us take the case Villa

of Tom Grimths, Aston player, who, during 1920 and 1935. was sold to various clubs for a total of £18,000. Now, his playing career at an end, prematurely, through a rheumatic complaint, Grifiths, whose

were services computed to be worth this huge sum, finds himself without any- thing like the savings any other professional man must have had, If his contract had been saleable for this amount,

Bignificantly,

Buckley,"

Major Frank "ace" seller of players- he has enriched his club, Wolver- hampton Wanderers, by nearly £00,000 in less than three years through transfer fets alone-hes Intimated that ho considers the winning of the League Champion- ship this season will be worth £100,000 to his club,

Why? No club can make this much profit on paid attendances. He must be estimating the en- hanced value of his players.

I ask you, is it good for football that its future should be measured in terms of men and money in this way?

We must, of course, place to the credit of the late Mr. Herbert Chapman the fact that which he set out on his great idea of buying up all the available stars, he had certainly hit on an angle of foot- ball that had not previously occurred to anybody, and which did, at least, rocket the Arsenal club to its high position in the game.

BUT

Mr.

I doubt if even Chapman visualised the songs in his scheme. Further than that, I doubt if the Arsenal club offelals are entirely satisfied with the way in which things have worked out for them.

Solely, even though indirectly, through this high-price buying of players, Arsenal's liabilities have and grown. As super- grown buyers, they inflated prices. These prices have become boomerangs. Arserial may not like to admit it, but my own view is that they now hate the sound of a Ave-figure transfer ice.

I maintain that the time has come when it has been proved conelusively that football finance on its present scale will never "find its own level," and that it is the duty of authorities to take decisive action without delay.

SPORT ADVTS THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

Draft Programmes and Entry Forma for the Twelfth Extra Raco Meeting to be held on Saturday, 3rd December, 1938, (weather per- mitting) may be obtained at the Secretary's Office, Exchange Build- ing: tho Club House, Happy Valley; the Hong Kong Club; tho Sporta Club; and the Stables, Shan Kwong Road.

Entries closo nt 12 o'clock NOON on Thursday, 24th Novem- ber, 1938.

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