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› THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER

23,

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SOFTBALL Too much Money

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 Malacanan Palace.

They will begin a four-day series on Wednesday prior to going to Hongkong und Shanghai-United

Press.

OUR GUIDE TO THE CINEMAS

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

the

"Women Are Like That" (Queen' Theatre, to-day)-Pat O'Brien looks

unhappy 4:5 understandably

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his wife comes a drunkard when

he had In a deal which succeeds

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

"Prison Farm" (Alhambra Theatre. lo-day).—A shocker about the gri who loves a man who, although she 11 criminal. does not know it, a They are caught together and sent a prison farm, where scenes of 10 brutality are enacted. Shirley Ross, Lloyd Nolan, John Howard, J. Carrol Nnish and Porter Hall are the prin- cipals.

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

"My Dear Miss Aldrich" (Majestle Theatre, to-day).-Comical drama of a country girl who finds herself owner of a great metropolitan news- paper. Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Sullivan and Edno May

Oliver head the cast.

REFEREES' MEETING

The half-monthly meeting of the Hongkong Football Referees' Asso- ciation will be held at the Bank of Canton Building, fourth floor, at 8 p.m. on November 28.

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

sands of pounds for a few pence; a correct line on your coupon and "velvet " for the rest of your life; visions of showers of banknotes as you jot down your 1-2-X.

For you, football has become a potential gold-mine. Maybe, in these circum- 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 transfer 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.

it is not curtailed, there is gravo danger of compicto financial chaos in professional football. The game is fast being

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money which 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 it back again.

Profesional football has grown into a bad business proposition. For some inexplicable reason men who, in their own lines of busi- nesa, 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.

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Brya Jones, highly priced Wolves' asar, playing his part 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

receipts. from "gate

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

are

in Football

says

Clifford Webb

chaos be avoided in such circum- stances?

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

not Bo Transfer fees must 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 players, one you want and the other two na make-weights to put the fee within the laws.

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hysterical football finance placed the limit as low a £350.

Bince then, Arsenal have paid £10,890 for one player, David Jack; Aston Villa, £10,778 for James Allen.. Gallacher cost Chelsea £10,000; the same fee was paid by Manchester City for Doherty.

ean actually afford fees of this Bort? The answer is found in the balance-sheets.

Not 25 per cent, of the clubs in the Football Leaguo showed a pro- at on last season's working. Debts and overdrafts among, tho. 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, 20 in summer) suffer, always-or nearly always-- they are working for clubs in debt, no matter how great the crowds before whom they perform.

Now

Now let us take the case

of Tom Grinths, Aston Villa player, who, during 1926 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. Griffiths, whose services computed to be worth this huga sum, finds himself without any- thing like the savinge any other professional man must have had, it his contract had been saleable for this amount.

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Major Frank: Significantly, Buckley, "ace" seller of players... he has enriched his club, Wolver- hampton Wanderers, by nearly £60,000 in less than three years through transfer fees alone-has Intimated that he considers the winning of the League Champion. ship this season will be worth

This season, Arsenal paid £14,- 000 to Wolverhampton Wanderers for Bryn Jones, the Welsh Inter- national forward; and a firm offer of £13,000 has been made for £100,000 to his club. Matthews, Stokk Cky's inter- notional wing forward, who asked to be placed on the transfer list, but was refused by his club.

Transfer fees of £5,000, 20,000 and £7,000 are commonplace in these days. Yet how many clubs

HENRY COTTON PONY CLASSIFICATION POLICE AT HOCKEY

PLANS TO TOUR UNITED STATES

London, Nov. 22.

Henry Colton, 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 on attractive schedule will be arranged, including matches against Sam Snead, Ralph Gudahl, American open cham- pton, and Paul Runyon, American Professional Golfers' Association champion-Reuter Special.

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Arst half, Brutus to "B" class.

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

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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 whch ho 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

BUT I doubt if even Mr.

Chapman visualised the snags in his scheme. Further than that, I doubt if the Arsenal club officials 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 labuities have grown and grown. As super- buyers, they indated prices. These prices have become boomerangs. Arsenal may not like to admit it. but my own view is that they now hate the sound of a dvo-Aguro transfer fee.

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

SPORT ADVTS THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

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

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