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NANCY

I CAN'T SLEEP --- I FEEL SO GUILTY BECAUSE

I YELLED AT NANCY,

EARLY THIS EVENING!

WHY DON'T YOU GO IN AND APOLOGIZE TO HER -- YOU'LL FEEL BETTER!

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 24, 1939.

By Ernie

Bushmiller

THAT'S THE ONLY THING TO

DO:

I APOLOGIZE FOR

YELLIN AT NYOU!

Jel. 28151.

TAN EEN PIN DEMAR HEħin rearsed.

Man Who Made The Wolves What They Are

Professional Football!

Player to

to a a Major During World

World War

MAJ. FRANK BUCKLEY

London.

The Wolves! There's a magic about that name nowa- days a magic that once belonged exclusively to the Arsenal.

It spells everything that is new and up to date in foot- ball: huge covered stands, changing rooms that might have been designed in Hollywood, revolutionary ideas in train- ing, gland treatment, and, more important than anything else, a young, virile team right on the crest of the wave, writes Thomas Woodrooffe.

Yet only a few years ago people the man who knew what he wanted were asking: "Who are these Wolves and got it, the late Herbert Chapman, everybody' making such n fuss of Huddersfield Town and Arsenal. Chapman believed in buying ready- about?" Eleven years ago, Wolver- hampton Wanderers were a strug-made players-he inve £10,000 for He paid out £9,000 d ging team in the Second Division Lavid Jack. and. if not bankrupt-well, not far for Alee James, and got his money

hack over and over again. of 11.

The glory of Wolverhampton as a football ecotre seemed to have de- purted for ever, und the pre-wur sequence at eighteen years unbroken membership of the First Division was like a dream.

Frank Buckley only believes in huge transfer fees when he's at the receiving end. His method is to get layers in the raw-make them-and then sellif 11 suits him. The Wolves' unrivalled financial position Immediately after the war the is largely due to transfer fees re- Wolves had been lost for a season in 'ceived. the dim obscurity of the newly for Buckley, like Chapman, is ruthless ed Northern Section of the Third and determined, but his methods are Division-they'd got out of that different. He believes in youth on quagmire, but they were still only the field, and, what's more, youth that struggling.

has been taught and moulded to his own design.

Fred MacMurray-as a hard-boiled newspaperinan-showE the romantic aspect of life on the other side of Fifth Avenue to lovely Madeleine Carroll-the dower of the upper crust-in· “Galto Society," Paramount's gay satire on life among the Upper 400. The picture is be- ing shown simultaneously at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres.

Then, in 1928, a burly, five-foot- eleven man in plus fours became

Long years ago he decided that the manager a brusque, keen-eyed man only road to the top was the one of with a sharp, business-like manner. his own choosing. He would find his His name wus Frank Buckley, own players and find them young-|Golf

Now, after eleven years, Buckley no ready-made reputations for him. has got the Wolves into the Cup If any reputations were to be made, Final. The overdraft that greeted they would be made under his him on his Arst day in the Molineaux tutelage. He wanted two-footed ground offfee is a credit" of "nearly players with the "speed" and "stamina" £100,000, there's no mortgage on the of Sydney Wooderson. ground-hink of that, no mortgage! He made mistakes--who doesn'17

the gutes average over 30,000 n But he went on until he got then match. und the Wolves are sight then he trained them, handled them hock on the map.

£2,500 A YEAR

In four years Major Buckley hud the Wolves back in the First Division, where they belong, and they have never looked back.

right and now he'll watch the result

of his labours at Wembley, on April

29.

HAD TO FIGHT

He has had lu Bght for his theories and fight hard. He has had his He ham's done so badly for him-failures, and knows what it feels like self, either. Before the war he was to have the mob parading in front of a professional footballer with Derby the stand and howling for his head. County and Bradford City, earning on a churger.

being much lower in those days).

three or four quid u week (salaries) On these occasions Buckley didn't

bat an eyelld. He knew that his

Let

LOCAL YACHTING

MIDDLESEX DEFEATED AT MACAO

Clean Soccer Game At The Canidrome

Macao, Apr. 23.

In the soccer encounter between the Middlesex Regiment and the Macho eleven at the Canidrome co- closure this afternoon, the local team bout the visitors by three goals to nii after a hard struggle. The match Iwan extremely clean from start to finish and was enjoyed immensely by the large crowd.

The strenuous efforts of the Middle- sex forwards tested the Macao defence

to the utmost and the excellent worki of Chinng, right-back, received well. deserved applause. Airosa was alert at centre-half and combined with Cordova to feed the Macao right wing so that Rexo was a constant danger to the Middlesex defence. Rege was always a fast worker beating Cooper on several occasions but seldom try~|| Ing a shot at goal.

it

the

Drake

was dependable Middlesex goal and the match was 50 evenly contested during the first period that the goal from a header by Guerreiro a minute from the Interval came as a surprise.

Upon resumption, Bright was seen to advantage and with Whitehouse and Wilkinson, deprived Collace and Guerreiro of many opportunities. Excitement ran high as n

splendid

shot by Pearson slipped from

Carvalho's hands and the ball came

to a dead halt a foot from the Macao. goal. Assis was responsible for the second goal following a neat pass and Lopes registered the third.

Teams:

Middlesex. - Drake; Thompson, Cooper: Whitehouse, Bright, Wilkin- son: Moggridge, R. Thomas, Pearson. Saw, C. Thomas.

PADGHAM Corinthian Cruisers Race ching, Lobato, Cordova, Alross, Nito

WINS IN RE-PLAY

London, Apr. 22.

Won By Norena

Macao. Carvalho; Chlang Sheang- Sousa: Rego, Collaco, Guerreiro, Ass, Lopes Our Own Correspondent,---

Noreng won the Corinthian cruisers Baseball race held by the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club yesterday in which two out of three competitors finished the course. Details!

Finished Corrd Pos. 13.55.00 14.10.30 1

Alfred Padgham, of

Norena Sunbridge Park, won the Silver King Golf (J. E. Potter) Tournament re-play at Moorpark to- Azuma ... 14.22.40 14.18.41 2 day, R. Burton, of Sale, retiring at (E. B. Lomberi)

the 33rd hole when Padgham was U & I nine strokes ahead.

Padgham led by seven strokes ut

D. N. F.

If he is not transferred by Now he enjoys and fully earns a methods were right. He was going the end of the morning round, the season. salory of £2,300. He has a life con- to turn this second-rate provincial respective scores for which were 74the end of the season the player is

und 81.

placed on the retained fist and gets rival to the Arsenal. tract as manager of the Wolves, and team into his life has been insured for £10,000 them howl. They'd be cheering one

Padgham and Burton had tied with his summer, money. by his club.

of these days. He was right. That an aggregate of 285.

T. Collinge, of Swinton Park, and) Rame mob now parades in front of the stand cheering instead of howl-C. S. Denny, of Thorpe Hall, were

Joint third with 280 each,

Reginald Whitcombe, the "Open" champion aggregated 288, and Henry the Ryder Cup captain

HE'S A SELLER Looking back over the long historying. of Association football in England, there's only one man who has made

LONDON BECKONS

He has produced the most prosper-Cotton,

such a mark the Arst big spender, ous club in the history of football in totalled 200-Reuter,

GREAT WITH INSPIRED DRAMATIC PERFORMANCES with the star of "Stella Daflar" af bør greatest!

BARBARA

STANWYCK HERBERT

MARSHALL

Always

Goodbye

IAN HUNTER

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NEXT CHANGE

AKING'S

THE

town of only 133,000 population.

Any manager will tell you that he

(the manager, not Buckley) could

work wonders with a wealthy London Woodward, that he just hated drill club-thut's what they all think, any- and above all, polishing buttons.

how

Buckley will always find a man a fresh start. He expects perfect physical fitness and likes players who are anxious to get on and better themselves.

Buckley really hit the front pages when he took up gland treatment. Then he Introduced two sixteen- years-old boys in the League eleven at the same time--the first manager

ever to do so.

It was he who first suggested num-

But Woodward became the chambering players-an idea he borrowed

If that is so, what could Buckley plon Mills bomb-thrower in the but from the Rugby League. He's al- do in London? Bristol and Notting-talion, and soon no one would go ways advocated having old players ham have populations three times us full of.bombs.

near him he always had his pockets ins referees much as you have old players Pa first-rians umpires In large as Wolverhampton, and yet Three other present-day managers cricket. they have quite undistinguished were in that famous battalion--Jack leains.

Tresauern, of Plymouth Argyle, And it is possible that Buckley may Angus Seed, manager of the victori- find himself in London one day. He Is ambitious and a man of action, and ous Barnsley, and Charlie Bell, of was, Buckley's he can probably terminate his life Bournemouth, who contract at Wolverhampton if he batman.

WELL HATED wants to. If the offer were tempt- ing enough he might be the first

"Frank Buckley is a complex char- £5,000-a-year manager-you can he pretty sure that Major Frank Buck-acter and for that reason he's well ley would come up and conquer the loved and well hated, expilal,

PRO. TO MAJOR

Frank Buckley, three-pounds-a- week professional footballer, gained the rank of major in the war.

He has his fair share of gulle-he couldn't be a football manager if he hadn't. He is ambitious and tough,

MISERABLE

If it's a close game at Wembley there'll be two very miserable look- ing. gentlemen sneaking away to the back of the stand unable to stand the strain of watching.

One will be a big, bluft man with smallish, happy, neat little man wearing spats.

keen eye; the other One will be Frank Buckley, and the other Jack Tinn, the Portsmouth manager.

1

If the Wolves win that Cup after but there's a streak of kindliness in 31 years it will be due practically the mati.

As an old player himself, he can entirely to the character, ability and see the player's point of view; he theories of Frank Buckley.

WIFE HELPS

He joined the Footballers' Battalion recognise, that players have rights under Colonel Oreatham, an old and are entitled to a fair dividend Indian cavalry, offer. Buckley was if they behave loyally and give ot Frank Buckley owes a lot to his a pronilaing recruit, and finally be their bost.

charming wife, a student of psy- came second in command of the bat- tailon when Colonel H. T. Fenwick, D.S.O., took it, to Franca.

As an ex-recond in command of a chology, who helps bim to give in- battalion in war time, he is a strict dividual attention to his players. disciplinarion. He won't have play-Her advice has played a big part in It was in the Army, that Buckley ers stirring up strife or questioning the mental spreding-up which is so learned how to handle men, and in polley-which, after all, is none of noticeable about these young Wolves.. particular that other knobbly type the player's business,

Buckley and his wife are a happy

of man, the professional footballer. Above all, he is fair and his players pair. Their favourite hobby is dog- Colonel Orentham died a year or know they'll get a square deal from breeding and they have won many two ago at the age of 80, and he often him. For instance, he never leaves prizes with their Welsh terriers and aald that footballers ·AFOND dificulta player up in the air without sum black retrievers, material to lick into shops as soldiers mer wages.

Buckley will go down in history but they made good soldiers.

If a player he does not want to as the man who found his footballers Ho used to say of that great inter-retain is good enough and commands in the by-ways and set them on the national centro forward, Vivian a fee, he is transferred during the by-pass to fame..

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