PROFIT FROM PLAYERS

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 44, 22 February 1936, Page 9

PROFIT FROM PLAYERS

“WOLVES TURNED INTO GOLD” COACHING- TO FIND STARS. £100;000 MADE IN 10 YEARS. (By Air Mail.) WOLVERHAMPTON, Jan. 21. Meet the major with the magic touch —the collector of “Golden Wolves,” writes the correspondent of .the Sunday Chronicle. . In 10 years his “hobby” has shown a profit of nearly £IOO,OOO. He is Major Prank C. Buckley, secretarymanager of Wolverhampton Wanderers P.C. The “Golden Wolves” are the men he has dug out of obscurity and raised to the peak of football fame. Unpromising material soon begins to gleam under the magic spell. of the Major’s coaching, advice, and remarkable ability to to find the right position for a player. Big Profits. Here are some of the players he has developed:—Phillips, to Aston Villa, £9000; Shaw, to Sunderland, £7000; Hartill, to Everton, £5000; Richards, to Brentford, £5000; Rhodes, to Sheffield Wednesday, £4000; Barraclough, to Chelsea, £3500; Heatherington, to Preston, £2,500; Toothill, to Fulham, £2000: Bottrill, to Huddersfield, £2000; J. Smith, to Bristol, £2OOO. Twenty other players averaged about £IOOO each. The players at present in the team, secured by Major Buckley for next to nothing, are worth at least £40,000, bringing the profits up to about £IOO,000 in 10 years.