Big Transfer Fee.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 300, 18 December 1937, Page 4

Big Transfer Fee.

The Scottish soccer player O'Donnell figured in a sensational transfer recently and had it been on a purely casn basis would have been probably the biggest on record. To secure his services Blackpool paid Preston Nort? End £4OOO and also threw in two of its own club forwards. Blackpool is building i p a most expensive side arid in a fuitnight secured two players at a cost cf £lO,OOO. Australian Golf Tourists. All four members of the Australian amateur golf team which leaves in March for a tour of Britain have won the amateur championship of their country. L. Nettleford succeeded in 1926 and 1928, M. J. Ryan in 1929, H. Hattersley, in 1930, T. McKay in 1934. Ryan also won the Australian open title in 1932. Sloan Morpeth, manager of the team ,won the New Zealand amateur title in 1920, 1927 and 1929, and the open championship in 1928. He also won the Victorian amateur title in 1929. Nettleford has pastoral and business interests. Ryan is a timber broker, McKay, a barrister, Hattersley an accountant, while Morpeth is a golf club manager-secre-tary.