Question of payment of Soccer players has been raised again by the England v. Scotland international at Newcastle. The limit of ent ju Scotland is £2 a match, against 30/- in England. The Anglo-Scots Ancell, Finan and Dodds, all attached to English clubs, are playing for Scotland, and will draw £2 this time.
Clapton Orient will not appoint a manager in succession to Mr. T. W. Halsey until the end of the war. Mr. W. Eright, their trainer will be acting secretary manager for "the duration."
A huntswoman was lowered down the shaft of a disused Somerset mine to help in the rescue of three foxhounds of the Mendip Hunt. Ihe rescue of the hounds, which had been trapped for five days, was "Three of the hounds did not return to the kennels after hunting. They were last seen in the subterranean caves of a wood near Chewton Mendip. A woman member of the hunt, searching the woods with a huntsman, heard the sound of growling down an old mine shaft. A quarryman was lowered down the narrow hole, which was 60 ft. deep, but was quickly pulled up as the famished hounds, were savage. The woman then offered to go down, as she thought the hounds might know her. She managed to coax them and they were all pulled up to safety, exhausted but otherwise all right. A few minutes after the last one had bean saved, the sides of the shaft collapsed.
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