Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1914 — TO RECEIVE LARGE SALARIES [ARTICLE]

TO RECEIVE LARGE SALARIES

Football Players In England and Scotland Are Well Paid for Their Short Term of Service. The big prices paid for star ball players in this country, often bordering on the sensational, cause great Interest among some of the big English soccer clubs which are fdbtunate enough to be able to invest part of their large profits in obtaining crack men. Only a few years ago $5,000 was c<Asidered a large figure to pay for any man, however well he could play football, but this amount has gradually mounted up until the $15,000 mark has been reached. This record price was put ,on the heads of Simpson of Falkirk and Dawson of Heart of Midlothian, both Scottish league clubs, but the large figure did not prevent Blackburn Rovers obtaining both players, and also Shea of West Ham United for SIO,OOO, thus obtaining three players for the enormous sum of sso,ooo. That the Investment turned out profitably was proved by the club finishing up last season as champions ot the first division of the English Association Football League and earning a splendid profit on the season’s working of $30,000.