June 29, 1916
Prospects of football.
Mr. A.G. Jeffs presided last night at the annual meeting of the Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. The balance sheet, which was adopted, showed ab expenditure during the year of £490 8s. 2d., and an income of £53 2s. 6d., the deficit being £437 5s. 2d. This reduced the surplus to £2,068 5s. 9.
Two of the directors, Mr. T.H. Sidney and Lieutenant Sparrow, wrote resigning, the former on the ground of ill-health and the latter because he was on active service, but both were re-elected. Brigadier-General Hickman was re-elected president.
Mr. Charles Crump, at the request of the meeting, gave his views on war-time football, and said though he thought the Wolverhampton club had done the right thing, they ought not to condemn those in other districts who had thought and acted differently. Personally, he saw very little prospect of any football in the Midlands until the end of the war was in sight.
(Source: Nottingham Evening Post: June 30, 1916)
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