100 Years Ago - Leeds City and Walden
Transfer developments unfavourable
The hurried effort to help the Northampton Football Club in its serious financial embarrassment closed tonight, when the guarantors and the club secretary met to receive the final contributions.
The campaign, which has lasted twelve days, has resulted in a sum of £650 being contributed.
The task set was £1,500 and failure means transferring at least one player to obtain money.
The Northampton supporters hope the partial success will prevent transfers, especially as it has been officially stated that no players will be parted with until the Cup-ties are done with.
Walden, the brilliant outside-right, is the idol of the crowd, and everyone recognises that were he to go to Leeds, the gain of that city would be very much the loss of the Cobblers’ town.
Confidence is, however, now general that Fanny Walden is saved for the present still to represent the premier team of his native city.
The disappointing feature of the money raising campaign is that, although the fund was kept open beyond the time at first allotted, the amount received in the extra time was less than £30 but, to the general pleasure, last Saturday’s gate against Coventry was £75 in advance of the season’s average. If this were kept up it would mean Northampton’s salvation.