History Notes (6) ... About that puzzle.

In History Notes (5) we noted that in the 1946/47 season the ETTA's administration costs were 1749, and that Tom Blunn had commented that this worked out at a little over a penny per month for each affiliated player.

We tried to use this information to estimate the post-war ETTA membership, but we got an answer that we were sure was far to low and we left it as a challenge to our readers to explain why. We had calculated ...
Number of players = 1749 * 100 / 12 = 14,575 approximately.

But we realised, eventually (!), that in those days there were 240 (old) pence in a pound. So the calculation should have been ... Number of players = 1749 * 240 / 12 = 34,980 approximately.

This looks to be a more credible figure ... but still a long way short of the pre-war numbers!