Cricketers' Pay.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 272, 16 November 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)

Cricketers' Pay.

South African Players Ask For £30 Per Test. Members of the South African Test Team that toured England earlier this year have issued what amounts to an ultimation to the South African Board of Control. Tho players have notified the Board that they will require £30 (sterling) a man for each of tho five Test matches against the Australians, instead of fl a day. The Natal Cricket Association does not object to the increased payment "provided the players agree to be classed as profesaionals." To this, H. B. Cameron, the Test wicketkeeper and former captain, who died a few days later, said that, rather than be regarded as a professional, he would retire from Test cricket. Cameron pointed out that the increased allowance would merely put the South Africans on the same terms in Tests as English amateurs, and the Australians, who are all regarded as amateurs, and who received £30 allowance for each Test against Jardine's team in 1932-33 season. The sports writer of the London "Daily Telegraph" approves Natal's attitude clarifying the position of the socalled amateur in Tests. He says that Cameron's remarks wrongfully suggest that a dreadful stigma attaches to professionalism. "Cameron, who received £275 for his English tour," he adds, "is wrong when he says English Test cricketers receive ' a liberal allowance. They receive, in | addition to fares, a sum not exceeding ' 30/ a day for a period not exceeding !six days."