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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 403, 12 January 1909, Page 5

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NEW SOUTH- WALES SCORES FREELY. (DI TELEGRAM—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COrmGHT.) (Reo., January 11, ■ 9.47 p.m.) ' Sydney, January 11. In the. oricket i.matcb,. South .Australia :r.;' New South Wales —in. which the former scored 572, first innings—New South. Wales; have lost; nine'wickets for 445, the chief scorers, being Bardsley 119, Macartney 100, E, Waddy; 20, E.;. L. ; Waddy 33, S. Gregory; 93, s .and : Kellaway, (not out) 22. .'. FINANCES •OF AUSTRALIAN TOUR. . ■■ London, January 10. Mr. P. F. 1 Warner, captain of the British team that visitfed. Australia in.; 1903-4, writ-" ing to the " Westminster Gazette,'', says the leading Australian cricketers unduly flatter 'themselves if .'they ■ Relieve that, the Marylebone Club-will not receive a team from which they aro excluded... Mr./Warner'regrets .the 'dispute between the Board of Cricket Control and the players, and' reOTgmses 'that/.the leading players are perfectly straight ..'in their attitude, saying that very probably £600 is insufficient for the trip. .There is r.o question of secret payments. • ~- .'• .' ■THE TERMS OFFERED. : : Mr. W. -P. iMTDlhone, (seorotary of the Board of Control);recently stated that the Board of Control had offered terms that every reasonable man should consider most favourable. The terms amounted; .to; this: They were, taking the whole of the; money,; as: a matter of fact,.-anil after deducting.'s. per ; cent. of the. first Ji6ooo, arid|l2i.pei' cent;of ithe, balance,, tliey handed, the remainder ;to .. the . players to recompense ' them for loss of time;'; It meant that if their anticipations of 000 were realised, the Board: would take .iISOO,'. and each player would receiva .£728 103. .i,'Anj; fair-minded ,person should; be content with that. ..This also'jinoluded. a trip to England.;. •' '• • '•• '-"v.- 'j : A; correspondent' of''a^Sydney'paper , pyrites :• "Every true 'ldv'eF be' p&rfo'etly' disgusted, with the conduct of Messrs.\Noble andHill Jabout; the terms on which,the " next Australian team is .go "to-England next -year. Considering .that Noble, received from the p.ublio a: very handsome present only recently, in the shape of a cheque for • his, conduot ii} this, matter does. seem* strange in' the extreme.' Then-it,is calculated-that-each member of the' • team,' together ...with". the" manager,; will, receive at the lowest computation. .0600, and may receive a good deal moro if .Hie tour is. a success; .The 'question' to' me seems, to' bo this: Is the.'Board : -of' Control to be supreme in matters' of cricket in Australia, or; is'a'clique of the. leading cricketers to say what terms they .want,.arid.on what terms they'will condescend to be '.members''of the'next team to England?If Messrs. Noble.'and Hill still persist in bohav-. ing in. such a . way: let. them stand aside and others ,be ohosen- in 'their, place." ..