CRICKET.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1531, 29 August 1912, Page 5

CRICKET.

PAYMENT OP PLAYERS. Mr. J.'S; lliitchcon writes as follows to the London (he financial aspect of the loiu-iutf Australian cricketers:— "Home peoplo iucliue- to the view Hint too much attention has always been foeussed on this aspect of the case. Personally, I am not one of those, for K consider that when men iiro forced to Icuvo their business for nine', months at a stretch, and this sort of thing is to recur regularly, particularly when they are representatives of n continent, some adequate return should lie available. It is quite beside the point (o say that if it wore, not for cricket they would never bo heard of. A similar argument might just as fairly be used in Tegard to any professional man', and it is utterly unreasonable to expect anyone to give up the amount of time required by flrst-iilass cricket if tlioro is to be no return whatever. 'J'lio other side of the, picture is soon when one considers the positiou of English amateurs, who aw , placed uu the barest allowance in regard to 'tho trip to .Australia. There is no necessity lo labour any argument <m the question of facts. Tilings speak for themselves. Tho amateurs simply ilo nut go."