TOURING CRICKET TEAM

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 203, 25 May 1938, Page 3

TOURING CRICKET TEAM

Sir Julien Cahn’s Side

CANTERBURY SEEKS MATCH

Dominion Special Service.

Christchurch, May 24.

The New Zealand Cricket Association is to be asked to arrange for Sir Julien Cahn’s team to play a match in Christchurch early next year. The executive committee of the Canterbury Cricket Association decided to make this request at a meeting to-night. The main point discussed by the committee was whether it should ask the council for a share in the profits of the tour and it was decided to suggest that any profits be shared with the council by associations that lost money on the New Zealand tour of E. R. T. Holmes’s team in 1936. The council advised that it could not agree to the committee’s request that Canterbury should retain 56 .per cent, of the net profits of the match. The tour would have to be treated as a whole ami, when it had finisthed, the distribution of any surplus would be considered by the management committee of the council. Commenting on the letter from the council, the chairman of the executive committee of the Canterbury association, Mr. W. L. King, said it seemed clear that the Canterbury association could not expect to share in the profits unless it was willing to bear its share of any loss. Mr. R. C. Burns said that when an English side last toured New Zealand major and minor associations were asked for guarantees and most of them had lost money. He thought that any profits on the tour by Sir Julien Cahn’s team should be shared between the council and the associations that had lost money on the last tour by an English team. Allocations shouljl be proportionate to the losses on that tour. There was no doubt that when an English team again visited New Zealand associations would be asked for guarantees, with the prospect of again losing money. The president of the Canterbury association, Mr. T. W. Reese, said i should not be forgotten that the New Zealand council had lost about £200'.) on the last tour by a New Zealand team. It was not unreasonable for the council to wish to recoup its losses. It was agreed to ask the council to arrange a match in Christchurch ano to suggest that any profits from the tour should be divided pro rata between the council and associations that had lost money on the tour by Holmes's team.