CRICKET

Evening Star, Issue 18399, 6 October 1923, Page 8

CRICKET

MACLAREN TEAM TOUR. LOSS NEARLY £2,000. [Pkb United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, October 6. According to the Now Zealand Cricket Council’s annual report, the tour of A. C. MacLarcn’s team resulted in a loss of £1,929 3s 6d, half of this being borne bp the M.C.C. After providing for the loss, tho assets will show a balance over liabilities of £286. The deficit would have been greater still had the Melbourne Cricket Club not refunded ground fees totalling £145, a generous act which the council handsomely acknowledged. The gross receipts for MacLaron’s lour (including £1,587 profit on the Australian matches) were £7,449, and the expenses £9,379. The chief items of the latter were: —Travelling expenses of the MaryIcbonc players, £5,355; Now Zealand players, £510; amusement tax, £494; professionals, £420; advertising, etc., £409; luncheons, £540. The largest gates wore;—Christchurch, £764; tests at Wellington, £975 and £5153; test at Christchurch, £879; Auckland, £402 and £65; Dunedin, £452; Wellington, £383. AUSTRALIANS’ VISIT OFF. [Peh United Pbess Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, October 6. ' Mr Peake, secretary of tho New Zealand Council, says that no official reply lias been received from Australia re tho refusal to send a cricket team to New Zealand, but the reasons given in tho Press' are not correct. New Zealand did not make big profit out of the last tour, as alleged. It was £SOO, not £9CO, as stated, and since then a heavy loss has been incurred ou MacLaron’s tour. The condition sought to he imposed meant about £550 extra «s» pense, and would make the tour unprofitable.