CRICKET FUND

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3637, 4 February 1932, Page 6

CRICKET FUND

FOR DISCARDED FLAYERS JOE DARLING'S SUGGESTION HE CRITICISES COUNCIL Tn a letter t o tbe Hobart Mercury, J. Darling, M.L.C., former Australian XI. captain expressed tlio opinion that the Board of Control should provide a fund for old international players who, because they were devoted to lirst.-class cricket, are now not ih comfortable circumstances linancially. “Owing to so much tirst-class cricket being played in Australia to-day, international cricketers have much of their time taken tip,” lie writes, “and what with going to England every four years they arc jeopardising their future prospects to find, as soon as their cricketing days arc over, that they are without work or are in a very ordinary position.’’ The agreement which the Australian test players are compelled to sign before going to England is most unnecessary an I unfair. Fairfax, for instance, jeopardised his future prospects in life by playing so much cricket'. but the Board refused to agree

to him playing for an English club. The Board had been making a tool of him, just as with Bradman and others.