CRICKET

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 January 1934, Page 2

CRICKET

M.C.C. TOUR PROFITS

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LONDON, January 4.

The ‘Daily Mail” discloses that the Marylebone Cricket Club’s balance sheet, which is being published next April, shows astonishing Australian receipts The gross amount is £lOO,682, this representing a, total attendance of 1,300,000 at the matches in Australia. /The Marylebone Club received £36.737, which is £7OOO under what it received from the 1928-9 tour. The decrease is partly due to the depression, and partly to the shorter time for the matches. The test matches produced £69,969. of which the Marylebone Club’s share was £25,519. The English County Cricket Clubs are receiving about £3OO apiece. NOBLE AND BARRACKING (Recd. Jan. 5,2 p.m.). LONDON, January 4. Noble’s recent defence of barracking continues to be hostilely received.

The “Evening Standard” critic says: Perhaps there is a touch of subtle cynical humour in Noble’s statement, which we English have not yet observed. If that is not so. I cannot see that bad manners are either impersonal or an asset to anything. The Australians will not find our cricket crowds, speaking generally, either badmannered or personal.

The “Star” editorially, says: “We do not pretend to understand the psychology of Noble’s defence. The whole point about what kind of barracking we object to, is that it is meant to be heard by the cricketer and intended to put him off his game. Barracking is harmless if enjoyable to the players and spectators, but if it possesses the venom and malice against which Jardine protested, it does nobody good.

Marist v. United at Recreation Ground on Sunday at 11 a.m.: —Casey (2), Morris (2), Bayley (2), Cornish, Mathews, Cullen, Pollock, Morel. Technical A to play Marist on Recreation Ground (No. 2), at 1.30 p.ai., tomorrow: —Vaughan, Kerr. Greenwood. Clements, Price, East, Ross, Haglund, Harvey, Perrin, Rouse, Carruthers (emergency). Marist Thirds to play Technical: — Morel, Clancy, Cullen, Knapp, James, Bayley, McDiarmid, T. Kiely. Gilbert, Higgins, Pollofck. Camerons third grade team to play Cobden at Cobden, to-morrow:—Gil-bert, Ord. Hearn, Robinson (3), Brulm, Hibbs, Grant, McConnon, Archer, Kelly, Page, Thomson, Jones. United v. Cobden at Rec. to-mor-row: —Barnhill, Caulton, Critchley, Cross, Hearne, Heasley, Machu, Mackay, McLaughlin, McQueen, Muir, Scott.