TOURING CRICKETERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 254, 23 September 1933, Page 7

TOURING CRICKETERS.

M.C.C. FORMULATES PLANS. LONDON, Sept. 22. The M.C.C. Board of Control has decided that the Australian eleven shall sail for England by the Orford, leaving Fremantle on March 26. They will arrive in London on April 26, and will return by the Orontes leaving London on September 29. The team will assemble at Melbourne prior to its departure and play ttfo matches in Tasmania, one at Perth, one in Ceylon or at Aldershot against an army team. The manager will receive an allowance of £651); the treasurer £6OO, and the players each £6OO in instalments, payable in the currency of the country in which the payments are made. The M.C.C. proposes that the Test matches will begin at 11.30 a.m. on the first day and 11 a.m. on the following days, and they will cease at 6.30 p.m. daily. The Australian board, however, desires that the tests begin at 11.30 a.m. daily, and has cabled accordingly.' The board agrees that the Tests be limited to four days, but if the destination of the Ashes is involved the fifth Test will be played to a finish. The News-Chronicle deducts from the itinerary of the Australian Board of Control that the battle between the two cricket authorities has now ended. It adds that this is so urgently desired by the public that they will not worry overmuch about the terms. AUSTRALIANS’ VISIT. ARRIVING IN FEBRUARY.

Received September 23, 12.5 p.m. SYDNEY, Sept. 23. The Cricket Board of Control has accepted the New Zealand invitation for an Australian team to visit the Dominion in February and March, subject to the conditions of the invitation being satisfactorv. NO STATEMENT MADE. BOARD AND “BODY-LINE.” SYDNEY, Sept. 22. • The Board of Control appointed Mr Bushby, the Tasmanian representative on the board, manager of the next Australian team, and Mr AV. Bull, of Sydney, treasurer. No statement was issued in regard to the body-line controversy, but it is understood the board is 4 eased at the way the English county .earns are supporting the Australian attitude. The hoard also received endorsement of its attitude and an assurance that body-line bowling will be banned by cricket associations during Sheffield Shield contests in Australia. THE 1934 TESTS. FATE OF THE ASHES. AVriting in the London Evening Standard, “Olympian” says that the fate of the ashes in 1934 perhaps depends on the result of Larwood’s impending treatment by Sir DouglaS Shields at his Park Lane hospital. “Olympian” believes that Australians join in the hope that Larwood will be bowling in 1934. Sir Douglas Shields was formerly lecturer in clinical surgery at Melbourne University.