CRICKETERS' OFFERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22982, 9 March 1938, Page 22

CRICKETERS' OFFERS

AUSTRALIANS NOT TEMPTED LEADING PLAYERS APPROACHED Australians will be pleased to know that all offers made by cricket clubs in England to prominent players have not tempted the men to leave Australia. Immediately the Australian team was announced theie were reports of offers to players who had been omitted, but so far none of them has been accepted, says an Australian writer. One of the offers was to Ross Gregory, the young Victorian, who was asked if he would accept employment with Sir Julian Cahn, a wealthy English supporter of the game, who runs his own team, but Gregory has replied that ho intends to finish his accountancy studies here. C. V. Grimmett was also said to have received offers, but he declares that there was nothing tangible about them, and he was not interested. Other rejected players have been mentioned in this connection, but there have been no reports of any offers having been received. League clubs in England have made a habit of engaging Dominion plavers for their week-end names at high salaries, and several Australians have accepted such offers. No doubt they have bettered themselves financially by doiruz so, but it is regrettable that we should lose players in this way.