BONUS FOR CRICKETERS
COMPLAINT FROM AUSTRALIA
LACK OF BENEFIT MATCHES.
(Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, November 26. (Received Nov. 26, at 8 p.m.) The Daily Express gives prominence to a cablegram from its Melbourne correspondent referring to the bonus proposal for Test cricketers. The message quotes the statement of some of the Australian cricketera who have returned “broke,” and who compare Hirst’s £3OOO from benefit matches with the treatment of Ernie Jones, who is stated to be working on the Adelaide wharves and George Giffen, who is holding a minor job in the Post Office. The Express, in a footnote, says: ‘‘lt necessary to remember that the Australians come as amateurs and are accorded all the privileges of amateur status, whereas Hirst, who was a professional, depended on the game for his livelihood.”— A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19958, 27 November 1926, Page 13
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