AUSTRALIAN CRICKET.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18894, 8 January 1927, Page 15

AUSTRALIAN CRICKET.

BOARD OP CONTROL. (BT CABLE—MESS ASSOCIATTOW—COPYBIOKfti (AUSTRALIAN AND N.S, > ISSOCUTIOH. j (Received January Bth, 12.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, January. 7th. All the States were represented at 4 meeting of the Australian Board of Control, which to-day reached "a nun* ber of important decisions. The report showed that the profits of the Australian Eleven's 1926 tour, total* led £20,714. The Board decided without, a Tote toi reject Mr Sydney Smith as a position he had lield<for flfteen yeara. Members justified their action byj resolving that tho officii should be held by a paid official, and pending tha necessary alteration to the constitution, Mr W. H. James was anointed secretary. A further opinion of ° tha Board was that . tho secretaryship should be held by an official in th® States of South Australia, Ne\r South Wales, and Victoria m rotation for ' a period of not} more than three years in each case. Regarding tho question of the Maiy« leibone Club concerning the sise l of iM criclcct ball, it was decided to replJl that the Board considered that the baH . v should not be less than 8 18-16 inches in circumforencej and not irioro"' thanl nino .inches. _ •. ' - , r The meeting 'declined for the ,pr*< sent the West Indian proposal that * team from that country should visitl i Australia, and an Australian team • ciprocate. . • • •