STRIKE COLLAPSES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18899, 14 January 1927, Page 9

STRIKE COLLAPSES.

CRICKETERS AND BONUSES

(bv cAßLi—psgis associatiok—corntinHt.) (AUSTRALIAN A.VD K.S, CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

SYDNEY. January 13,

The effort made by cricketers to compel the Board of Control to pay a larger bonus to members of the team which toured England collapsed because of the publicity given to their plaiiE. It is now stated that all the players available will participate in the Sheffield Shield games. THE TOUR REVIEWED. (AUSTRALIAN AXD S.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received January 13th, 9.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, January 13. Speaking at a luncheon given by the Millions Club, Mr Sydney Smith, manager of the Australian eleven, said' one financial aspect of the tour had not been published by the Board of Control. This was that the expenses of the last t6ur Were Only £7 a head above those Of 1921, notwithstanding trans' port difficulties ttjvilig to the coal strike. The tour yielded £3OOO more in revenue than that of 1921.

Mr Smith disclosed that he had re> commended that in future the Board Should make n fair allowance to each player instead of a bonUs, thus re' lieving players Of anSiety during the t6ur as to whether there was going to be a bonus OK not. Discussing bowling, Mr Smith Said Crrimmett and Mailey between them tOOK 27 Wickets out of 89 in the Tests, and 263 out of sli on the tour. That burden On these tWO meii showed the Australians' Weakness, which lay in the dearth Of Spin bowlers and length bowlers with a little fire.

"A REAL GERMAN."

HOUSTON CHAMBERLAIN

'cremated

(b* cabu;—*rkßS ASSottATipN—coF*#ioOT.) (AtJßTtfitlAK Airt) X.X. CAM* ASSOCIATIOir.) BEBLtN, January 12. tthe renegade Englishman, Houston Chamberlain, who died On January Gth, Was cremated at Coburg in the present of a distinguished gathering, including the exj'Cfdtvn Prince, who deposited the ex-Kaiser's wreath, eS'King 'Ferdinand, Prince Hohenlphe and Siegfried Wag' n6r.

Extremist Nationalist organisations stint deputations, . The officiating priest eulogised Chain' berlaih as a real Christian, and a real German. ■ .