MR. SIMS'S CRICKET TEAM.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1968, 27 January 1914, Page 7

MR. SIMS'S CRICKET TEAM.

BOARD'S FEELING. CERTAIN' MATTERS RESENTED. The Board of Cricket Control yesterday announced its attitude concerning the proposed t<Mir of New Zealand by a team of Australian > cricketers (says tho Sydney "Daily Telegraph" of .January -vA letter lias been dispatched to each of the players who applied for permission to niaka tho journey, expressing to the effect that as the pia.yors concerned were evidently unaware of the fact that tho Now Zealand Cricket Council had omitted to obtain the. approval of the board to tho proposed tour when the.v accepted the invitation, thr board had come to tho conclusion that it would not at this stage be reasonable to ref|iirst tho players concerned to decline the invitation. At the same time, the board declares itself to he averse to tlio en- . couragement of tours of ihi3 jiatnro, J Tho board strongly rosenis the action of tho New Zealand Cricket Council in making arrangements the tcur without first consulting _ it, rtflu when tho New Zealand Council replies more fully to tho hoard's letter ott the subject will take steps to impress upon the Dominion body the fact that tho Australian authority is not to bo cava* • lierly treated. Tho only reply the hoard has so far received from the New Zealand Council han been a letter referring tho board to the promoter of tho tour for all information. The hoard declines to deal with the pronator at all. It is declared 1 that the New Zealand Crickot Council could have no reason for ignoring the board in the matter. An Australian elevfiii lifts been sent- to New Zealand, and the New Zealand Council took all the profits after paying ; tho out-of-pooket expenses. That tour I cost the Board of. Control a caupln of hundred 'pounds. Last year the New South Wales Cricket Association r-fferal to send a team t* New Zealand, but the council was disincline-! to uliflertakp certain fiimncial r<;'spfli)sibilit,y. and tho nroject foil through, ft IS claimed on this side that there has been no lock of williiuniess on the part of the rcsnon"i jiblfl authorities in provide New Zealand with t(ond crickot, on<], as a const 1 - quence. tho fact that the hoard was ignored in this instance is, to use tho i terms of a prominent hoard member, | "to be very strongly resented."