THE CRICKETING SPECULATION.
The Australian cricketers on their return home (says a London paper) Trill take with them a large sum of money. During the contest between the Australian cricketers and a North of England Eleven at Bradford, the amount of money taken at the gate was £293 the first day, £336 on the second, and £BS on the third. Out of this £714 the colonials took exactly one-half, the remainder being left for the payment of the English players, and the expenses entailed upon the local committee in organising the match. The Australians obtained still greater profit out of the Nettingham encounter, concluded on September 25th; but even this was exceeded by the payment which the manager of the Crystal Palace arranged to give them for the match lately played on the Palace grounds. They received no less than £750, while the English professionals engaged to oppose them had £2O each. They received £ISOO for the match at Kennington Oval at the beginning of September, and when it is considered that they have been playing every week and all the week for the last five months in various parts of the country, the total must amount to something very considerable.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2105, 22 November 1880, Page 3
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201THE CRICKETING SPECULATION. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2105, 22 November 1880, Page 3
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