CRICKET PROFITS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 29, 18 February 1937, Page 12

CRICKET PROFITS

World Record Likely SYDNEY, Feb. 12. The world recbrd fbr test cficket rejeipts in one season — £75,325 in 19281929— seems CCrtaih to 6e bfbkeh in the .present ser'ies: Ohly another £5681 is recjuired in tlie fifth and last match at Melbourne. Total receipts from the four tests played so far--r-£69,645 — are only £707 less than the aggregate receipts for the five tests of the 1932-33 tour; This is largely due to the World record figutes at Melbourne, £29,667, and the uew Adelaide record bf £17,4§5. Receipts fioM the Brisbane test were £583 lower than on the last tour, and Sydney figiires were #2552 lower. Figures for the four tests are:— Fh-st test, Brisbane, £10,352; second test, Sydney, £12,131; third,, test, Melbburnfe, £29,667; fburth test, Adelaide, £17,495; total, £69,845; Expenses are estimated between £4000 ahd £5000 a match, so that the profits to be divided already exceed £50,000. The profits are shared on the follow.ifig basis:— The Marylebone Cricket ■Club feceives 1b (half the outer grbund ifchar'ge) for every peraon who paya to enter the grouhd. Ten per cent. of the net profits go to truetees of the ground. Seventy-five per Cent. of the remainder goes tb the State Cficket Assbfeiatiofis. The femaihing 25 per Cent. goes to the Boafd of Cbntrdi fbr distribution among the States— ihfee-thirteentha each toi Vietdria, New South Wales and Sotth .Australia, two-thir£eeuths to Queeneiahd, ahd one-thirtoenth each to Ta&-| mahia and Weatern Australia. These profits are the State Associa-i tionB' pfihcipal aoufce of re'vehue, ahd| enable Sheffield ^.ield cricket to bej 'eonducted each year Whefchef it is.profit-i able or not. Tho test profits make itj po'ssible fbr the State Associations toi fostef cricket with annual dividends ofl about £100 to each distfict Club, and lother grants tb junior and couhtry Ibodiee.