CRICKET.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 27, 25 September 1912, Page 5

CRICKET.

TEST MATCH RECEIPTS. London, September 24. . The receipts for the nine Inangumi and two tost trials were £12,463, ot which Australia takes £2986, an:l South Africa £IB7B. The Australian match at tho oval produced £3429, and that at Lori£27l3. The England-South Africa match at Lords brought £1696. A FUND NUCLEUS. Christchurch, September 21. The New Zealand Cricket Connei. approved the report from the Confer ance of District Delegates concerning theiPlunket Shield conditions, and in strr.ctcd; the Management Committee to make the necessary amendments r. tho rules. Under the scheme Canterbury and Wellington will play annual matches with each other in a main centre, and Auckland and Otago .vil! meet every two years. The Blanket Shield may be competed for in any match in which the holders are engaged. The New Zealand! Council will receive 5 per cent of the net profits of interprovincial games. It is explained that the object of the Council’s ,share is to create a fund to' send a team to Australia every five, years. In a recently published hook, ahoui cricket Mr IN F. Warner mentions r 'striking* fact' about the Maryldhoiu Cricket Club. There are, he says, ai present on the. Club’s books tho name: of 19,000 men speking;election. Members of the M.C.C. must be the most coveted in the world. Tho M.C.C. is a most remarkable institution., It is the arbiter of cricket. law throughout the., world, and it rules its vast empire with astonishing smoothness. There is some dissatisfaction in this country with tho management of tin English Rugby Union, but how aften is any complaint made anywhere against the M.C.C. F What it does for English Cricket is not realised by many. Mr Warner points out that something like 170 M.C.C. matches arc played all over England in the sea son, the expenses of which fall entirely on tho club. When it plays a county at Lord’s it pays, besides the ordinary expenses, the professionals’ fees foi both teams. In addition, it sub scribes very generously to the benefit: of professionals. It is no wonder that thousands of men seek the prestige it: membership confers.