£20,000?

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1065, 1 September 1930, Page 13

£20,000?

PROFIT EXPECTED FROM AUSTRALIAN XI. TOUR “VERY SATISFACTORY” Despite continuous bad weather which has dogged the Australian cricketers in England, the amount so far received in gate receipts is much higher than might have been expected, and the official anticipation is that the cash proceeds of this tour will either equal those of 1926 —when Australia made a net profit of £20,000 — :or will be very little less (says the Sydney “Sun”). The tour finishes on September 12. The actual figures are a closelyguarded secret shared by the treasurer Und manager of the team in England and by the chairman and secretary of I the Board of Control in Australia. Not wffl the other members of the board | ave so far been allowed to know what [ he takings arc. The chairman of the board (Mr. R. A. Oxlade) said that the position to fate financially was very satisfactory. Although he was unable to disclose the amount of the receipts, he indicated that they were not such as to give any jCause for worry. In the first few weeks of the present iour, nearly every game was more or J?SB'affected by rain. The most serijollß monetary losses were caused by Me loss of a third day's play against orkshire, at Sheffield, and of two days against Surrey, at Kensington Oval. Worse weather has been experienced since the clouds broke to save July an< * * n the third Test at Leeds, in JS* '"’bole days were lost at Edinday at Glasgow, the whole ham 9 da y s , at Sunderland, for the Durthe fourth day of the iiuJ j at Manchester, and a comar tho Warwickshire match, Birmingham. APPORTIONING TAKINGS ijpi l9 P r °ht of £20,000 made in <MQnnn me * rom Sross takings totalling received by Australia. The beinp*° n made is the same as is P P U , ed to this tour. Australia sid« the Proceeds of the out- ,•«*** the proceeds of the takau‘hrSv reserves so to the English fromn? €S * Sometimes the takings tial i.« l t«. r ? Berves are ver y substaniin ’tr, 8 at Ij ° rds » instance, where beat ° grulnea is charged for the thar.. a f tß at a Te st match. The ground L° r 3 tQ the outside & was earned in nr a suffe red its fair share, Thi* tiif m ? r *> inclement weather. o?rtaini™° the share of bad weather than fair seems to have been more in thfl foic tr^ lian share of the takings 19-6 Test matches was:

longer TESTS NOW Very lar» r » Whicll is ex Pccted to assist of bad w *i_ in over coming the effect present eat her on the finances of the four davß°?i r * s . that there is now a c °niDsrul* * . G limit on Test matches, I ft P Sie < %£ Xt3 l three days ln 192 - Vra, 'r® -Manchester Test of 1926, there first i en mina tos* play on the crow b^ c ause of rain. A fair fact on this da >'» but the that th<x Cn Was immediately apparent s - v erciv I*l^° k must end in a draw, a?V ec , ted attendances on the ab % nf j hird days - Th e inevitHuiciM- a draw does not become so Then * l ? parent in a four days’ Test, ‘her i n *f ee re, x e , Was the disastrous wean . e Nottingham match in 1926, Bible in ft. minutes’ play was poshatchp- "hole three days. Other "father i„ Se JL ere * y affected by the Sarn fa . 1926 tour included the wEr nst Essex an(l Yorkshire, , of th of J? Poetically washouts, and the Sam* and * rtain also affected i.« Sa ,\ nst Sur rey at the Oval, ni ° a *ymairs Ual y look ed upon as a good r ’ and several minor 1° tll is tour are expected aille from those of 1920. The **oo eao* e 4.i_T eceivin £ more, namely, i n .. this time, as against £409 t last tour: but they will I”** rJl?* onu3 °n this tour, while ° f r he ed a substantial bonus out , Osteen P rofit made hi 1920. in ift?i ayers WG re sent to EngI 1 Miy as against 15 this time, J. ing which would be made jy the Will be more than offset !‘ x Peng €s “J that on this occasion the 1° bft Pain 1 treasurer also will have tre - 1926 tlie manager also

first . Share. .. .. £815 Attendance. 16,317 73,412 Jowth Fifth " .. .. 2,621) 52,745 53,881 Totals . 272.849