Cricket 1905

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On the same day the secretaries of the minor counties will hold their annual meeting. The captains of the first-class counties will meet on December, 4th, and tbe minor counties’ captains on December 6tb, to appoint umpires for 1906. A m e e t in g of the Board o f Control was held on Monday, November 20th, Lord Alverstone being in the chair, and the accounts were passed. They showed that the proceeds of the five teat matches exceeded ten thousand pounds, the share of the Australians being £5,635 17s. Id., which gives an average of nearly £400 for each player. The receipts from grand stands bring the share of Eoglatid to about £ 10,000, which will be distributed as follows:— (A). Fifty per cent, between the first-class counties and tho M.C.C. (B). Ten per cent, between the minor counties competing in the Second Division Championship. (C). Forty per cent, between the five grounds to which the Test games were allocated. This means that each first-class countv and the M.C.C. will receive about £300, each minor county about £60, and each of the five grounds about £850. I t has been arranged that there Bhall be five matches instead of three between South Africa and the M.C.C. South Afri­ can team, which for all prac'ical purposes will be considered as “ E n glin d ” by nearly everybody. Three of the matches are to be played at Johannesburg atd the other two at Cape Town. For the fifth match, which will take place at Johannesburg, six days have been allotted and fiva days for the second match at Cape Town. A r r a n g e m e n t s hava now definitely been made for the visit to England next summer of a West Indian team. Mr. F. E. Lacey, the M.C.C. secretary, has undertaken to arrange the programme. The West Indian cricketers will probably play twice at Lord’s, while Yorkshire has promised them a match at Harrogate. According to present arrangements tbe team will reach England at the end of May, and begin its tour with a match at the Crystal Palace against London County on June 11th. The last visit of a West Indian team to England was in 1900. On November 11th the M.C.C. Soulh Africin team sailed from Southampton for tbe Cape on the Union Castle liner Kinfauns Castle. The team consisted of the follow ing: — P. F. Warner (Middlesex) (capt.), Capt. E. G. Wynyard (Hampshire), H. D. G. Leveson-Gower (Surrey), F. L. Fane (Essex), L. J. Moon (Middlesex), J. N. Crawford (Surrey), J. C. Hartley (Sussex), Denton (Yorkshire), Haigh (Yorkshire), Board (Gloucestershire), Hayes (Surrey), Lees (Surrey), Relf (A. E.) (Sussex), and Blythe (Kent). The team arrived at Cape Town on Tuesday last. T h e dates of the New South Wales matches for the season of 1905-6 are as follow s:— 1905. Nov. 11.— v. Queensland, at Brisbane. Dec. 15.—v. Queensland, at Sydney. „ 15.—v. South Australia, at Adelaide. „ 23.—v. Victoria, at Melbourne. 1906. Jan. 5.—v. South Australia, at Sydney. „ 26.—v. Victoria, at Sydney. A t the annual meeting of a small but enthusiastic cricket association in New South Wales—the Illawalla Suburbs Association—the chairman, Mr. F. H. Clayton, made some remarks about umpires. It would seem from them that the association is lucky in these officials. The chairman said :— I am pleased that the pertinent remarks made in my annual report of last year have borne fruit in this direction. Early in the season a conference was held between several gentlemen who were willing to act as umpires and the sub-committee with the result that a satisfactory arrangement was arrived at, and the valuable services of com