Bound volume, MCC principal committee minutes [1931-1934]. Includes annual reports, balance sheets, newspaper cuttings, correspondence and reports on annual general meetings and anniversary dinners.
Items include:
Consideration of the possibility of Nawab of Pataudi playing for Worcestershire, 14 December 1931
Reports on MCC investments, February 1932, November 1932 and November 1934
Letter from Saffery, Sons and Co., accountants, to the Treasurer in regard to MCC accounts between 1928 and 1932
Letter from W H Patterson to William Findlay relating to the John Alexander Murdoch Testimonial Fund, 4 January 1932
Newspaper articles announcing a meeting to be held to amend Rules 8 and 9 in respect of elections of candidates to the club, 14 April 1934
Minutes of two special committee meetings relating to cables from Australian Board of Control regarding 'Body line bowling' and response from MCC, 23 January 1933 and 2 February 1933
Acknowledgement that a cable was received from the Australian Board of Control, suggesting to the committee of an alteration to the law that any ball bowled with the intention of injuring the batsman would be deemed a 'no ball', 3 May 1933, which was rejected by the MCC committee, 12 June 1933
Itinerary of proposed Marylebone Cricket Club tour to India and Ceylon, 1933-1934
Special meeting of the committee to invite Douglas Jardine to be the captain of the Marylebone Cricket Club team to tour India in 1933-1934, 10 July 1933
Accounts from the Australian tour, 1932-1933
Report of the first meeting of the Sub-Committee for the Lord Harris memorial, 19 June 1933
Memorandum by Saffrey, Sons & Co., accountants, on Marylebone Cricket Club accounts for 1933
Letter from A Abel Smith to R S Rait Kerr, expressing thanks over reserving Arbour No. 1 on the south side of the Practice Ground for the Eton vs. Harrow match, 9 January 1950
Copy of Lord Hailsham's speech at the unveiling of the memorial to Lord Harris, 2 May 1934
Minutes of a special committee meeting held to discuss the bowling of W Voce in the Nottinghamshire vs. Australia match on 31 August 1934
Minutes of the special Sub-Committee appointed to meet representatives of Australian Cricket for the Australian Cricket Eleven, 20 September 1934
Minutes of the special Sub-Committee meeting over changes to Law 24 on leg before wicket dismissals and leg-theory bowling, 15 October 1934
Minutes of the special Sub-Committee meeting to instruct counties that leg-theory bowling and fast short pitched balls was regarded as a 'direct attack' on the batsman and should be outlawed, 29 October 1934