Bound volume, MCC principal committee minutes [1935-1937]. Includes annual reports for 1935 and 1936, reports on annual general meetings and anniversary dinners, newspaper cuttings and accounts.
Items include:
A revised agreement with Middlesex County Cricket Club for use of Lord's, 11 February 1935
Minutes of a special meeting of the committee concerning a plague of leather jackets [crane fly] which had infested the match ground at Lord's, 26 February 1935
Announcement of a change in the rules relating to leg before wicket which were to be experimented at all county matches in 1935, to stop batsman using the legs to guard the wicket and create more attractive cricket, 1 May 1935
Announcement that the Advisory County Cricket Committee had agreed to eliminate direct attacks on the batsman by the bowler from the game, and that County Cricket Clubs would not perform this type of bowling in matches, 1 May 1935
Report on an informal talk with Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister for Health, in his room at the House of Commons, discussing the possibility of Lord's being excluded from London County Council's Town Planning Scheme, 23 July 1935
Newspaper advertisements for the vacancy of secretary of the club following the resignation of William Findlay, November-December 1935
Minutes of special sub-committees appointed to discuss the Town Planning Scheme, 27 January 1936, 2 March 1936, 10 February 1937 and 28 October 1937
Decision to forward a letter to Buckingham Palace expressing sympathy from the committee for the death of King George V, 10 February 1936
Invitation for King Edward VIII to become Patron of the club, 9 March 1936
Announcement that R S Rait-Kerr would become William Findlay's successor as secretary and would commence work on 1 June 1936, 6 April 1936
Decision to alter Law 41 to add five penalty runs to runs already made when fieldsman willfully stop the ball other than with any part of their person, 6 May 1936
Notification by Lord Ashfield of plans to change the name of St John's Wood underground station to 'Lord's' without MCC's knowledge, 8 June 1936
Invitation for King George VI to become Patron of the club, 14 December 1936
Report on the decision to allocate testimonials to selected members of the professional staff, 11 January 1937
Newspaper articles advertising possible changes to Rule 12 concerning election of members, and an alteration to Law 24 relating to leg before wicket, February 1937
Report of a meeting between the MCC Committee Representatives and Mr F G J Ford to discuss Ford's proposals regarding the experimental leg before wicket rule, 13 April 1937
Minutes of the Special Sub-Committee to consider financial questions as a result of the MCC tour to Australia in 1936-1937, 30 June 1937
Minutes of the meeting of the hospitality Sub-Committee held at Lord's on 13 April 1937
List of invitations to be issued in connection with the 150th anniversary dinner, 15 July 1937
Report on the 150th annual general meeting and 150th annual dinner, including a discussion on the change to Law 24, 1937
Report on a conference with representatives from Oxford and Cambridge Universities to discuss varsity matches starting on Saturday instead of Monday, 6 July 1937.