Amateur Status Sub-Committee 1957

Reference

MCC/CRI/7/1/TEMP7

Date:

1956-02-28 - 1960-01-27

Level of description

file

Extent

1 folder

Part of

Amateur Status (MCC/CRI/7/1)

Scope and Content

Correspondence of the Amateur Status Sub-Committee. Subjects include Amateur Status Committee meeting declaring new Laws on amateur expenses, notes on Counties Secretaries' meeting expressing views on amateur status, report on Conference between Amateur Status Committee and representatives of first-class County Clubs, correspondence between the Secretary (Ronald Aird) and first-class Counties over representatives at the joint conference, review of Amateur Status Committee's 1957 report and need for revaluation, MCC reasoning for allowing broken-time payments for tours but not home Test Matches, meeting of Amateur Status Committee following Sussex's report to the Advisory County Cricket Committee on broken-time payments and recommending the introduction of cricketer status, minutes of Amateur Status Committee expressing need for reconsideration of its report and admitting that amateur status is at an end, addenda to report by Amateur Status Committee adding guidelines on amateur testimonials, making money from writing, broadcasting and advertising and how to make appeals against the Amateur Standing Committee, article by Peter May expressing his view on amateur status sent to Ronald Aird and Duke of Norfolk, handwritten draft of Amateur Status Committee report, discussion by Amateur Status Committee on draft report, memorandum on amateur expenses to be put into the Amateur Status Committee report, report of the Amateur Status Committee, Amateur Status Committee discuss present day anomalies with the amateur status, early committee report drafted by the Treasurer, suggestion by Thomas Godfrey for the creation of cricketer status at Amateur Status Committee Meeting which is quickly refuted, arrangements for a private lunch between the President and six professionals to gauge professional opinion on amateur status, first Amateur Status Committee meeting, discusses problems they face, an appreciation of the problems connected with the enquiry into amateur status in English cricket, and drafts, acceptance of Duke of Norfolk to be Chairman of Amateur Status Committee, correspondence offering positions on the Amateur Status Committee with acceptances, responses from Counties agreeing for a need for an amateur committee (Somerset was the only one that felt it was not needed), minutes of Amateur Status Sub-Committee to discuss how to increase number of amateur players and need to create a special committee.

Associations

Ronald Aird
Peter Barker Howard May
Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard
Thomas Godfrey Evans
Somerset County Cricket Club

Subject

amateur cricketers, amateur ethic, amateur status, amateurism, amateurs and professionals, Professionalism, county cricket

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

1 folder

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