From The Times, May 5, 1921:To the Editor of The Times,Sir, Cricket, the national summer game, is once more claiming and receiving the enthusiastic support of its adherents. Now that the Australian team is here — representative of that spirit of individual equality and comradeship that is the lifeblood of sport, as it is of Empire — I feel emboldened to question the wisdom of the traditional methods of distinction between amateur and professional usual in county cricket. SponsoredIn no other sport which is at the same time a public event, or rather a public festival, does the fact that one player is compelled by circumstances to accept a fee for the exercise of his exceptional skill lead to such crude distinctions

Source: The Times May 04, 2021 23:03 UTC