CRICKET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 205, 30 August 1934, Page 20

CRICKET.

J BODYMNE CONTROVERSY. PRESENT OF LAMB FOR LARWOOD. SYDNEY, this clay. Mr. W. Kelly, a member of the Board of Cricket Control, addressing the Victorian Cricket Association at Melbourne yesterday, criticised the attitude of the Marylebone Club in refraining from Riving a clear ruling on bodyline bowlir.g. The speaker, and others, expressed the hope thai the issue will be decided before the next visit of an English team to Australia. Otherwise, they said, complications were bound to arise. The Notts fast bowler Harold Larwood is to receive, a Christmas gift of a lamb. An. anonymous correspondent in a letter to the "Sydney Morning Herald" encloses a cheque for '25/ to pay for the gift. The writer claims, as a fellow cricketer and one of Larwood's multitudinous Australian admirers, that there is real . need for a better understanding among cricketers here and in England, and for a greater recognition of the generosity with which Australia is served in the British markets. Recent events, adds the writer, have been disturbing, and, if they arc not stopped, might have very serious consequences. "Surely never before," he says, "has the hateful term 'boycott' been used in relation to Australian produce." "It is something to know that Christmas dinner is provided for whatever happens " Larwood is reported (by cable) to liuve saitl in referring to the lamb gift. "I am delighted, because it shows I at least have some friends in Australia, and I reciprocate the unknown donor's sentiments." AUCKLAND UMPIRES. The annual general meeting of the Auckland Cricket Umpires' Association was held last evening, presided over by the Rev. \V. J. Elliott. Officers elected :—President, the Rev. W. •T. Kllintt; vice-president. Mr. R. H. 'i'urton: executive committee, Messrs. \V. W. Luke, H. \V. Riddolls, D. L. Ryan,' G. C. Roliinson. The date of the first meeting of the new season was set down for October 17.