LARWOOD COMING TO AUSTRALIA
FORMER ENGLAND TEST £RICKETER
SYDNEY, February 6. A former English test fast bowler, Harold Larwood, who in 1932-33 was the central figure in the bodyline bowling controversy, has decided to settle in Sydney. He has sold his Blackpool sweets and tobacco shop and has booked passages for himself, his wife and five daughters in a ship leaving England on April 27. “We are going to Australia because it offers a better future for our children,” Larwood told an interviewer. “I shall look round for a small business, preferably in the Sydney area. I shall not go back into cricket, even if offered a job, because at 45 I feel I am past it.” Jack Fingleton, a former opening bat for Australia, and one of Larwood’s chief adversaries during the bodyline controversy, suggested migration to Larwood when he visited England in 1948. A few days ago Larwood wrote to Fingleton saying that the decision had been made, the passages booked and that he would not use the immigration scheme. Fingleton is seeking accommodation for the Larwoods.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26031, 7 February 1950, Page 5
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