CONTROVERSY ENDED

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 71, 16 December 1933, Page 9

CONTROVERSY ENDED

Australia to Send Team Home Next Year

M.C.C. TACT TRIUMPHS

By Telegraph.—Preßa Assn.—Copyright.

(Received December 15, 5.5 p.m.).

London, December 15.

The cricket controversy is now at an end. Australia is to send a Test team to England next year, sailing on March 9.

In reply to a cable to this effect from the Australian Board of Control, the secretary of the M.C.C., Mr. Findlay, sent the following cable: “Thanks for your cable of December 13. We are very glad to know we may look forward to welcoming the Australians next summer, and shall do all in our power to make their visit enjoyable.” London, December 14.

The “Daily Telegraph’s” cricket writer says: "The long-drawn controversy over body-line bowling has come to a happy end. To describe the outcome as a triumph for Marylebone’s tact and diplomacy would be no exaggeration. Throughout the eleven months of negotiations the English case has been conducted in a spirit equally firm, unequivocal, and friendly. Marylebone has always firmly adhered to the attitude that it had the fullest confidence in Jardine and his team; also to the conviction that nothing was being done to infringe the laws of cricket or the spirit of the game, though its attitude at one time seemed to imperil future Tests.” DECISION CONFIRMED Board of Control Cables Adelaide, December 15. The secretary of the Board of Control has sent the following cable to the M.C.C.“With further reference to your cable October 9, also reference to your confirmatory cable December 12 in reply to ours of November 10, we all now regard the position as finalised. Our team will leave Australia March 9 to play cricket with the English teams.” SICK OP THE WORD Bodyline’s Welcome Demise London, December 15. Newspapers feature the end of the bodyline controversy, and express satisfaction at its happy ending. The “News-Chronicle” says: ’’We never desire to heard the word ‘bodyline’ again and should be surprised if the mass of Australians are not of the same opinion. Lord Hawke, interviewed, said: “I am delighted that the Board of Control has accepted our assurance that cricket will be played according to the best traditions of the game.” Larwood is very pleased the Australians are coming. He says he will be pleased to bowl against them If he gets the opportunity.