CARR UNPERTURBED

Evening Post, Volume 137, Issue CXI, 10 June 1926, Page 9

CARR UNPERTURBED

SPIRITED DEFENCE BY HOBBS.

(Australian-New Zealand Cable Assn.) LONDON, Bth June.

The unanimous attack of cricket critics on the English batting methods finds Carr unperttirbed. ' He declares that the critics do not always appreciate that the trials are actually tests, in which players are fighting for a place in the coveted eleven; consequently they are not prepared to throw away chances. He admitted that the batting was painfully slow, but said that when it was remembered what depended on tho batting it could easily be understood.

Hobbs, who came in for a certain amount of criticism, rebukes the crowd at Lord's for barracking Hallows and Sandham, who both played with justifiable caution. It was all very well for the onlookers to criticise, he said, but things appeared in a totally different light to the players. For instance, the onlookers could not realise the difficulties of the bowling. There was a strange fetish nowadays for seeing the ball in the air. "Regarding the criticism of myself," Hobbs says, "people sometimes forget that I am comparatively old in cricket. I cannot be expected to see the ball as well as I did ten years ago, and I am not disposed to take risks. There is no need for alarm. English cricket is still healthy and fine, despite the impatience of the crowd.''