STRONG PROTEST WOODFULL TO WARNER

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 12, 16 January 1933, Page 7

STRONG PROTEST

WOODFULL TO WARNER

ENGLISHMEN'S TACTICS

(Received 16th January, 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Sydney morning papers feature Wooafull's protest to Warner in the Australians' dressing-room against the methods of the English bowlers.'Woodfull was on the table in the hands of the doctors .and masseurs when Warner entered. Warner inquired how Woodfull felt, but received aa abrupt reply that he did not wish to speak to the visitor. Woodfull then rebuked Warner concerning the tactics of the English team, saying that they were not playing cricket and that the leg theory policy of the bowlers was unfair. "Cricket," he said, "is too great to be spoilt by the tactics your team are adopting. I don't approve of them and never will. If they are persevered with, it may be better if I do not play in the game. 'The matter, is in your hands, Mr. Warner, and I have nothing further to say to you." Warner left the room without replying. Later he declined to comment. The papers say that Warner is now in an awkward position, as he previously expressed decided objections to bowling the leg theory. The "Daily Telegraph" publishes articles •by Warner in the "Morning Post" criticising Bowes for bowling bumpers and the leg theory.