FORMAL PROTEST

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 13, 17 January 1933, Page 7

FORMAL PROTEST

CONTROL BOARD TO M.C.C.

CABLE SENT TO LONDON

ENGLISH BOWLERS' POLICY

AGAINST SPIRIT OF GAME

Dnlted Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received 17th January, noon.) ADELAIDE, This Day. A cablegram has been sent by the members of the Australian Board of Control to the Marylebone Cricket Club, formally protesting against the policy of the English bowlers. The Australian officials conferred with Messrs. Warner and Palairet, and discussed leg theory bowling. It is understood that the managers explained that they had no control over the team when it was on the field. The officials then gathered together as many members of the Board of Control as were available and decided to cable' a protest and inform the members of the Board in lh.e other States. During the day Warner told the Press that Woodfull had apologised for his remarks on Saturday. This Woodfull emphatically denied. Mr. Jeanes, secretary of the Board of Control, called newspaper men together arid stated that Woodfull had authorised him to make the following statement on his behalf:—"l did not apologise to Mr. Warner for any statement I made. I merely told him that the matter was not a personal one between himself and myself. I. strongly repudiate any suggestions that I tendered an apology to Mr. Warner for any statement I made."

Sydney correspondents at Adelaide describe tha demonstration when Oldfield was injured as the worst ever seen at a sporting fixture in Australia.

Noble, in a broadcast speech, said—"Woodfull has given England's representatives a badly-needed lesson. Australia asked for bread and she was given a stone. I mean every word of that. There is no retraction. It is inconceivable that Mr. Warner and the M.C.C. should countenance such methods. It would appear that England's desire to win at all costs will not stop them bowling the leg theory. There is nothing in the rules to prevent the use of such tactics. Outside the rules, however,'there is the common ethical code and the spirit of the game which prevents players from doing something which by common consent is taboo."