ENGLISHMEN'S BOAST

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

ENGLISHMEN'S BOAST

"FAIR PLAY FIRST"

CUTS NO ICE NOW

(Eeceived 17th January, 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. i Fingleton, writing in the "Daily Telegraph," says: "It has come at last. As we players looked at Oldficld as he lay white as a sheet on the dressing-room floor, one could not help thinking that all along we had expected something like this. It was a frightful experience for Oldfield and nauseating for those who witnessed it. The" hooting and scenes of disgust were amazing and hard to associate with cricket, but then one has come to expect almost anything from this game of late."

Major-General Antill, writing in the "Telegraph," says: "It has always been the boast of Englishmen that fair play comes first, whatever the issue. After recent happenings it might' seem that this no. longer cuts any ice. Had Woodfull marchedV'iris men off the field and refused to continue in such barbarous cricket warfare, his action would have commended itself to every lover of a fair game."

Dr. James Byrne, Roman Catholic Bishop of Toowoomba, stated in Melbourne that he watched every ball, and the one that hit Woodfull was enough to kill an average man. "To see batsmen dodging for their very lives reminded me of coconut shies at* country fairs, not of the sport that is the backbone of England."

Bradman, broadcasting, estimated that Oldfield's retirement cost Australia 150 runs, made up of fifty more runs added to the Australian total and a hundred that Oldfield might have saved by taking two possible catches behind the wicket.