COMMENT IN ENGLAND

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

COMMENT IN ENGLAND

LONDON, 16th January. Some newspapers feature on their front page the, Woodfull-Warner incident without comment. The. "Sketch" has a heading, "Woodfuil Sulks in His Tent," and tho "Daily Mail" says "Woodfull Snubs Warner."

Tho "Express" laments that the Tests have produced far more sensationalism than sportsmanshin. "When rivalry in sport creates international ill-will it is time for common-sense to blow the whistle," it says. "Woodfall is the last player anybody -would expect to explode. A more blunt Australian player would have used a local expletive which would be regarded merely as an incident."

J. C. White, writing in tho "Morning Post," says: "Every sportsman will extend sympathy to Woodfull. Undoubtedly it was a pure accident. It is the ardent wish of us all that friendly relations shall prevail, and so enable the Tests to be played out in a sportsmanlike manner. . . , Larwood is a much better man than he • was on tho last tour, and is probably bowling a little faster. At any rate, the Australians appear somewhat frightened of tho English fast bowlers. They certainly have not yet mastered Larwood and Allen."