LEG THEORY TACTICS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 13, 17 January 1933, Page 8

LEG THEORY TACTICS

FURTHER CRITICISM

(Received 17th January, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, 16th January. Giving his opinion regarding body bowling, Harold Gilligan said it was "disgraceful that the newspapers had turned cricket into a sort of circus game. The leg theory proved that the people hit had very slow feet. It was not always the bowler's fault. Duleepsinhji and Bradman at his best could play short-pitched balls very easily." Strudwick said: "A fast bowler cannot control his length as easily as a slow one. I don't think Larwood would try to hit anybody, and nobody would be more sorry if he did. I remember that Gregory at Melbourne hit me over the heart three times successively. I don't believe for a moment he tried to."

Howard Marshall, in the "DailyTelegraph,", says: "There is nothing ne\V in the leg theory which Foster exploited in Australia. We may argue, though not complain. Gregory and McDonald bumped • the ball alarmingly, though to the slip field, -whereas Larwood bumps to four short legs. There is no denying that Larwood in carrying the ball breast high must be dangerous when he employs such tactics, but nevertheless the incidents are unwisely and unnecessarily magnified. If a matest is made to the M.G.G. we may'get rid one way or the other of an argument which has already been the causa of too much a 'rimonious and harmful discussion."