BODY-LINE BOWLING
GROWING UNPOPULARITY
. LONDON, April 24. Another indication of the swing against body-line bowling, now that it has served tho purpdso of winning tho Test matches in Australia, was given by a Marylebone clubman, Miv T. A. Higson, who, speaking at a Lancashire county luncheon, said it seemed clear that the body-lino method of attack was detrimental to cricket. lie hoped that it would not bo pursued. Mr. Jardine was, in the speaker's opinion, subjected to indignities in Australia which no Englishman could have suffered. , Fast bowlers who sco a possibility of strangle new licence in the leg theory are already scenting battle, says the cricketing writer of the1 "Sunday Times." The M.C.C. may bo justified in adopting the Australian restrictive proposals, if bowlers are given a-iling. Nevertheless, says the writer, neither side adopted body-lino bowling in the match in which the West Indies cricketers played a draw with "Tieh" Freeman's eleven at Gravcsend.,. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 13
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