LARWOOD'S REMARKS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 14, 9 May 1933, Page 7

LARWOOD'S REMARKS

AUSTRALIAN COMMENT

BRADMAN AND FINGLETON

(Received May 9, 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The newspapers in Sydney and Melbourne feature comment on the Lai* wood interview, which has set the whole of Australia talking,again. Bradman, writing in the "Daily Telegraph" says; "I resent , very, much Larwood's accusation of my being afraid and emphatically deny it. Actually, my method of playing Larwood exposed •me to more danger than the orthodox way. Anybody who understands cricket knows that. "However, Larwood's statement was apparently a financial success, even if it was a failure otherwise. If Australian Test umpires disclosed everything that occurred on the field, . it might not- assist Larwood in his supposed revelations." Fingleton says: "Larwood seems to be making so much money lately that he can afford to throw his mental balance to the winds. We have no delusions about the intentions of Larwood and "Voce, who sought for over after over to stave in Australian ribs, while English cohorts, a number of. them as disgusted as we were with such tactics, were herded like sheep at short leg. Australian players could indulge in a heap' of mudslinging, but to what advantage I The whole business is sickening." The "Sydney Morning Herald" states: "Larwood's outburst concerning Australian players and crowds will further widen the breach existing between the two countries and will cause embarrassment to the Australian Board of Control and the M.C.C." Arthur Mailey defends Woodfull and Bradman, and declares that Larwood's action in giving such an interview was certainly not that of a diplomatic Englishman. Mr. W. Johnson, ■ a Test selector, says that no comment of Larwood's can change the view of Australians after what they saw with their own eyes. Neither Woodfull nor Dr. Bobertson, chairman of the Board of Control, was prepared to reply to Lardwood at the present juncture.