MR. WARNER NOW AND THEN

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 23, 27 July 1933, Page 11

MR. WARNER NOW AND THEN

SYDNEY, July 20,

The Sydney "Sun," in an editorial dealing with Mr. P. F. Warner's comment on body-line bowling, declares that Mr. Warner's sudden conversion is very interesting and amusing. When a few Australians dared to say precisely what he is now saying they were called squealers. 'fWhat shall we say of Mr. Warner, the man who, in an oyster-like silence, watched the gifted Harold Larwood beating his tattoo on the ribs of Australian Cricketers?" asks the "Sun."

It was reported yesterday that Mr. P. F. Warner, writing in the "Daily Telegraph," said that 18,000 silent spectators saw body-line bowling after the manner practised by Larwood in Australia. "What they thought I know not, but I shall be surprised if they approved of it," he says. "Hammond later had two stitches ■ inserted in a wound. England had to contend with a form of attack to which I am sorry the West Indies had«recburso. Apart from any other question, this form of bowling made the game very dull. What happened will, bring the question more acutely than ever to the front, for until today very few Englishmen had seen this bowling, having previously confused if'with leg-theory. I am, and always have been, definitely opposed to this stylo of attack. Maybe it is within the law, but to my nrin,d it is hot in the best interests of the- game. It savours of intimidation, and certainly looks venomous."