PURE SWINGERS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 113, 9 November 1933, Page 3

PURE SWINGERS

BOWLERS IN CRICKET "DRUDGERY OF LEARNING" (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ■ CHRISTCHTJBCH, This Day. "Most of our men.are pure swingers, and once the shine is off the ball'they. are useless," remarked Mr. A. X,^Donnelly, chairman' of' the Now ■ Zealand Cricket Council, during a. discussion at the biennial cricket confere.nce:;on the need for an improvement in the stand* ard of bowling, for which various suggestions were made. "Bowling has to be learned. The- trouble is that the bowlers will not go through the drudgery of learning to. bawl: ■'. They think a coach can pour it into them, 'but they have to learn themselves. Length and spin are wanted."- ■■■'• Mr. A. E. Byrne.said that;the bowling would look better if the catching were better. ■'.That.was;.the department which would bear practice andnnprovemen't. " ' '.;.'.,,.. ' Mr. P. Johnson ' said 'that'if-ija. de-, finite award were made for bowling and catching, such as the Eedpath Cup, for batting, improvement would probably follow; ' "' An, assurance that the suggestion would be considered by the council was given' by Mr. Donnelly. -