BODY-LINE BANISHED

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 145, 16 December 1933, Page 9

BODY-LINE BANISHED

CRICKET CONTROVERSY

ENGLAND GLAD TO SEE END

LONDON, December 15. Newspapers feature the end of the body-line controversy, and express satisfaction at its. happy ending. The "News-Chronicle" says: "We never desire to hear the word 'body-line' again, and should be surprised if the mass of Australians are not of the same opinion." • • Lord Hawke, interviewed, said: "I am delighted that the Board of Control has accepted our assurance that cricket will be played • according to the best traditions of the game." Larwood is very pleased the Australians are coming. He says he will be pleased to bowl against them if he gets the opportunity. The "Daily Telegraph's" cricket writer says:—"The long-drawn controversy/ over body-line bowling has come to a happy end. To describe the outcome as a triumph for Marylebone's tact and diplomacy would be no exaggeration. Throughout the eleven, months of negotiations the English case has been conducted in a spirit equally firm, unequivocal, and friendly. Marylebone has always firmly adhered to the attitude .that it had the fullest confidence in Jardine and his team; also to the conviction that nothing was being done to infringe the laws of cricket or the spirit of the game, though its attitude at one time seemed to imperil future Tests."