TO MEET AGAIN
LANCASHIRE AND NOTTS
(Received May. 11, noon.)
LONDON, May 10. Lancashire will resume in 1936 the cricket fixtures with Nottinghamshire which were dropped for tiiis season after having been' in existence for sixty years.
The decision to drop the LancashireNotts matches for 19351 which was ■announced on July 5 last year, was one of the sensations arising out of the bodylihe bowling controversy. It was' reached at a meeting of county dub secretaries to arrange this season's fix-' tures. • . •■'.-•
The "Daily Mail" said that in addition to the leg-theory dispute between the two counties there was also a bitter quarrel between two men, one in each county, and both prominent in the affairs of their clubs. Hie Lancashire man reported the matter, but expressed the opinion that he Had not received satisfaction. The dropping of the fixtures -was the sequel. ' The "Sketch" said that after the match between the two counties in June last year several Lancashire men went home bruised black and blue. One of them, Eckersley, said that Larwood, the Nott's fast bowler, hit him six times in ten minutes.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 110, 11 May 1935, Page 9
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185TO MEET AGAIN Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 110, 11 May 1935, Page 9
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