BODYLINE BOWLING

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3997, 11 April 1933, Page 5

BODYLINE BOWLING

Condemned in Australia N.S.W, ASSOCIATION PASSES A RESOLUTION URGING GENERAL AGITATION TO EFFECT A REFORM SOME STRONG STATEMENTS .TAR DINE CRITICISED DID NOT PLAY THE GAME 3y Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received April 11, 9.15 a.m.) Sydney a April 11 At a meeting of the N.S.W. Cricket Association l.odyline bowling was denounced by Mr E. Dwyer, an Autralian elector. A THREAT Mr Oxhide, a member of the Board of Control s.nd tlm Board would probably decide not to send a team to England next year unless something was done in the matter. THE MOTION The Association resolved unanimously: “That bodyline bowling is against best interests of the game and urges all affiliated clubs and associations to discourage it.’’ REMOVE CANKER Mr Dwyer said: “We must iremove this insidious canker from tbe game. If we do not, 1 sincerely hope Australia will not send a team to England. (Hear, bear). Last season I saw some of our most prominent- batsmen almost battered out of the game. To have seen the bruised bodies I saw was to be tilled with pity.’’ JARDINE AS CAPTAIN Other speakers criticised# Jardine, who was accused of putting the winning of the test games liefore tbe game itself.