CRICKET

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11945, 16 May 1933, Page 6

CRICKET

HOBBS SPEAKS OUT

BODY-LINE BOWLING CONDEMNED. ENGLAND MIGHT NOT HAVE WON OTHERWISE. , BRADMAN PLAYED BETTER, THAN TN ENGLAND. (17.P.A. hr G.Vo 'lr-T. fopyriszllt, I LONDON, May 14. J. B. Hobb 8t in big latest article in the Star, reiterates his dislike, for body-lino bowling. He says: , “Ag soon by mo in Australia, more balls were pitched wide of the, leg stump than on it. I deprecate greybeards arguing that they in their youth would have scored freely off body-line halls. - T'say definitely that they would nofc against Larwood in Australia, where it is not a question of good length halls rising quickly and hitting thighs and chests. Such a. thing would not happen on Australian wickets. Larwood had. to nitcli short, and maintained such length, and speed that nothing could ho done with him. Bradman was even better than in England in 1930. Ho had more rtnd hotter strokes. J doubt whether England would have won the Asher, without body-line bowling.”

TESTS. SHOULD BE DROPPED FOR, TTME. ENGLISH RELIEVE INJUSTICE DONE TO TEAM. (TCP A. by Elec. Tof. fMpyraht.l LONDON, May 1.4. The Observer says it is becoming increasingly clear that an interval must he allowed before (bo resump (ion of cricket tests. “We are beginning to realise the feeling in Australia, ’’ the newspaper says. “There is a strong English conviction that ,our men have not had justice. Consequently, an early renewal of the tests would serve neither the interests of cricket nor Anglo-Austrnlian reint.ions.”

NOTES AND NEWS. Stumps drawn” in an atmosphere of anaesthetics, will mean more than a mere, cricketing phrase to Don Bradman. Smiling n little sadly at the prospect, be entered a Riratbftekl private hosniial for the extraction of 12 teeth—his own! Don’s health has not been! of the best during the last few months, laud it is believed' that his teeth, although apparently in the best of condition are responsible. Don waited until the cricketing season had closed. Now that the hats and halls have been locked away for the winter, he is taking the sten that has struck terror in the henr-i-c n c (In bravest—and lie is getting the offending molars removed. Practical experiment 'hi England' is proving to British cricket lovers, says the “Evening News”, that Australia rightly ohieeled to leg-the ore play, but on the wrong grounds. There is nothing especially unsporting in it. but it makes cricket deadly dull, and county cricket cannot a fiord to be more dull than it is already.