DISPLEASURE OF M.C.C.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 June 1927, Page 3

DISPLEASURE OF M.C.C.

incurred by gilligan. FAMOUS PLAYERS “DROPPED.” The famous EiigMah cricketer, A. E. R. Gilligan, was ievenu.y utueuieu lor a position on tne Test. Tmvl Lotnimctee or tne M.U.C. Aceuiaing ui tne more outspoken of the Hngton newspapers, ms oeteat was pant qi tne price tie iiao to pay tor ms trenchant attack on tne snobbery of certain Indian cnucket clubs.

Alter English cricket circles iiiad recovered Ironn xiie stunned silence which greeted Gilligan’s scat lung attack, plovers and public alike .sat back to wait developments. 'They were not long :m coming. Anglo-Indian members of the M.Ut. who wield great lnnuence m Indian cricket, cabled a protest against Giingan’s istaieiments to London, and pressure was bio light to bea r on the famous cricketer to retract liis remarks, Giiiigan. did so, and the apology was cabled to India and Australia. 'fine M.C.C. is ah-powerful in the world of cricket. Many great players have incurred the displeasure of the lords of English cricket, and in nearly every ease it has heen followed by a less of presitige. In .some cases they have been completely relegated to the outer darkness.

TENNYSON AND CARR. Tennyson came to light id a - : the ihaid-hitting, care-nee skipper otne last two English Elevens woion 0.. so ninth to rehabilitate the Old Countrv'iS fortunes in cricket m the two drawn games with Armstrong's men. But in Hie next season the grandson of the poet was adjudged not id have conformed to the standards .set by the •neat panjandrums of cricket. Out he went! . . , Last year A. AY. Carr got- A m the neck. The Notts amateur was severely criticised for dialing to put the Australians in to teat in one of the earlusi tests after he had won the tost'. Had bis tactics been, successful but. tor Macartney being dropped early they might have been —Carr would have been acclaimed a hero. But he was diopped for the final and deciding test. England won.

“GAVE THE SHOW AWAY. ’ Then it wlas that Carr let the cat out of the bag. Smarting under ia sense oi injustice, lie lei/ it he known that -yi “Plum'’ Warner, no less, had a. finger in the pie. Hie statement was received in ominous •eiilooco. fciin.oe tlien n.ot much has been beard of the unrepentant Mr. Carr. ‘, c , Gilligan is the latest to offend ao-ainst the cast iron rule of the M.C.C. His lattack embraced some of the most influential hoists of the team in India. And in India social caste is aliLpovverful. So .strong were the influences brougin to bear that Gilligan lias seen nt to make a wholesale retraction of his statements. Even that did not save him from incurring la drastic reminder of the governing body’s displeasure. What the future holds an store for A. E. R. Gilligan is in. the lap of the gods —of the M.C.C. __