IRON HAND UNDER GLOVE

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 25 January 1933, Page 5

IRON HAND UNDER GLOVE

REPLY TO ROWLING PROTEST WANT CRICKET; NOT TALK BLAME LAID OX BARR AOKIJR,S. (United Pross Association -By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 11.30 a.ni. to-day. LONDON, Jan. 24. The “Star” says the Marylebone reply to the protest made lb:y the Australian Cricket Board of Control against .body-line howling by the touring team “shows the iron hand under a velvet glove.” “Australia can be assured there is no necessity . for further talk,” continues the “Star.” “If Australia does not like our way of playing cricket let her cease calling names and propose a rule to alter it. We want cricket matches, not talking matches.” The “Star” blames barracking for the present trouble.

VIEWS ON. MARYLEBONEi REPLY. ONLY TO BE EXPECTED. SYDNEY, Jan. 24. The consensus of' opinion of cricket officials and old international players is that Marylebone’s reply to the protest cabled by the Australian Cricket Board of Control concerning ‘“bodyline” bowling; was only what could be expected and the only course it could take. Some think the protest should have been, made either after the first or last test. Others suggest a roundtable eonfernce to overcome’ the difficulty. Members of the Board'of Control refused to comment. ' ’The secretary of the . Board of Cricket , Control (Mr Jeanes) announced in Adelaide that a special meeting of the board would bo held at Sydney on Monday to consider Marylebone’s reply. jf Mr Jeanes also released a telegram from the Castlemaine Cricket Association, Victoria, stating that “the .Castlemaine Association, consisting of 500 players, concurs with the board’s protest. Body-line bowling will.be the 'death-knell of country cricket as the spirit of the game is violated.” The chairman of the Board of Com trol (Dr. when asked at Melbourne whether the position was now as serious as Marylebone indicated, replied: “I will not comment on that. ”' He also declined to say whether he was personally in favour of cancelling the remainder of the tests.

Mr P. J. H. Eerider, an ex-interna-tional, declared he was glad Marylebone had not only expressed the great faith all had in the English team’s sportsmanship. There was no evidence of a confidence having been misplaced,

SHOULD TESTS BE CANCELLED'? FURTHER LONDON OPINIONS'.

LONDON, Jan. 24. Gilligan, writing in the “'Chronicle,’’ thinks it more than likely ‘that the remaining tests will not be played. “It would be very much better to cancel them than to have a glorified dog fight at Brisbane and 'Sydney, which would only engender bitterest feeling with 'the spirit ’of cricket completely forgotten.” The “Chronicle” in a leader says: “If the feeling is as vehement as the Board of Control suggests,- the only way out may be -to cancel the-remain-ing matches and recall,’the'team. It is a very deplorable, way and the onus of demanding it is rightly left with Australia.” ’ b. Other newspapers and critics support Marylebone’s reply and congratulate the committee on - expressing itself so forciblv.