BODY-LINE BOWLING
TABLES TURNED
WEST INDIANS CAUSE OUTCRY
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(Received May 22 at 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, May 21
Following the diiooncerting bumpers of' Bowes, England had its first taste of bodyline when Martindale* and Constantine bowled at Lords against Jardine’s Marylebone’s team. It was only th, 3 merest shadow of bodyline as- practised in Australia, inasmuch as the leg side was not packed, but it caused *an immediate press outcry. The “.Despatch” suggests that Jardine may have views on bodylino if iie is to face the two “dark demons” on Monday.
JARDINE BREAKS HIS SILENCE
A CHAMPION FOR LARWOOD
(Received May 22 at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 21
Jardine in a whole page article in the “Evening Standard” for the first time breaks his silence on the • bodylino bowling. He gays “I confess that the term ‘bodyline’ to me is a meaningless team. It was coined by the sensational Australian press to explain or excuse their defeat. It would have died ft natural and speedy death had >t not been ‘adopted by the Australian Board of Control in its lamentable cable to Mnrylebone. “Had Larwood been an Australian be would have out-rivalled Bradman in popularity and popular esteem. No fast bowler, English or Australian, can show a fairer and more convincing record.” Tli.« article quotes in heavy types “Noble’s testimony that Larwood was not unfair, and did not bowl at the man.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1933, Page 5
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