CRICKET SQUABBLE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 50, 26 January 1933, Page 2

CRICKET SQUABBLE.

NEED FOR CONCILIATION

TRIBUTE TO AUSTRALIANS

Received Januarv 26, 1.30 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 25.

Sir Stanley Jackson, speaking at the Yorkshire Club’s annual meeting, said that the Marylebone Club had considered the Australian Cricket Board of Control’s cable in a conciliatory spirit. • He hoped the Australians would accept the reply in the same spirit. Nothing in his cricket career had distressed him like this unfortunate affair. The situation was so serious that lie would do anything short of sacrificing the honour and reputation of the British people to put the difficulty right. Everyone regretted that the board had thought it necessary to send the cable. Probably now it was regretted in certain quarters that it was ever sent. It was essential that the Marylebone Club support the team for it was impossible to think that they could have resorted to any method injurious to the game. It would be disastrous to cancel the Tests. He hoped they would be continued to be played in an amicable spirit. “We should all be careful, especially the old cricketers, to say nothing to impugn the sportsmanship of another country. ' In my long experience, I never knew an Australian cricketer with whom one could find fault. The Australians always observed the written and the unwritten rules of cricket.” ,

Sir Stanley Jackson formerly played for Yorkshire for several years and also for England.