LARWOOD AND HOBBS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21458, 4 April 1933, Page 9

LARWOOD AND HOBBS

ARRIVAL AT SUEZ SILENCE AS TO LEG-THEORY SUEZ, April 2 H. Larwood and Jack Hobbs reached Suez yesterday on their way home from -. Australia. Both cricketers refused to-*'."/ discuss the leg-theory question. Mr. A. W. Carr, captain of the Notts }■' County Cricket Club, met them and! L ; also declined to talk on the matter.*--' Hobbs said it would be dangerous to make a statement at the present juncture. THE ENGLISH TEAM ; VINDICATING STATEMENT BAN ON PUBLICATION LONDON, March' 2T~ On the ground that it was "likely to upset diplomatic relations," the public 1 cation of a statement by the Marylebone Cricket Club's team in Australia was forbidden by the managers, the News Chronicle states. The newspaper urges that the truth ought to be told about the team's experiences. A hush polity will make matters worse. The team prepared its "vindicating statement" before leaving Australia. That document still exists, and ought to be published. It is absurd • to suggest that it could damage tho good relationship of English and Aus-- ~ tralian sportsmen, which might rather be impaired by hiding the truth. In spite of a denial by the secretary of the Notts County Cricket Club that Mr. Carr is carrying a message to Larwood about its attitude regarding T.layers writing for the press, a special correspondent of the News Chronicle ou the same liner as Mr.- Carr says the latter bears a "very constructive motion by the . Notts Club's committee, forbidding Larwood to open hia mouth." Presumably, Mr. Carr will ivdvise Larwood as to the attitude he should adopt concerning Australian attacks when he returns to the friendlier atmosphere at Home. The News Chronicle adds:—"Larwood's distress at the Australian attacks is justified, as some of the Australian papers that have arrived recently contain the most scurrilous atfTT tacks, and he would be more than human if he refrained from replying."