CRICKET DISPUTE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21518, 15 June 1933, Page 11

CRICKET DISPUTE

MARYLEBONE'S REPORT ENGLISH TOUR IN DOUBT AUSTRALIAN BOARD'S ACTION AUTHORITY'S CRITICISM By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received June 14, 10.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 14 Prominent cricket administrators in Melbourne say ifc will not bo surprising if the London representative of the Cricket Board of Control is instructed to discontinue the arrangements for the next tour of England by an Australian eleven. The Marylebone Club's report on body-line bowling will be considered by the Board of Control on September 21. Dr. Eric Barbour, a leading'cricket authority, of Sydney, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, says: "We have to thank the Board of Control for its masterly inactivity in allowing the Marylebone Club to frame its report on body-line bowling solely from tlie evidence of its own men. In that respect Marylebone has run true to form. "The Board of Control here has been guilty of a neglect of its primary duty, namely, to maintain the dignity of Australian cricket. It has allowed the minds of the members of the Marylebone Club to be distracted between a sense of loyalty and a sense of duty to the game.

"Marylebone has been swayed by the reports of Messrs. Warner, Palairet and Jardine into an attitude from which it will find it difficult to withdraw."