CRICKET INCIDENT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22318, 16 January 1936, Page 10

CRICKET INCIDENT

HUMAN'S FREAK OVER NEW BALL NOT CALLED FOR [UY TELEGRAPH— PUESS ASSOCIATION'] DUNEDIN, Wednesday If the explanation of J, H. Human's action in bowling six wides for byes in the cricket test at Dunedin on Monday as a sporting gesture, indicating the Englishmen's agreement with New' Zealand's appeal against the light, is discredited, the affair becomes more puzzling than ever, because the fact is officially vouched for by the umpires tliat the new ball was not called for. COMMENT IN ENGLAND TEST MATCH BEHAVIOUR (Received Jnnunry 15, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Jan. 11 A further reference to the report that H. Humnn, the acting-captain of the M.C.C. team, deliberatelv bowled 24 extras for the purpose of gettiii"' the new half in the final stages of the first cricket test match at Dunedin on Monday is made by the sports writer of the Daily Mail. Ho says the explanation that tho wides and no-balls were a sporting gesture indicating the Englishmen's agreement with tho appeal against tho light does not appear to make the case better.

"What right has a bowler to show the field's disagreement with an umpire's ruling," asks the writer?

The Daily Telegraph's sports writer says: "Why stop at wides? Why not bowl deliberate no-balls, or hire an American pitcher to incapacitate the batsmen with terrific curvers? It may sound fantastic, but once depart from the rules and traditions of the game and it is impossible to see where the changes will stop."

POWER EXTENSIONS

WORK IN RAGLAN AREA [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Wednesday Reporting to the Central Waikato Electric-Power Board to-day, the engineer, Mr. J. P. Ellis, stated that workmen were employed on building a power line between Kauroa and Te Mata, and that it whs hoped that as the lino proceeded beyond the lj-mile peg, consumers would bo connected up. Tho reticulation of the Raglan township had been completed, and steps were being taken to obtain the settlers' guarantees to warrant a line being built between Raglan and Bryant' House along the Wainui Road. Mr. Ellis stated that there were now 505J consumers connected with the board's service lines. There were .'5226 motors in service, and the total load was 11,962 kilowatts.