ONLY A GAME

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12040, 19 January 1925, Page 8

ONLY A GAME

BARNES’, JUOT REMINDER. -TBEB,SPORTING METHOD. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. {Received 'January 18. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 16. Sid. Barnes, writing in the “Daily Chronicle,” says that-people who Ore clamouring for an alteration in the method of tossing forget that cricket, however important it may be internationally, » after all only a game. Personally be would not support any alteration of an essentially sporting British method of deciding a sporting chance. The first day’s honours, he says, axe / slightly _ with attackers. Replying 'to Aaegrabah eermnsrts on cricketers ■in England writing to the press, Barnes sey-i that hla does not think the team, would object to fair comment, n<v mat-' - ter from whom it comes; but it- must be fair. Thospnot capable of level, (hspaarioaate criticism should leave the pen-alone and keep to bat and ball. Expressing i.vropathy 'witb Gilligan and! Tate for tboir injuries' be recalls his own harassed knee oh the same (pound in 1902, and says that after 1 all the Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and London specialists’ efforts it was an onecure Soottish boneratter who conqoared the injury in a icouple of mutates at a cost of five shillings.