BODY-LINE BOWLING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18056, 5 April 1933, Page 2

BODY-LINE BOWLING

REPERCUSSIONS INCENGLAND ? A. W. CARR’S MYSTERIOUS MISSION LONDON, March 28. The battle over body-lino bowling, which so excited Australia, is likely to have repercussions when H. Lanvood, the Notts fast bovrler, reaches England, despite the effort being made in iivAqential quarters to let bygones be bygones. Mr. A. W.r Carr, the Nottinghamshire County Clv'b' captain, left on a mysterious irjssion to meet Larwood at Port Sa’.d. It is understood that? ho is the besr.m’ of a message from the, county comw'xttee forbidding Larwood to indulge in any public comment. Even if thy,s’is so, it is improbable that, anything v/ ,n prevent tho whole issue from being /.ought out when the English team returns with the “Ashes.”

It has already been learned that some members of the British team prepared a statement in reply to Australian criticism before they‘ left Sydney for New Zealand, and would have published it but for the intervention of the managers, who considered that it might aggravate past bitterness. A section of the London Press is now agitating for tho publication of this document or, alternatively, some other vindication, in ,answer to the unrestrained abuse of tho more irresponsible Australian newspapers, which, judging by quotations now being printed, did not hesitate to use words such as “bathers” and “frightfulness ” “Tho Australians have not glossed things over. Why should we?” demands one sporting writer this morning. “In order to try to get inside the Australian mind, I have been reading through columns of matter in their newspapers, which prove, if proof were neteded, how deeply they believe themselves to be in the right. The man I ajn sorriest for is D. R. Jardine (captain of thp M.C.C. team). He did not pick lbs team and the M.C.C. having provided him with an array of fast bowlers, ho was entitled to inak’o the most of them. That ho did so in spite of the rough deal he has had is a great testimony to his virtues as a captain.” The News Chronicle urges that tho truth ought to bo told about tho team’s experiences. A hush policy will make matters worse.

Despite a denial by tho secretary of tho Notts County Cricket Club that Mr. Carr is carrying a message to Larwood about its attitude regarding players writing for tho press, a special correspondent of the News Chronicle on tho same liner a$ Mr. Carr says the

latter bears a “very constructive motion by tho Notts Club’s committee, forbidding Larwood to open his mouth.” Presumably, Mr. Carr will advise Earwood as to tho attitude he should adopt concerning Australian attacks when he returns to tho friendlier atmosphere at Hyme.