"GAGGED AND BOUND"

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 225, 21 April 1933, Page 7

"GAGGED AND BOUND"

o ,- . i I LarwoocPs Refusal to talk i : ■ I I Press Association. —Copyright. ! Loudon, April 5-The sporting j editor of the London Daily Sketch j (Mr. Manning), who accompanied A. W. j Carr, the Notts cricket captain, to Suez, j dashed 100 miles across the desert by j car to interview Larwood while the j Otranlo was traversing the Suez Cain!, j Describing the interview, he says: Lar- | wood is gagged and bound by his con- j | tract with the Marylebone Club, rein- j j forced by wireless messages from Lon- | j don. He is not yet able to tell the story j jof the dissension in the team, and Aus- ! I tralia's attitude to leg theory bowling. I ! "But that doesn't mean that I am not j ! going to," he added, grinning. j Mr. Manning says that Larwood gave ! j the lie direct to the reported statement ! I that he would never play again in Aus- : j tralia. "I know how that happened," he i said. "I know the man who did it. and j ! I shan't let it pass." I I "Obviously Larwood has put 201 b. on I his weight and a yard on his pace," Mr. | Manning continues. "He has a story to I j tell which will shock cricketing England, j I but he won't dare tell it even to his j I skipper, who has made him the greatest j I fast bowler of our time—until our col-; leagues reach home. That's his con- j ] tract, to keep which he has refused a ! j small fortune. j "He says that a newspaper offered him £1 a word if he would break his silence, j I but he says that it is not a question of j j money. He is bound by personal pledges! j to Jardino and Warner."