WOMEN RULED OUT
NEVER PLAY REAL CRICKET.
London, July 17.
A. M. Crawley, the English cricketer, after watching a women’s Test match, South v. .The Rest, is more firmly convinced than ever that women will never play real cricket. “I could not wish,” he writes in the Daily Mail, “to see a keener game, but no bowler or batswoman looked natural. All their movements were awkward. Women are physically incapable of playing the game as it should be played. I wish I could say something in favour of women's cricket, but this match has ruled out any such possibility.” A week ago Mr. Crawley was taken to task by Mrs. 11. Smith, a former woman cricketer, who claimed to have bowled W. G. Grace, for the expression of similar views.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1931, Page 7
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