“ENOUGH OF BODY-LINE”

Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1933, Page 7

“ENOUGH OF BODY-LINE”

GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT COUNTIES’ UNDERSTANDING BOWLING MENACE TO GAME NO PACKING OF THE FIELD By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 7 p.m. London, July 14. “The counties have had enough of bodyline bowling,” says the Sketch, which disclosed that 15 of the 17 firstclass county captains have reached a gentleman’s agreement whereby the leg side will not be packed to a fast bowler in such a manner that a batsman in defending his body would essentially surrender his wicket, but the leg theory, meaning bowling for catches by slow or medium-paced bowlers, be affected. “The decision does not reflect on Marylebone or Jardine," says the paper. “It is merely proof that less accurate bowlers than Larwood are dangerous, while incompetent bowlers are a menace, tending to ruin the game.- Rules will not be made, But it will be agreed that the bodyline is unsportsmanlike.” “Apparently Jardine and Carr are the only captains supporting bodyline bowling.”