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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 24 June 1924, Page 7

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ENGLAND’S SECOND TEST TEAM. SELECTORS DROP PARKIN

By Cable —Press Association —CopyrightLONDON, June 22. Hcarne and Richard Tyldesley will replace Parkin and Ernest Tyldesley in the selection for England’s second test team, otherwise the side is flic same. The ‘‘Daily Mail” says: “Those basing the good of cricket at heart, will regret Parkin’s outbreak, particularly his expression of so strongly in print. Manv bowlers in the past have felt they had a grievance, heli-v od themselves slighted by the captain, and grumbled to friends, but they were llot guilty of open mutiny. By his angry ' outburst, Parkin has lost much of" the sympathy which would have been his.” The “Daily Nows” crickei critic says : Parkin' will not find it necessary to' refuse an invitation to play in -ho next test, because lie has not been selected. Whether this is due to tho selectors’ estimate of his rr tr express disapproval of bis article, is not known. There is a rule that i o plaver engaged in tests should wrde or comment on it until the season is ended. Parkin has not only broken it, but he has driven a coach and four thronh it. The “Daily Clnoniclo’s” cricket wriler. cinncent hug on Parkin’s action, sa'-: ‘lt i. probable that the keenness of lie r;i<" between Park in and Tale. t,-> take |ni) wickets, accentuated Par!,in’s sen-" of injustice. His action makes it imon-silife for the Selection Committee in include Tim. as they inslriiclcd ovm-nii.' taking pari in test, mulches to i,i"l •• "o coininf "'s.” T bad a elm 1, wilii P "ti-i. who sovs : “Tt Is nc'cr-s-.ary In cy G- a stem! nguiint in Make 11 can!,sin- ■ A mongM lb" iiiinuTuiK eomovmfs on Parkin’s net ion. Dobbs mid: “There is going 1o ho a storm whi'-li will not do the game any good. I am not going to be eau'drl out in it.’’ F. TI. Gillingham declares that P-m----kin found a novel wav of commit | hug sui' idc as a nrnh- -ional o-ickof,,,.. Don"-!-!-, coil'Here, l Parkin’-.

Iw.-ivs amusing. This one was in r, particularly humorous vein.