IS IT CRICKET?
BOWLERS* AID TO SUCCESS. C"iJI —TBKBB ASSOCIATION—COfIKKMT.i (SBOTBa'B TSLKOBiMS.) LONDON, September 3. Arising out of a recent allegation in a cricket match against Worcester that an amateur bowler tempered with the seam of the ball in order to gain ai greater swing, a writer in the "Evening Standard" aaks, "Is there authority to stop such a practice?" The writer recalls that nobody objected to Tate wiping the ball with. 8 towel when playing against the Africans, and also mentions the story of a noted bowler who keeps his pooket filled with powdered resin, in which he frequently dips his bowling hand. No name is mentioned, hut it is understood it was amonpj the incidents reoounted when the Englishmen recently returned from Australia. The Worcester incident is likely to he investigated by the Marylebone Cluh.
Writers agree that the only rule covering the incident is the broad reproof, "It isn't cricket."
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18479, 5 September 1925, Page 4
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153IS IT CRICKET? Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18479, 5 September 1925, Page 4
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