GILBERTS BOWLING

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1932, Page 19

GILBERTS BOWLING

MELBOURNE INCIDENTS i;

"Jerking of the wrist," is ; the reasoit given by Umpire A. N. Barlow for noballing Eddie Gilbert, the Queensland aboriginal bowler, in the Queensland* Victoria Shield game.. Frank Goughj the Queensland captain, said: "I made a point of asking Barlow, why he ho* balled Gilbert, and each time his answer was, 'Jerking the wrist.' Barlow was. emphatic on that. " On the, second day, when I took Gilbert oi§ after he had. been 'called? five times iit one over, Barlow, in reply to my ques* tion, said 'Jerking the arm,' and imme* diatcly' corrected himself to say 'Jcrki, ing the. wrist.'" Gdugh . said it . wa»' drawing a.red herring-across the trail, to suggest that Barlow no-balled Gilbert because he lifted hia right foot off/ the ground at the moment of delivering' the ball. "It was the. wrist action onljj; that 'was questioned," he assertejU Gpugh classed Gilbert..as the fastest bowlpr. in Australia. He said Bradman, and, Kippax, against whom Gilbert bowled in the Sydney. Shield game,, agreed that Gilbert.was "yards faster?* than Larwood, the'English.Test bowler* Gilbert had remarkably long -and flexrible arms., His reach was; half an incl£ longer than.. that. of : Gene: Tunney, th^, former world heavyweight boxing chain*pion,. and his hands came to his knee^ "His action whiea bowling," addei Gough, "is that; of a catapult. Every,. oiince. of weight and spring, goes intothe effort,, from the tips of .the fingers to his toes. He is- undoubtedly a match winner, and as fine a fellow as one could -wish to meet. If he bowls as iast in Adelaide as he. did. in Bpx~ bane^ —rthen the South Australian batsr; men axe in.for trouble.": Mr. "Jimmy^ Orr, . yeteran Queensland, umpirey watched Gilbert closely when he bowled' in, the South Africa-Queensland matchy and said he was- satisfied his delivery, was pelfectly; fair. Gilbert is truant officer on- ;Barajnbah Mission Station* He is twenty-four," married, an. aideitfr churchgoer, and a champion boomerangs thrower;- The rules of cricket say thafi "the ball must not be thrown; or jerked,: and'-that either umpire, shall call n* ballif he.i» not satisfied with the abV solute fairness of any :.-.•: