BARRACKING JARDINE

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 119, 16 November 1932, Page 9

BARRACKING JARDINE

" DAILY MAIL'S " PROTEST

GILLIGAN'S DEMURRER

LONDON,; 10th November.

_ The barracking of Jardine, the M.C.C. captain,'.in the match at Adelaide has given rise to comment in the newspapers. The "Daily Mail" says it is time that official action was taken when a "dead set" is made against the English captain for no real reason, but "only because he is hot popular." The paper thinks that an appeal by the Board of Control .for fair play would be effective^ V

A. E. "E. Gilligan treats the barracking of Jardine lightly, and points out that barrackers are impartial. An experienced player, he states, learns to expect these "kindly attentions," and wonders what is wrong when he does not get them.. It is disastrous to betray one's feelings. Any suspicion of snobbery or class distinction quickly moves the barraeker to wrath. Jardine, he writes, not only suffered barrackers hut won their tears. Gilligan recalls previous barracking incidents, and adds that it was an error in tactics-when Larwood, in. 1928, lay on the grass when t,he crowd objected to his.bowling at Ironmonger, because the Victorian was regarded as a "rabbit" as a batsman. He also recalls that Sutcliffe, when fielding in Brisbane in 1925, and the crowd was merciless walked to one of his chief tormentors removed his bottle of beer, and placed it twenty-five feet ■ within tho saerea area, where the barracker was unable to retrieve it. Of course the bottle was finally returned.