LEG THEORY DISPUTE

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 15 June 1933, Page 5

LEG THEORY DISPUTE

MARVLEBONE CLUB’S MESSAGE

CRITICISM AND SUPPORT.

VIEWS OF LONDON WRITERS.

STERN BARRACKING REBUKE.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Cony-right.) Received 11.30 a.m. to-day. LONDON, June 14. Bon Travers, writing in the ‘■Star,” says that the Marylebone Club’s cable to Australia exhibits all -the dignified and unimpeachable characteristics of Marylebone legislation at their worst. “They are prepared to bankrupt the counties in defence of what at heart they must know to be unsporting and in denial of what at heart they must know to be true,” he says. “The barracking protest was justified, but out of place.” The “Morning Post” says : “We had hoped that Marylebone would strive to allay rather than run the risk of again inflaming ill-temper. The substance of their protest may convince cool-headed judgment, but the' terms in which jt is couched are little calculated to heal a breach.” The “Mirror” says: “Marylebonelias given Australia a right answer. Plain talking was needed, and the stern rebuke concerning barracking ought to do good.” , . ■

BOARD OF CONTROL CRITICISED-

POSSIBLE CHECK TO TOURS.

SYDNEY, June 14

“We have to thank the Board of Control for masterly inactivity in allowing Marylebone to frame a report on bodyline bowling solely ’from the evidence of its own men,” writes Dr. Eric Barbour, a leading cricket authority at Sydney, writing in the “Morning Herald.” “In that respect Marylebone run true to form. 1 The Board of Control here has been guilty of neglect in its primary duty to maintain the dignity of Australian cricket. It has allowed the minds of the M.C.C. to be distracted between a sense of loyalty and a sense of duty to the game, fr.o M.C.C. lias been swayed by the reports of Messrs Warner, Palairet and Jarcline into an attitude from which it will find it difficult to withdraw.” y Prominent Melbourne cricket administrators declare it would not be surprising if the London representative of the Board of Control is instnicted to discontinue arrangements for the next tour of England by an Australian eleven. .

The M.C.C. report will be considered bv the Board of Control on September 21.