FARCICAL CRICKET

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 11, 28 January 1937, Page 5

FARCICAL CRICKET

-Press Assn,

Spectators Not Catered For, Says Lord Hawke BIG HITTERS WANTED

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(Eeceived 28, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 27. "Though they will say 1 am an cld fossil, I must say that unless cncketers take more of the long handl© and give the spectators more for their i money there wiil be a serious decrea^e in the gates," said Lord Hawke, presiding at the Yorkshire Cricket C-lub:s annual meeting. "It is an outrageous farce to see no-one in the deep field when a alow bowler is on," he added, "and fieldsmen witfiin two or three yards of the batsman. 1 am thankful that Allen restored the oJd, good Anglo-Austraiiaa iellowship and triendliness." Mai'ylebone will celeorate its 150th. anmversaiy with a special >veek at Lords, inciuding a matoh between Allen' s team auq the Eest. The opinion that international cricket has outlived its usefulnass was expressed by the former M.C.C. captam, D. E. Jardine, addressing the Englishtipeaking Union. "As a money-spinner Test cricket is grand. Without the English And Australian tours English county ci'icket ,vould ee&se to exist because two-thirds of the counties would be in 'Queer street.' Australia has lost the digmry or the game because of the bairacking, which at first is funny but when one hears the four stock-in-trade cries for five months they are no longer funnv, The cries are: 'Get a bag!' 'You'll never get them out!' 'Put the umpire on!' 'Put th© clock on!' It would be a tragedy ii barracking ever came to English cricket. "Cricket is the best game to play oi" talk about, but the place to play it is the viilage green." Mr Hugh de Selincourt, the author, presiding, maintained that the Test field was the proper place to dissipate the "bates of man." It would be a gad day if cricket became "nice and gentle."