McCORMICK'S BOWLING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 25, 13 February 1937, Page 14

McCORMICK'S BOWLING

- — ■ • -ra- ■ - SOME 'HOT" ENGLISH COMMENT A TQUCH OF "BOPYLINE" . A recent English paper publishe* a photograph of Leylapd waving McCormick away, "apparently in disgust," after Australia's fast bowler had hit fhe great Yorkshire lefthander in one of the earlier Tests. Robins was in much the game position on February 1, when the Victorian hit the popular Middlesex captain in conspcutive overs. As a matter of fact there has been some "hot" comment in English papers, by their Australian commentators, on McCormiek's bodydiners. Jn this connection the followmg criticism after the Victoria v. South African game at Melbourne, in 1931, is iateresting: "With Blackie incapacitated, the Victorian bowling against the South Africans was greatly weakened, and the attack develqped largeiy on Ironmonger anql McCormick, each of whom tqpk five wlckets, the cost being 87 and 65 runs respectively, "Jrpnmpnger-, pf cpurse, wa* regardfd aa keeping Qne end safe, and there wa* interegt as to how McCor-: mipk and Nagei, the new bqwiers, would shape. Nagel was unsuccess-, fui, aithougb bowling well, "McCprmipk i* looked upon as qne of our bQwlihg bppe*, but, althpugh he came OHt with the best figure*, he was spmewhat erratto. In his djrecT tion, and his length might. have beeq better. He wa* ahle to mahe the hau bump a good deal, but frequentiy bowied wide pf the wicket on both side*, Several time* Barnett, the wicketkeeper, had tp jump acrpss tq take bail*' wide on elther side, "He *ent down many Very gpod baii*, hpwever, and if he cQneentra.tes on the wicket mpre there |g nq rpa-, son why he should not do very well, He ha* everything in. his favou? and should deveiop. "Dpn Blackie has struck misfprtune right at the PUtset of the season, anu is likely to be out of the game for some week*. While hatting against the South African* he wa* struck on the left hand by a bumping hau from Bell, the fa*t bowler, and an x-ray examlnation showed two bppe frac, tures of the little finger, Blackie is the third prominent Victorian player who has suffered fractures in the hand through being struck by fast bowlers in the last two or three J seasons, the other* being Ponsford and Weedfull."