CRICKET.
[Reuter Telegrams.] CARR’S OMISSION. LONDON, August 10. Pen-in, one of the selectors, declared that Carr gas dropped purely because ho was not ill his best form. England, ho said, wanted to win, and to do that it was necessary to play the best men. Warner, Hobbs and Rhodes declined to comment.
Carr told an interviewer, that he was not alone responsible for putting the Australians in first in the Leeds test match, and vet he was being made’ a scapegoat.
The “Daily Mail” comments: “It is difficult to understand why Carr consider.- that ho has a grievance. He offered to resign and his offer was acapted. Now he is annoyed because ho was allowed to resign. Why did he suggest he should stand down, if lawns keen to play? His omission appears to have weakened England, -..hois in danger of too many cooks '.foiling the broth.” LONDON, August 10. Hobbs states that Carr was present throughout the discussions on the test teams and also when the selectors worded the official statement, saying that the resignation was due to illhealth. ,
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1926, Page 1
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