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BODYLINE TUBMOIL. (Uoited Press Association —By Y .ectrio Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON,' Sept. 13. Jack Robbs, the famous Test batsman. in a review of the cricket season in the “Star,” says that the summer ! began with the turmoil and acrimony over the bodyline question. “1 learn that things are now shaping towards a satisfactory solution,” lie / says. “The little that the English j public lias seen of bodyline base convinced it that it- is undesirable. “1 was against it from the start, and I have seen nothing to influence me to withdraw a single line 1 have written or retract a jot or tittle of my attitude. “Every cricketer hopes that the next Tests will be fought in a fine spirit of sportsmanship, free of rancorous words an<] feelings, which will enable us to say that all is well with cricket. “The long and happy Anglo-Austra-lian cricket relations are now in no danger of being broken.”
WEST INDIES AVERAGES. LONDON, Sep. 13. Tlie West Indies cricket tour lias been completed. The leading averages wore:—Batting: Headley, 2320 runs, 00.28; Sealey, 1072, 39.70; Grant, 1195, 30.64; Hoad, 1083, 27.76; Da Costa, 1040. 26.82; Roach, 1286,, 25.72. Bowling:—Martindale, 103 wickets, average 20.98; Da Costa 31, 34.03; Acliong, 71, 36.14; Griffith, 44, 37.22. Leveson-Gower’s eleven. beat West Indies by 125 runs.
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