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NZ Truth, Issue 1212, 21 February 1929, Page 16

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Geary Massage Incident NOT SPORT (From "N.Z. Truth's" Adelaide Rep.) After George Geary, the English bowler, had left the field during the fourth Test, and while he . was being massaged, a row', took place m the dressing-room. TT was an extraordinary affair. Mr. Scrymgour, . well-known member of the Board of Control, entered the Eng-lish dressing-room while Geary was being massaged for an injury to his thigh. With him was Mi-. W. Jeanes, secretary of the Board of Control. ' |- .' Geary was tbld by the. formeV that he could not go back on to the field and bowl again, after having left it to be massaged. ; ' v '. ■ ■ •; Immediately Geary hopped off the table . and said, "I came to Adelaide to play cricket. Do you • mean to tell me I'm not a sport?" Mr. Scrymgour: Do you know you're talking . to the ' Chairman of Ground Committee? Geary then made a few remarks whereupon Manager Toone was sent for. An official discussion^ on the affair followed, but Mr. Toone declined to say what happened. Anyhow, Geary took , the field today and; bowled. ' One of the rules governing Test Matches lays.'it down: "No player on the fielding side shall leave the field' for the purpose of having a rub down or shower while a 'Test Match is actually m progress." Geary claims that ' ( he left the field to have an injury treated.