REGRETTABLE ACTION

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 441, 27 January 1933, Page 5

REGRETTABLE ACTION

AUSTRALIAN BOARD?S CABLE London, January 25. Mr. Stanley Jackspn, speaking at the Yorkshire Cluh's annual meeting;, said that Marylebone had eonsidered the Australian Board's cable. in a conciliatory spirit and he hoped "the Australians would accept the i'pply in the same spirit. Nothing iii his cfipket career had distressed him like. this unfortunate affair. The sitqatiqn was s!o serious that he would do anything short of saprificing bonour and'reputation. The British people had been put in a difficult light. Evpryone regretted that the board had thought it necessary to cabie, aiid probably it was not regretted in certain quarters that. it had pver been sent. It was essential that Marylebone should support the team, *f or it was impossihle to think that ' they could have resorted to any meth'od injurious to the game.. It would be disastrous to cancpl the : tests, and he hoped they would be continued and played in an amiabie spirit. The speaker added: 'W_e should all be careful, especially old cricketers, to say nothing to impugn the sportsmanship of another country. In my long experience I ne.ver knew an Australian cricketer with .whom ' I could find fault. The Australians have always observed the written and un: written rules of cricket."