AS IT IS FOUGHT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 456, 14 February 1933, Page 3

AS IT IS FOUGHT

Sydney Sun.)

WHAT THE LEG THEORY MAY EVENTUALLY LEAD TO. WILL IT COME TO THIS?

(From the

January 30. The Prime Minister (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald) has hastened baclc from Lossiemouth .and summoned a meeting of leaders of all parties to discuss the national crisis. Cheering crowds greeted each arrival ,at %Jo. 10, Downing Street. The excitement reached fever pitch whsn Mr. Winston Churchill arrived wearing a Harlequin cap. February 1: Cablegram, George Pearce, Minister for Defence, Australia, to Ramsay MacDonald: "English cricketer Bowes found in Show Ground Tower, Sydney, drawing secret plans S.C.G. Is it war?" February 2: Ramsay MacDonald to George Pearce. "Re Bowes, not yet, •still cricket." February 4: Definite news of Jardine. "Times" sp\e#al eorreispondent cahles that while chasing ball in outfield Jardine was surrounded_ by baxrackers headed by tlie notorious Yabbe and taken prisoner. Yabba reported saying to Jardine; "Die or ransom." _ . N * February 5: Yabba denied 'Tinies report. All he said to Jardine was "It's time you ran some." Adds that Jardine has wrapped himself in Union Jack .and won't come out. • • • February 6: England is stirred to eore. War declared. The Gunboats. j March 10: First English contingent arrives Port Jackson. Gunboats ascend Parramatta River and hombard all cricket grounds on three-mile front. March 11: Cablegram, Board _ of Control to M.C.C.: Draw attention cannonballs fired hy your kicking np definitely on leg side incapacitated three aged residents (not cricketers and therefore non-comba-tants) of Parramatta. Submit unsportsmanlilce. , March 12: Cablegram' M.C.C. to B. of C.: Cannot help that and deplore word unsportsmanhk'1. Advise your residents stand on other side. Mapch 13: B. of C. to M.C.C.. We rep'aat unsportsmanlike. March 14: M.C.C. to B. of C.: Not unsportsmanlike. March 17: B. of C. to M.C.C.: Are. Will pick Gilbert. March 18: M.C.C. to B. of ^ Have faced Gilbert 50 years. your hardest. Will pick Shaw. March 19. B. of C. to M.C.C.: Don't mean W.S., mean Eddie. March 21: Sydney correspondent of "The Timesf' advises that under cover of cricket war Manchukuo army has landed at Palm Beach and i® marching on Sydney. Is Australia doomed ? Never! Britons nevep, never, never ... Playing fields of Eton. ... Gilbert. March 22: "The Times" headed Fourth Test Match: The Manchukuo army is in full flight before the deadly leg-theory bowling of Lai'wood and Gilbert, the aborigine bowler, who, it will he remembered, took seven^ wickets for five in a recent provincial match in Queensland. March 26: "The Times": An unfortunate incident marred to-day's play in the Fourth Test Match, when a hall from Gilbert . . • body-line . . . etc. • March 26: An A^L-alian paper: An unfortunate incident nrarred to-day's play in thq Fourth' Test Match when a hall from Larwood . . . bodyline . . . etc. Mapch 27: M.C.C. to B. of C.: Unsportsmanlike. March 27. B. of C. to M.C.C.: Unsportsmanlike.