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THE MAN IN THE EMPTY CHAIR

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"Bennett," he called quietly. "That night when we'd laft you and Nobby-afterwards--when you'd connected up and were crawling | back again-was Nobby killed at

once?-straight out?"

Bennett suddenly jerked his headi round with a look of pained un- noyance.

"What d'yout mean?" he asked, roughly.

after we'd gone. We've

THE CHINA MAIL.

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REACHED

CRISIS?

(Continued from Page. 8.)

Away back in 1911-12, there [many ex-internationals and all the was an outcry against F. R. prosont playerz, now appeals to Foster's fast leg theory. From those in control of the destinies of then till now cricket in Aus cricket to como out into the open tralia had never been harassed and say "This crazy, thing shall] by similar methods of attack stop!" This paper appeals to the; Is it merely a coincidence that

controllers of the game оп the Mr. Warner was captain, of ground' that cricket will be ruined that 1903 team, and is mana- and finally will die unless, perceiv

ing their duty to the game, they ger of the present one? Once and for all, this iniquitous marshal the courage to act-und "Nothing don't look so startled body-hattering. short-pitched leg act now. ~ mean what actually happened theory attack must be scotched.

EXAMPLE SET. never It is not in the interests of cricket, The other day I was passing really, heard- mean first-hand," and It is violatica of the fine through Moore Park on my way added Fielding. "It was too close sporting spirit that has charac- to see the last stages of the to the event to talk much about it terised the great game right back first Test, and I noticed two or when we were all at the base. Too through the ages.

three junior cricket matches in pro- painful. But now, let's hear it." The Referee, voicing the views of greas. Suddeny I stopped, horrifi-

For a moment Bonnett looked un-f

ed to see a tallish lad of somewhero easy as he searched our eager facca.

between 13 and 15. burling "leg "How I won the D.C.M." rallied at first-then-right in the midst theory" at a midget of, say,

ten Janson. "You ought to have worn of us-at the table-we could feel years, with six fieldsmen clustered It passed, and there was ab-round, the leg side. Curious, I nak- solute stillness-then---

ed the young bowler where he got Three hard, distinct raps.

his ideas of field placing, and to my Bennett's lower jaw worked in astonishment he replied: "Voce sound came and Larwood scare 'em out that

way."

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"Oh, chuck it!" said Fielding, trying to put a curb on his banter,

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coat pocket...

"I-1-did get a miniature of it,” he stammered in a half-apologetic tone, and to our secret amazement he drew it out.

There was an outburst of cheer- ing and chuff.

from his parched throat.

The taps came again-louder and more precise-long, short, long-as we sat frozen with fear in the threatening, allence."

Then

I moved on, muning ns. I went, that before that lnd grew to the age of Vcco and Larwood he would kill somebody or perhaps, by that the awful truth dawned time cricket would have lost its upon us. Somebody was calling in grip as a national game. We made him wear, it after that, Morse codel With terror-stricken If this menace is not eliminated though we certainly felt surprised faces we waited. Then with one very soon, cricket will become at the obvious pleasure it gave him, accord our bursting eyes became an exceedingly dangerous business

"Fill up his glass somebody riveted on one spot-the little lamp-not game.

In that case, Come on, Bennett-let yourself go." of remembrance at the vacant place. parents will foreld their chil- Junson wouldn't leave him alore, It was lighted!

dron to play it and it and Bennett drank a

will bumper off With gaping mouths and thump- die a natural death. Can our con- and smiled complacently.

ing hearts we gazed at it, but be trollers of the game not see-be- "Well, there's really nothing to fore we could utter a sound the yond the immediate job of trying tell," he said in an unctuous tone, shuter began to work. With to win the Ashes? Can they not "I mean-er-I've never mentioned violent, angry jorks the flaps open-see the incalculable harm, the it before."

ed and closed.

ruinous effect of this excrescence

on the grand old game? Are they

"Nonsense," said Janson boister- "You LIAR!" Qusly. "You Jolly well deserved itį The fierce, accusing message split too indifferent to the noble tradi- -here's to you."

the pulsating silence pause, in tions of cricket to stand up now It never struck me before that which we heard each others' hearts and demand that the remaining Bennett was susceptible to Яattery, beating then the flaps snapped matches shall be played in a trực but he seemed to fill out-preen finally back into position, and we sporting spirit, free

from himself as it were-in our admira- knew that the signaller had finished. the bitterness that is fast being tion. He leaned buck in his chair. For a second nobody moved, then created?

"Well, we went over the top, as we all aprang to our feet, and before You cannot expect ericketers, you know, ho began in a thick, anyone could stop him, Janson flung with responsibilities outside the warm tone. "It was a ticklish bit himself across the table and, seizing game, to stand up all day at a wic of work, and it needed the best of the miniature medal, wrenched ket as a willing target for this

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enough to straight drive his de- Ilveries. That he has clean bowled a batsman doesn't prove his attack is directed at the wicket. It only proves that that particular bail was bowled on the wicket,

men for it. They had to have roughly from Bennett's coat and venomous attack. It is all very somebody they could rely on. You laid it at the empty place, well for the grandstanders to scoff three blighters got pipped after that A tremulous sigh of relief was and any. "You've got pads and a Verey light went up, and left the acknowledgment. But it didn't batwhy don't you hit the ball?" Nobby and me to face it out. Of come from any of us. Then, as we To those men, I say, "You've never course, as corporal in charge it watched the empty place Nobby's played cricket--and what's was up to me. I realised that the light went out.

you wouldn't be game to take the whole line depended on it.

Fiercely we turned to Bennett, poltta that those chaps have taken "I'm not the sort of man, you but the blatant swaggering, boaster from Voce and Larwood on their know, to take responsibility lightly.had gone. The crumpled, ash blind-aide with a close-stacked Never was. No, by gad! You faced man in his place passed one short leg and a long leg field." Larwood of hurling at the batsmen B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for know that, Fielding, don't you? furtive, terror-stricken glance Cricket from the pavillon is a half-pitched high kicking balls. 1st and 2nd class passengers, -

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Happily there was less intimida found me slacking. But I wasn't door, leaving us awed, and tongue- Every Australian cricketer Ition in the first Test, than in the a bully, was I? Not to any of you. tied-and wondering,

Pave spoken to in the past week match between N.S.W. and Eng has condemned in emphatic terms land, because the wicket didn't A point that Mr. Warner stressed the tactics adopted by Voce and give the fast bowlers so much as-was this: "These things lead to sistance to make the ball fly. The reprisals and when they begin, resentment shown by the players, goodness knows. where they will however, is based upon their ex end." Now, if Australia retaliat pertences in Adelaide and Meled with a body-battering attack, it bourne, as well as in Sydney would still not be cricket. It still Naturally enough, our fellows would be ruinous to the game and are loth to condemn their oppon- might eventually kill it. I do hope ents. They fell that they might be that nothing of the kind will over accused of squealing, and that simbe attempted. It is pretty hard on ply len't done by Australians. But our batsmen to have to stand and. that they have a very decided ob- be shot at without having a shot In jection to these tactics, resucitat

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A fraint, almost imperceptible sigh seemed to come somewhere from my left, and I turned sharply to Bennett, but he appeared not to have noticed it, and went on.

"It was a different Nobby from". the man in the line. You fellows thought nothing could put the wind up Nobby, I know, but you ought to have?' seen, him that night.or course, be hadn't been out before. 1 stayed with him for some minutes longer than I should have done, perhaps, trying to pull himself to gether, but it was no good. He wouldn't move. out of that hole; |so I left him and finished the job myself. The job had to be done-- though how I stuck it God alone Knows. When I'd finished I craw led back to him and dragged him out of his funk hole by the legs. He wouldn't move of his own accord, and it was when we were getting back into the line that the Minnie Faught him; } I'd told him not to stand up, but he was too funky,

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"What was that??ggs Bennett's words ›dled in his throat as Fielding suddenly sat bolt

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* True, Gregory and McDonald like. every other bowler, have given batsmen a pasty crack, but knocks have always been accidental. Never has body attack been promediat ed, never anything but orthodon off-field Vore and Larwood, on

the other hand, deliberately play

TIME FOR ACTION Now in the time for the authorities to act, before a serious injury, or perhaps a fatality, occurs before friend- ly rivalry turns to batred; be- fore cricket degenerates Into a brawl between bat and ball. Test cricket sets the standard for all other cricket, and if our Jualors model their bowling methods upon the body theory of Voce and Larwood, the game will los

Gricki

And

an attack which causes on unpro- | its history. cedented number Injuries and wane that it

Ispraved

superlative charm, mt atmosphere, resistible appeal to

r throughout the

reached a crisis In Is going to live-or its life is in the hands. Warner and Douglas

by the placing of their feld, R he, on the one hand, and Voce's usual deld in Sydney has the Australian cricket authorities consisted of seven men on the leg on the other. An urgent Consulta side of the wicket, five of them In Is necessary, for it is a grave,

a crescent & LOW. rds away from

fall us, the ruin of

the batsman. Th bowler and ericket will be upon their heads. keeper make bine, leaving only two It is almost unbelievable that they Heldamon on the off. Now can have not acted long before now. The anyone say that Voce is not bowl winning of the Ashes is neithero ing at the body? If he were bowl here nor there. It is a question of ing on the wicket, it would be easy saving Cricket