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...John W. Larwood Ottsville...
...Nottinghamshire miner named Harold Larwood caused an international incident in 1933 with "body-line bowling": he tried to knock down Australian batsmen with beanballs, and sometimes succeeded. (The Australian Government complained to Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.) There is no foul line, so batsmen can hit in all directions. In placing fielders to take advantage of a batter's weakness, the bowlers can move a man up as close as ten feet from the batsman, in suicidal positions known as "silly leg" and "silly mid on." Cricket moves at less than half the pace of baseball, but-say its partisans...
...summer long, while the tests crowded almost all other news out of London papers, the controversy about "bodyline" bowling raged more violently than ever. In Australia, last year, British Bowlers Voce and Larwood frightened and outraged Australian batters by bowling full- on at their bodies and even at their heads. Australia protested. This year Voce and Larwood were left off the English team. That England managed to make the fifth match necessary at all was due to an amazing performance by Bowler Verity in the second...
Going home from the British-Australian cricket matches which Britain won (TIME, Feb. 27), Britain's able Bowler Harold Larwood was met at Suez by British sports editors. They offered him ?1 per word for the inside story of what happened in the test matches. In the third match Larwood had hit two Australian batsmen, on the head and chest. The crowd bar racked (jeered) him. In the fourth, Australian batsmen began to dodge Larwood's pitches and after the fifth, an Australian mob surrounded his boat train. Fellow-passengers said he was "lucky to get away with...
...after famed Don Bradman, whom Antipodeans justifiably consider the greatest batsman in the world, had been bowled for a duck on the first pitch in full view of 64,000 admirers. The third match, at Adelaide, gave rise to a deplorable controversy about the "body-line" bowling of Harold Larwood, who aimed his pitches so that they hit one Australian batsman on the chest and another on the head. Bowler Larwood was loudly barracked (jeered). The Australian Board of Cricket Control protested to the Marylebone Cricket Club of London that his methods were unsporting. The Maryle-bone-which was formed...