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THREE CHANGES IN
~TEST TEAM
What Vote of Experts
Shows: O'Brien In
A vote today by former Test cricketers in Adelaide showva
that three changes are favored for the fourth Test match,
starting in Brisbane on February 10.
The popular opinion is that Fingleton, Grimmett, and
Oldfield .(injured) will be excluded, and O'Brien, Oxenham,
and Love included in their places.
Oldfield, it was officially said today, will receive compensa
tion for the head injury sustained when struck by a fast ball
from Larwood.
Tomorrow the English team will begin a two-day match
at Ballarat, where the question of playing leg theory against
the visitors is being keenly discussed.
The team chosen by the experts' vote,
is:
Woodfull Ponsford
Richardson Ironmonger .
Bradman Love
Wall " ""nhani ' .
McCabe O'Brien
O'Reilly
Ernie Jones, the former express bowler,
would go further than most old players.
He advocates the dropping of ironmonger
and -Ponsford as-well. He would include
Fleetwood-rmith and either Darling or
Bromley, the Western Australian, who is
now in Victoria.
- "We must 'get youth into the side," he
sa-id. "Some of the men are too old.
Bromley is 6 ft. tall. a good loft-hand bat.
a very.good field, and a leg-break bowler."
"O'Brien, Love, Oxenham, and
Bromley or Darling would strengthen
the batting. I think that is the depart
ment that needs great consideration on
the part of the selectors."
Clem Hill favors the inclusion of O'Brien
and .Oxenham in place of Fingleton and
Grimniett.
On tlxe' other hand M. A. Noble, -the
former Test captain, would retain Grim
mett, but: would include O'Brien or Darl
ing in:place of.Fingleton.
Another former Test player in D. R. A.
Gehrs thinks that Grimmett, Fingleton,
and Ironmonger should be dropped.
S"I would replace Ironmonger with a
fast man, probably Alexander," he said.
"'O'Brien should take Fingleton's placd,
but the third v'acancy' would be .difficult
to fill. If a batsman were wanted Darl
ing would have to be given serious con
sideration."
Baseball Restriction
Although body-line bowling is not re
stricted in cricket it is in baseball, ac
cording to a leading South Australian
player, He said today that the rules pro
vided that a batsman became a baserun
ner "if without making an attempt to
strike at the ball he or his clothing were
no efforP to get oUt of its wa'r"
Mr. George Chapman, one of South
Australia's leading baseball urapires, said
that generally the rule was not enforced
when the Tiitcher sent down a slow
curved delivery.
"A really fast delivery dec; not give
the batsman any chance to ilet out of
the way," he said.
He said that Californian baseballers
who visited Sydney a couple of seasons
ago told the Australian plaver that in
America the bateman was given a base
whenever the ball struck him.
Ernie Jones criticised the action of the
Englishmen in bowling at the batsmen.
"It is definitely not cricket," he said.
"Still, I do not favor retaliation.. It
should be left to the authorities to find
a solution."
Umpir''s Opinion
"I do not like leg theory bowling
it is intimidation," said Mr. Sydney W.
Smith, of Alberton. the former inter
national and Sheffield Shield cricket
umpire.
"It will spoil the game just as surely
as will the hooting from the crowd.
"I hope there is no suggestion of re
aigation. Two wrongs do not make a
right, and it would not be cricket.
"I have umpired when both Gregory
and MacDonald bowled, and although
an odd ball was on the leg and hit
the batsmen, .there was nothing like
the present method of packing the leg
field for fast bowlers. I don't like it."
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