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Farewell To
Larwood
Herald Special Service
LONDON, Thursday.
— "A figure of cricket
history has left Eng
land to live with ,'the
enemy' " writes the
Daily Mall In farewell-
ing Harold ("Lol") Lar
wood.
"The man who turned
away from the ship's' rail-
as she stood out to the
river today sailed on the
same Orontes from the
same quay In September,
1932, for the epic Test
"Thie biography of Lar
wood is the history of an
heroic period of English
cricket. It was in 1926 That
the 21-year-old Notting
ham miner, with less than
two seasons' experience of
first-class cricket, wfls a
Junior member of Chap
man's team which beat
Colllns's Australians at the
Oval and won the ashes
after 14 years.
"If 'war makes rattling
good history,' Lol is cricket
history. For never, as one
player said, has Test
cricket been more like war
than when Larwood and
the calm, dry-witted Doug
las Jardine stood in the
centre of the cricket tur
moil In Australia, and Lar-
wood was the major fac
tor in the recovery of the
ashes in 1932-33.
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