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Barnes Challenges
Board Man
OYDNEY, Monday .—Victorian Board of Con
^ trol member, Dr. A. Robertson, will be
asked for an explanation of a remark he made
on Saturday about the Sid Barnes case.
Dr. Robertson is reported to have said that
only half the story had been told of Barnes*
omission from the 1951 Australian Test team.
This followed Barnes' suc
cessful libel suit in the Dis
trict Court on Friday.
Barnes' solicitor, Mr. W. J.
Sinclair, today sent a letter
to Dr. Robertson.
In the letter Mr. Sinclair
said Barnes demanded that
Dr. Robertson make pub
licly available any other
reasons which he claimed
justified the Board taking
the action it did.
The letter said, in part:
"Our client has " suffered
enough by the insinuations and
innuendoes resulting from the
Board's action.
"He is not prepared to allow
similar innuendoes by you to
pass.
"I am instructed to inform
you that if there are any addi
tional reasons and such reasons
would justify reasonable men
iu excluding Barnes from the
team, he will take no further
action.
"However, if the reasons
given are not such as would
justify the Board's action, then
he will sue you for defamation.
"If, on' the other hand, you
refuse to divulge the matter in
your conversations with the
Press, he will sue for defama
tion in respect of these state
ments."
The letter also said that as
the serving -of any legal pro
cesses would render the matter
sub judice, no writ would be
issued until after the Septem
ber meeting of the Board of
Control.
It adds: "It is not desired to
stifle any discussion which may
take place at that meeting."
♦ * * •
MELBOURNE, Monday.—
I Dr. Allen Robertson, a, Vic
torian member of the Aus
tralian Cricket Board of Con
trol, tonight refused to
amplify his statement that
only "half the Barnes story" •
iisa&feeien.- «i
. Br. Robertson attended to
night's annual meeting of the
Victorian Cricket Association.
No mention of Sid Barnes was
made at the meeting.
Dr. Robertson was reap
pointed as a Victorian delegate
Control.
Mr. J. A. Seitz, who was re
appointed president of the
V.C.A., told the meeting that
Board members had a "thank
less task. They are always Aunt
Sallies to be shied at."
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