Fender replied: “Yes.” Jardine watched as Hobbs and Sandham played three overs from Larwood when the Surrey innings began shortly after lunch. “He does not look so fast to me,” Jardine said. The innings was well established when Jardine faced Larwood who was brought back for his second spell. The first two balls beat Jardine for pace before he managed to make contact with the third. “He immediately turned to the pavilion and raised his cap to me,” said Fender. Jardine (53) was last out, his stumps shattered by Larwood. It is also worth pointing out that Jardine made 64 for the Gentlemen at Lord’s in July 1932 against a Players’ attack including Larwood, Voce and Tate. In the final Test at The Oval in 1930, Bradman had given hints of discomfort when facing Larwood on a pitch freshened by rain, sparring dangerously at rising balls, although it did not stop him making 232. Jardine had spotted this when watching a film of the innings. An idea grew. Frank Foster was consulted about his 1911-12 series field-settings for sharp, left-arm in swing and talks took place with Fender and others. During the August Bank Holiday Oval fixture of 1932, Carr invited Larwood and Voce for a meal. Larwood felt there was nothing unusual in this - “we were always going out with the skipper” – but this time was different. Carr said Fender had told him Jardine wanted to learn more about Larwood and Voce “and proposed to ask the two bowlers and myself out to dinner to discuss things. We all went to the grill room at the Piccadilly Hotel.” Larwood’s biographer Duncan Hamilton described the grill room as having a white, high ceiling, ornate coving, Corinthian columns inlaid with gold, chandeliers that cast a tallow light and white tablecloths laid with silver and cut glass. Larwood said: “Leg theory was mentioned. I could see what they had in mind. Bradman was the big problem. He was the key man in Australia and Jardine wanted to curb his rungetting.” Jardine asked him if he could bowl at the leg stump, making the ball come up into the body all the time so that Bradman had to play his shots to leg. Larwood replied that he thought that he could and that it was better to rely on speed and accuracy when bowling to Bradman because he murdered anything loose. Larwood went along with the idea as he felt that it was the best chance of dominating Bradman. Walter Hammond also left an account in which he visualised Carr demonstrating field placings with bread rolls, pepper pots and silver coins on the white tablecloth. As the group broke up, Carr is said to have taken Jardine to one side and said quietly: “If any of them are hard to move, tell Lol that they have been saying he is not so fast as he used to be. Then he’ll show them what pace on the leg stick really is.” The county match, influenced by the weather, was drawn. Nottinghamshire made 267, with Keeton and Carr among the runs and Maurice Allom taking five for 69. They gained a lead of 90, Voce four for 50, Larwood two for 44. The pair appeared to have experimented with a form of leg theory. The Times reported that they bowled to ‘many short legs,’ Surrey’s wicket-keeper Ted Brooks –unbeaten with 37 on a rain-affected Monday when Surrey reached 130 for eight - being ‘hit on almost every part of his body.’ England won the 1932-33 series 4-1, Larwood taking 33 wickets at 19.51, Voce 15 at 27.13 and Bradman averaging 56.57 in four Tests. After the winter of controversy there was an echo in the 1933 Whitsun match. The local newspaper had organised a shilling fund for Larwood and Voce which produced £388. A presentation was made to the two bowlers by Douglas Jardine on the upper deck of the West Wing stand at Trent Bridge on Monday evening. Silver salvers were also presented from the county club. Larwood also treasured a silver ash tray from Jardine, inscribed: “To Harold for the Ashes 1932-33. From a Hatching Bodyline 78