Editing Gubby Allen (section)

===Change of career===
During the Bodyline tour, his first visit to Australia since the age of six,  Allen spent time visiting friends and family.<ref>Swanton, pp. 112, 114–15.</ref> Before returning to England, the MCC played two Tests in New Zealand. Allen played in both, but batted just once and, still feeling the effects of his injury, took only two wickets.<ref name=figures/><ref>Swanton, p. 140.</ref> The team returned to England via Canada, but Allen parted company in Vancouver to meet friends in Los Angeles. During his trip, he met several Hollywood stars and passed through Chicago and New York on his way back to England.<ref>Swanton, pp. 140–42.</ref><ref name=F346>Frith, p. 346.</ref> In New York, he met and fell in love with Norah Grace, the daughter of a shipping magnate. She travelled to England in 1934, and the pair wrote frequently to each other, but Grace died from [[Bright's disease]] in 1935.<ref name=F346/><ref name="Swanton, pp. 141–42">Swanton, pp. 141–42.</ref>

Allen did not feel suited to working in a department store, and on his return home took a job with the [[Stockbroker|stockbroking company]] David Bevan and Co.<ref name="Swanton, pp. 141–42"/> Consequently, he played little cricket in 1933.<ref name="Swanton">Swanton, p. 143.</ref> He planned to be unavailable for the Test matches against the West Indies, but Larwood was injured and Voce out of form, so he was persuaded to play in the first Test.<ref>Swanton, p. 144.</ref> He played little thereafter that season and declined an invitation to tour India with an MCC team.<ref name=S146>Swanton, p. 146.</ref> In three games that season, he scored 199 runs and took 13 wickets.<ref name=fcbatting/><ref name=fcbowling/> That December, he was elected as a member of the [[London Stock Exchange|Stock Exchange]].<ref name=S147/>

As the 1934 season began, Allen was recovering from an operation to repair a [[Hernia|rupture]] and played only once before that summer's Ashes series, in which [[Bob Wyatt]] captained England.<ref name=S147>Swanton, pp. 147–49.</ref> Injury ruled him out of the second Test, but he was fit for the third.<ref name=S148>Swanton, p. 148.</ref> In a drawn game, he scored 61 runs but took no wickets; troubled by uneven footholds, he bowled three [[Wide (cricket)|wides]] and four [[no-ball]]s during his first over, which lasted for 13 deliveries.<ref>Swanton, pp. 150–51.</ref> He was selected for the fourth Test but, unhappy with his fitness, withdrew to play for Middlesex. He was successful in several games preceding the final, deciding Test, and was included in the team.<ref>Swanton, pp. 152–54.</ref> Australia won comfortably after scoring 701 in their first innings; Allen took four for 170 and was wicketless in the second innings.<ref>Swanton, pp. 155–56.</ref> In two Tests, he took five wickets at an average in excess of 70 and scored 106 runs at 35.33.<ref name=tbat/><ref name=tbowl/> In all first-class games that season he scored 438 runs at 25.76 and took 51 wickets at 27.49.<ref name=fcbatting/><ref name=fcbowling/> Amid growing speculation that Allen would be chosen as the next England captain, Warner arranged for him to captain a low-key tour to Gibraltar in early 1935. During the return journey, Allen pulled a muscle when his ship pitched unexpectedly; the injury limited his cricket during 1935. He played twice before withdrawing from the rest of the season on medical advice.<ref>Swanton, pp. 159–60.</ref> Off the field, Allen was elected to the MCC Committee at the unusually young age of 32.<ref>Swanton, p. 209.</ref>