"BRADMANITIS."

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 210, 5 September 1930, Page 11

"BRADMANITIS."

EXCITEMENT IN SYDNEY.

CITY ORGANIST'S TRIBUTE

CONGRATULATIONS TO MOTHER

(From Our...Own. Correspondent.)

SYDNEY, August 29

All Australia went wild when Woodfull and hie men. clinched their hold on the Ashes at Kennington Oval, England, at the week-end. In Sydney and Melbourne there were remarkable street scenes in the early hours of the morning among the crowds who were listening to the radio shops' loud-speakers. Throughout the fifth Test--in fact, during all the Test eeries—big crowds have waited in the city and suburbs, in picture shows and halls, listening until 4.30 a.m. each day to the ball-by-ball description, broadcast by a Sydney radio station. As the match drew to a close" on'this occasion the , crowds in tho city streets became almost uncontrollable. Their numbers were swelled by the theatre-goers and homecomers from dances.

Dress-suited men and fashionablygowned women mingled with unkempt Domain habituee, and as each English wicket fell all and sundry executed a miniature war daace in the etreet. When the final Englieh batsman was sent to the? pavilion, there was pandemonium. Cars tooted their horns, ferries Bounded their sirens loud and long and railway trains screeched and wailed the news through the euburbs. Don Bradman, of course, ie the licro with the Sydney crowds, and cheers and shouts were raised for his fine .performance in ecoring his third Test'double century. As ,a tribute to the Bosvral youth'e batting, Mr. Ernest Truman, city organist, at hie Sunday afternoon recital in the Sydney Town Hall, arranged his programme from composers the initial letters of whose names spelled B.R.A.D.M.A.N.

Even in the churches reference was made to the Australian victory, and. at the Congregational Church, Sydney, a sermon on "Youth Triumphant" was based on the Australian team's success.

Mrs. Bradman, mother of Australia's famous batsman, has been deluged with letters and telegrams from all parts of the world. One letter, from a cricket enthusiast in the West Indies, who did not know her addreee addressed his congratulatory letter to "Mrs. Bradman, mother of Don Bradman, Australia." Needless to eay, the letter found its destination without any trouble.