CRITICISM OF BRADMAN

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26095, 24 April 1950, Page 7

CRITICISM OF BRADMAN

BOOK BY FORMER TEST CAPTAIN

(Bee. 9 p.m.) LONDON, April 22. Lord Tennyson, a former England captain, attacks Sir Donald Bradman in. his book “Sticky Wickets.*' which will be published next Monday, says the “Evening Standard.” Lord Tennyson says Denis Compton is a greater cricketer than Bradman, and that Bradman played cricket and captained his side “with a ruthless efficiency which I would say was not strictly in accordance with the tradition and best outlook in our greatest game." Lord Tennyson's last outburst is a comment on an incident at Lord's in 1948. when, he says, ne sent in his name as a former England captain with the intention of making a courtesy call on Bradman. In reply he said he received a message from Bradman that he was “too busy to see me." At the time efforts were made to get Bradman to say something, but "he didn’t even say it was a mistake or that ha was sorry. Even if he had said he meant what he said, it would have been something. No, this mannerless little man just said nothing." The “Evening Standard” columnist says Bradman has many warm admirers in this country as a man as well as a cricketer. "These, like his countrymen in Australia, will resent Lord Tennyson’s comment," he says. "Lord Tennyson may now And he is on the stickiest wicket he ever experienced.”