BIG HIT AT CRICKET
BRADMAN BREAKS WINDOWS.
Playing in a picnic match at Callan Park recently, says a Sydney newspaper, Don Bradman broke two windows of a neighbouring house by a mighty stroke. The indignant householder confiscated the ball and refused to return it.
The match was between teams captained by T. H. Bosward and B. J. Folkard. It provided a day of merry cricket, nearly 600 runs being scored. Bradman made 143—giving a characteristic display that was greatly appreciated. One stroke sent the ball over a high wall, and it crashed through the window of a house in Darling Road. The ball then rebounded through another window. A fieldsman called at the house and asked for the ball. "It will be returned" he was informed by a startled but determined woman, "when the damage is paid for." No amount of persuasion could make her hand over the ball, and a new ball was brought into play.
Bi adman was particularly severe on A.* A. Mailey, and it was orf his bowling that the window-smashing stroke wa^ Eaaaijfe
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LIII, Issue 13, 16 February 1932, Page 4
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