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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 7, 8 July 1938, Page 9

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CRICKETERS' WIVES

MRS. BRADMAN INDIGNANT

TALK WITH HUSBAND

United Press Association —By Electric Tele« ! graph—Copyright. ! SYDNEY, July 7. Cricket enthusiasts in Australia are greatly interested in the duel which may-result between the Board of Control and Don Bradman as a result of the former's decision, announced yesterday, not to grant the Australian cricket captain's application for his wife to join him. in England at the end of the present tour. No reasons were given for the refusal, which also involves the remainder of the Australian team. The "Sun" features a story from its cricket correspondent in London today saying that Bradman is obviously hurt by the board's decision and that a "sensational statement"- by Bradman is expected. The "Sun" also reports the fact that Mrs. Bradman, who is in Sydney, had a radio telephone conversation with her husband in-England in which she expressed her indignation at the decision. Dr. Allen Robertson, chairman pi the Board of "Control, states (that the/board refused to discriminate between the wives of players and the wife of the captain. He added that the board had already granted a concession not hitherto exercised by allowing the wivQs to join their husbands at Ceylon on the homeward journey.