“GREATEST OF THEM ALL”

Evening Star, Issue 21822, 11 September 1934, Page 4

“GREATEST OF THEM ALL”

PRAISE FOR BRADMAN One of the features of the present series of tests has been the remarkable gathering of old-time cricketers, English, Australian, and -Now Zealand, who get together in the section of the. stand which is reserved for Australian visitors (says ‘ The Referee’). At Nottingham, Lords, Old Trafford, and Leeds, there have been reunions of players, soipo of whom have not seen each other lor nearly forty years. The Australian ex-inter-nationals, Tom M'Kibbin, Sep Carter, Warwick Armstrong, and J. O’Connor, have so far witnessed every test, but at each ground they have been joined by old English internationals. At Leeds they met old Bobby Peel, who is now in his seventy-eighth year. He went out to Australia in the ’eighties, and he has seen every test match, with one or two exceptions, that has been played in England. He told me that in his opinion there were no batsmen of tho past or present who could approach Bradman. “ You can have all your Ranjis, Trumpers, and Haywards,” ho said, but give me the little man who has been piling up the runs to-day.”