DON BRADMAN

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3848, 3 October 1932, Page 5

DON BRADMAN

Gets a Negative Answer TO REQUEST AS WRITER CRICKET CONTROL BOARD BANS USE OF THE PEN ALTERNATIVE TO ENGLAND By Telegraph—Press Assn —Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received Oct. 3, 9 a.m.) Sydney, October 3. Pom Bradman’s application to I*e allowed to fulfil the term s of liis contract a portion of wliio'j binds him to vi itv for Assocgi,bed NewspapersLinitud (Sydney Sun) kaia bee’, refused by tlie Cricket Board of Control.

in liis application the world's greatest hutsnian pointed out that, he could not truthfully say that Wd sole occupation was journalism, in which event he. would escape the player-writer ban. He also emphasised that he was party to another contract to a sports , good? firm, by whom he was part-time employed. He insisted that ho must be ahV fulfil the terms of his contract w.uch .was made ot the time received a lucrative offer to play »tt Enghiind. The Sun’s directors have offered to release Bradman from the part of hi s contract regarding: writing on tlvs subject Of first-class . crickdt.