CRICKET SENSATION

Grey River Argus, 24 September 1932, Page 5

CRICKET SENSATION

DON BRADMAN May Not Play for Australia BAN ON PRESS ARTICLES. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn). (Received September 23 at 8.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, September 23. The Cricket Board of Control, by a further decision, prohibits test match players from writing for the press, excepting those whose sole occupation is journalism. Thus, Ponsford, Woodfnli, Grimmett and Bradman will come within this ban. Ponsford was formerly employed by the “Melbourne Herald.” but is now emploved by the Melbourne Crickex Club.' Woodfull is a schoolteacher, while Bradman is employed in a sports emporium. He has recently signed a contract to supply articles to a Sydney newspaper. BRADMAN AND THE “SUN.” (Received September 23 at 9.30 p.m.; SYDNEY - , September 23. Following on the Board of Control decision, Don Bradman threw a bombshell into cricketing circles in regard to the player-writer question when he declared this afternoon: “If the Board of Control has said its last word, it means that I will not bo available for test cricket. I have signed a contract to write articles, and I must observe it. I cannot allow cricket to interfere with my work. Unless the State of New South Wales has a similar rule, I shall at least be able to play for New South Wales.”

The “Sun” newspaper, however, with which Bradman has contracted to write a series of articles, announces in to-day’s last edition: “The ‘Sun’ will not stand unreasonably in the way of Bradman playing test cricket. ’ ’