BARD MISSES CROWN

Grey River Argus, 8 September 1939, Page 5

BARD MISSES CROWN

WROTE WRONG POEM. EISTEDDFOD SENSATION. LONDON, August 12. A sensation was caused at the National Eisteddfod, held at Denbig b ’ Wales, when the authorities withheld the crown poem prize, won by Caradoc Pritchard, a London journalist • • The reason gvien by the tors was that Mr Pritchard had not followed the theme set, which was "Tumults of the World.” Mr Pritchard had turned the subject to one ot Thousands of Welshmen from all over the world who filled the pavilion missed the traditional ceremony of crowning the triumphant bard. Dr Parry Williams, giving the findings of his fellow adjudicators and himself, said there was no doubt that the poem “Suicide” was far superior to anything else in the competition. The withholding of the crown had only occured once before, at Llandudno in 1896. The £2O prize which would normally have gone to Mr Pritchard is to be kept by the Eisteddfod authorities.