CRICKET TEST.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 July 1938, Page 5

CRICKET TEST.

RAIN DELAYS START. TOSS UNDECIDED—TEAMS UNANNOUNCED. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 8. It is raining heavily at Manchester and there will he no play in the third cricket Test between England and Australia before lunch. A long delay is likely. The toss has not been decided and the teams are not announced, A later message stated that rain fell at intervals in the early afternoon, and a decision to abandon play for the day was made shortly after 2.30 p.m.

AUSTRALIAN TEAM BEHIND . BRADMAN NEWSPAPERS MAKE LUCRATIVE OFFERS. (Beteived This Day, 10 a.m.) LONDON, July S Al a meeting the Australian team dieidcni ,o appeal to the Board of Control to rescind the ban on Bradman’s wLe going to England. The news was kept a secret until Thursday night that it was the intention ol ihe p.avers to make a coufideutial appeal to the board on Bradman’s behalf. Bradman naturally was uw r are of the position and appreciated the demonstration of the team’s solidarity. Players, however, wore dismayed at the leakage of the news, which had front page publicity.

The London manager, Mr. Jeancs, who is a permanent official of the board, refuses to discuss the question, but there is no doubt the players are taking a firm stand and are in sympathy with their captain.

Bradman meantime mnaims silent and lias no intention of dishonouring his contract with his board. He will return with the Australian team. Further lucrative offers have been made to Bradman to join London news papers, 'two whereof have offered to pay his wife’s expenses to London. Lancashire League is prepared for Bradman "to write his own ticket’’ if he will play in the professional competition.

Bradman, after consultation with Mr. Jeanes to-day, decided to make no statement at present.

AUSTRALIAN PRESS BEHIND BRADMAN SYDNEY, July S. Most Australian newspapers arc standing behind Bradman and decrying the Board of Control, which is fiercely attacked. The Sun, in an editorial, refers to the Bradman and Hopman eases and declares that both tennis and cricket are ruled by dictators. It adds: "We have rocked with laughter at some things Fascism has imposed on totalitarian countries. Can we hear their shrieks of laughter now?”