LETTERS TO BRADMAN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 147, 23 May 1934, Page 2

LETTERS TO BRADMAN.

STORY DISCOUNTED. The London Star asserts that Bradman has been bombarded with insulting and threatening letters since Ins arrival in England. No writers signed their names, but sheltered behind absurd pseudonyms like “Fairplay.” The writers inform Bradman that even a personal bodyguard will not save him from violence, and suggest that he is Public Enemy No. 1. Bradman does not even get the laugh from the letters that they gave him, as lie is wondering wliat his reception will be at Nottingham, because some of the letters bore the Nottingham post-mark. He cannot even make a declaration asking the writers, to stop the silly practice, as lie is precluded by the Board of Control regulations. The Star says it considers the letters are foolish reprisals for Larwood incidents, and suggests they may affect Bradman’s play, as, naturally. Test players are keyed up. It adds that they are foreign to British sportsmanship. All London will agree in deploring them. The manager of the team, Air Bushby, says he has heard nothing of such letters. “Bradman would certainly have told me if he were worried. I saw him yesterday, and sat for a considerable time with him. He was well and cheerful, and apparently had not a worry on his mind.”