PRESSMEN BESIEGE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7201, 26 April 1930, Page 7

PRESSMEN BESIEGE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN

“Riddled” by Cameramen .CARTOONISTS DISTURB FIRST MEAL IN LONDON BRADMAN A COT CASE. TTnltCtl Press Association. —By Electric Telegfaph.—Copyright. Received Friday, 7.0 p.m. LONDON, April 24. /roxn Naples to London, the Australian cricketers were at all times besieged with interviewers and cameramen for whom they nearly always obligingly posed, Wcodfull setting a good example in this respect. The team's footsteps were .dogged everywhere in Paris and the cricketers on boarding tho Channel steamer, wore surprised, to find an army of photographers “shooting” them as they walked aboard and pestering them throughout the crossing. Grimmett and Kippnx proved camera-shy. Soverul photographers despairingly asked Mr. Kelly' of- the whereabouts of Bradman, Mr. Kelly said: “You have not a million to one chance of getting him. He’s a bad sailor and is restmg below.”

Shortly afterwards, Bradman was seen being led towards tho deck, whero he posed. Even on their arrival at their hotel at St. Pancras, artists interrupted the players' meal, doing sketches. The team is keen to get into action, all saying they feel the need to loosen up.

Visitors’ First Practise PROSPECT OF SOFT WICKET AT WORCESTER. Received Friday, 11 p-m. LONDON, April 24. The prospect of a soft wicket for th» opening .match with Worcester was in “Plum” Warner’s mind at the Australia House welcome, when ho playfully recalled that in the days of King Canute his tax-gatherers went to Worcester and were annihilated with battle axes. Ho hoped it would not dismay the youth personified by Bradman and Jackson. Englishmen would be delighted. if either came to tho wizardry cf the wondrous Victor Tnunper. A brief practice at Lords in the afternoon was not a real try-out, the bowlers not attempting strenuous efforts in view of tho slippery ground and soft pitch, nevertheless, most found their land legs most satisfactorily. The batsmen shaped well and McCabe is improving. After watching the praetieo on the wicket, which was almost a mud heap, Col. Philip Trevor writes, “Grimmett clearly retains all his powers. Ho can spin a googly and what is more unusual, can make a low delivery effective.”