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BRADMAN TAKES THE SALUTE [By Air Mail —From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON. sth May. Don Bradman is winning golden opinions already as skipper of the Australian cricket team. His debonair cordiality to all and sundry, including the journalists, is in marked contrast with some earlier Australian cricketers. He is also developing into a first-class impromptu orator—a sort of cricket Demosthenes of the genial sporting genre. Even though the Don gets into treble figures in each of his Test innings, he looks like being thoroughly popular with our cricket crowds and cricketers alike. When the tourists were at Gibraltar on their voyage to England, they attended a church parade. General ••Tim” Harington. who is one of the keenest sportsmen in the British Army, though his chief love is rugger, invited the Australian captain to stand with him and take the salute as the troops—incidentally the King's Liverpools, ‘Tim's” own regiment—inarched past. A photograph of this interesting occasion reveals the Don standing beside the General, with his hat in one hand, and his other hand at the salute. The Anzacs were better at scrapping than drilling, but even they could have told Bradman that one must never salute bareheaded
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 30 May 1938, Page 8
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