BAN ON WIVES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23085, 9 July 1938, Page 15

BAN ON WIVES

THE BOARD DECRIED INDIGNANT NEWSPAPERS MRS. BRADMAN'S STATEMENT RADIO TELEPHONE TALK By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received July 8. 11.55 p.m.) SYDNEY. July 8 The report that during a radio telephone conversation with her husband she had expressed her indignation at the Board of Control refusing his application for her to join him in England, has been denied by Mrs. Don Bradman.

Mrs. Bradman said the radio telephone conversation was so unsatisfactory that sho was unablo to express either indignation or disappointment, even if sho felt so inclined.

Most of the Australian newspapers are standing behind Bradman and decrying tho Board of Control, which is fiercely attacked in an editorial in the Sun. The article refers to tho cases of both Bradman and the Davis Cup tennis player, Hopinan, and alleges that tennis and cricket are ruled by dictators.

" Wo have rocked with laughter at some things Fascism has imposed on totalitarian countries," it states. "Can wo hear their shrieks of laughter now? " TEAM'S SOLIDARITY SUPPORT OF CAPTAIN APPEAL TO THE BOARD MORE OFFERS TO BRADMAN (Received July S, 11.55 p.m.) LONDON, July 8 At a meeting of the Australian cricket team it was decided to appeal to the Australian Board of Control to rescind the ban on Bradman's wife coining to England. The news was kept secret until last night. It was the intention of tlie players to make a confidential appeal to the board on Brad- 1 - man's behalf. Bradman naturally was aware of the position and appreciated the demonstration of the team's solidarity. The players, however, aro dismayed at the leakage of the news, which has been given front page publicity in London.

The manager of the Australian team, Mr. W. H. Jeanes, who is a permanent official of the board, refuses to discuss the question, but there is no doubt that the players are taking a firm stand in sympathy with their captain. Bradman, in the meantime, remains silent. He has no intention of dishonouring his contract with tho board and will return with the Australian team. Further lucrative offers have been made to him to join London newspapers, two of which have offered to pay his wife's expenses to London. The Lancashire League is prepared for Bradman to "write his own ticket" if he will play in the professional competition. Bradman, after a consultation with Mr. Jeanes to-day, decided to make no statement at present. The Star, a London newspaper, says there is 110 question of defying the ban on Mrs. Bradman, but Bradman is likely to refuse again to visit England unless the contract is altered.

TENNIS INCIDENT MRS. HARRY HOPMAN NOT TO REJOIN, HUSBAND SYDNEY. July 8 An incident similar to the ban on Mrs. Bradman by the Board of Cricket Control has developed in tennis circles. Mrs. Harry Hopman, wife of the captain of the Australian Davis Cup team now on the Continent, having received permission to compete in the mixed doubles in New York with her

husband, the Australian Lawn Tennis Association has decreed that tho pair must not stay at the same hotel and must not travel in the same train. It has been decreed that they are not to meet until they embark at San Francisco on tho journey homo.