BRADMAN ASSESSED
T suppose no man has ever been more of a master of his job than Bradman is a master of his job, says Mr Neville Cardus. in writing of Bradman’s earlv successes on the present English tour. Ho is as good a batsman as Bach was as a composer. Yet no; he lacks felicity—that effortless touch of Nature which makes the difference between a thing that grows and a thing that is constructed. A Bradman innings is designed—it does not. fall on him “by grace.” There is usually the hint of severe watchfulness, oven of suspicion. An innings by a Woollev just happens, like the bloom on the peach on the sun-stained wall. This 1= not to deny Bradman style and a kind of beauty; people speak nonsense when they say that Bradman does not ever move the aesthetic senses, A constructed thine can be heaußfnl. if it cannot be snontaoeous. The fbeht of a bird and the flight of an reronlnne mark the difference between an innines bv a Woollev and one bv a Bradman. And in a war the aeroplane has the grandest eagla beaten.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23527, 16 June 1938, Page 14
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