BRADMAN DEFENDED
OSCAR ASCHE’S FIERY VERSE
LONDON. Nov. .’»)
Indignant because a section of the British public persists in regarding Bradman as a fallen idol, Mr. Oscar Asclie, the actor-manager, to whom cricket is almost as vital an interest ns acting, has published fiery verso in defence of Australia’s great batsman. lie denounces “envious scribes’’ who “indite envenomed headlines,’’ and uses strong words to express bis contempt for those erstwhile admirers who now vie with one another, “gloating like ghouls’’ over Bradman’si run of bad luck. The last two lines of the verse rear! as follows:
Come Bradman, rise, strike out, be
,Hitlers stun By fresh deeds prove you are still Don —not done.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17958, 9 December 1932, Page 10
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113BRADMAN DEFENDED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17958, 9 December 1932, Page 10
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