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AUSTRALIANS ON TOUR SHOT— BY PHOTOGRAPTTBPM ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND LONDON, April 23. From Naples to London the Australian cricketers were at all times besieged with interviewers and cameraor w^om they nearly always obligingly posed, Woodfull setting a good example in this respect. The team’s footsteps were dogged everywhere in Paris. The cricketers on board the Channel steamer were surprised to find an army of photographers shooting them as they walked aboard and pestering them throng) out the crossing. Grimmett and Kippax proved camera shy. Several photographers despairingly asked Kelly the whereabouts of Bradman. Kelly said: “You have not a million to one chance of getting him. He’s a bad sailor and is resting below.” Shortly afterwards Bradman was seen being led towards the deck, where he posed. Even on arrival at the hotel at Saint Pancras artists interrupted the players at their meal, doing sketches. The team is keen to get into action and say they feel a need to loosen U P-
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 97, 26 April 1930, Page 7
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164CRICKET Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 97, 26 April 1930, Page 7
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