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...cricket enthusiasts last week got their first chance to see in action a 23-year-old Australian with a wide grin and protruding ears who is indisputably the greatest cricket batsman in the world. He, George Donald Bradman, with the other members of an Australian team that has been touring Canada, arrived in Manhattan to play three matches against teams of West Indians and one on the grounds of the Staten Island Cricket Club. Fatigued by the Canadian tour, in which his team won 14 out of 17 matches, and bothered by the sun, Batsman Bradman...
...ledge and flopped into the arms of an Army officer. Nerves stretched to the breaking point. Immediately after the shocks, the city had been put under martial law. No one rested, but soldiers relieved from digging in the ruins patrolled the city with fixed bayonets. Col. Frederic C. Bradman of the Marines ordered the patrols to shoot all stray dogs on sight (fear of rabies) and anyone caught looting. The crack of a sentry's rifle tumbled one man like a jackrabbit; in his pockets were seven $1,000 bills, dug from the shell of one of Ma nagua...
...Australian cricket team: the first day's play in a match with the English team at Leeds, 458 runs and 3 wickets lost. Don Bradman broke the world's record score with a total...