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...What's the score? How many did Bradman make...
...being found alive. They were writing last messages to their relatives when found. What they wanted to know was the score of the fifth and final cricket match between Australia and England for "The Ashes," and what had happened to Australia's famed George Donald ('"Braddies") Bradman, ablest cricket player in the world...
...looked as if all eternity might well be needed for Australia's first innings. Australia's Don Bradman, currently the most famed cricketer in the world, who delights audiences with the incautious brilliance of his batting, had one of his best days. He and Ponsford stayed at bat for all of one day, rolled up a total of 451 runs, a record for a test match partnership. Australia's captain, William M. Woodfull, defended his wicket cleverly for 49 runs more. When the last Australian wicket fell, the total was 701 runs, just short of a test...
Particularly disastrous for Australia, this year's series-which will not be officially finished until the superfluous fifth test has been played this week-started in Sydney, where England won by ten wickets. Australia won the second match at Melbourne but only after famed Don Bradman, whom Antipodeans justifiably consider the greatest batsman in the world, had been bowled for a duck on the first pitch in full view of 64,000 admirers. The third match, at Adelaide, gave rise to a deplorable controversy about the "body-line" bowling of Harold Larwood, who aimed his pitches so that they...
...sporting public of Australia was excited last week by two important events: the national lawn tennis championship and the cricket tests against England for a nonexistent trophy called "The Ashes." There was most excitement "Down Under" about the cricket. Not only had famed Batsman Don Bradman been bowled for a duck (put out with no runs) in the second match, but the crack British bowler, Harold Larwood, had consistently shown a distressing disregard for the safety of opposing batsmen. In the third match he had struck and injured Australia's W. M. Woodfull and W. A. Oldfield. The Australian...