NEW CRICKET STAR

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1930, Page 2

NEW CRICKET STAR

WONDERFUL BRADMAN

A THOUSAND RUNS IN MAY

In D. Bradman, the 21-year-old New Soinli Wales batsman, Australia has produced a player lit to compare with v. Tram per, •). Darling, C. Aiaeartpey or any of the great Australian batsmen ol the past. By scoring 1000 runs for the Australian team in May, he equalled the feats of W. G. Grace, C. Hallows, and W. R. Hammond.

Bradman first came into prominence by his remarkable batting feats while a schoolboy at Bowral, and it was only natural that the brilliant colt should gravitate to Sydney while stil lin his ’teens. Gaining a place in the New South Wales eleven, he scoW a century in his first Sheffield Shield match two centuries against the English team in his first Test match season, tw’o centuries in a match on two occasions, the world’s record score In a first-class match, and the grentest aggregate of runs in an Australian season. What a performaneee for a batsman who had not yet attained his majority.

AN AMAZING RECORD.

Brsulmnn has had only three seasons in first-class cricket, yet he has made 17 century scores, among them being the world's record one of 452 not out, 340 not out, 830, 223, and now his big Surrey score (writes E. H. M. Baillie in the ‘‘Sporting Globe,”) He and Warren Bardsley are the only Australians who twice in a sesason in England have made a double century, and he has now equalled the feats of W. G. Grace, C. Hallows, and W. It. Hammond by making 1000 runs before the end of May. Grace, Hallows, and Hammond accomplished their feats during the- month of May and Bradman scored 75 of his runs on the last day of that month. No Australian previously Has reached anything like such a total in England before the end of. May. Furthermore, Ponsford will have to look to his laurels as the greatest maker of double centuries Australia has had if Bradman continues in the way he is going. Ponsford at present has eight scores exceeding 200 to. his credit, next to him being V. T. Trumper, M. A. Noble and W. W, Armstrong, each with seven, and W. Bard,sley. with six, Ponsford who is now 29, may yet make many more of these high scores, but Bradman, who is 21 will have a big pull over him if he retains his form—and there is no reason why he should not do so.

BOYHOOD FEATS REPEATED.

From one who as a mere boy was able to make such scores as 300 and 340 in the cricket of his. country town anything might bo exacted but despite these youthful feats no one could have expected him to perform as he has done, He is just at the age, too, when he should he improving all the time, and one cannot imagine what feats, he might accomplish in the future, His success is all the more remarkable from the fact that ns a hoy he had batting faults that would have militated against the success of 99 out of 100, but he was the 100th, His re» markable ability is shown by the way he overcame these faults, for there is very little trace of them in his batting now, He may not he quite a Trumper or a Macartney in point of style, but he is not very far behind them.

What the future holds for this boy no one can tell, but it surely must be something very much out of the ordinary.