CRICKET.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1930, Page 5

CRICKET.

BRADMAN’S RECORDS

Some of Bradman's records are as follows:

Highest score by an Australian in a Test match, namely 334 runs, World’s record score of 452, not out, in a first-class nuitch. Only Australian to score 1000 run 9 in May on English wickets, ■ Youngest player in the world to .score 400, or, more, . in a first-class match.

Highest aggregate 0690 runs) made in a season in - Australian first-class cricket.

Two highest aggregates for Australians in Australia in first-class cricket. The only Australian to score a century in one innings and a double century in the nevt innings in the same day in a first-class match.

'Wth Fairfax, holds Australian fifth wicket record in a Test match. Highest, individual score in a Test match, 334 runs. .

EARNINGS OF BIG CRICKETERS,

THE AUSTRALIANS IN BUSINESS

It paysjp play .cricket. The, players themselves will be the first to admit t,h : ,s (states the Sydney “Daily Guardian’’). Buti.it > was not always the lucrative employment it is to-day, nor did it offer qtheif profitable channels of adding grist to' the mill. The pre-war period teems with chveils of exajhpl.es of international men who, having sacrificed their future position in life to the tinselled glamour of tile.; game, finished their clays in barren comfort . . . and in some eases poverty. But to-day ability in cricket offers-^*well, let us see. Three years ago Bradman was an auctioneer’s clerk at.Bowral. Possibly his salary was £8 a week. To-day his earnings in. pounds must considerably exceed his highest score. He holds a responsible position with Mick Simmons, Ltd., of Sydney, and also receives a royalty from the English firm that manufacture Sykes’ bats. Kinpax was a grocer’s assistant at Bondi until a few years ago, when he opened a sports depot in A Tar tin Plnee, Sydney. Business grew so rapidly that to-day lie is the head of one of the most flourishing sporting businesses in Sydney.

Oldfield was a clerk in the railways at possibly not more than £7 a week. To-day, with C. G. Macartney, he is the owner of the prosperous sporting business in Hunter street Sydney. Jackson went straight'from school to Kippax, but the sporting department of Anthony Hordern and Sons, Ltd.; Q vclney, now pays highly for his services.

Fairfax was looking for a job ns an electrical salesman when Murdochs, Ltd., in Park street, Sydney, saw his value from an advertisement point of view. Pre-war cricketers were not nearly •so fortunate, although several of them have to thank cricket for the opulence tljcv now enjoy. Warwick Armstrong was a clerk in the employ of the Melbourne Cricket o lijb. The admiring head of a big whisky firm, while the Australian team was on tour, appointed him head oi* rhe business in Australia at a big sal-

C. G. Macartney was a clerk up at the railway on an ordinary salary. He received a testimonial of £2700, part of which he invested in his sporting business. Tn addition he contributes to English and Australian newspapers. All these p’a.vers owe their position rlireetlv to their ability to plav the game of cricket. Tt is to their credit •'jVit they have displayed a similar ability to hold down their positions.