TOOK CHARGE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 225, 17 May 1932, Page 3

TOOK CHARGE

CROWDS STORM CHURCH AT BRADMAN'S WEDDING. DON'S GREAT MOMENT. SYDNEY. When Don Bradman was married zealous policemen tried hard to lceep the pathway clear, but women and children simply took charge, broke through the barriers, and stormed St. Paul's, Burwood. If ever there was a blushing bridsgroom it was Don. • Never in the long history of St. Paul's had a verger so much to do; never h'ad a bridegroom so much to put up with, and never has there been so blushing a bride. These may seem superlatives, but to Don Bradman, hero of hundreds of tense moments, they were realities. Don Bradman faced his great moment like a sportsman. Despite the presence of the police, who good-humouredly attempted to keep the pathway s clear, hundreds of women and children continually broke through the barriers. Hero-worship seemed to develop into a positive frenzy, to he close to both bride. and bridegroom. The. church itself, which was beautifully decorated with pink flowers and greenery, was filled to its utttermost limit, and that poor, harassed verger hurried hithar and thither continually exhorting visitors and guests to "remain seated and not stand upon the seats." From early afternoon crowds- had thronged the church approaches, eager to make certain of a good position, but it was dark by the time the wedding party arrived, so many were doomed to disappointment. Canon Hughes (vice-president of the Victorian Crieket Association) came over from Melbourne to perform the ceremony. Don Bradman, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Bradman, of Bowral, took for his bride Miss Jessie Menzies,