BRADMAN ASSESSED
A MASTER OF THE BAT. I suppose no man has ever been more of a master of his job than Bradman is a master of his job, says Mr Neville Cardus, in writing of Bradman’s early successes on the present English tour. He is as good as a batsman as Bach was as a composer. Yet no; he lacks felicity—that effortless touch of nature which makes the difference between a thing that grows and a thing that is designed—it does not fall on
him “by grace.” There is usually the hint of severe watchfulness, even of suspicion. An innings by a Woolley just happens, like a bloom on the peach on the sun-stained wall. This is not to deny Bradman style and. a kind of beauty;- people speak nonsense when they say Bradman does not ever move the aesthetic senses. A constructed thing can be beautiful, if it . cannot be spontaneous. The flight, of a bird and the flight of an aeroplane mark the difference between an innings by a Woolley.and one by a. Bradman. And in a war the aeroplane has the grandest eagle beaten.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 July 1938, Page 10
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188BRADMAN ASSESSED Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 July 1938, Page 10
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