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by: jack fredricks - Mon, 19 Jun 2023 04:13 UTC

https://twitter.com/nimishdubey/status/1669976087827304449

An amused Don Bradman receives a telegram during a tour match at Worcester, in 1938. The ‘keeper (Syd Buller?) clearly is less so!
Wonder what was there in the telegram. The Don got 258.
This was not an unusual sight, we are told. Post haste indeed

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by: John Hall - Mon, 19 Jun 2023 09:33 UTC

In message <8ec76191-3469-4c7c-93fd-f18787b3c550n@googlegroups.com>,
jack fredricks <jzfredricks@gmail.com> writes
>https://twitter.com/nimishdubey/status/1669976087827304449
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>An amused Don Bradman receives a telegram during a tour match at
>Worcester, in 1938. The ‘keeper (Syd Buller?) clearly is less so!

Checking, yes it was Buller.

>
>Wonder what was there in the telegram. The Don got 258.
>This was not an unusual sight, we are told. Post haste indeed
>

One would hope that the telegraph boy knew enough not to come onto the
field until the end of an over.
--
John Hall "[It was] so steep that at intervals the street broke into steps,
like a person breaking into giggles or hiccups, and then resumed
its sober climb, until it had another fit of steps."
Ursula K Le Guin "The Beginning Place"

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Bradman, you've got mail!	jack fredricks
Re: Bradman, you've got mail!	John Hall