On the occasion of the 111th anniversary of Donald George Bradman’s birthday – August 27 2019 – I searched up a number of unusual non-cricketing items about The Don from contemporary newspapers, with thanks to the National Library of Australia’s glorious Trove database:
Happy eleventy-first birthday to Sir Donald Bradman. Being born on August 27 made him a Virgo, as the astrology page of the Australian Women’s Weekly of 14/9/38 reminds us: pic.twitter.com/ajPwN4eVSp
— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) August 27, 2019
“Kindly and clever Virgoans are always in danger of developing into exacting tyrants. The remedy is in thejr own hands.”
June Marsden, President of the Astrological Research Society with advice for the future head of the Australian Cricket Board of Control https://t.co/e4QRGywn3M— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) August 27, 2019
They don’t publish high school exam results in the local papers any more. Don Bradman’s Intermediate Certificate exam results reported in the Robertson Advocate of 23/2/23 (source https://t.co/5ypoakaFMm) pic.twitter.com/ycJ391mf7D
— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) August 27, 2019
On the 111th anniversary of the birth of Donald George Bradman here is the sheet music for his musical composition “Every Day Is A Rainbow Day For Me”… https://t.co/FYA2CQKJ1X
— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) August 27, 2019
and here is “Every Day Is A Rainbow Day For Me” sung by the Don’s granddaughter Greta: https://t.co/L2KfOkMbin
— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) August 27, 2019
“The decisive factor was the amazing footwork of Bradman, who has only been playing squash three years. He has been playing a fair amount of golf this season.” https://t.co/hKRcn7Csuc
— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) August 27, 2019