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"JACK" WHITE
fourteen letters to J.C. Gibbons, biographer of J.C. White, most dated February-May 1981, manuscript or typed, all signed, responding to his enquiries about the player, from G.O. Allen, L.E.G. Ames, W.H.R. Andrews, A.H. Bakewell, C.J. Barnett (a ms note, written in the margin of Gibbon's own typed letter), Don Bradman, P.G.H. Fender, Lord Home of the Hirsel (typed), F.S. Lee, J.C.W. Macbryan, A. Sandham, R.A. Sinfield, W. Voce, and R.E.S. Wyatt.
Jack White of Somerset was "England's slow left-arm bowler between the reigns of Wilfred Rhodes and Hedley Verity" (Martin-Jenkins). There are many warm tributes to him in these letters, and marked respect for his individual style of bowling. A particularly warm tribute comes from Bradman in a long letter of 41 lines, dated Kensington Park, Sa 5008, 14.2.81. "Jack White was one of the nicest men it has been my pleasure to meet in any walk of life," writes Bradman who analyses his bowling strengths and conveys his broader views on the 1928-29 series. (14)
fourteen letters to J.C. Gibbons, biographer of J.C. White, most dated February-May 1981, manuscript or typed, all signed, responding to his enquiries about the player, from G.O. Allen, L.E.G. Ames, W.H.R. Andrews, A.H. Bakewell, C.J. Barnett (a ms note, written in the margin of Gibbon's own typed letter), Don Bradman, P.G.H. Fender, Lord Home of the Hirsel (typed), F.S. Lee, J.C.W. Macbryan, A. Sandham, R.A. Sinfield, W. Voce, and R.E.S. Wyatt.
Jack White of Somerset was "England's slow left-arm bowler between the reigns of Wilfred Rhodes and Hedley Verity" (Martin-Jenkins). There are many warm tributes to him in these letters, and marked respect for his individual style of bowling. A particularly warm tribute comes from Bradman in a long letter of 41 lines, dated Kensington Park, Sa 5008, 14.2.81. "Jack White was one of the nicest men it has been my pleasure to meet in any walk of life," writes Bradman who analyses his bowling strengths and conveys his broader views on the 1928-29 series. (14)
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