Bowyang's Defence: Trouble with Gunn's Gully

Publication: Melbourne Herald
Date: 14 March 1929


melbin, march 14

deer sir
i dunno but ime gittin in all of a tangel over this test match ere the gunns gully club as
impowred me to ingage this yung bradman an e goes an gits isself out yesterdy befor i ad ime
to git downto the ground yesterdy an run afinal ey over im and now i dunno
grimmitt an ornybrook sorter took me fancy yesterdy an then the way that there oldfield got
isself into to (2) places at wunce an cot jardeen out wile keepin wikits an fieldin at squar leg
verry neerly got im into the gully teem on the spot but i cant taik em all becos
ther aint enuf jobs up there to go round an the lokal blokes on the rode job is neerly all in the
teem an cant be sacked annyways i think ile leeve it till the end of the test to maik me choice

so i am wirin bil smith ack-ordin i got a snaiky letter frum bil yestidy sayin ow the teem cant
stand payin my exes if this test lasts mutch longer bil sez its awl rite listnin in
but as ther aint anny work gittin done they mite as well be down ere lookin on as up there
listnin in bil sez i got awl the thick end of the stick an me reports of the
match is rottin annyway but thats is jelisy

bil sez if the test lasts to (2) or thre (3) more weeks i ad a rite to cum ome an give sum wun else a chancet

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bil sez as ow ime a low down skeemer annow wot is dorrin exes frum the teem under fals
pertences wich is pritty ot seein as ow as presidint an umpire of the club i giv em a arf ginee
donashin thre (3) year ago an ave promised em anuther as soon as the rode bord gives me a
metil rode to cart me spuds some peepil aint got no sens of gratichood
owever i ave replide dignifide pointin out that if uthers ad the gift of ritin that i ave thay wud
be ere in my place an my jurnalistick jootys prevents me leavin melbin at this jungher
wich i sined i ave the oner to be yures an cetra to maik it formil an bindin
a man aint annywere in this wurld if e dont stick up for is rites

i am sorry to introod these privit matters in yure paper but i beleev in bein open an above
bord an sum things need publicity an now i aint got space to say mutch about yesterdys play but
i ave no dout all as been sed wot can be sed an if it aint sed sum wun will say it

since i been down ere it seams to me that were crikit is קינser- ned there aint mutch left unsed
not even by the barakerslistnin to sum of em yestidy maid me fare ashamed of me nativ land
if we ad that sort up at gunns gully thay wudent make nun of them remarks twice

we may be ruf but we are respectibil
hoppin you are the saim

yures truly

Ben Bowyang
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