Publication: Melbourne Herald
Date: 07 March 1929
gunns gully march 6 1929 the editor the erild deer sir no dout you ave erd the sayin that fools rush in were anjils feer to tred well i rekin i was a bit of a fool yestidy but ime a anjil today wen you shode yure usal good jugement an grasped egerly at my offer to cum down to melbin an report the test match for you i was like a dawg with to (2) tin tales for the space about haf (½) a our then wen i begun to relize wot terribul responsibylitys i ave tuk on i begun to git cole feet wen i relize that i onley got to maik one (1) littel slip to ave the ole of the english press jum- pin on me neck not to menshin the wiregrass watchman the gunns gully gazett the sidney sun an the rest of the privinshil press wen i relize that i go all goos flesh an feel like callin it off but the blud of the bowyangs is thicker water and i aint never set me and to the plow yet an let it me in the ribs so if its me larst ack on this erth an i go down in the welter of gor still proclaimin that a good fast bowler is wurth more than rubys even if e does cut up the pitch ime goin to talk me life in me and an go down to that test match an tell the trooth its goin to be ard orful ard and i relize that me popularity is goin ter git a terribul jolt but the trooth must prevale tho umpires fall i never thot this criket was sich a serius bizness till i cum to reed abowt it in the papers lately and now ide sooner taik on mr bruces job or even be a juge of the arbitrashin cort rather than taik a chance as a criket exsperk * * * * owsumever ime gaim an i got sumpthink to say right away that is proberly goin to git me into ot water an that is that we aint doin rite by our fast bowlers wot is our selectors doin are they serchin all over the country for the men we want they aint alexander was rite under ther noses an they never seen im till the dawgs begun to bark abowt im but wot abowt the underds and underds of fast demin bowlers we got in the country ave the silectors ever seen em in axshun they aint why we got a fast bowler in gunns gullys unbeaten teem yung arry fungis wot cant be plaid in anny game with wooden stumps e is so fast e brakes em to splinters an we got to ave wikits maid outer bit of three quater ¾ pipin an even those gits bent dubble but as the silectors ever seen arry fungis play or considered im for a test match to mo down the flour of england they aint wot i sez is that it is a skan- dal an a shaim hoppin you are the saim yures truly Ben Bowyang p.s. I will be down on the ground brite an erly a fridy mornin thanks for the tikits