“GOOGLY” PRINTED

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 150, 21 March 1933, Page 3

“GOOGLY” PRINTED

Originally in Wellington VISIT OF “PLUM” WARNER Not the least interesting personality on the platform of the Town Hall yesterday at the reception to the Engilsn cricket team was Mr. P. one of the joint managers of the team, and a former cricketer of fame. in his speech Mr. Warner, better known to cricket readers as “Plum, ’ said that by the time they returned to England they would have been round the vs orld —out via Suez to Australia, and back via New. Zealand, Fiji, Honolulu, and Canada. He expressed the hope that having visited so many parts of the British Empire they would be better educated people. , . Mr. Warner said it had been his good fortune to play cricket in New Zealand before when he was not so blind as he was to-day. On that occasion Bosanquet was a member of the team, and the term “googly” as applied to his bowling was first mentioned in a newspaper in Wellington. “You then had a player named Tucker,” said Mr. Warner, “and the paper, in commenting on the game, said that Tucker stepped out, and broke up the ‘googlles’ with a heavy bat.” That was the first time anyone had seen the term used in print.” It was on that occasion that one of the umpires said that Bosanquet was a man to be watched, as, properly used, he would win Test games. That man proved to be a fair prophet, as Bosanquet had been instrumental in winning more than one Test.