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■ New Zealand feels with other cricketing countries the great loss the game has suffered by the death of Horace Brakenridge Cameron. It was in the latter part of the 1931-32 season that the noted wicket-keeper-batsman led ' the South African team on a brief tour |of New Zealand after it had been on. tour in Australia, and many local followers of the game will well remember Cameron's 'keeping and batting in the Test at, the Basin Reserve,, his | stumping of Dickinson, his catching of Dempster, his scores of 44 and 22 not out and his leadership being features of the part played by the captain in a meritorious win. Horace Cameron had I led his team through Australia, and it was expected generally that he I would again lead the South Africans on .the recent tour of the Home countries. It was recognised, however, that his value as a wicket-keeper and as a batsman was likely to be so great to his team, especially in the Tests, that it would be expecting too much of him to captain the side as well. Purely with a view to easing the burden upon one who was acknowledged to be the hardest hitting batsman in South Africa and one of the world's best 'keepers, Cameron was chosen as vicecaptain and the leadership was given to H. F. Wade in the knowledge that ihe would have a capable, helpful, and 'experienced deputy. Horace Cameron, who had previously toured England (in 1929), performed brilliantly behind the sticks on the recent tour, and he was one of the South African side's best batsmen. He finished up the tour with a splendid score of 160 against LevesonGower's eleven at Scarborough last month, bringing his aggregate for the tour to 1458 at an average of 41.65. He batted eight times in the Tests for an average of 38.25, with 90 as his highest score and a record for him in Test cricket in England. He was one of the three married men of the touring side. It was in 1931 that he succeeded E. P. Nupen and H. G. Deane as South Africa's captain.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 109, 4 November 1935, Page 9
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358(By "Not Out.") Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 109, 4 November 1935, Page 9
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