Dempster A “Comet"
[(Special) LONDON. August 23. Bright cricket bv the New Zealander, C. S. Dempster, this summer has drawn a tribute from Mr. R. G. Robertson Glasgow in •’The Observer.” “While Dempster was batting at Lords recently on the way ito one of his centuries, a spectator said to me. 'Whv wasn't I told about this before Here is one of the most beautiful !stroke players I have ever seen and you ;:critics have been hiding him all these .years. You have wasted your adjectives on hacks, and here is a master’." Mr. ; [Robertson Glasgow observes that it was , mot wholly a just charge, for Dempster I “has so widely dispersed himself, so scattered the stardust, that for most of us he ; has been a name without local habitation. ■ a comet, a sort of artistic dodger between ■ the -tatie and the great.” He added that , :Ins strokes have a grace seldom ’seen .in .•the short and strong, while, in the He'd. 'he is one of the best cover-points oi i [modern cricket.
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Northern Advocate, 24 August 1943, Page 2
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