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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 16 July 1938, Page 5

“ Sandy ” Bell gave me a painful crack on the knee in my first match against the South Africans. 1 had not found out how well "Sandy” bowls in-swingers, and he had me limping about during my short first innings against him. But in the first test, thanks to a couple of “ lives ” being given me in the slips by Vincent and Bruce Mitchell —who generally caught their catches—

Jack Fingleton . . . became prominent against South Africans. I got 226 out of 450. I should have been out for less than twenty. I was not the only lucky one. Bill Woodfull got a ball from Vincent that hit his leg stump quite hard, but did not knock off the bails, and went for four byes. Why the Pendulum Swings. THE South Africans lost match after match on that tour, but I did not feel too happy about the immediate future of Australian cricket, despite our successes over them. We tried nineteen players in the series of tests, and only four batsmen managed to aggregate more than two hundred runs in them —Stan McCabe, Keith Bigg. Woodfull, and myself. The only young player who showed much real promise as a bat was Jack Fingleton. Big cricket is apt to have cycles like that—which is the underlying reason why, over a stretch of so many years, there is practically nothing between England and Australia where tests are concerned. For a few years one country has an ascendancy; then the other unearths two or three new cricketers of high quality and proceeds to win instead of lose. You might almost think there is some mischievous power which delights in playing topsy-turvy with tests. The late Jock Cameron, who died so tragically after the last South African tour of England, captained the team in Australia, and we all regarded him as being not only a splendid cricketer, but a splendid character also. In one of the tests he gave a display of wicket-keeping that I have never seen bettered, even by Bert Oldfield at i his classical best. The Greatness of Cameron TO my mind, you can divide wicket-keepers into two classes— I those whose hands try to “ catch up ” with the ball, and who sometimes do, sometimes don’t; and those whose hands are always moving into position, and who give you the impression that the ball is following their hands. Neither Oldfield nor Cameron was a snatcher; their timing was always so good that they never seemed to be hurried when on top of their form. Jack Cameron . . . fine African wicket-keeper. While Cameron at his best was a magnificent ’keeper, Oldfield was a shade better because of his greater consistency. Jock Cameron was an immensely powerful man, and as a batsman he could hit like a horse kicking if he got going.

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