GOOGLY BOWLERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22629, 22 July 1935, Page 16

GOOGLY BOWLERS

.*. TWO WITH SOUTH AFRICANS FIRST DISCOVERY OF THE ART. It is singularly appropriate that two "googly" bowlers, D. Tomlinson and X. Balaskas, are included in the South African team now on tour in England. It was a South African who first bowled a " wrong 'un." Thirty-one years ago R. 0. Schwartz tossed up the disconcerting delivery that was to revolutionise his country's cricket. Schwartz had been shown how to bowl the "googly" by B. J. T. Bosanquet, an Englishman who toured New Zealand with Lord Hawke's eleven, captained by P. F. Warner, in the 1902-3 season. He had practised a little in the nets, but it was largely as an experiment, at an easy stage of the game, that Mitchell, the captain of the side, allowed him to bowl the Hew discovery. Schwartz took five wickets with "googlies" that day. Bchwartz himself did not have the usual leg-break of the slow bowler. He could only bowl the "wrong 'un." Mr S. J. Snooke, manager of the present South African side, was playing in the same team.