BRIGHT CRICKET
DEMPSTER’S PLAY PRAISED Recd. 6 p.m. London, Aug. 23. Bright cricket played by C. S Dempster, former New Zealand representative player, this summer has drawn a tribute from Mr. R. C. Robertson Glasgow, in the Observer: He writes: “While Dempster was batting at Lords recently on the way to one of his centuries, a spectator said to me: ‘Why 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 all your adjectives on hacks and here is a master.’ ” Mr. Robertson Glasgow observes that this is not wholly a just charge Lor Dempster “has so widely dispersed himself, so scattered the star dust that to most of us he has been a name without a local habitation, a comet, a sort of artistic dodger between the static great.” He added his strokes have a grace seldom seen in a short and strong batsman, while in the field he is one of the best cover points of modern cricket.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 200, 25 August 1943, Page 6
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