MOST DANGEROUS BOWLER THE GAME HAS KNOWN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 821, 15 November 1929, Page 14

MOST DANGEROUS BOWLER THE GAME HAS KNOWN

VI. A. Xoble has the following appreciation of Boscinquet, the originator of the “googly.” in the Sydney "Sun”: Bosanquet. like all great bowlers, reserved his most accurate and best days for test matches. His best performance was six wickets for 51 runs, on a slightly worn wicket, in the final innings of the fourth test at Sydney in 1904, when he amazed ‘and routed Australia’s champions. There was just enough life in the wicket to make him venomous; he broke both ways, and the ball fizzed off the pitch faster than it !- ft the hand. I believe, in his day, he was the most dangerous bowler the game has known. Charlie McLeod, whose efforts to play him wore more comical than successful. used to say. "Bosey’s easy.” His "wrong ’un” was very difficult to detect. Victor Trumpet* knew it by watching the ball spinning in the air after leaving the hand. Nearly all our batsmen could see it. or said they could. I couldn’t. Though I watched his hand until the last moment, I never spotted it, and gave up trying.