A SPORTING ROMANCE.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15087, 2 June 1919, Page 2

A SPORTING ROMANCE.

SCHWARZ TO "BOSIE."

A pretty little romance is hidden in the will of■ Major R. 0. Schwarz, the English Rugby player and South African cricket captain, who died in France from influenza a week after the signing of the armistice. One of the beneficiaries under tho will, which concerns an estate valued at £26,000 ; is B. J. T. Bosanquet, the Middlesex cricketer, who receives a gift of £1,000. Bosanquet and Schwarz were fellow-members of the Middlesex County Eleven at the time the former introduced the famous googlie style o* bowling, and he shared all the secrets of the new art with the old 'Oxonian.

Schwarz assisted him in its development, and in time began to exploit it himself Like the inventor, however, he never completely mastered the style, and had to be content with turning "the ball only one way, with, of course, the reverse action. But on going to live in South Africa, Schwarz showed how the ball could be made to break the • wrong" way, and he found apt pupils m Vogler, Falkiner, and White. These three men proved accomplished experts in delivering the real googlie, and in a very short time they set up a new bogy winch the batsmen of the world had only begun to master when the war broke out. It was the googlie which lifted South Africa up to the status of a firstclass cricket nation, and it was Schwarz through his friend Bosanguet, who was mainly responsible for this. Schwarz, who was a member of the London Stock Exchange, was a close friend of Sir Abe Bailey, and the South I African magnate was one of the witnesses of his will. ;