Reginald Schwarz
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| Full name | Reginald Oscar Schwarz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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4 May 1875 Lee, London, England |
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| Died | 18 November 1918 (aged 43) Étaples, France |
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | leg-break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive
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Major Reginald Oscar Schwarz MC, known as Reggie (born 4 May 1875 in Lee, London, England, died 18 November 1918 in Étaples, France) was a South African cricketer and international rugby union footballer.
Schwarz was born in Lee in 1875 to Robert George Schwarz, a merchant from Bagshot in Surrey. Schwarz was educated at St Paul's School in London, and matriculated to Christ's College, Cambridge in 1893. While at Cambridge he joined the Cambridge University rugby team and in the Varsity Match of 1893 he won his only sporting Blue. Although Schwarz became better known as a cricketer than a rugby player, he did not win a Blue for cricket.
Schwarz won three caps for England at rugby against Scotland in 1899, and Wales and Ireland in 1901. At club level, Schwarz played for Richmond and in the 1896-97 season was invited to play for the Barbarians.
Schwarz played a handful of games for Middlesex in 1901 and 1902 before emigrating to South Africa and joining Transvaal; but it was on his return to England with the South African cricket team in 1904 that he made his mark, having learning from Bosanquet how to bowl the googly. Unusually, he bowled it as his stock delivery, with considerable success: in 1904 and 1907 he topped the bowling averages, in the latter year taking 137 wickets at just 11.70 apiece, and he was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1908. On that 1907 tour, the first on which South Africa played Tests in England, they had no fewer than four leg-break and googly bowlers, Schwarz having passed on the secret of the googly to Aubrey Faulkner, Bert Vogler and Gordon White.
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