Controversies in 1918

Reggie Schwarz Dies of Influenza — South African Googly Pioneer, November 1918

Reginald Schwarz, the South African leg-spinner who in the 1900s helped pioneer the googly attack with Faulkner, Vogler and White, died of influenza at Étaples in northern France on 18 November 1918 — exactly one week after the Armistice. He was 43.