Lives in Cricket No 5 - Rockley Wilson

as educated as Rockley Wilson, journalism was an obvious source of earnings while on tour. His aim was to write interesting, well-informed accounts for the cricket-loving public in England. He would have denied that it was any part of his purpose to stir up controversy, but he may not have understood the workings of the mass-circulation newspapers. Perhaps he should have borne in mind the risk to which Jack Hobbs drew attention in his own comment on the incidents to which he was witness. “One moral from the whole affair is the lesson it teaches to those responsible for handling the news cabled from one country to another. By emphasising extracts in as sensational way, they give a distorted view of the facts and damage the relations between the two Australia and After 88 Cartoon from a Sydney newspaper depicting, with perhaps a little sympathy, the plight of Wilson and Fender following their cables to English newspapers.