Otto Ernest Nothling, the former Australian Test cricketer, died at Brisbane on September 26 at the age of 65. Born on August 1, 1900, he was a fine allrounder who first came to the fore while at Sydney University, scoring 56 and taking five wickets for Combined Australian Universities v. MCC at Melbourne in 1922-23: in that season, as in 1924-25, he had the best bowling average in first grade cricket in Sydney. A tall, right-arm medium-pace bowler who could also bowl a menacing off-break on a worn pitch, he made his first-class debut for New South Wales v. MCC at Sydney in 1924-25 and his Sheffield Shield debut a few days later. On moving to Brisbane, where he had a medical practice, he played for Queensland from 1927-28, and in the following season scored 121-his only first-class century - in just over 212 minutes v New South Wales at Sydney. He was a broad-shouldered, forcing batsman and a particularly powerful driver. He had an analysis of 5 for 78 (including W. R. Hammond for a duck) v. M.C.C. at Brisbane in 1928-29 and, having also bowled well for an Australian XI against the tourists, played in the second Test of that series, at Sydney, a game in which D. G. Bradman, for the only time in his career, was Australia's twelfth man: Nothling failed to take a wicket but scored 44 in the second innings. He played his last game in first-class cricket (for Queensland) in November, 1929. In his youth, while at Sydney University, he also achieved renown as an athlete and as an inter-state Rugby Union player: as a full-back he represented New South Wales, toured New Zealand in 1923 and played against New Zealand in Sydney in 1924. He later became a capable golfer and, in professional life, a prominent Brisbane dermatologist. For the past two years he had been President of the Queensland Cricket Association.
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