Barnes's ability to deploy maximum variety in the space of a single over. Cardus remarked on Barnes's creativity as "one of the first bowlers really to use the seam of a new ball and combine swing so subtly with spin that few batsmen could distinguish one from the other". Cardus described Barnes's "splendid upright action, right arm straight over". He ran on easy strides. Wilfred Rhodes recalled that Barnes carried the ball in his left hand until, a couple of strides from delivery, he switched it to the right. Personality As for Barnes's controversial character, Cardus said that he was not an easy man to handle on the field of play because there was a "Mephistophelian aspect about him" in that (unlike the amateurs) he didn't play cricket out of any "green field starry-eyed idealism". Cardus said that Barnes was a hostile, attacking bowler. Cardus said Barnes always made the batsman play the ball and Barnes himself said about later bowlers sending down so many balls the batsman needn't play that: "I didn't. I never gave'em any rest". Barnes, said Cardus, was "relentless" and "blew a chill wind of antagonism", but he mellowed in full age and retirement. (Cardus, Wisden Obituary) Hollowood cartoons Bernard Hollowood drew two cartoons of Barnes, which appear in his book Cricket on the Brain. One depicts him leaping in the air as he appeals for a dismissal and with his index finger raised as though he himself is adjudicating on the appeal. It is entitled 'A.N. Other lbw Barnes.... 0'. John Arlott wrote in his review of the book for the 1971 Wisden: ...his two caricatures of S.F. Barnes would seem transcendent if they were not outweighed by his chapter on that great bowler which is a fine passage of cricket literature... this is a book of many and well-cut facets. Personal life Barnes married Alice Maud Taylor (née Pearce) in 1903 and they had one child, a son called Leslie who took the photos for Wilfrid S. White's biography of Barnes. Barnes was Alice's second husband, following her divorce from George Taylor. In later life, Barnes became friends with Pelham Warner, who was his exact contemporary, and they watched cricket together at Lord's. Barnes died in 1967 at his home in Chadsmoor, Cannock, Staffordshire. Awards and tributes In the 1963 edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Barnes was selected by Neville Cardus as one of