"[7] Kortlang was a sturdily-built man five feet six and a half inches tall,[8] a sound and patient batsman, difficult to dismiss, who could also hit hard and use his strong wrists to pull short balls to the boundary.

[11] He then left for the Americas, where during his travels he took part in an impromptu game of cricket on the frozen sea during the Klondike Gold Rush.

"[11] Living in Melbourne, he gained Sheffield Shield selection for Victoria in 1909-10, although he was most successful against the non-Shield teams Queensland and Western Australia, scoring centuries.

[16] In 1910-11, the national selectors gave him a trial in an Australian XI against the touring South Africans, but he was unable to break into the Test team.

[17] In Sydney in March 1912 he rescued the daughter of the New South Wales state politician Dr Richard Arthur from drowning in heavy surf off Manly.

"[20] During World War I he fought in Europe with the 6th Field Company of Canadian Engineers with the rank of sergeant-major.

[23] In 1919, playing for Manor Field, he was the leading batsman in the Halifax Cup competition in the eastern United States for the third time, scoring 601 runs at an average of 66.77, with three centuries.

"[23] By this stage he had added Britain, South Africa, India, Fiji, Ceylon and China to the list of countries in which he had played cricket.

He scored a century in the first innings, the former New Zealand captain Tom Cobcroft reporting: "There was hardly a stroke in the repertoire of any batsman that was not cleverly used by him.

[27] In the 1923-24 Plunket Shield he scored 318 runs at an average of 53.00, and Wellington won the trophy by winning all three of their matches.

[28] He and Wiri Baker added 227 for the second wicket in the match against Otago, a Plunket Shield second-wicket record that stood for many years.

"[7] In 1935 he was one of the founders of baseball in Western Australia, after advocating the sport to help the local cricketers develop their fielding skills.

[38] Participation was so enthusiastic that Western Australia was able to compete in the Claxton Shield interstate competition for the first time in 1937.

[35][42][43] Kortlang continued to work as a journalist until the 1950s, when he and his wife established a business supplying ships at the port of Fremantle.