Clarence P. Moody

Clarence Percival Moody (11 August 1867 – 29 November 1937) was an Australian newspaper editor, sports journalist, cricket historian and bowls player.

[2] At the first ever Sheffield Shield match, between South Australia and New South Wales, played at the Adelaide Oval in 1892, Moody, for the South Australian Register, wrote that Ernie Jones, "Australia's first fast bowler", "bowled capitally in the second innings", adding that Jones should get stouter boots to prevent his left foot slipping when delivering.

[3] Having written for the South Australian Register under the pen name "Point", in 1894 he published Australian Cricket and Cricketers: 1856 [to] 1893–94, an anthology of the game in Australia, and which included a list of Australia v England matches that came to be considered the definitive guide to what constituted a Test match and helped establish The Ashes tradition.

[2] Over the next few years, he went on to write other books, including England v Australia: Cricket Reminiscences of Past Conflicts (1898), for which he was the ghostwriter for George Giffen's autobiography.

After the First World War he moved to Sydney, where he continued to work in sports journalism.