In 1913–14 Sydney University Cricket Club were premiers. Dr Claude Tozer was a member of this team. He played for New South Wales and may have represented Australia except on Tuesday 21 December 1920 he was shot dead in the home of his patient Mrs Dorothy Mort.

Earlier that year he had begun to treat her for depression. The normal boundaries of the doctor-patient relationship soon became distorted; irrevocably after Tozer, a bachelor, had told his patient, smitten with love for him at first sight, that it was better for a medical man to be married.

She shot him three times then shot herself and took laudanum.

Tozer's death sent shockwaves through Australia's sporting community.

Dorothy Mort's sensational murder trial produced scandalous headlines. She was found not guilty on grounds of insanity.

Claude Tozer is a classic case of 'what might have been' but for a fatal attraction.