1956-04-07 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIE, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1956.

THE GREATEST DAY OF THEIR LIVES

Date: August 6, 1955. Place: Ellis Park, Johannesburg. Occasion: The first rugby it was Morgan's match

test.

THE WELSH LION HAD A

E

MIGHTY ROAR

NGLAND hud ita They offered him fabulous suma through

Adrian Stoop, Ireland (£1000 tax-free, ad one re

לו!

Iliness of

Ireland's

AD-

vital

Robla Thompson and Scotland's on Anglia Cameron, he was port to turn professional still worships at the his fluropium

for the from posited captain shrine of Jackie Kyle, but South Afrien last year, though third Test at Pretoria, Cliff Morgan is no longer Morgan will tell you that he the especial fiy-half per offers mucți quisite of Trebanog. even

Rave these Never

Or ther

cash-inden serious considera-

Irish

of Wales, whom he HIS recepily married. now captains. He belongs to wife, ex-airline hostess Nuala, the whole history and fabric gave them even is vonsider. of rugby football....from on. Badgered for her opinion

01

leat proposest Tonyrefail to Twickenham, Teplice to the effect that she from

the valleys to the krs nothing about rugby, hid veldt.

Kl the slightest iden of the diffe ce bulween Rugby Union anugby League, and never watebed ether game, Dad was

But it is of litle ise seeking to phrys zo volatile a ebar- acter to a lay of days As well

Welsh

rugby

wizard CLIFF

MORGAN has had many great days. But one day stands out above the others....and he has described it to GEORGE WHITING

11

1

try to jugg

with n plat of an exin teerain of the shup:

11 precla

Funtry but that her fis- mereu.

hand played around with politician wwer li a

werk-rtols a great day for Every day is breezy, repressible ViHT Mor- gan provided

1 wing ther

Morgan docs not under- estimate the honour that was paid him that day, but it is of on eurilor and even more

ire- mendous South African occasion be talks in Jus soft Rhondda Valley voice when you ask him to recall the great days of that electrifying tour.

that

Dramatic

Morgan a

amatek

Place:

Test series since 1896,

for the Arst time

Date: August 8, 1995.

Park. Johannesburg. Occasion: The Orst test, with 110,000 spectators assembled in anticipation of a South African holiday at the expense of the not-too-ighly-considered Lions.

"You could Lucky 90,000. They were to see

call it the most, one of the most dramatic rugby inspiring game of rugby ever finishes of all time

played in,' said the exuberant after a Morgan when he came to dine

the -hoky start.

writers

hed who B-D lead with" An 1 Ba

nemed him the third greatest for South Africa at the end of

spurts personality of the year. half an hour Morgan tr

jour

Johannes- One month after minutes before half-time, broke burg, en September 3, 1955, he from a set serum just inside his ied the Lions to a 9-5 win in own half to enable a try-hungry with testify for ever that it was Pretoria. Touchline witnesses

tactica the masterly

ol their captain and fly-half that if the mark sparked a scoring punch into the British line.

Fewer know that,

teas

Butterfeld to touch down.

whose speed

berty it lઢત

spree that gave the Lions

15

pouts in the Arst 10 minutes

put

on the

f the second half when leg marring of the match, Morgan the Mighty had reduced his Tonyrefail Gram- injury suffered by J.A.R. Higgs team almost to tears with the

Introduzeed to Lugby S

Taler de hesker. there is it fenes to be eonfounded, a pas queer. for his eager hunds to accept or hali-a-dozerz

be tuinbonzieri

yards,

Irish wife Dark-haired ketly eyed, and with enthusiasm bubbling cf every pic of his 12st,

mies

th

1,

fa

surdy

win school Lay staried spent 412 14 soccer forward, has in five years. become one of the most electri. fying outside-halves known ru. And certainly one of its Ingot dumimant personalities.

Thy kell a hundred toles of him in his native land. It he is not yet a legend, this in- gun of switch, swerve mud van- then he matched acreleraham,

is well on the way to becoming one.

For Chi Morgan

10+ 20. nur School, Morgan,

of nearly achieved the D15!

of Weld red jerseys la 1951, against Ireland at Cardiff.

Two seasons later, 50.000 1117 countrynwen

their song hearts

their quick

:he vager silver bem elude tackling uf New Zealand forwards in that unforgettable B-3 victory of Cordiff over the

All Bincks

#3

By general consent, however. it was the British les tour of South Africa last summer that nable! the one-lims buy wonder u burgeon into some...

approaching 1 thing, Benas.

1.

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Robust

14-01

1441

Furby

bud seduced their forward strength to seven.

When Cliff Morgan talks, you Isten, And when Clift you RE- Morgan plays rugby, count yourself lucky that you have eyes that watch.

dre, urgency, and eloquence of Morgan it was win. thres his appeals for all-out action. minutes after the resumption, shot through a gap on the edge of the

"25. South African howed his Welsh heels to four or five opponents, and scored a

Individual pleture-book after a super-charged run.

Appeals

try

14-

South Africa, behind at 23, scored a goal one minule from time to make it 19-23. A Mer 21⁄2 minutes of "injur time." they added a try. 22-23. Seconds sped away as the South African full-back, van der Schyff, made ready for the cons version that would give hist country two more points, and

England #5 111 victory over these importunate sadnubay member of a joves Beltish mvaders. How could he cobust company-17 caps

for miss?

he not ready of many park. He will sing you

Wales, admittedly,

with relieved two pennity goals ard 12 wire op>^. a seng, all you

few pavlensk.ns to captaincy, two conversions in this fever- play you Bistro, by spin you

you or even to a place on the tour heat game? Fame bugyani

When he returned an committee yarn with to interity that he, haueng meny home ke

Москав Was wing-forward-- Mighty. an

opposing

spectators to

and not u iew dub him a fanatie.

He burns... with

a

Morgan and his team-males The ea their nails looked the bet van der other way, inurked his Schyll muffed !! The referee

Britain.

with through called no-side. The British the highest

Thade *Core ever

Two rocket-like

progress fre South Africa with

that has not escaped the atten- Lions Some would consider the against South Africa

Rugby of tion

with presarios

Lengue ima- major summit long pockets sealed

ክብ

when, in

have the

been national rugby, had beaten their absence hosts in the opening match of a

YES-POLIO IS RARE

BUT.

The discovery of a suitable vaccine

has

come

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On the edge of the South African "25," Morgan showed his Welsh heels to four or five oppo- nonts and scored a pic- ture try after

super- charged run.

How Lady Harding Gets

Away From The Bombs

I really bless the man who invented croquet, she says

By Anne Sharpley

Nicosia. have been gunrding him for a calls out a smiling, ADY Harding looked fortnight,

across the wide lawn

"Good afternoon.”

of Government House

"I never thought I could be so thankful for croquet, I really bless the person who Linvented It," she said.

Are the and her husband fraid of more bombs?

"We are not afraid.

We are

A handsome little man and used to it. As one gets older One feols hecne learns to be philosophical. in inter-slarhed with the late after- most determined.

noon sun and smiled at her is almost amused at the Idea of "My husband never gets into a bomb at the foot of his bed. flap about anything, and I am "Becret weapon." Croquet hoops.

And what does Lady Hardling not a nervous person either. feel? I look at this quick, smil-

"Anyway, there is far too ing, grey-haired little woman

to do to spend much

hours with the charming pointed face worrying" For Lady Harding is and large hazel eyes."

not leading a restricted life des pite the bombs, "I have been irying to visit all the charitable and welfare institutions in the island. This week I am.

am visiting Her reply has the same echo the rural health centres

and past as the

to make sure I visit some- from the

croquet ry to . "Sir

John's office 13 just hoops and the cane chairs and

of every religion-The there." she said, Indicating

Orthodox creche, the splendid silver ten tray. Moorish arcade topped with

Armenian clinke or a Turkish dome that fanks the lawn.

FALL IN A DOCTOR'S DAY.

at just

by

LA CEDRIC CARNE

the right time

"J

is gradually I thought of said Mr Elliott belli. becoming less rig, though it is experiments with

AB, jab, jab, jab," for pollomyeli is

He

the

the

recent

Croquet is the Hardings' I forgot fear favourite device for taking their "minds off things."

I

1

+

on

"Well, do you know I was deaf and dumb school The first really so interested to see the thing I visited, I remember, In bomb I forgot to be frightened. I Cyprus" she says with a slightly was writing letters in the sitting mirchievous anile, "was the room next to our bedroom when Archbishop's Orphanage."

incone popped his head round

against smallpox, then later any later-effects they develop people will be able to receive a ten tray handsome with silver have taken

a long-lasting immunity against protection against tuberculosis, and elegant with china,

But

to bo immunised against polio.

whooping diphtheria and cough, and now he had come children

But it has been 30 years since Is this vaccine

anti-tuberculosis vaccine for this safe?? asked

Mr was first used on man and it is Elliott. "Shouldn't an experi- only now that a controlled trial

*

Light-hearted

"He likes to play in the after new noons, and if the telephone sit far from common dacase, vaccination against tuberculosis. for him in the office it is only gerently. "If my kid In any case very few people Recently about 70,000 14-year-a fow yards away. We all play.

in English It is so relaxing." more in- who get polto, adults or children, old children living

the door and sald: "There's a has to have any

There is the running of a 10- at cities and towns were involved

bomb In the field-marshal's bedroomed house. "Although," Jections her arm will look suffer from any symptoms

all; others have only a "cold" in the investigation. And the A large sergeant, standing in

bed.

rays Lady Harding, "It is an like a used dartboard.

or an "influenzal attack." results were unequivocal: quite for the Greek Cypriot servant

And though they do not suffer excellent.

who had brought his little girl,

has just been regretfully said rather stupidly (my awfully easy house to run." So that now more and more dimissed, carries on to the lawu husband tells me I should not Certainly, if EOKA think they Sally, first to be vaccinated any muscular symptoms or have

the risk) I must havO alarmed this pleasant come and see it. So I went and household, they are mistaken. locked at it and then returned to writing my letters,

"It didn't occur to me that it vra & time bomb and it was only to seek my advice about mental survey have been done has been undertaken in Great Britain, though its undoubted having three-year-old Sally first to see that it was OK?"

Croquet and tea on the laws afterwards I realised how fright-

fully

brave it was of Lieutenant

Lady Herding showed me value has been proved in other may be genteel, slightly comic Buckley to put it on a shovel "Well, we're lucky Injected with the new anti-

answered. "Tho experimental countries.

things associated with the botter at walk out of the house with Picture I would like everyter- poliomyelitis vaccine.

"HOW LONG?........ pliot survey, in one sense, has

rorist to see, although he might days of the British Empire, but

it." I told him how, through such been done in America. And we

not appreciate the full humorous "We certainly take our time," hore, in Cyprus, they have their

Of the young Greek Cypriot, implication of it. During the infections, diphtheria and small liave learned from their errors. Mr Elliott sald. "We are care- full significance.

the result that

the ful

Head and That's why I suppose I

suspected of planting the bomb, visit of M: Antony box had berome quite uncommon With

havé modified the trust this new pollo

vaccine.

The sergeant deposits the tray she says, unresentfully, "He was his wife, Lady Dorothea, It might discasas. And that the discom- authorities

would and retires with a deep bow. such a very nice boy. I am sure have been assumed a potemn fort of the few injections neces- American vaccine to make it as All doctors I presume Bary was nothing relative to the safe as possible." suffering and tragedies that have so happily and successfully been Canadian experience avoided.

ANG DEFENCES The protection given by a

I

Secret weapon

Indeed, recent American and recommend I had Sally done?" Lady Harding is not feeling he was terrorioed into doing atmosphere prevailed.

"Not all. Some wish there hungry, nor I, but looking at thiy,"

vaccine depends upon its cape- polio.

felt I had to warn Mr Elliott

city to produce "anti-body," and

Bucli

So charming

立

Possibly it did, but not all the time. The Harding "gccret weapon" was given full usogo, Anden quite ridiculous enspshot of the croquet "team" in hom She looks across the lawn Victorian atitudies with Lady again to where two immense Harding in the middle, holding cypresses flare up into the even in her lap a ball *inscribed ing iky.

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has been had been further trials. But the daintily prepared sand- highly reassuring. All the same. the vast majority believe it to wiches, aho says: We must eat nobody knows for how long the be safe. Many wish,

They have gone though, soma.

to vaccine will protect the child that they knew how long the trouble to prepare them."

of anti-bodies would remain effec・ So Lady Harding and I ent against a possible attack

And this was something tive in the bloodstream."/ | three' sandwiches each, and foci Mr Elliott took out his we are helping the British, to cigarettes and offered me one. koep Cyprus,

As a result of this vacelne,”

Government House for all that it was nearly the scene of a Cyprus is the lovellest place Mr. Antony. Head on one side, tragedy and political upheaval we have lived in and the people the Governor and Lady Dorothed light weeked is strangely casual, as are not the race to be out the other in the bool event South China Morning Post Ltd. Mr Hght-hearted place today. They he The discovery of " the bold" "Soon woll' ba infeclád against Billett mulch, ~*And then “addodi・he Governor, kan ha begid They are happy and, wonderfull”: "we'almost as much to croquet PER blowly people up in their beds that the British in the and may in this prolonged “tratilądienā "Item"12 thế results are food ang andling: “One day you, probab15% smartly down the: drive to – mý (healthy, it only they would wait (da they do to cricket!

THE RESULTS

要

I continued, "I am sure that

time will show a marloed, due

so by vaccination and inanunisa ebout, tion the naturs) defences of the body have been marvellously "I don't know, I just don't strengthened so that the war know whether it's worth. All crease in the incidence of polio, agaliut the Finviable armice of this Jab Jab jabald Me 2 what you could give me

Ellicity scratching his hend.lab to stop me ooking,"

gorms is gradually being won.

vaccines I fust another advance everything "SEL

has come just at the right time, lives are saved, why not?”

Will

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