1957-11-27 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1957...

Sports Diary CLIFF MORGAN TO RETIRE

TODAY

Stugby

#lee! Rugby Finni, Causeway Bay,

3.59 p.m.

Sorest

Inter-School Soccer longus, et Happy Valley. "C" Grade.

TOMORROW

Boxing

Fest Boxing Finals, HMS Tamar.

6.30 p.m.

Fleet Soccer Hino),

FRIDAY

Kecess

Hockey

Golf

Fleet Hocker Final.

1.30 p.m.

round.

Ladica golf. That

Senkunpno,

C, 3 p.,

Cup cond

Not Wrestling: It's A Circus, Say Russians

Onturin, No. 20.

The Russian ice hockey lecin at present touring Canada stagerl a walkout last night from a wrestling match In an auditorium here,

The team had been watching the bouts of professional wresti- ing for abonit 2181 tour wher they left at a signal from their manager, Cod Pavel Korokov.

"That's net wrestling. It's

a circus," Mr Roman Kiselov, the team's Interpreter, mented.-Chine Mail Special.

com-

CLIFF MORGAN

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Wild direction

2 Ranch men

3 American State

4 Tough town

NAMESAKES

INSTRUCTIONS: Fill in the spaces against each of the eluca below with a word related to my life. The letters in circlet spell out my name. Who am 17

17

6

5 Quick on the draw

TI

& Guldes calle

7 And order?

Air this

# Luot

Solution on Parc

MANDRAKE the magicIAN

DURING THE NILAVING

OF WESTERN LOVE"-

FERDINAND

BE SPECIFIC

CATHAY PACIFIC

FOLLOR

WHAT DOES

ME

THIS MEAN?

IS IT THAT HOT

OUTSIDE ?

NANCY

OH, MISTER-- CAN I COOL OFF IN YOUR STORE ?

THIS STORE

IS, AIR- CONDITIONED

JOHNNY HAZARD

HEY, NOT BAP DIGGINGS,

EH, BUNKOT LOOKS LIKE

LIL KISMET REALLY BUTTERED HERSELF UP

THIS TIME! WHERE'S YOUR HUBBIE-TO-

BC, BABY

7-19

GIZMOZ HE'S AWAY... ON A

FIELD TRIP!

YOU CALL, INSSY CALLAHAN? NEED NEE HAY'S HELP?

MY APOLOGIES MAM, BUT I MUST

HAVE THAT

NECKLACE!

LOOK--- THE SUN EVEN MELTED THE GUM IN YOUR

MACHINE

→ERNIE-

N-NO, NEE-HAI, EVERYTHING'G ALL RIGHT...

Last Rugby Season For The Most Talked - About Sportsman In Wales

By ERIC NICHOLLS

London.

The most talked about sportsman in Wales at present is a dark-

haired, lively-eyed man by the name of Cliff Morgan. Among sports-loving folk down Cardiff way he has evan superseded the coming of the British Empire Games to the city as the chief topic of conversation.

For Welsh rugby enthusiasts-in other words ninety-nine per cent of the population have been saddened by the news that this is the last season of Morgan, the magnificent little maestro from the Rhondda Valley,

the game, Cardif won by a gonl and try to a penalty goal, and 30,000 cheering Welsh volets resounded from the great Arms Park arena. It was Cardiff's game. 'But It was Morgan's match.

At the ripe old age of 27, he | the 1953 senson, when the kick, and Cordiff were over the has decided to retire from the mighty New Zealand All Blacks įline, gaine and devote his time to toured Britain, and the 1955 This was the vital move of his business interests. Thla is season when the British Lions the last season we shall see in toured South Africa. action the man who rates ร one of the greatest hy-halves of all time and the top personally of British Rugby Union today.

Morgan's departure wif be mourned wherever rugby is played. For he is far more than the great hero of the Welsh. Ife is the idol of rugby fans the world over.

Most experts are agreed that the game at Cordiff Arms Park on November 21, 1953, was the greatest match of the season. On that day, the All Blacks suffer- cd thelf one and only defeat against a club side.

Chief Architect

In ten years he bas progress- The club was Cardif and the ed from Tonyrefail to Fricken-chief architect of their remark- ham, from the vale of Rhonddable victory was CBT Morgan. to the veldt of South Africa, His He was sensational, rugby genlus has delighted the

eltizens of Cape Town as much His amazing turn of speed as the crowds of Cardiff Arms Park.

Brief Career

Morgan rose lo even greater heights on the British Lions' 1955 tour of South Africa. With his amazing speed and brilliant tactics, he, more than any other player, was responsible for the two great victories over Springboks,

the

This Wha

tremendous achievement. The Springboks had held the unofcial Work and deceptive body-swerve Rugby Champlonship since 1937 threw the highly experienced and had not been beaten in on New Zealand defence into con-

international Test series since fusion. Sometimes beating four 1800. players in almost as many yards, he split the defence wide open and burst through self-created gaps.

CHT Morgan's rugby eureer has been brief but more than brilliant. Starting as an inter- natiom six years ago, he has The plan was to strike in the already gained 20 caps. And he early stages, to score before the has won the honour which All-Blocks knew what hit them. every Welsh schoolboy dreams And it worked. In the seventh of-the coptalney of his country | minute Morgan hared away at rugby.

with the ball from his own 25. yard line.

Morgan, who was rated the greatest fly-half ever seen in South Africa, skippered 1lie Lions in one of their Test victories. And the following January, in his 18th Inter- national, he was chosen to least his own country for the first time, Wales beat England 8-3,

Yet Cliff Morgan will not be remembered for particular per-

own individual style, which raised ne alter- automatically A

Isinment value of every match in which he played.

It would be Impossible to re- late in this limited space n}l bis When an All-Black come Lip wonderful achievements, Morto tackle, Morgan punted overformances so much as for his gun was Incapable of playing a his head, ran round him, caught really bad gumy. Whatever the ball, and run on again. the occasion, he would give his pass to that clusive three- best.

quarter Bleddyn Williams, a But I would recul! Just two pass back to Morgan, a, pass to golden perlods In his career— | right-wing Rowlands, a cross

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Morgan, miner's son, made for rugby, On the Geld, his mind is 100 per cent on the task in hand,

He puts everything into his game and is always on the move.. watching for open- ings, poised for the sprint, mov ing his hands in eager anticipa- tion of receiving the ball,

Special Tricks

Besides doing everything ex- pected of a great By-half, he has several special tricks of his own. Never à man to be anti- cipated, Morgan may sidestep En tackler; Jump over his arms,

er duck under them.

He has been known to rui round ten men within 20 yards. And in a 1955 Welsh trial he was so elusive that no one lak a finger on him throughout the game!

The most important Morgan assets are fremendous speed and neceleration.

Yel, strangely enough, played soccer at school because his musters thought int 100 small for rugby. And at his National Service medicul exu- mination he was graded unft for service because he had pleurisy

he

Today, Cliff Morgan is oft. 7in. and 12st. 2lb., one of the nest, fastest men In the game. Ever since leaving school has lived for rugby, and noth Ing has been able to tempt him away from Rugby Union.

As the most sought-after rugby player in Britain, Mor- gan has had tempting ofers from Rugby League profession- al clubs, from rugby-minded business men In South Africa, even froin, Cardiff City, the Eng- Ish League Football Club. But he has turned them all down.

Morgan is the true amateur, who plays the game for plea. sure, not for cash. A good clubs · mian, he has a lively wit, pleasing tenor voice, and plano-playing style well-sulled for after-the-mutch sing-songs In the local.

Why, then, is he leaving sport he loves so much?

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As a family man with a sense of responsibility, he says: "One must think of the future, and being a Rugby Union star doesn't feed my family."

Welshman was The volatile married two years ago-lo rad-haired Irish nir hostess, Nuala Martin.

Cliff Morgan hopes to have a really sucessful last season and to retire while still in his prime. His departure will mean that Britain has lost its two top sporting personalities within... --ā-

year.

Just us Lord's Cricket Ground does not seem the same with- out Denis Compton, DO Cardia Arms Park will "beem a poorer

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