Cricket Witness No 3 - The Daffodil Blooms

39 The tricky question of the captaincy known cricketers – and close friends – working together at the helm of the Club led to further financial support being pledged. It also meant that the Glamorgan captain had to show his face at a variety of events, ranging from jumble sales or sweepstakes in the Rhondda Valley, to black tie dinner-dances at the casino in Porthcawl. Indeed, it was claimed that during the winter of 1932/33 he clocked up more miles than the total number of runs he had scored during the previous summer. Given that he had scored over 1,300 runs, Maurice’s travelling up and down the valleys besides heading west to east along the coast was a most impressive feat. It highlighted his determination that Glamorgan CCC should survive, as well as explaining why, over the course of the next few years, he took the Club by the scruff of the neck and transformed the shamefaced debtor into an organisation with a far more stable financial footing. 1. Western Mail , 8 August 1924. 2. Glamorgan CCC minute book for November 1928 3. Western Mail , 17 June 1924. 4. A.K. Hignell, Maurice Turnbull, A Welsh Sporting Hero (Tempus Publishing, 2001). 5. Western Mail , 30 July 1932. 6. A.K. Hignell, The Centenary History of Glamorgan CCC , (Christopher Helm, 1988). 7. Maurice Turnbull, A Welsh Sporting Hero op. cit. 8. Ibid. 9. The Centenary History of Glamorgan CCC, op.cit. Johnnie Clay, pictured at the Arms Park during 1926.