Cricket Witness No 3 - The Daffodil Blooms

49 A Welsh identity during July and August 1932, whilst qualifying by residence to play for the Welsh county, he was given three weeks leave in order to appear for Canada in the Olympic Games in Los Angeles where lacrosse was one of the demonstration sports. Playing in front of 75,000 people at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was a very different experience for Brierley than appearing in front of a few thousand supporters at the Arms Park, or barely a hundred at a club ground in South Wales, but how he wished during 1934 and beyond that Trevor was still able to play alongside him and only through the cruellest of misfortune, he had become Glamorgan’s regular wicket-keeper. As far as Trevor was concerned, he continued his work as a stenographer and remained living with his wife in Cardiff, fervently following on the radio the progress of the Welsh county under Maurice Turnbull and later Wilf Wooller. Never bitter about this bad luck, he remained very proud, until his death in January 1990, of his role in the rise of Glamorgan cricket. 1. A.K. Hignell, Maurice Turnbull, A Welsh Sporting Hero (Tempus Publishing, 2001). 2. Ibid. 3. Ibid. 4. Western Mail , 12 June 1935. 5. Maurice Turnbull, A Welsh Sporting Hero op.cit. 6. Ibid.