Cricket Witness No 3 - The Daffodil Blooms

55 Team spirit that one of the senior umpires should have been made a laughing stock. He also did not want to land in any more hot water at Lord’s, so at the close of play, the skipper duly spoke to Glover and Jenkins about ridiculing King. He asked them to apologise to the umpire and not use the sign again – “A joke’s a joke boys,” he said, “but I think that this one has gone far enough.” Ted and Viv duly complied, disposing of the sign, and Maurice never made a further mention of the incident. 5 1. D.T. Smith, The South Wales Cricket Club 1859-1886 (privately published 1988). 2. A.K. Hignell, Maurice Turnbull, A Welsh Sporting Hero (Tempus Publishing, 2001). 3. Western Mail , 28 July 1932. 4. A.K. Hignell op.cit. 5. Ibid. Ted Glover loses his middle-stump as he tries to fend off a delivery whilst batting for Glamorgan.