U.K. JOURNALISTS ARRIVE
Two Welshmen To Tour With Team (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) MELBOURNE, May 17. The ‘advance guard” of the touring British Isles Rugby team, two internationally-known Welsh journalists, have arrived in Melbourne to join the Lions tomorrow night. They are Mr Vivian Jenkins, for mer Welsh and British Isles fullback, and Mr J. B. G. Thomas, Rugby correspondent of the “Western Mail,” Cardiff. They both toured South Africa with the 1955 Lions team, and Mr Jenkins, who writes for the London “Sunday Times,” has toured Australia and New Zealand with several M.C.C. cricket teams. Today they watched the Victorian Rugby team—the Lions’ first opponents in Australia—training in Melbourne, and Mr Jenkins, a noted kick in his day, coached the Victorian goal kicker, D. Gilroy. With the arrival of three New Zealand journalists and four Rugby writers from Sydney, the Lions will have with them the largest press party ever to tour with a Rugby team in Australia.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28897, 18 May 1959, Page 14
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