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Eddie and Dr. Quintus will be here

Eddie Gray a 'Golden Oldie' from Royal College will be here on Feb. 27 along with Dr. Quintus de Zylwa, Sri Lanka's representative to the Australian Cricket Board.

Gray though greying has not lost his vim and vigour will be there to participate in the 125th anniversary celebrations of that great happening -the Royal-Thomian cricket match. Speaking on the 'phone from Melbourne, Australia he said that he had the privilege of watching the Centenary Game in 1979 and happy to be there to meet old friends to bring back nostalgic memories.

Doyen of Sri Lanka boxing and has done much to so uplift his motherland's image as an administrator or otherwise in the past. He still continues to help though domiciled Down Under.

He had witnessed two medal winning efforts by the Lankans at the Olympics. In 1948, at Wembley when legendary Duncan White ran the race of his life to earn a silver -the first to do so. In the last Sydney Olympics he was Sri Lanka's Rep. when Susanthika Jayasinghe emerged as the first woman to do proud for Sri Lanka with a medal. Gray said, that he will be meeting his old rugby friends at the CR and FC, Rudra Rajasingham, Mahes Rodrigo, Summa Navaratnam etc., for a happy re-union and get-together.

Dr. Quintus, was here for the last English cricket tour marred by fickle weather will be watching the test series against Australia. He will also he on a fact-finding mission to spot any talented schoolboys, who could be sponsored to study and play in Victoria.

The Sri Lanka Cricket Foundation in Victoria has done this in the past with the support rendered by the Lankan expatriates.

Gamini Edirisinghe an old Royalist -a member of the Mustang said, Shaw Wilson, who led the Royalists in 1964, while the Thomians led by late Premalal Gunasekera won the match. Wilson, will be here on time for the old boys match. Wilson is now serving as a senior headmaster in a leading High School in Victoria.
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