23 JULY 1965, Page 7

Gus Air-Marshal Sir Augustus Walker is to be the next

President of the Rugby Union, and a very popular one he will be. No one will lose more gracefully to us at Murrayfield next March.

My favourite rugger boast is that once I played a couple of games with Gus for a scratch side at Cambridge—he as fly half, I as scrum half. Shortly afterwards he was capped for England. And quite right too: anyone who could take my passes deserved it.

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