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Michael Melford (journalist)

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Different sources give differing information concerning the year(s) in which he won Blues. The information given in his potted biography as a contributor to
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wrote of his time as a journalist: "Contemporaries valued him highly for sound, sympathetic judgment, good companionship and the odd decent racing tip."
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cricket and rugby correspondent from the paper's launch in 1961 to 1975. From 1946 to 1950 he had been the athletics correspondent for
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for 32 years, and was their cricket correspondent from 1975 until his retirement in 1981. He was also the
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was his godmother. In spite of his theatrical family background, according to his
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He was chairman of the Cricket Writers' Club in 1962 and President in 1985.
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obituarist he was conservative and understated, though occasionally wry.
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has been used, since this was probably supplied by Melford himself.
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After retiring from day-to-day cricket reporting, Melford was the
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from 1935 to 1938. A middle-distance runner, he was awarded
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Denham Described (A History of Denham Golf Club 1910-1992)
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St John's Wood
London
Gerrards Cross
Buckinghamshire
journalist
cricket
rugby union
track and field
Daily Telegraph
Sunday Telegraph
The Observer
Olympic Games
Melbourne
Rome
Austin Melford
impresario
Lillie Langtry
Wisden
Charterhouse
Christ Church, Oxford
Blues
Oxford
Cambridge
Oxbridge
Royal Artillery
World War II
Egypt
Tunisia
Italy

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