Lewis was poetry in motion | Peter Jackson

PETER JACKSON

KEITH McLellan is a fair dinkum Aussie from Bondi Beach, who spent most of the Fifties at Headingley, captaining the club to their Challenge Cup victory at Wembley over Barrow in 1957.
Still going at 91, McLellan has never been in any doubt as to the greatest player he had seen in either code, his centre partner at Leeds, Lewis Jones, 90 last month.
He admired Jones so much he wrote a poem about him for which I am grateful to rugby historian Howard Evans.The last verse says it all:
And after all is said and done, And Lewis has had his final run, Who stood out above them ...

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