Melbourne great, Doctor Don Cordner, was delivering babies at nine years old.
MELBOURNE draftee Jack Grimes comes from tough stock. And here's proof. His grandfather Don, 77, was playing golf last Saturday when at the eighth tee he experienced chest pains, which later turned out to be a mild heart attack. But not only did he play the remainder of the 18 holes but won the tournament before being carted off in an ambulance to a hospital cardiac ward. And he was still there yesterday, doing well thankfully. Truth is, it's Don's fault that Jack and all his family barrack for Melbourne. When Don's mother was pregnant with him, her doctor was Don Cordner, one of the handful of Cordners who made such a big mark at Demonland. No doubt the Dees will be hoping Jack is as tough as his grandfather … and as talented as his great-grandmother's doctor!
Don is 77, which means he was born in 1931. Don Cordner is 86, which means he was born in 1922. You do the maths: 1931 - 1922 = 9 years old.
Is Don, is wrong.
Still, it's not a complete balls-up for the Age. Both Don's father Ted and his uncle Harry were doctors. Since Harry was born in 1885 and Don 1905, either could have been on hand to slap Don's arse.
I expect - nay, demand! - Media Watch expose this wicked, flagrant and wanton distortion next Monday.
... so long as they don't accompany the item with 'File Footage'.
... and oh oh oh - "Is Don, is wrong" is a winner again AGB.
It is clear from the number of avid golfers who do have the old cardio-pulmonary infarction
THAT the extollers of "exercise for your health" are not on the mark (unless Grimes also has too much of the edible Don).
Posted by: dysthymiac | 20 June 2008 at 11:23
playing over at pictureaustralia.org/ I found
"Melbourne University Football Team, League, 1909.
Creator Humphrey, T., & Co., 264 Collins St., Melbourne.
Description Photograph of team on cream cardboard backing on which the title, names of members, and photographer's name are printed.
D.P. Greenham, T.A. Ogilvie, R.M.T. Matthews, F.A. Boynton, H. Hurry, A.E. Hartkopf, J. West, A.M. Wilson, F.B. Crawford, J.
Brake, D. Browning, F. Kerr, G. Elliott, N. Richards, J. Gray, A.S.M. Tymms, E.A. Kneen, A.C. Fogarty,
H. Cordner (Capt.), E.R. Cordner, M.C. Gardner,
Posted by: bwca brown | 24 June 2008 at 16:28
Wonder what the H stands for in H. Hurry. Bet it's Horry.
Posted by: Tony T | 25 June 2008 at 22:34