Godfrey Wrentmore
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Godfrey 'Bai' Maynard Wrentmore (February 20, 1893 - August 16, 1953) was a South Africa
n sportsman who played first-class cricket
with Western Province and represented his country at rugby union
.
Born in Okiep
, Namaqualand
, Wrentmore appeared in five first-class matches for Western Province during the 1910/11 Currie Cup cricket season. He also played rugby with Western Province
and in 1912/13 toured the British Isles, Ireland and France with the South African national rugby union team. Wrentmore, a centre, failed to break into the Test side but did play in nine tour matches for the Springboks.
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
n sportsman who played first-class cricket
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
with Western Province and represented his country at rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
.
Born in Okiep
Okiep, Northern Cape
Okiep is a small town in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, and was in the 1870s ranked as having the richest copper mine in the world...
, Namaqualand
Namaqualand
Namaqualand is an arid region of Namibia and South Africa, extending along the west coast over and covering a total area of 170,000 square miles/440,000 km². It is divided by the lower course of the Orange River into two portions - Little Namaqualand to the south and Great Namaqualand to the...
, Wrentmore appeared in five first-class matches for Western Province during the 1910/11 Currie Cup cricket season. He also played rugby with Western Province
Western Province (rugby team)
DHL Western Province is a South African rugby union team that participates in the annual Currie Cup tournament. The team has won the Currie Cup on 32 occasions and has the most supporters of any Currie Cup team...
and in 1912/13 toured the British Isles, Ireland and France with the South African national rugby union team. Wrentmore, a centre, failed to break into the Test side but did play in nine tour matches for the Springboks.