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Tom Manning (back row, far right) with the 1959 CLS Fives team

Tom Manning

(extract from the Eton Fives Association Annual Report 2001/02)

Tom Manning has been one of Eton Fives' unsung heroes and a wonderful man of hidden depths that were not common knowledge, mainly through his own sheer modesty.

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Garth Wheatley in the Uppingham Fives team of 1941

Garth Wheatley

(extract from the Eton Fives Association Annual Report 2001/02)

Garth Wheatley was known as an Uppinghamian legend. As Master-in-Charge of Fives for countless years he once confirmed his details for the EFA Annual Report with the comment, 'life sentence'.

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