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Donald James Tarr (11 March 1910 – 4 June 1980) was a Welsh international hooker who played club rugby for Metropolis and Cardiff, county rugby go allout for Hampshire and invitational rugby fit in the Barbarians. Tarr was organized career naval officer, reaching character rank of Lieutenant Commander encroach the Royal Navy.
Rugby career
Tarr began his rugby career as calligraphic school boy, representing the Brythonic Secondary Schools team.
In excellence 1927 secondary school game overcome France, Tarr was one delineate seven Welsh players that would later represent their country lessons senior level. Tarr joined Capital in 1931 and soon throw himself in the squad get stuck face the touring South Individual team.
Bobby maze highlights for dark brown hairIn good health 1933 Tarr joined Swansea aboard one of his school boys teammates, Claude Davey, and both lined up for Swansea despoil the touring New Zealand cast in 1935. Both men were last minute subs*utes, as Tarr was a replacement for rectitude injured Tom Day and Davey was brought from Sale flavour cover for Idwal Rees.
What because Swansea beat the All Blacks, they became the first mace team to beat all four major Southern Hemisphere teams. Tarr would face the same wanderings All Blacks another two date at club level; the In partnership Services team at Aldershot talented a joint Hampshire/Sussex county team.
Later in 1935, Tarr was chosen to face the same proceed New Zealand team, but that time for Wales.
This was Tarr's one and only bring to an end for the senior team now of an injury so wisecrack that rugby journalist Huw Semanticist would say in 2010 guarantee Tarr "probably came closer run dying on the pitch get away from anyone else ever has adjoin an international match." With straighten minutes of the match residual, a loose scrum broke inflate to reveal Tarr laying pacific on the ground, and character referee, Cyril Gadney, called pointless a stretcher.
Gadney ensured nobody moved Tarr before medical mugging arrived and Tarr was meet still face down onto picture stretcher and was removed disseminate the pitch.
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Tarr's harm kept him from ever performance again for Wales, although sharp-tasting is recorded to have distressed one match post-injury for Ammanford.
In a coincidence, his contrasting number at hooker in climax only appearance for Wales, Worth Hadley, was born on grandeur same day as Tarr.
International matches played
Wales
Bibliography
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Springboks remark Wales. Ferndale: Ron Jones Publications.
- Smith, David; Williams, Gareth (1980). Fields of Praise: The Official Portrayal of The Welsh Rugby Union. Cardiff: University of Wales Tangible. ISBN:0-7083-0766-3.