Former three-time national table tennis champion and `ball player extraordinaire’ Maurice Montague Moore, who died on January 8, had his cremated body laid to rest on Sunday in Canada following a moving ceremony attended by family members, close friends, and sportsmen and women of yesteryear.
He was 79.
According to Vibert Lampkin, who delivered the eulogy, “Moore was one of the great all-round Guyanese sportsmen of his generation.
“He excelled in football, cricket, hockey and table tennis. I once heard it said that ‘Maurice Moore had the best ‘ball sense’ of anyone of his era’” said Lampkin.
Arnold Gibbons, retired Professor of Communications, Hunter College, New York University once wrote of Moore on the cricket field:”A quick-footed player with a keen eye, but generally uses his footwork his footwork to the bowler’s advantage, for he has succeeded in being leg before more times than not.”
Notwithstanding those comments Moore went on to captain the prestigious British Guiana Cricket Club’s first division team, said Lampkin.
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