Illness and Death
At the end of the tour of England, 14 of the 16 South African players departed for home on the Union Castle Line ship MV Winchester Castle; the exceptions were Cuan McCarthy, who started at Cambridge University, and Mann, who "is staying in England for medical treatment". Mann had "an abdominal operation" in England, where he stayed in hospital for three months, having been joined in England by his wife, Daphne. He was able to return to South Africa, but needed a second operation in mid-1952 and died six weeks later.
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