Recognition Well Overdue for local league legend

Story By John Fitzgerald. Picture Supplied

Marjorie Jackson is Lithgow’s international sporting hero, the worldacclaimed multiple Olympic gold medal athlete, and honoured with her statue in Cook Street Plaza fronting Lithgow’s Main Street.

Her feats are legendary, and her statue in the centre of town is appreciation of the local community of one of their own.

Another local sports person, now overdue for consideration for similar recognition is rugby league’s Barry Rushworth.

Also a Lithgow native, Barry, in his sporting evolution playing for his local club, at 21 moved to the Parramatta Eels from where, within 12 months, he attained international status.

(During his football training sessions as a youth in Lithgow he was occasionally joined by Marjorie Jackson.)

Ten years of selection in the top Parramatta Eels’ team was followed a few years after retirement with a single-year stint alongside many anonymous players in the giant-killing Western Division team which annexed the the midweek Amco Cup against formidable Sydney first grade combinations in 1974.

Barry never strayed far from Lithgow, working for 50 years behind the bar at his Lithgow and Wallerawang pubs and quietly sponsoring local sporting teams until his

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