PETER JACKSON

KEN Jones died last Wednesday, barely a fortnight after his 82nd birthday and some 60 years after becoming the first of a rare breed, an international sportsman known by his initials. Unlike at least two who followed him, LBJ (Le Bron James) and OJ (Simpson), Jones’ shrinking of his name into DK came about for a prosaic reason far removed from superstardom or extreme notoriety.
The old Ken Jones, the Olympic sprinter from the immediate post-war years, finished shortly before the new Ken Jones started. The new boy’s rapid rise from his native Cross Hands to ...