Championship Collection (page 2)

Poster, Road America Can-Am Championship, 28-30 August 1970, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Date: 1970

Grosser Preis von Deutschland (German Grand Prix), Nurburgring race track, World Championship, 5 August 1956. Date: 1956

Poster, German Grand Prix, Nurburgring race track, World Championship, 1 August 1965, including a cycle race. Date: 1965

The amateur single punting championship of the lower Thames. Date: 1901

Boy and tutor, Junior National Judo Championship
Boy and tutor posing during the Junior National Judo Championship. Date: circa 1980s

Boxing - American Championship Belt (detail). 1860

Boxing - American Championship Belt. 1860

Boxing match, McCarthy v Palzer, Vernon, USA
Boxing match for the White Heavyweight Championship between Luther McCarthy and Al Palzer, in Vernon, California, USA, on 1 January 1913. McCarthy won in the 18th round. Date: 1913

Boxing match, Jeannette v McVea, Paris, France
Boxing match, World Colored Heavyweight Championship between Joe Jeannette and Sam McVea, Paris, France, on 17 April 1909. Jeanette won by a knockout in the 49th round. Date: 1909

Boxing match, Burns v O Brien, Los Angeles, USA
Boxing match, World Heavyweight Championship between Tommy Burns and Philadelphia Jack O Brien, in Los Angeles, USA, on 28 November 1906. The match was a draw. Date: 1906

Golfing at St Andrew s
Scottish golfer James Braid taking a difficult shot at the ninth hole at St Andrews being watched by a huge crowd. 1905

The finish of the Open Championship
The crowd at St Andrews watching the eventual winner James Braid taking a putt at the final hole of the championship. 1905

Braids Heroic Effort: The Match-Play
Finalists James Braid and Archie Compston putting on the green in torrential rain in the News of the World Match-Play Championship at Walton Heath 1927

Bobby Abel (1857 - 1936), nicknamed The Guv nor, was a Surrey and England opening batsman who was one of the most prolific run-getters in the early years of the County Championship Date: 1897

Wimbledon lawn tennis championships 1883
Championship meeting 1883 at the All England Lawn Tennis Club ground, Wimbledon

Princess Margaret attends Wimbledon, 1959
Princess Margaret arrives at Wimbledon for the tennis championship finals in 1959, dressed in a green dress with a matching hat Date: 1959

Middlesbrough FC Team, holders of the Football Association Amateur Championship Cup, 1894-5: Gettins, Wilson, Cooper, Piercy, Murphy, Nelmes, Morren, Bach, Allport, Johnson, Mullen. 1890s

French game, International Swimming Championship. early 20th century

The annual England versus France rugby union match. Although well beaten, however, the French attacked fearlessly and the game was fast throughout. Score 37-0, winners England. Date: 28 January 1911

Phyllis Wade - Womens Golf Champion
Phyllis Wade (1911-2012) - English Womens Golf Champion of 1934. Date: 1935

Heavyweight Championship of Europe - Carpentier v Beckett
Heavyweight Championship of Europe - Georges Carpentier vs. Joe Beckett - The knockout - French fighter Carpentier watching his fallen rival - 4th December, 1919 Date: 1919

Famous Golfers Caught In The Act. No. 13. Roger Wethered
This famous amateur is seen here playing one of the most difficult shots of the game, recovering from heather. His short follow through and the lowness of his club during this shot are noticeable

Famous Golfers Caught In The Act. No. 6. Major C. O. Hezlet
Major Hezlet won the Irish Amateur Golf Championship in 1926, and is famous for his very wide stance. He is seen here striding the course like a Colossus. Date: 1928

Famous Golfers Caught In The Act. No. 18. Thomas Philip Perk
Who recently won the Amateur Championship. He has the true golf swing, compact, powerful, rhythmic and spontaneous, and is undoubtedly the best young amateur golfer who has appeared since Wethered

THANKSGIVING US FOOTBALL
Princeton and Yale battle for the Championship in a fierce match at Berkeley Oval. Date: 1889

THAMES / SWIMMING CHAMPS
The Thames: womens swimming championship, 17km from Hampton to Kingston Date: 1905

British Heavyweight Champion Len Harvey (1906-1976) - became champion in 1933, won the British Empire Heavyweight Championship in 1934 - undefeated light heavyweight champion

Tom Jenkins (1872 - 1957), American catch wrestler who held the American Heavyweight Championship three times around the turn of the 20th century

Charlotte Cooper Sterry (1870 - 1966), female tennis player from England who won five singles titles at the Wimbledon Championships and in 1900 became Olympic champion. Date: 1904

Cricket at Bramall Lane 1901
A scene from the County Championship match between Yorkshire and Kent at the Bramall Lane ground in Sheffield, a match won by Yorkshire, who went on to become County champions that season

Georges Carpentier (1894-1975)
Photograph showing Georges Carpentier, the French boxer, pictured c.1912. Carpentier was European Champion in both welterweight and middleweight in 1912

Boxing match which lasted a record 75 rounds, between John L Sullivan (1858-1918), nicknamed the Boston Strongboy, and Jake Kilrain (1859-1937)

Anthony Wilding and Norman Brookes, tennis at Wimbledon
Anthony Wilding and Norman Brookes as " gentlemen in waiting" on the weather at the 1914 Wimbledon tennis championship in July 1914

Suzanne Lenglen and Queen Mary, Wimbledon 1926
French tennis star Suzanne Lenglen pictured meeting Queen Mary on the Centre Court at Wimbledon in 1926. Lenglen had won the ladies singles championship the previous year. Date: 1926

Jack Dempsey versus Georges Carpentier
William Harrison " Jack" Dempsey (" The Manassa Mauler" ) (June 24, 1895 May 31, 1983), American professional boxer and cultural icon of the 1920s

Helen Jacobs
Helen Hull Jacobs (August 6, 1908 June 2, 1997), World No. 1 American female tennis player who won ten Grand Slam titles. Pictured winning the final of the United States womens singles championship

Jack Johnson, boxer, going to court, London
The American heavyweight boxer Arthur John Johnson, better known as Jack Johnson (1878-1946), nicknamed the Galveston Giant, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion between 1908 and 1915

Charles Rowell. The Celebrated Pedestrian. Born in Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, England, August 12th 1853. Height 6 ft. 5 ins. Weight 140 lbs. Winner of the Astley Belt

Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney, 1926
Photograph showing Jack Dempsey (1895-1983) (left) and Gene Tunney (1897-1978), the heavyweight boxers who fought for the World Championship in 1926 and 1927

Sydney Golf Club - 2
A tense moment during a championship match at the Royal Sydney Golf Club links, Australia

County of London Rifle Shooting Championship - The Competitors and Results. Date: circa 1930

Champion heifer at the Royal Cornwall Show
A championship pedigree Charollais heifer and its keeper at the Royal Cornwall Agricultural Show, which takes place at the beginning of June each year, at Wadebridge in North Cornwall

Lady Alington presented with swimming prize, Bath Club
Lord Desborough presenting Lady Alington (the former Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper) with a gold medal as winner of the Ladies Challenge Shield at the exclusive Bath Club in London in 1933. Date: 1933

En Garde M Sieu - Bertrands Fencing Club
Members of The Sabre Club whose HQ was at Bertrands caricatured by Fred May in The Tatler. Figures include President A Miller Hallett, Admiral, the Hon. W. S. Leveson-Gower, A

The dancers Cecil Reuben and Flora Le Breton, London, 1923 - Flore Le Breton was a famous British silent movie star in London Date: 1923

World Dancing Championship held at Queens Hall
Photos of the World Dancing Championship held at the Queens Hall Rooms, London 21-29 December 1922. Top left Victor Silvester and Phyllis Clarke (awarded dancing champions)

Dog show at Hastings
A number of dogs on show at the Southern Counties Canine Association championship dog show in Hastings, some of them posing with their respective owners

Fall / Papillon / 1977
CHAMPION FIRCREST FANTUTTE Standing on the podium at the Papillon Club of Scotland Championship Show where she won the Best in Show. Owners: Mr & Mrs Hutchings Date: 1977

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