Players Collection (page 16)

Sketch front cover - Lili de Alvarez
Lili D Alvarez, Spanish tennis player, famous not just for her game but for wearing shocking culottes designed by Schiaparelli on court at Wimbledon in 1931. Date: 1927

Group at tennis match at Moorfield Tennis Club in Stockport. Four players and presumably an umpire. Date: 1913

Tennis players on court at Moorfield Tennis Club Stockport, showing contemporary styles of clothing and play Date: 1913

The Capitals Lacrosse Club of Canada (which is apparently still in existence today) visiting the Battersby Hat Factory in Stockport in 1906

Commemorative card of the Spanish constitution of 1812. Deck of cards designed by Simon Ardit and Quer, 1822. Xylography. SPAIN. BASQUE COUNTRY. ALAVA. Vitoria. Fournier de Naipes Museum of Alava

A child pretending he is a musician. Illustration published in Harpers Magazine. Engraving

D�de loter�y expresiones de jugadores en los
Dic de loteric y expresiones de jugadores en los dic; de ella.... (Lottery Day. Expressions of players in the days...). Engraving. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Museo de Historia

ALCANTARA RIESTRA, Paulino (1896 - 1964). Filipino-Spanish footballer

MANET, Edouard. Boy blowing bubbles
MANET, ɤ ouard (1832-1883). Boy blowing bubbles. 1867. Impressionism. Oil on canvas. PORTUGAL. Lisbon. Museu Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon Calouste Gulbenkian Museum)

WW1 Football
John Bull, in the garb of an English Army officer, appears in the changing room after a football match in an attempt to shame the players into joining the armed forces

Cricket at Lords Eton v Harrow 1870
The winning team are hoisting their player who won the game for them and spectators also cheer all around the team and victor. Date: 1870

Cricket match Eton v Harrow at Lords lunch interval
The cricket match of Eton v Harrow which was being hosted Lords had gone onto lunch interval, the spectators and the players went for lunch. Date: circa 1895

Cricket players at Boston Common, Boston, USA
Cricket players playing a very small sized cricket match at Boston common, Boston, USA. Date: 1859

LFB band at LCC Jubilee Reception, County Hall, London
The LFB band taking part in an LCC Jubilee Reception for the Metropolitan Boroughs at County Hall on 21 July 1950. Date: 1950

Cricket Stumped
Some players can be very eager to get runs therefore this results in them getting stumped. Date: 1845

Schoolgirl cricket players, WW1
Girls at a school in Scotland playing cricket during the First World War. The Tatler suggests they are ladies we expect to see at Lords in the coming days of sex equality. Date: 1915

King Alfonso XIII as a polo player, 1915
King Alfonso XIII of Spain (1886-1941) and Mr Leopold Maza taking a breather after a strenuous game of polo at Santander. Date: 1915

Barbara Windsor at Darts Marathon, Cornwall
Barbara Windsor, actress, shaking hands with Malcolm Winters, darts player and pub employee, watched by other players, at the famous First and Last Inn at the village of Sennen, Lands End, Cornwall

Bystander cover, Anthony Wilding & Arthur Balfour tennis
The Rt. Hon. Arthur Balfour and Mr Anthony (Tony) Frederick Wilding, four-times Wimbledon tennis champion, pictured as doubles partners in a friendly match on Centre Court at Wimbledon in July 1917

Suzanne Lenglen aged 15
Suzanne Lenglen (1899 - 1938), French tennis player, winner of 81 singles titles during the 1920s. Pictured as a precocious fifteen year old in The Tatler, which writes

Tennis player Anthony Wilding serving, 1905
New Zealand tennis player, Anthony Frederick Wilding (1883-1915), Wimbledon Mens Champion in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913 pictured early in his career at the age of 22 playing at Wimbledon in 1905

Anthony Wilding being congratulated at Wimbledon, 1905
New Zealand tennis player, Anthony Frederick Wilding (1883-1915), Wimbledon Mens Champion in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913 pictured early in his career at the age of 22 being congratulated after

Lord Wimborne & the England polo team, 1914
Captain Frederick Barrett, captain of the 1914 England polo team, pictured with Lord Wimborne, a supporter and helper of the team

Captain Leslie Cheape, polo player
Captain Leslie St. Clair Cheape (1882-1916), British soldier and polo player dubbed, Englands greatest polo player. He played for England in the Westchester Cup three times in 1911, 1913 and 1914

Tennis player Norman Brookes in caricature
Norman Everard Brookes (1877-1968) Australian No. 1. tennis player and Wimbledon champion in 1907 and 1914. Brookes also played doubles with the New Zealander

Polo Victory 1914, Menu card from Buckingham Palace
The menu card at the dinner given by King George V at Buckingham Palace to the England polo team after they had won the International Polo Trophy - or Westchester Cup - from America in 1914

Captain Leslie Cheape
Captain Leslie St. Clair Cheape (1882-1916), British soldier and polo player dubbed, Englands greatest polo player. He played for England in the Westchester Cup three times in 1911, 1913 and 1914

Leslie Cheape
Captain Leslie St. Clair Cheape (1882-1916), British soldier and polo player dubbed, Englands greatest polo player. He played for England in the Westchester Cup three times in 1911

Tennis and flirting, 1916
Illustration by Annie Fish to accompany the Tatlers gossip column, The Letters of Eve, showing a lady arriving on a tennis court fully garbed and ready for a game

England and America polo teams, 1913
The British and American polo teams who played in the International Polo Trophy (Westchester Cup) in 1913. The American team were known as the Big Four and were J. M

Englands victory over America in polo, 1914
Front cover of The Illustrated London News depicting the famous victory of the British polo team over the Americans at Meadowbrook in the International Polo Trophy - also known as the Westchester Cup

England polo team arrive in the USA, 1914
The famous British polo team that won the International Polo Cup (Westchester Cup) in 1914. Team includes: Vivian Noverre Lockett (1880-1962), Major Frederick W

Captain Leslie Cheape, polo player & E. W. Palmes
Captain Leslie St. Clair Cheape (1882-1916) (pictured right), British soldier and polo player dubbed, Englands greatest polo player

Anthony Wilding in Paris, 1915
Photograph of New Zealand tennis player, Anthony Frederick Wilding, Wimbledon Mens Champion in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913. His championship run came to an end in 1914 when he was beaten by Australian

Anthony Wilding at Beau Site, Cannes, 1914
Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding (1883-1915), New Zealand born tennis player and four-times Wimbledon champion from 1910-1913. Pictured at Beau Site in Cannes in 1914 seated second from right

Anthony Wilding at an aerodrome in France, 1915
Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding (1883-1915), New Zealand born tennis player and four-times Wimbledon champion pictured at an aerodrome somewhere in France in 1915 with from left

Anthony Wilding and Arthur Balfour at Nice, 1914
Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding (1883-1915), New Zealand born tennis player and four-times Wimbledon champion pictured in Nice in 1914 about to partner Mr Arthur Balfour, British conservative M.P

Tennis champion Anthony Wilding at Cannes
Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding, New Zealand born tennis player and four-times Wimbledon champion, pictured on the Beau Site Courts at Cannes in 1914 with, from left, F. G

Anthony Wilding with Arthur Balfour at Wimbledon
Photograph of New Zealand tennis player, Anthony Frederick Wilding, Wimbledon Mens Champion in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913 with Arthur Balfour, British conservative M.P

Anthony Wilding on a motorcycle tour of the UK
Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding, New Zealand-born tennis player and Wimbledon champion in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913. Wilding was also a keen motorist and motorcyclist

Anthony Wilding in Hungary
Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and four-times Wimbledon champion in 1910, 1911, 1912 & 1913

Anthony Wilding, tennis player & Wimbledon champion
Photograph of New Zealand tennis player, Anthony Frederick Wilding, Wimbledon Mens Champion in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913. His championship run came to an end in 1914 when he was beaten by Australian

Ranjis nephews playing war-time cricket at Lord s
Five nephews of the famous Indian cricketer, Ranjitsinhji Jamsaheb of Nawanager (" Ranji" ), who part of a team of Indian students who played against Lt-Col. Baileys XI at Lords in 1916

Lieutenant E. G. Loudoun-Shand, rugby international, WW1
Eric Gordon Loudoun-Shand MC TD MA (born Eric Gordon Shand on 31st Mar 1893) was a Rugby Union international who played for Scotland

Bystander cover, a royal tennis player
Front cover of The Bystander magazine featuring Prince Albert, Duke of York -the future King George VI - as a tennis player

Bunny Austin and Lyttleton Rogers at Wiimbledon
Henry Wilfred Bunny Austin (1906-2000), looks up at the towering frame of his 6 ft 7 inche opponent, Lyttelton Rogers of Ireland

Dan Maskell coaching Kay Stammers & Mary Hardwick
Dan Maskell (1908 - 1992), British tennis player, coach and later universally loved Wimbledon commentator. Pictured showing Miss Mary Hardwick

Helen Jacobs in 1934
Helen Jacobs (1908 1997), American female tennis player, won ten Grand Slam titles. 1934

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