Sportsman Collection (page 12)

Dogs out hunting on a Christmas card -- The Sportsmen. Date: circa 1890s

James Finney, English swimmer
James Finney (1862-?), English swimmer. late 19th century

George Lacy Hillier, English swimmer and cyclist
George Lacy Hillier (1856-1941), English swimmer, racing cyclist (including the pennyfarthing) and all-round athlete. late 19th century

Cartoon, cricketing lion and kangaroo
Cartoon, cricketing British Lion and Australian Kangaroo. The lion says: Well, you don t mind a good licking, so long as you get the gate money, do you? 1884

William Hay, Glasgow Rangers footballer. 1890s

Sheffield United FC team: Waller (Trainer), Whitham, Foulkes, Docherty, Cain, Yates, Hammond, Needham (Captain), Hill, Watson... 1890s

Royal Arsenal Football Team: O Brien, Powell, McAvoy, Hollis (Trainer), Jenkyns (Captain), Davis, Boyle, Gavin Crawford, Mills, Hare, Gordon, Buchanan, Mortimer, Howatt, Storer, Caldwell, Ward. 1890s

London Scottish Rugby Team: Illingworth, Paterson, Connell, Newton, Fleming, Stevenson, Fleming, Thompson, Gowans, Easterbrook, Macmillan, Campbell, Gibbon, Peddie-Waddell, Grigg. 1890s

Brian Jacks at Carn Brea Leisure Centre, Redruth, Cornwall
Brian Jacks (b. 1946), British judoka (judo practitioner) and champion (top), with David Denmead of St Ives, demonstrating during a teaching session for young people at Carn Brea Leisure Centre

Cartoon, Arthur Coventry, jockey
Cartoon, Arthur Coventry (1852-1925), jockey -- Not the worst sort of Coventry to be sent to under some circumstances! 1884

Rab Howell, footballer
Rabbi Rab Howell (1867-1937), Yorkshire-born footballer of Romani descent who played for Sheffield United, Liverpool, Preston North End and England. 1890s

Welsh International Rugby Football Team, 1895, at the time they played against England: Williams (Touch Judge), Jackson, Mills, Pearson, Boucher, Elsey, Selwyn Biggs, Nicholl, Hannen, Watts, Gould

Welsh International Association Football Team, 1895, at the time they played against England: Taylor, Evans, Williams, Jenkyns, Jones, Pryce Jones, Hughes, Evans, Meredith, Davies, Trainer, Trainer

Newport Rugby Team: Bowley, Newcombe, Pook, Groves, Graham, England, Day, James, Thomas, Watts, Parfitt, Dauncey, Boucher, Gould (Captain), Hannan, Packer, Hannen, Phillips. 1890s

John Reynolds, footballer for both Ireland and England
John Jack Reynolds (1869-1917), footballer who played for both the Ireland and England.national teams, as well as West Bromwich Albion, Aston Villa, Celtic and Southampton. 1890s

John Toothill, England international rugby player
John Jack Thomas Toothill (1866-1947), England international rugby player who also played with Bradford FC and Yorkshire. 1890s

Hughie Wilson, Sunderland and Scotland footballer
Hughie Lalty Wilson (1869-1940), Sunderland and Scotland international footballer. 1890s

England Football Team, 1895, at the time they played against Scotland: Jackson, Lodge, Reid (Referee), Sutcliffe, Lythgoe, Reynolds, Holt, Needham, Crabtree, Hughes, Bassett, Bloomer, Goodall

Ernest Needham, English footballer and cricketer
Ernest Nudger Needham (1873-1936), English footballer and cricketer. He played football for Sheffield United and England, and captained England in 1901. 1890s

England International Rugby Team, 1895, at the time they played against Scotland: Finlinson, Byrne, Thomas, Mitchell, Carey, Thomson, Dobson, Tucker, Cattell, Bromet, Woods (Captain), Taylor, Poole

Charles Wreford-Brown, cricketer and footballer
Charles Wreford-Brown (1866-1951), county cricketer and England national footballer. 1890s

Billy Moon, English footballer and cricketer
William Robert Billy Moon (1868-1943), English footballer for the Old Westminsters and England. He also played first-class cricket for Middlesex. 1890s

John Goodall, footballer and cricketer
John Goodall (1863-1942), footballer who played for a number of teams, including Preston North End, Derby County, New Brighton Tower, Watford and England

James Valentine, England rugby player
James Jim Valentine (1866-1904), England rugby player who also played for Swinton and Lancashire. 1890s

Lord Stanley of Preston (Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, 1841-1908), English politician and sportsman. 1889

Alex Aberg - Estonian Wrestler
Aleksander Richard Aberg (1881-1920) - Russian-Estonian professional Greco-Roman and free-style wrestling world champion of the early 20th century. Date: circa 1910

Jean Borotra (1898-1994), French tennis player known as the Bounding Basque pictured before his match with A. J. Wadsworth in the first round of the United States indoor tennis championships

Denys Finch-Hatton by George M. Sullivan
Caricature of Denys Finch-Hatton (1887-1931). Denys Finch-Hatton, was a big game hunter and was immortalised in the autobiographical novel by Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), Out of Africa

Tacuinum Sanitatis. Fencing
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Fencing. Folio 96v

Temple of Ramses III. Relief depicting fencing fight with sticks. The fighters are wearing protective masks. New Kingdom. (1550-1069 b.C). Twentieth dynasty. Thebes. Medinet-Habou. Egypt

Frank Wootton
Francis Leonard Wootton (1893 1940), known as " Frank" or " Frankie", and sometimes referred to as " The Wonderboy"

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

Bob Fitzsimmons v Bob Armstrong in boxing match
Bob Fitzsimmons (1863-1917), British boxer, v Bob Armstrong (1873-1933), American boxer, in a boxing match. Date: circa 1900s

Fred Archer, English jockey
Frederick James (Fred) Archer (1857-1886), English flat-race jockey. Date: late 19th century

Andrew Newton Jnr, World Champion middleweight boxer
Andrew Newton Jnr (1900-1980), World Champion middleweight blind ball puncher and boxer, Marylebone Road, London. Date: circa 1920s

Edward (Gunboat) Smith, boxer, actor and referee
Edward (Gunboat) Smith (1887-1974), Irish-American heavyweight boxer, film actor and (later) boxing referee. Seen here in a boxing pose. early 1900s

Harry Vardon, professional golfer
Henry William (Harry) Vardon (1870-1937), professional golfer from Jersey. He was famous for the Vardon Grip, an overlapping grip which he appears to be using here. Date: 1926

Charles Whitcombe, English golfer
Charles Albert Whitcombe (1895-1981), professional English golfer, seen here at Walton Heath Golf Club on 20 September 1927. Date: 1927

John Watts, jockey
John " Jack" Watts was a British flat-race jockey. In a career that lasted from 1880 until 1900 he rode the winners of 19 Classics

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

Charles Stanhope, 8th Earl of Harrington on polo pony
Charles Stanhope, 8th Earl of Harrington (1844 - 1917), British peer and polo player, pictured mounted on a polo pony, despite his advanced age! Date: 1917

Tennis champion Anthony Wilding & C. T. Craig
Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding (1883-1915), New Zealand born tennis player and four-times Wimbledon champion 1910-1913, pictured with Mr C. T. Craig, managing director of the firm Messrs

Statue of the tennis player, Anthony Wilding
Physical Energy, a figure sculpted by Paul Troubetzkoy and based on the New Zealand tennis player, Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding. Wilding was Wimbledon Mens Champion in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913

C. W. Alcock
Charles William Alcock (1842 - 1907), English sportsman and administrator; influential in the development of association football and cricket and creator of the FA Cup. Date: C.1895

Lord Burghley winning the 400m hurdles at 1928 Olympics
The final of the 400 metres hurdles at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games, showing Lord Burghley silhouetted against the concrete banking of the stadium racing his way to a gold medal victory

Harold Abrahams
Harold Maurice Abrahams, CBE, (18991978) - a British athlete of Jewish origin. He was champion in the 100 metres sprint at the 1924 Olympics in Paris (July 7th)

Ed Gordon in the long jump in 1932 Olympic Games
American athlete and long jumper, Ed Gordon (1908 -1971) in flight during a long jump at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games, in which he won the gold medal. Date: 1932

Douglas Lowe winning 800m Olympic final in 1924
Douglas Gordon Arthur Lowe (7 August 1902 30 March 1981) was a British double Olympic Games champion, winning gold medals in 1924 and 1928

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