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SPORT
Here you will find grouped together
articles and features about British sport, and stars of British
sport.
Cricket
- The sweet sound of leather on willow A
warm summers day, a picturesque village green, the sound of
leather on willow, a polite ripple of applause ...
Rugby Football "A game played by gentlemen with odd shaped balls" Anon.
Max Woosnam
This sporting polymath
played soccer for Manchester City and England, won Olympic Gold at
tennis, was a Wimbledon Champion, fought with distinction in the
First World War....and beat film star Charlie Chaplin at table
tennis, playing with a butter knife!!
C.B. Fry
This amazing man played rugby for the Barbarians,
football for England, captained the English cricket team, equalled the
world long jump record - and was offered the throne of Albania.
Polo
Polo is perhaps the oldest team sport;
the first recorded tournament was in 600 B.C. between the Turkomans and
the Persians (the Turkomans were victorious). The first game in
Britain of “hockey on horseback” was organised on Hounslow Heath in
1869...
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