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Jeu De Paume At The Summer Olympics
Jeu de paume was an event contested at the 1908 Summer Olympics. This was the only Summer Olympic Games to contain this sport as a medal event. An outdoor version called longue paume was a demonstration sport at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Real tennis, as jeu de paume is called in the United Kingdom, was an exhibition event at the 1924 Summer Olympics. In the Official Report of the 1908 Olympic Games, the sport is referred to as "Tennis (jeu de paume)" while tennis is named "lawn tennis." The competition venue was the Queen's Club in West Kensington, London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo .... Participating nations Each nation could enter up to 12 players.Official Report, p. 40. 11 players from 2 nations competed. * * Medal table Sources: Results Standings B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen's Club
The Queen's Club is a private sporting club in West Kensington, London, England. The club hosts the annual Queen's Club Championships men's grass court lawn tennis tournament (currently known as the "cinch Championships" for sponsorship reasons). It has 28 outdoor courts and ten indoor. With two courts, it is also the national headquarters of real tennis, hosting the British Open every year excepting 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Queen's Club also has rackets and squash courts; it became the headquarters for both sports after the closure of the Prince's Club in 1940. History Founded as The Queen's Club Limited on 19 August 1886 by Evan Charteris, George Francis and Algernon Grosvener, the Queen's Club was the world's second multipurpose sports complex, after the Prince's Club, and became the world's only multipurpose sports complex when the Prince's Club relocated to Knightsbridge and lost its outdoor sports facilities. The club is named after Queen Victoria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Page (jeu De Paume Player) (Arthur John Page, 1919–2008), British Conservative politician
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Arthur Page may refer to: * Arthur W. Page (1883–1960), vice president and director of AT&T, 1927–47 * Arthur Page (jeu de paume player) (1876–1958), British jeu de paume player and cricketer * John Page (MP for Harrow West) Sir Arthur John Page (16 September 1919 – 31 October 2008), known as Sir John Page, was a British Conservative politician. The son of Sir Arthur Page, sometime Chief Justice of Burma, Page was educated at Harrow and Magdalene College, Camb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeu De Paume At The Summer Olympics
Jeu de paume was an event contested at the 1908 Summer Olympics. This was the only Summer Olympic Games to contain this sport as a medal event. An outdoor version called longue paume was a demonstration sport at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Real tennis, as jeu de paume is called in the United Kingdom, was an exhibition event at the 1924 Summer Olympics. In the Official Report of the 1908 Olympic Games, the sport is referred to as "Tennis (jeu de paume)" while tennis is named "lawn tennis." The competition venue was the Queen's Club in West Kensington, London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo .... Participating nations Each nation could enter up to 12 players.Official Report, p. 40. 11 players from 2 nations competed. * * Medal table Sources: Results Standings B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1908 Summer Olympics Events
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Jeu De Paume At The 1908 Summer Olympics
Jeu de paume was an event contested at the 1908 Summer Olympics. This was the only Summer Olympic Games to contain this sport as a medal event. An outdoor version called longue paume was a demonstration sport at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Real tennis, as jeu de paume is called in the United Kingdom, was an exhibition event at the 1924 Summer Olympics. In the Official Report of the 1908 Olympic Games, the sport is referred to as "Tennis (jeu de paume)" while tennis is named "lawn tennis." The competition venue was the Queen's Club in West Kensington, London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo .... Participating nations Each nation could enter up to 12 players.Official Report, p. 40. 11 players from 2 nations competed. * * Medal table Sources: Results Standings B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biedermann
Biedermann is German for an honourable, upright man. It may also refer to: ;People *Christoph Biedermann (born 1987), Liechtenstein footballer *Edwin Biedermann (1877-1929), British real tennis player *Friedrich Karl Biedermann (1812–1901), German political philosopher *Gisela Biedermann (born 1948), Liechtensteiner physician and politician *Harry Biedermann (1887–1917), first-class cricketer *Jeanette Biedermann (born 1980), German singer, actress and television personality *Johann Jakob Biedermann (1763–1830), Swiss painter and etcher *Julia Biedermann (born 1967), German television actress *Karl Biedermann (1890-1945), Austrian military officer *Kyle Biedermann, American politician *Marc Biedermann, American musician for heavy metal band Blind Illusion *Paul Biedermann (born 1986), German swimmer ;Arts * ''Der Biedermann'', a moralistic weekly (1727–1729) by Johann Christoph Gottsched * ''Biedermann und die Brandstifter'', a 1953 play by Max Frisch, published in Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neville Lytton
Neville Stephen Bulwer-Lytton, 3rd Earl of Lytton, OBE (6 February 1879 – 9 February 1951) was a British military officer, Olympian and artist. Early life Neville Lytton was born in British India on 6 February 1879 while his parents served as viceroy and vicereine: Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton and Edith Villiers. Neville was the grandson of the famous novelists, Edward Bulwer-Lytton Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC (25 May 180318 January 1873) was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative from 1851 to 1866. He was Secret ... and Rosina Doyle Wheeler. His siblings included the suffragette Constance Lytton, Betty Balfour, Countess of Balfour (and sister in law of the prime minister), and Emily Lutyens, wife of the architect Edwin Lutyens. A keen amateur cricketer, he played Minor Counties of English and Welsh cricket, minor counties cricket for Hertf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Palmer (Jeu De Paume Player)
Arnold Palmer (14 September 1886 – 27 November 1973) was a British real tennis player who competed in the jeu de paume tournament at the 1908 Summer Olympics The 1908 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the IV Olympiad and also known as London 1908) were an international multi-sport event held in London, England, United Kingdom, from 27 April to 31 October 1908. The 1908 Games were ori .... References 1886 births 1973 deaths English real tennis players Jeu de paume players at the 1908 Summer Olympics Olympic real tennis players for Great Britain People from South Kensington Sportspeople from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea {{UK-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Tatham (tennis)
Charles Tatham (5 August 1864 – 27 February 1925) was a British real tennis player who competed in the Jeu de paume at the 1908 Summer Olympics, jeu de paume tournament at the 1908 Summer Olympics. References 1864 births 1925 deaths English real tennis players Jeu de paume players at the 1908 Summer Olympics Olympic real tennis players for Great Britain Sportspeople from Norfolk {{UK-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Sands
Charles Edward Sands (December 22, 1865 – August 9, 1945) was an American golfer, tennis and real tennis player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics and in the 1908 Summer Olympics. Education Sands was educated at Columbia College, where he played tennis and golf, and graduated in 1887. He was posthumously inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame in 2018. Sports career In 1900 he won the gold medal in the men's individual golf competition. Sands also participated as tennis player in July 1890 he won the Northwestern Championships played at the Hotel St. Louis, Minnetonka, Minnesota. At the 1900 Olympics. In the singles tournament he was eliminated in the first round. He and his British partner Archibald Warden were also eliminated in the first round of the doubles event. Also the mixed doubles competition ended for him and his partner Georgina Jones Miss Georgina Jones is a fictional character played by Juliet Harmer in the BBC television adventure series, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cazalet
William Marshall Cazalet (8 July 1865 – 22 October 1932) was a wealthy British landowner who represented Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics, Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics, 1908 Olympic Games in jeu de paume (real tennis). Early life Cazalet was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on 8 July 1865. He was the son of Edward Cazalet (merchant), Edward Cazalet, merchant and industrialist, and his wife, Elizabeth Sutherland Marshall (d. 1888), daughter and heir of William Marshall, doctor and Danish consul in Edinburgh. Cazalet graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1889. At Oxford, he won a Blue (university sport), Blue in real tennis (jeu de paume) in 1886, 1887 and 1889, and won the singles in 1889. His father had a real tennis court built for him at Fairlawne, the family home in Shipbourne, Kent. Career Cazalet was a wealthy landowner, with friends including Rudyard Kipling. He served as a Lieutenant in the West Kent Yeomanry Cavalry, and held appointments by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vane Pennell
Vane Hungerford Pennell (16 August 1876 – 17 June 1938) was an English people, English racquets (sport), rackets and real tennis player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics for Great Britain. Life Vane Pennell was educated at Eton College, Eton, Charterhouse School, Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge. He won the 1904 amateur tennis championship and the 1907 gold prize at Lords. In the 1908 Olympics he won the gold medal in the men's doubles competition together with John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, John Jacob Astor. In the Rackets at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's singles, men's singles event he lost his first match. He also competed in the Jeu de paume at the 1908 Summer Olympics, Olympic jeu de paume tournament but was eliminated in the quarter-finals. References External linksVane Pennellat Flickr Commonsprofile [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
