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Rackets At The 1908 Summer Olympics
At the 1908 Summer Olympics, two rackets events were contested. Only British players participated in the competitions. Medal summary Participating nations A total of seven rackets players from only one nation competed at the London Games: * Medal table Sources: See also *List of Olympic venues in discontinued events For the Summer Olympics, there have been fourteen Olympic sports that have been discontinued from the program as of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. For the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, golf and rugby union were reinstated as Olympic ... References International Olympic Committee results database* * External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rackets At The 1908 Summer Olympics 1908 Summer Olympics events 1908 Discontinued sports at the Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Queen’s Club
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 originally scheduled to be held in Rome, but were relocated on financial grounds following the violent eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1906, which claimed over 100 lives; Rome eventually hosted the Games in 1960. These were the fourth chronological modern Summer Olympics in keeping with the now-accepted four-year cycle as opposed to the alternate four-year cycle of the proposed Intercalated Games. The IOC president for these Games was Baron Pierre de Coubertin. Lasting a total of 187 days (or six months and four days), these Games were the longest in modern Olympics history. The duration of the Summer Games was 16 days in 1912, ranged between 15 and 18 days from 1928 to 1992, and was fixed at 17 days from 1996. Background There were four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racquets (sport)
Rackets or racquets is an indoor list of racket sports, racket sport played in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. The sport is infrequently called "hard rackets", to distinguish it from the related sport of squash (sport), squash (also called "squash rackets"). History Historians generally assert that rackets began as an 18th-century pastime in London's King's Bench Prison, King's Bench and Fleet Prison, Fleet debtors' prisons. The prisoners modified the game of fives by using tennis rackets to speed up the action. They played against the prison wall, sometimes at a corner to add a sidewall to the game. Rackets then became popular outside the prison, played in alleys behind pubs. It spread to schools, first using school walls, and later with proper four-wall courts being specially constructed for the game. The lithograph at right from the late 1700s shows school boys 'hitting up' outside the Harrow School 'Old School' buildings. Eglinton Country Park, Egli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evan Noel
Evan Baillie Noel (23 January 1879 – 22 December 1928) was an English rackets player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics for Great Britain. He won the gold medal in the men's singles event. In the men's doubles competition he won the bronze medal together with Henry Leaf. He also competed in the Olympic jeu de paume tournament but was eliminated in the quarter-finals. Evan Noel was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge. His daughter Susan Noel was a squash and tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ... player. References External linksEvan Noel at databaseOlympics.com [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Leaf
Henry Meredith Leaf, (18 October 1862 – 23 April 1931) was a British rackets player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He won the silver medal in the men's singles event. In the men's doubles competition he won the bronze medal together with Evan Noel. Prior to taking part in The Olympics, Leaf made two appearances in first-class cricket, playing for the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1884 and GJV Weigall's XI in 1904. Leaf was a volunteer officer in the Electrical Engineers, a volunteer unit of the Royal Engineers (RE). Their role was to supplement the regular Royal Engineers in wartime by operating searchlights to defend major ports in conjunction with minefields controlled by Volunteer companies of Submarine Miners, RE. Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War, Leaf volunteered for active service. Early in the war, Colonel Robert Baden-Powell improvised searchlights to deter night attacks during the Siege of Mafeking. Soon afterward a detachment of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jacob Astor (rackets Player)
Lieutenant-Colonel John Jacob Astor V, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, DL (20 May 1886 – 19 July 1971) was an American-born English newspaper proprietor, politician, sportsman, military officer, and a member of the Astor family. Biography Astor was born in Manhattan, New York City, in 1886, the fourth child of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (1848–1919), and Mary Dahlgren Paul (1858–1894). He was five years old when his family left New York to live in England. He was raised on an estate purchased by his father at Cliveden-on-Thames in Buckinghamshire and was educated at Eton College and at New College, Oxford.Article by Derek Wilson. Upon his father's death in 1919, Astor inherited Hever Castle, near Edenbridge, Kent, where he lived the life of an English country gentleman. Olympic Games Astor represented Great Britain in rackets at the 1908 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal in the men's doubles competition together with Vane Pennell, and winning bronze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Brougham (rackets Player)
Major Henry Brougham (8 July 1888 – ) was an English rugby union and rackets player. Brougham was born at Wellington College, Berkshire on 8 July 1888, and was educated at that School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. In 1907 he won the Public Schools Racquets Championships and in the following year reached the semi-final of the Olympic men's singles competition in London to gain a bronze medal. In 1909 he represented Oxford in the annual match against Cambridge University winning in both the singles and doubles. As a cricketer he had first represented Berkshire in the Minor Counties Championship whilst still at school, and in 1907 he captained the Wellington first XI. He made his first-class debut for Oxford University in 1911 and in the Varsity Match that summer scored a stylish second innings of 84, which helped to turn a close match decisively in Oxford's favour. The following year he also represented the Minor Counties against the South African tourists. Although ... [...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] |
Edmund Bury
Edmond William Bury (4 November 1884 – 5 December 1915) was a British rackets player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He won the silver medal in the men's doubles competition together with Cecil Browning. In the men's singles event he did not participate. Bury was killed in action, aged 31, during the First World War, serving as a captain with the King's Royal Rifle Corps near Fleurbaix. He was buried in the Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery nearby.Bury, Edmond William ''Commonwealth War Graves Commission'', retrieved 28 September 2008 See also *List of Olympians killed in World War I
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Cecil Browning
Cecil Browning (January 29, 1883 – March 23, 1953) was a British rackets player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He won the silver medal in the men's doubles competition together with Edmund Bury Edmond William Bury (4 November 1884 – 5 December 1915) was a British rackets player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He won the silver medal in the men's doubles competition together with Cecil Browning. In the men's singles ev .... In the men's singles event he lost his first match. References External linksprofile 1883 births 1953 deaths Racquets players Olympic racquets players for Great Britain Racquets players at the 1908 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics {{UK-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Olympic Venues In Discontinued Events
For the Summer Olympics, there have been fourteen Olympic sports that have been discontinued from the program as of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. For the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, golf and rugby union were reinstated as Olympic sports (though the latter was as rugby sevens). As of 2011, there have been eight baseball, two basque pelota, one cricket, one croquet, two golf, one jeu de paume, two lacrosse, five polo, one racquets, five rugby union (fifteen-a-side), four softball, five tug of war, and one water motorsports venues used for the Summer Olympics. Baseball and softball, now governed by a single international federation and thus treated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as two disciplines of a single sport, will be part of the 2020 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. The sports are not included in Paris' plan for the 2024 Games, but are part of Los Angeles' plan for the 2028 Games. Basque pelota Cricket Croquet Jeu de paume Lacros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rackets At The 1908 Summer Olympics
At the 1908 Summer Olympics, two rackets events were contested. Only British players participated in the competitions. Medal summary Participating nations A total of seven rackets players from only one nation competed at the London Games: * Medal table Sources: See also *List of Olympic venues in discontinued events For the Summer Olympics, there have been fourteen Olympic sports that have been discontinued from the program as of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. For the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, golf and rugby union were reinstated as Olympic ... References International Olympic Committee results database* * External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rackets At The 1908 Summer Olympics 1908 Summer Olympics events 1908 Discontinued sports at the Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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