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14 Feb 2005 17:51:31 |
M. Perry |
Conan Doyle the Sportsman |
Can you imagine Charles Dickens boxing? How about Shakespeare on skis? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle boxed and skied. He also played golf and was even on a celebrity cricket team! You can learn all the details at: http://www.siracd.com/life/life_sports.shtml Best wishes, M. Perry Webmaster - The Chronicles of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle http://www.siracd.com/ He might fail from want of skill or strength, but deep in his somber soul he vowed that it should never be from want of heart. - The Croxley Master by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
15 Feb 2005 08:01:12 |
Robert Henderson |
Re: Conan Doyle the Sportsman |
In article <Dy5Qd.107$kU3.31@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net >, M. Perry <mperry8304@earthlink.net > writes >Can you imagine Charles Dickens boxing? How about Shakespeare on skis? Sir >Arthur Conan Doyle boxed and skied. He also played golf and was even on a >celebrity cricket team! You can learn all the details at: > Doyle was an extremely keen cricketer who once dismissed WG. A large, vigorous man, in real life he is the Dr Watson character to Dr Joseph Bell's Holmes. J M Barrie was addicted to the game, bowling amazing slow leg-breaks which he reckoned he could collect in mid air before they reached the batsman if he didn't like them. P G Wodehouse opened the bowling for Dulwich College with the much feared Edwardian fast bowler N A Knox. Raymond Chandler was also a pupil at the school at the same time, although I don't think he played for Dulwich at cricket. I wonder if any other school has ever had two best-selling authors as pupils at the same time? RH >http://www.siracd.com/life/life_sports.shtml > -- Robert Henderson philip@anywhere.demon.co.uk Blair Scandal web site at http://www.geocities.com/blairscandal/ Personal web site at http://www.anywhere.demon.co.uk |