From an early age, Lynch showed an enormous interest and great accomplishment as a sportsman.

His reputation as a sportsman was also an asset.

With his contemporary the footballer Stanley Matthews Compton was the first British sportsman to make a substantial living by exploiting his sporting reputation to provide advertisements and endorsements.

He also gained a reputation as an all round sportsman, starring in cricket and Australian rules football as a junior, being coached in both by former Test cricketer and leading footballer Vic Richardson.

As the world's top sportsman -- pro or amateur -- Sports Illustrated tapped golf's confident Arnold Palmer ( Time cover, May 2 ), who staged two cliffhanging rallies to win both the Masters and U.S. Open crowns, went on to win a record $80,738 for the year.

Although technically the powder's quantity is unlimited if you are a dedicated sportsman, you should not have excess stock of powder in your possession for obvious reasons.

He was an avid sportsman who purchased one of the early town sites and built Hotel Hallock, a place for travelers and sportsmen.

* William Collins ( sportsman, born 1853 ) ( 1853 – 1934 ), played rugby for England and cricket for Wellington, New Zealand

Two 20th-century Lord Chancellors, F. E. Smith ( Lord Birkenhead ) and John Simon, were undergraduates together in the 1890s, along with the sportsman C. B. Fry ; Sir Thomas Beecham was an undergraduate in 1897, though soon abandoning Oxford for his musical career.

I knew Jonah was backstage, about to come on for our ' feel the sportsman ' round.

William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough was an all round sportsman, politician and public servant who performed many good works for the town A number of notable figures can be counted amongst Maidenhead's current and former residents.

He was a keen sportsman and played both cricket and football for the university.

His father, Joseph, had moved to Newport from Oxford to work in the brass foundry business, and was himself an ardent sportsman playing for the local cricket team.

He was MP for Southwark 23 December 1765 – September 1780, an Alderman, and Sheriff of the City of London: a respected, religious man who was a good hunter and sportsman with a taste for gambling.

Dr. Tom Waddell ( November 1, 1937-July 11, 1987 ) was the gay American sportsman who founded the international sporting event called the Gay Games, which was named such after the United States Olympic Committee ( USOC ) sued Dr. Waddell for using the word " Olympic " in the original name " Gay Olympics ".

A passage from Alan Moorehead ´ s The White Nile ( p. 61 ) describes it thus: " The sportsman Samuel Baker and his wife had come up the Nile to look for them, and there had been others as well who had arrived at Gondokoro on the same mission, three Dutch ladies, the Baroness van Capellan and Mrs and Miss Tinne, but they had been forced to return to Khartoum through sickness.

Characterized by one literary critic as an " anti-Stalinist dialectician ", James was known for his autodidactism, for his occasional playwriting and fiction, and as an avid sportsman.

A fine sportsman who is usually picked for the senior football and cricket XIs.

A good boxer and skater, both roller and ice, and would be a good sportsman but for his poor hearing.

There Waldorf attended Eton College and New College, Oxford, where he did not distinguish himself academically but excelled as a sportsman, earning accolades for both fencing and polo.

* Flying a light plane borrowed from sportsman Ben King, Helen Richey sets an international altitude record for aircraft weighing under 200 kg ( 441 lbs ), reaching 18, 448 feet ( 5, 623 m ) during a flight from Congressional Airport in Rockville, Maryland, to New Market, Virginia.

: Rugby Football is a game for gentlemen in all classes, but for no bad sportsman in any class.

Charles Burgess Fry, known as C. B. Fry ( 25 April 1872 – 7 September 1956 ), was an English polymath ; an outstanding sportsman, politician, diplomat, academic, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, who is best remembered for his career as a cricketer.

Vladimir Drinfeld who was later awarded a 1990 Fields medal for the development of quantum groups is considered by many as the most outstanding " mathematical sportsman " in the history of the All-Union Mathematical Olympiads.

When informed that Botham wanted to be a sportsman, the Careers Mistress at his school said to him, " Fine, everyone wants to play sport, but what are you really going to do?

The very best golfers make up to 8-figure incomes in U. S. dollars from tournament play alone ; when endorsement income is taken into account, Tiger Woods is the highest earning sportsman in the world, according to Forbes magazine, retaining this status in 2010 even after a tumultuous year in which he failed to win a tournament and lost his marriage and many of his sponsors after his 2009 sex scandal.

He was the son of the sportsman Graham Doggart ( 1897-1963 ), who rose to chair the Football Association and play county cricket for Middlesex.

A noted sportsman in his own right, Bauer turned down an offer to play for the Boston Bruins Olympic farm team at the age of 16, so that he could attend St. Michael's College School in Toronto, where he played for various school teams from 1941 to 1945, and later the University of Toronto.

Hammond, a keen sportsman, used to play hockey for a National League team and for his county.

Schooled as a sportsman at Dunbar Elementary by legendary Wonder Fiver Burl Friddle, Harmon went on to play for two straight Indiana state basketball championship teams with the Washington Hatchets in 1941 and 1942.

She was brought up by Goldsmith's family, and was married a few years to French sportsman Arnaud de Rosnay.

Agricola was a Hebrew scholar towards the end of his life, an educator, musician and builder of a church organ, a poet in Latin as well as the vernacular, a diplomat and a sportsman of sorts ( boxing ).

Gagarin kept physically fit throughout his life, and was a keen sportsman.

Amenhotep III became a fine sportsman, a lover of outdoor life, and a great statesman.

* Richard Darwell, Madcap's Progress: the life of the eccentric Regency sportsman John Mytton.

In his private life he was a sportsman, cross-country skiing and skating in winter time, during his regular visits to Switzerland and Norway ; deprived of these winter sports during the First World War he started climbing.

) and by permitting each member to live in a dreamworld of his own — the feckless father believing himself to be a great inventor, the grandfather dwelling on the past when he was a mighty sportsman, and little Hedvig, the child, centering her emotional life around an attic where a wounded wild duck leads a crippled existence in a make-believe forest.

Milner Gibson was a sportsman and a typical man of the world, who enjoyed life and behaved liberally to those connected with him.

A keen sportsman throughout his youth, James generously supported sporting clubs all his life.

In adult life, Albright became a champion water sportsman and eventually operated a successful trucking firm.

Seeldrayers was a very accomplished sportsman, and as can be seen from the many sports in which he competed, he had preference for team sports, which agreed with his conception of sports, since, according to Seeldrayers, sports must be the playing-field of an apprenticeship in the necessary values of life and community.

He now divided his private time between residences in Easton, Maryland, and Palm Beach, Florida, pursuing an active life as a sportsman.