All-Round Genius

[Leo No.8]

Anyone read about this guy Max Woosnam - incredible fella.

 

He was a Wimbledon champion, Davis Cup captain, Manchester City skipper, England captain, won Olympic Gold, played golf off scratch, was a Cambridge blue, scored two centuries at Lords, made a 147 snooker break and fought in the trenches from start to finish of the first world war.

 

There's a book coming out about him called 'All-round genius' which I'm going to make a point of reading, apparently he was the greatest sportsman of all time but wouldn't give interviews or court the limelight as he was such a down to earth guy.

 

It sounds like he got up to some cracking old fashioned japes as well. When in America with the Davis Cup team they were guests of Charlie Chaplin. Apparently Chaplin expected his guests to treat him with a great deal of deference, but Woosnam was having none of that.

 

He thrashed him at tennis, then challenged Chaplin to a game of table tennis, and proceeded to humiliate him by beating him using a butter knife as a bat. Then later when Woosnam grew bored at the party he picked up Chaplin and threw him in his own swimming pool fully clothed. Chaplin locked himself in his bedroom and wouldn't come out until they'd left.

 

Brilliant!

Edited July 31, 2006 by Leo No.8

[charlie clown]

I'd not heard of him till that biog came out a couple of weeks back. He's the only individual I've heard of that comes anywhere close to that American woman who became world champion at everything sport she tried back in the pre-WW2 era. Amazing.

[Guest Cardie]

Doesn't Stephen Fry have a relative from the turn of the century who did similar?

[Redwire]

And he was a scouser!

 

 

 

Doesn't Stephen Fry have a relative from the turn of the century who did similar?

 

C B Fry.

[Fagan]

just ordered it on amazon, cheers for the tip off, never heard of him before

[Elisha_Scott]

Just ordered it, never heard of him before, now I cant wait to read about him.

[adayinthelife]

What makes you lads think he ever existed?

 

It sounds like somebody just recently made him up.

 

Did somebody say there was a book about his incredible talents coming out soon?

Edited August 1, 2006 by adayinthelife

[Superjay]

He also played for chelsea, the money grabbing so and so

[Leo No.8]

He also played for chelsea, the money grabbing so and so

 

And no doubt left soon after, having humiliated Jose Mourinho by thrashing him at tiddleywinks with his hands tied behind his back and using only his handlebar moustache...

 

I'm popping over to Waterstones to get this book at lunchtime, should provide excellent reading for my daily commute...

[Gilps]

What makes you lads think he ever existed?

 

It sounds like somebody just recently made him up.

 

Did somebody say there was a book about his incredible talents coming out soon?

 

Christ.

 

When even the stories of sporting heroes from yesteryear are nothing but a pack of LIES told by THEM, just who or what can we trust?

 

Actually, don?t answer that.

[jimmylibel]

Gonna get this too, sounds fascinating

 

Maldini, if you like the sound of that you'll probably like this one too. Haven't read it yet but a friend of mine highly recommended it.

 

Link

[Superjay]

Christ.

 

When even the stories of sporting heroes from yesteryear are nothing but a pack of LIES told by THEM, just who or what can we trust?

 

Actually, don?t answer that.

 

 

You know that champions league win? It never actually happened, it was all advanced CGI and was just a cover-up for a black ops mission to replace tony blair as the prime minister of england with an imposter north korean spy..... All completely true...... probably.

[Ostrich Man]

he sounds like a c*** to me.

[Leo No.8]

he sounds like a c*** to me.

 

He obviously beat you at snooker using a stick of celery as a cue.

 

Don't be bitter...

[Ostrich Man]

to be fair in the olden days reds counted as 10 points...the pockets were 3 times the size they are now and the balls were the size of marbles.

[Des]

What makes you lads think he ever existed?

 

It sounds like somebody just recently made him up.

 

Did somebody say there was a book about his incredible talents coming out soon?

 

Fkin hell.

 

Lunatic.

[Cobs]

Fkin hell.

 

Lunatic.

if he existed there'd be a video we could watch of him, surely?

[ManxRed]

if he existed there'd be a video we could watch of him, surely?

 

Yes, but that would be a plant. I'm sure for every video there was of him there'd be twenty websites (www.thisisactuallytrue.com and www.nohonestthoseotherwebsitesarewrong.co.uk) with EVIDENCE that he was just a made up person.

 

 

 

WATCH THE VIDEO YOU MORANS!

[Superjay]

I think I seen a video of this guy... I think it was called forrest gump or something.

[Coyler]

C B Fry.

Standing-jump champion or something, amongst other things. He could stand in the middle of the parlour or drawing room or study six foot in front of the fire with his back to it, bend the old legs and one backwards somerset later would be atop the mantelpiece begrinned.

[Ben 23]

I think I seen a video of this guy... I think it was called forrest gump or something.

 

[Ostrich Man]

Standing-jump champion or something, amongst other things. He could stand in the middle of the parlour or drawing room or study six foot in front of the fire with his back to it, bend the old legs and one backwards somerset later would be atop the mantelpiece begrinned.

he sounds a nightmare too.....wonder how many fireplaces he ruined doing that s***.

[Coyler]

Homewrecker Fry, they called him.

 

He could penetrate a happy housewife from five yards with the same manoeuvre.

[Leo No.8]

Bugger - Waterstones had sold out every copy! I'll have to wait a few days...

[Mike]

its straight out of 'ripping yarns' this.