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Austrian athlete and graphic designer [200] Marie Provazníková: 1890–1991: 100: Czechoslovak sports official active in the Sokol movement [201] Maurice Racca: 1922–2023: 100: French Olympic sport shooter [202] Marko Račič: 1920–2022: 102: Slovenian Olympic athlete [203] Ted Radcliffe: 1902–2005: 103: American Negro league baseball ...
William Gilbert Grace, commonly known as W. G. Grace, is generally considered one of the greatest cricketers of all time. [1] [2] [3] His first-class cricket career spanned 44 seasons, from 1865 until 1908, [3] [4] during which time he claimed over 2,800 wickets and over 800 catches. [5]
In the sport of cricket, a batsman is said to have scored a century when they reach a score of 100 or more runs in an innings without being dismissed. In first-class cricket , the highest form of the game below international level , a total of 25 players have achieved the feat on a hundred or more occasions.
Hobbs made a good start to the 1919 season and, despite a brief spell of failure through over-aggression, [153] batted consistently. He scored a double century for Surrey against a touring Australian Imperial Forces cricket team and centuries in each of the three Gentlemen v Players matches—the only player ever to do so in one season.
Jesse Owens won four gold medals to become the most successful athlete of any sport in the entire Olympics — a record that would stand until 1984 when another African-American track-and-field ...
George Ernest Tyldesley (5 February 1889 – 5 May 1962) was an English cricketer.The younger brother of Johnny Tyldesley and the leading batsman for Lancashire.He remains Lancashire's most prolific run-getter of all time, and is one of only a few batsmen to have scored 100 centuries in the first-class game.
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