From: chaudhry@lucky.engin.umich.edu (Iblees)
Subject: Re: Double Internationals
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 10:39:31 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Originator: chaudhry@lucky.engin.umich.edu


In article <23JUL199213191773@vxcrna.cern.ch>, hasan@vxcrna.cern.ch  writes:
> In article <q1R-NV-@engin.umich.edu>, chaudhry@schroedinger.engin.umich.edu (Iblees) writes...
> > 
> >In article <22JUL199220035431@zeus.tamu.edu>, avs4700@zeus.tamu.edu (ANAND SRINIVASA) writes:
> >> Michael Holding was a 400m runner and participated in the 
> >> World University Games (not the Olympics). I am not sure
> >> if he won any medal though.
> >> 
> >> Also, there was this captain of the English team of the 
> >> forties - I don't remember his name (Douglas ?). But I 
> >> sure do remember his initials : JWHT - because he was also
> >> known as 'Johnny Won't Hit Today' ...
> >> 
> >> 
> >> ____________
> >> anand. 
> >> 
> > 
> >His name was Johnny Douglas and he won a boxing gold medal in the Olympics ( I 
> >think in 1908 ). BTW, if memory serves me right, he drowned to his death while 
> >trying to save his father.
> >
> 
> Captain of England in the forties who had won an olympic gold in boxing
> in 1908 ...hmmm... as I imagine he should better have been called Johny
> Can't Hit Today :) And I presume that his father had been attempting a
> super geriatric feat, now that we know the son to have such geriatric
> accomplishments in sports :)
> 
> >Although I am not sure of it [ no way to consult the record books here :-( ], 
> >Pakistan's Farooq Hameed was also ( most probably ) a double international. He 
> >played one test for Pakistan ( vs Australia ? ) in the 60's and was also an 
> >international athlete. 
> > 
> >C.B.Fry, England's captain around 1910 was also a double international. He 
> >played rugby (?) at an international level and was also a noted long jumper.
> > 
> >Can somebody having access to "Barclay's World of Cricket" please confirm the 
> >other game Fry played? And if somebody has access to "25 Years of Sports in 
> >Pakistan" he/she can confirm for the net whether Farooq Hameed represented 
> >Pakistan in international athletics.
> >
> 
> He was the national record holder in long jump during the mid sixties. 
> And though he might have competed in what you call international athletics,
> there have been very few Pakistanis I would term as international athletes.
> But certainly he could have been part of a national athletics team selected
> in those days.
> 
> >Nauman [ Iblees ] Chaudhry
> >
> -Hasan
> 
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> > 
> > "Salim [Malik] bats, as it were, in velvet gloves. No one
> >  playing the game today,not even David Gower at his best,
> >  has a greater gift for effortlessness."
> >     
> >     John Woodcock in The Times June 9th,92
> >      
> >     Eat your hearts out David Gower fans :-) :-) :-)
> > 
> >     GO SALIM MALIK GO!!!!!

Jhonny Douglas captained England in the period immediately after the first World 
War (and maybe in some matches before the war) and NOT in the 40's as Anand 
suggests.

Nauman Chaudhry

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 "Salim [Malik] bats, as it were, in velvet gloves. No one
  playing the game today,not even David Gower at his best,
  has a greater gift for effortlessness."
     
     John Woodcock in The Times June 9th,92
      
     GO SALIM MALIK GO!!!!!