Word: horseman
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...Sportsman. Big, powerful, restless, Doyle is first of all a man of action. He is proficient at most games. Brilliant cricketer, masterly billiard player, fisherman, footballer, horseman, skier, first-rate boxer (he was asked to referee the Johnson-Jeffries fight), golfer - he has at least dabbled in everything...
...fifth man joined them?Malcolm Stevenson, for whom Strawbridge had substituted as Third Horseman when Stevenson was lugged from the field unconscious in the first game. He, too, raised the cup, arrested it at his lips, passed it on to a sixth man standing by. The sixth man smiled, bowed, drank. After Edward of Wales, Stevenson had his draught...
...Lieut. Col. T. P. Melvill, a crack shot, a fine horseman, a skilled combination player...
Eric Pedley?a rangey, youthful Californian, the first Westerner to be even mentioned for an International tour. Within two weeks of appearing on an Eastern field he displaced J. Watson Webb at No. 1 on Team A with smashing play. He is an all-round athlete, magnificent horseman. During one match, he surprised the gallery when he crouched over his horse's neck, jockey-like, in "riding off" an opponent. The ordinary method is to sit clamped in the saddle...
...harshly by the English press. As though the life of the heir to the British throne were not hard enough anyhow, the engaging Prince has been practically forbidden by the newspapers to divert himself with horsemanship--all on account of a few paltry falls and broken bones which every horseman experiences at one time or other. For the British, one is led to believe, take their royalty quite seriously. As the Evening Standard says, "it is one of the penalties of his position that he cannot regard himself entirely as a private individual...