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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: Sammy Woods, C. B. Fry, Charles Pillman, Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, Cyril Lowe, Bill Tucker, Arthur Turner, Matthew Mullineux, Charles Nicholl, Charles Francis Constantine, Andrew Stoddart, Stan Harris, Lennard Stokes, Percy Christopherson, Charles Taylor, Alexander William Pearson, Alexander Todd, Joseph Edward Crawshay Partridge, Thomas Gubb, Frederick Stokes, Tommy Vile, William Cope, 1st Baron Cope, William Eldon Tucker, Howard Marshall, Vincent Cartwright, Philip Maud, William Cave, Mason Scott, Walter Julius Carey, Percival Coles, Reg Skrimshire, Percy Royds, Randolph Aston, Robert William Bell, Ralph Sweet-Escott, Froude Hancock, Charles Touzel, William Martin Scott, Johnny Hammond, Benjamin Burns, Richard Budworth, Bernard Charles Hartley, Harry Vassall, Eustace North, Alfred Allport, Edgar Bonham-Carter, Charles Edward Wilson, Charles Joseph Newbold, Hamilton Smith, Charles Arthur Crompton, Ted Dillon, John Fegan, Murray Marshall, Henry Arnold Lawrence, Chris York, Frank Bingham, Henry Taylor, George Burton, George Hubbard, Jack Gregory. Excerpt: Samuel Moses James "Sammy" Woods (13 April 1867 - 30 April 1931) was an Australian sportsman who represented both Australia and England at Test cricket, and appeared thirteen times for England at rugby union, including five times as captain. He also played at county level in England at both soccer and hockey. At cricket-his primary sport-he played over four hundred first-class matches in a twenty-four year career. The majority of these matches were for his county side, Somerset, whom he captained from 1894 to 1906. A.A. Thomson described him thus: "Sammy... radiated such elemental force in hard hitting, fast bowling and electrical fielding that he might have been the forerunner of Sir Learie Constantine." Having moved to England at the age of sixteen to complete h...
