Sportsmen in Wax
Grants of all Games at the New Tussaud’s
Prominent figures in sport are well featured in the new Madame Tussaud’s Waxworks Exhibition in London, which was opened some weeks ago on the site of the old building, destroyed by fire three years ago.
Cricket claims Dr. W. G. Grace and Jack Hobbs, both the heroes of a century of centuries at cricket. Georges Carpentier, the D’Artagnan of the boxing ring, is there in company with Joe Beckett and Jimmy Wilde. Maybe, Tom Heeney’s rugged features will be immortalised in wax in the years to come.
Tennis is represented by W. T. (“Big Bill”) Tilden, the greatest player of his time, and Suzanne Lenglen, the volatile French girl. Others include Sir Thomas Lipton, the famous yachtsman; Fred Archer and Steve Donoghue, who between them won nine Derbies in different generations; Harry Vardon and Abe Mitchell, representing golf; Colonel Charles Lindbergh, the Lone Eagle of the world’s airways; and Captain Matthew Webb and T. W. Burgess, the first two men to swim the English Channel.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 375, 8 June 1928, Page 11
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176Sportsmen in Wax Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 375, 8 June 1928, Page 11
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