"by Brian Epstein. He retired in 1974. He was an acquaintance of another bullfighter, Frank Evans, who was mistakenly booked by a bullring owner who thought he was booking Higgins. Subsequently, Evans took the fight, which started his bullfighting career. Henry Higgins (bullfighter) Henry Higgins was an English matador, the most senior level of bullfighter, who was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1944. He died as a result of a hang-gliding accident, while demonstrating it by jumping off a 200 ft high hill in 1978. He was educated at King Williams College in the Isle of Man. His professional, or"
"United Kingdom, including association football, golf, tennis, boxing, rugby league, rugby union, cricket, field hockey, snooker, darts, billiards, squash, curling and badminton, all of which are popular in Britain. Another sport invented in the UK was baseball, and its early form rounders is popular among children in Britain. Snooker and darts are popular indoor games: Stephen Hendry is the seven time world snooker champion, Phil Taylor is the 16 time world darts champion. Snooker player Alex Higgins (nicknamed ""The Hurricane"") and darts player Eric Bristow (nicknamed ""The Crafty Cockney"") are credited with popularising each sport. Bodybuilder Reg Park was Mr"
"great player"". Higgins arguably fulfilled his potential only intermittently during his career peak in the 1970s and '80s; Everton puts this down to Davis and Ray Reardon generally being too consistent for him. Regardless, Higgins' exciting style and explosive persona helped make snooker a growing television sport in the 1970s and 1980s. Higgins also made the first 16-red clearance (in a challenge match in 1976); it was a break of 146 (with the brown as the first ""red"", and sixteen colours: 1 green, 5 pinks and 10 blacks). In 2011, Event 8 of the Players Tour Championship was renamed as"
"of affairs constituted the most ingenious practical joke, which only a man who was at one and the same time a mathematician and a poet of sentiment could start functioning for the amusement and edification of all concerned."" Higgins called himself ""a realist who wished to be romantic"". He was born in Batley, Yorkshire. He was a gifted mathematician and, briefly, a professional Rugby league footballer. He then became a schoolteacher; but soon abandoned this for a literary career, at which he was also unsuccessful. After living from hand to mouth for some years, he died of a rare heart"
"football as an inside left. He appeared once in the Football League First Division for Birmingham in the 1907–08 season, and was also on the books of Aston Villa and Brierley Hill Alliance, retaining his amateur status throughout his football career. He made his first-class cricket debut for Worcestershire against Leicestershire at Amblecote in 1912. Only one day's play was possible in the match, during which Higgins scored 5 and bowled five wicketless overs for 34. It was to be eight years before he played first-class cricket again. His next game for Worcestershire came against Yorkshire at Worcester in 1920,"
"the 1982 final against Ray Reardon. Higgins was raised in the Church Of Ireland religion. He started playing snooker at the age of 11, often in the Jampot club in his native Sandy Row area of south Belfast and later in the YMCA in the nearby city centre. At age 14, he left for England and a career as a jockey. However, he never made the grade because he was too heavy to ride competitively. He returned to Belfast and by 1965, aged 16, he had compiled his first maximum break. In 1968 he won the All-Ireland and Northern Ireland"
"Henry Higgins (bullfighter) Henry Higgins was an English matador, the most senior level of bullfighter, who was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1944. He died as a result of a hang-gliding accident, while demonstrating it by jumping off a 200 ft high hill in 1978. He was educated at King Williams College in the Isle of Man. His professional, or 'ring' name was ""Cañadas"", meaning ""the canyons"". He took this name to sound more Spanish, but the Spanish called him ""El Inglés"", ""The Englishman"". He passed his ""alternativa"" exam in 1970, becoming a fully fledged matador. He was briefly managed"
"artist and poet Rozz Williams; and William Webb Ellis, the alleged inventor of Rugby football. Herostratus, a young Greek man arsoned the Temple of Artemis (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) in 356 BC in order to immortalize his name. Although authorities at the time tried to expunge him from history and punished people with the death penalty for even merely mentioning his name, he succeeded in achieving lasting fame, as his name is well known to this day. Celebrity culture Celebrity culture is a high-volume perpetuation of celebrities' personal lives on a global scale. It is"
"scored those runs from number three in the order, but his other two centuries were both made as an opener. In 1928 he reached 1,000 first-class runs in a season for the only time, hitting 1,041 at an average of 30.61. Higgins played three final matches for Worcestershire in 1930, without conspicuous success. By this time he had already umpired two first-class games in India in 1926–27, and in 1933–34 he stood in two more, including the third Test between India and England at Madras. He died in England, in a nursing home in Malvern, aged 84. His younger brother"
"Harry played nearly 100 times for Worcestershire in the 1920s. John Higgins (cricketer) John Bernard Higgins (31 December 1885 – 3 January 1970) was an English first-class cricketer and umpire. As a player, he made 121 appearances between 1912 and 1930, having earlier played in the Minor Counties Championship for Staffordshire. The great majority of his first-class matches were for Worcestershire, though he also played in India for the Europeans and, once, a joint ""Europeans and Parsees"" side. He umpired four first-class games, including one Test match. Higgins was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, where he was in the"
"Moran of ""The Irish Times"" described him as ""one of the great football figures of the last century"". Higgins was born in New York. At the age of five he moved to Kilnaleck, County Cavan, birthplace of his mother. He served in the Garda Síochána, eventually being promoted to the rank of sergeant. He married his wife Margaret and with her had four children, son John and daughters Terry, Jean and Brenda, all five of whom outlived him. Amongst his other interests were greyhound racing and he trained the dogs. In 1943 Higgins debuted in the Ulster Senior Football Championship"
"first teenager to win three ranking events in one season, and he also reached the finals of the Welsh Open and the Masters. By the end of the season, he had moved from 51st to 11th in the world rankings. By the end of the following season, assisted by two more ranking titles and another ranking final, he had moved up to 2nd in the world. In the UK Championship final in 1996, he recovered from 4–8 down against Stephen Hendry to lead 9–8, only to lose 9–10. In 1998, Higgins won his first World Championship, beating Jason Ferguson, Anthony"
"as famous steamships including the ""SS Great Britain,"" the first propeller-driven ocean-going iron ship, and ""SS Great Eastern"" which laid the first lasting transatlantic telegraph cable. There are many sports which have been codified by the English, and then spread worldwide, including badminton, cricket, croquet, football, field hockey, lawn tennis, rugby league, rugby union, table tennis and thoroughbred horse racing. In the late 18th century, the English game of rounders was transported to the American Colonies, where it evolved into baseball. Association football, cricket, rugby union and rugby league are considered to be the national sports of England. The rules"
"sports: he rowed in the Royal St. John's Regatta from 1901 to 1908, was the Newfoundland champion in the mile run for two years, was president of a number of sports leagues and president of the Newfoundland Amateur Athletic Association. Higgins served as speaker for the Newfoundland assembly from 1918 to 1919. He was leader of the Liberal-Labour-Progressive Party from 1923 to 1924. Higgins served in the Newfoundland Executive Council as Minister of Justice and Attorney General. After he retired from politics in 1928, he was named a judge in the Newfoundland Supreme Court. His son Gordon served in the"
"the 1950's. Peter Higgins (athlete) Francis Peter Higgins (16 November 1928 – 8 September 1993) was a British athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres. He was born in Stockton-on-Tees. He competed for Great Britain in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia where he won the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metre relay with his team mates Michael Wheeler, John Salisbury and Derek Johnson. He was also a 4×400 metres relay gold medallist for England at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. He was also Sports Teacher at Down Lane Central School, Tottenham, London,"
"Harry Higgins Harry Leslie Higgins (24 February 1894 – 19 September 1979) was an English first-class cricketer who played 98 matches in the 1920s. All but one of these were for Worcestershire; the exception was a Gentlemen v Players game in 1922 in which bad weather meant that Higgins (playing for the Gentlemen) did not get to bat. He stood in as Worcestershire captain for one game in 1923, and acted as wicket-keeper for a single match — in which he scored 99 — in 1921. Higgins made his debut for Worcestershire against Somerset at Taunton in June 1920; he"
"Kenneth Higgs Kenneth Alan Higgs (5 October 1886 – 21 January 1959) was an English first-class cricketer active in the 1920s who made over forty appearances for Sussex. Born at Haywards Heath, Sussex, Higgs was a right-handed batsman. He was known as ""the Haywards Heath amateur"" and was a corn merchant by profession (Jenner & Higgs). Prior to playing first-class cricket, Higgs served in the British Army during World War I, with a Kenneth Alan Higgs mentioned in the ""London Gazette"" on 24 August 1915, as serving with the rank of private in the 16th (County of London) Battalion, with"
"from competitive tennis and briefly took over the job of promoting the professional game. As a senior player in his 60s and 70s, Riggs won numerous national titles within various age groups. Singles : 3 titles, 2 runners-up Singles : 3 titles, 3 runners-up Riggs was famous as a hustler and gambler, when in his 1949 autobiography he wrote that he had made $105,000 ($ today) in 1939 by betting, in England, on himself to win all three Wimbledon championships: the singles, doubles and mixed doubles. At the time, most betting was illegal in England. From an initial $500 bet"
"for programmes that could exploit this new technology. The programme first aired on 23 July 1969, on BBC2. Pot Black was a British series of (non-ranking) snooker tournaments televised by BBC which played a large part in the popularisation of the modern game. In 1972, a twenty-three year old Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins clinched the first of his two World Titles and through a mixture of bravado, charisma and an ability to make headlines helped to popularise the sport in the new age of colour television. The event continued until 1986, returned in 1990, but was discontinued after the 1993 event."
"Graeme McDowell, Darren Clarke and four time major winner Rory McIlroy. The biennial golf competition, the Ryder Cup, is named after English businessman Samuel Ryder who sponsored the event and donated the trophy. Sir Nick Faldo is the most successful British Ryder Cup player. In 1845, rugby union was created when the first rules were written by pupils at Rugby School, Warwickshire. A former pupil of the school William Webb Ellis, is often fabled with the invention of running with the ball in hand in 1823. The first rugby international took place on 27 March 1871, played between England and"
"their first (and at the time of his death only) Leinster Senior Football Championship (1968). He also led them to an O'Byrne Cup title in 1965. He also assisted Donegal with their first Ulster Senior Football Championship win (1972). In recognition of his skills and long-running contribution to the sport, Higgins was awarded the 1987 All-time all-star award as no GAA All Stars Awards were being issued at the time of his playing career. In 1989 he was entered into the Texaco Hall of Fame. In November 2009, the ""Irish Independent"" selected him as the 36th best player in the"
"sporting arena in rowing. It is widely considered that the sport's most successful rower is Steve Redgrave who won five gold medals and one bronze medal at five consecutive Olympic Games, as well as numerous wins at the World Rowing Championships and Henley Royal Regatta. There are many other sports in which Britons compete, sometimes with success, but which do not receive much attention outside a small number of aficionados except during major events such as the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games, or when a British athlete does something extraordinary such as breaking a world record. Examples include judo, gliding,"
"set 10 world records in breaststroke and medley events. In 1971, he was inducted to the International Swimming Hall of Fame. Higgins was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and joined the local Olneyville Boys' Swimming Club. In 1941, he graduated from the Ohio State University and enlisted to the U.S. Navy. He continued to swim competitively, while serving as a flight instructor in Pensacola, Florida, as well as on aircraft carriers and at naval air stations. He was discharged from active duty in 1954 with the rank of commander and became a civilian instructor and associate professor. From 1950, he"
"to this, he was an international basketball player, a champion powerlifter and was also selected to travel with the British sailing team to Australia for the America's Cup. Standing at 6’9"", and weighing 364 pounds, Mark Higgins was the biggest international strongman produced by Britain. His competitive era ran concurrently with that of Jamie Reeves. Thus, despite attaining a career high of winning back-to-back World Strongman Challenge titles in 1989 and 1990, he was still considered Britain's number two man, Jamie Reeves being the winner of the World's Strongest Man. Together, they were the runners-up in the World's Strongest Team"
"Games (although not the Olympic Games). Scots, and Scottish emigrants, have made several key contributions to the history of sport, with important innovations and developments in: golf, curling, football, rugby union (the invention of rugby sevens, first international, and first league system), Highland games (which have contributed to the evolution of modern athletics events), shinty (the predecessor of both ice hockey and bandy), cycling (Kirkpatrick Macmillan invented the pedal bicycle), basketball (the inventor, James Naismith, was Scottish-Canadian), and water polo (first set of rules, games and internationals). Highland games, the largest and most widespread multi-sport festivals of the 19th century,"
"basketball, ice hockey, tennis, and golf were popular globally. In cricket the emergence of the Twenty20 format as well as the creation of the Indian Premier League led to changes in the nature of the sport. American swimmer Michael Phelps won an Olympic record setting 8 Gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Modern Olympic Games Association football Athletics Aquatics Cricket Cycling Rugby Union Tennis (Men) Tennis (Women) Motorsport Golf Boxing Entertainment during the 21st century had evolved from the same types of entertainment which emerged around the middle of the 20th century. Sports, films, music, TV series' and books"
"Peter Higgins (athlete) Francis Peter Higgins (16 November 1928 – 8 September 1993) was a British athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres. He was born in Stockton-on-Tees. He competed for Great Britain in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia where he won the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metre relay with his team mates Michael Wheeler, John Salisbury and Derek Johnson. He was also a 4×400 metres relay gold medallist for England at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. He was also Sports Teacher at Down Lane Central School, Tottenham, London, England in"
"John Higgins (cricketer) John Bernard Higgins (31 December 1885 – 3 January 1970) was an English first-class cricketer and umpire. As a player, he made 121 appearances between 1912 and 1930, having earlier played in the Minor Counties Championship for Staffordshire. The great majority of his first-class matches were for Worcestershire, though he also played in India for the Europeans and, once, a joint ""Europeans and Parsees"" side. He umpired four first-class games, including one Test match. Higgins was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, where he was in the cricket XI. In his teens and early twenties, Higgins played"
"John Higgins (snooker player) John Higgins, (born 18 May 1975) is a Scottish professional snooker player. Since turning professional in 1992, he has won 30 ranking titles, including four World Championships and three UK Championships, as well as two Masters titles, making him one of the most successful players in the modern history of the sport. In terms of world titles in the modern era, Higgins is fifth behind Stephen Hendry (7), Steve Davis (6), Ray Reardon (6) and Ronnie O'Sullivan (5). His 30 career ranking titles puts him in third place behind Hendry (36) and O'Sullivan (33). Known as"
"on seven occasions, as well as both the National Football League and Railway Cup on two occasions each. Higgins won the Cavan Senior Football Championship with Mountnugent GAA in 1946, he played with famous players such as Tony Tighe, Peter Donohue and Connie Kelly. Upon his death in 2010 Higgins was said by the ""Irish Independent""s Martin Breheny to have been ""widely regarded as one of the greatest talents ever to emerge from Cavan"". The ""Longford Leader""s Eugene McGee described him as ""a man who became a GAA superstar of his generation, despite limited coverage of games he played"". Seán"
"£400,000. Sports by 1900 generated some three percent of the total gross national product in Britain. Professionalization of sports was the norm, although some new activities reached an upscale amateur audience, such as lawn tennis and golf. Women were now allowed in some sports, such as archery, tennis, badminton and gymnastics. Leisure was primarily a male activity, with middle-class women allowed in at the margins. There were class differences with upper-class clubs, and working-class and middle-class pubs. Heavy drinking declined; there was more betting on outcomes. Participation in sports and all sorts of leisure activities increased for average English people,"
"list. In ice dancing, many of the compulsory moves were developed by dancers from the UK in the 1930s. At the 1984 Winter Olympics, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won gold and became the highest scoring figure skaters (for a single programme) receiving twelve perfect 6.0s and six 5.9s which included artistic impression scores of 6.0 from every judge. At the 1988 Winter Olympics, ski jumper Eddie ""The Eagle"" Edwards gained fame as an underdog. Eddie was portrayed by Taron Egerton in the 2016 biographical sports comedy-drama film ""Eddie the Eagle"". A great number of major sports originated in the"
"scoring 1,693 runs at an average of 25.65, with his score of 111 against Warwickshire being his highest. He also made thirteen half centuries. Although not the oldest man to make a hundred on his first-class debut, he is the oldest (at 33 years and 254 days) to have done so in the English County Championship. Higgs later became the Vice-President of Sussex County Cricket Club. He died at the town of his birth on 21 January 1959. Kenneth Higgs Kenneth Alan Higgs (5 October 1886 – 21 January 1959) was an English first-class cricketer active in the 1920s who"