Template:Did you know nominations/George Lyttleton-Rogers

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Miyagawa (talk) 19:29, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

George Lyttleton-Rogers

(

• Back to T:TDYK
• Article history

)

• ... that 13 times Irish tennis champion and world pro doubles champion George Lyttleton-Rogers participated in the first ever live sport event broadcasted on TV in the Wimbledon opening match of 1937?

• ALT1:... that 13 times Irish tennis champion and world pro doubles champion George Lyttleton-Rogers was an amateur boxer as well and had a scheduled match against Don McCorkindale?
• Reviewed: Bienvenu de Miollis

Created by Lajbi (talk). Self nom at 21:51, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

• Article is new enough and long enough. ALT1 hook is sourced while the original one is not quite accurate - it was the first such event broadcast on TV in Great Britain. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:04, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

• It seemed to me that the ALT1 hook was misleading: does "spar in the ring", the phrase used in the source, actually equal a match? It seems less formal than an actual boxing match. The hook's a bit misleading since the event never took place. I thought it fascinating that Lyttleton-Rogers was doing the training at McCorkindale's camp as part of his tennis prep. BlueMoonset (talk) 13:01, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

• And what about adding "but was cancelled?" to the end of the sentence? Lajbi ^{Holla @ me • CP} 14:59, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

• That doesn't quite work, in my opinion. I do think you might do better with the boxing training being undertaken as prep for Wimbledon (though this would need to be added to the article), or adding in his height as the tallest professional player in Britain (6 feet 7 inches, from sources 2 and 5), but here's a new variant of what you've proposed that I think is more accurate:

• ALT2: ... that 13-time Irish tennis champion and world pro doubles champion George Lyttleton-Rogers was also an amateur boxer and cancelled a sparring bout with Don McCorkindale so as to retain his amateur status? —BlueMoonset (talk) 05:39, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

• Wow, thank you very much. That sounds much better I must admit. I was thinking a better hook to come up with but would never get to that on my own. Lajbi ^{Holla @ me • CP} 09:47, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

• Redy to go with ALT2 then. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:10, 28 November 2012 (UTC)