Name him if you can

[Guest]

Name the player who walked hundreds of miles to attend the Scottish Championship in Victorian days. He did not win this tourney but won the English Championship years later.

[Ingo_Zachos]

Allan Hynd!

The legend says, he and his brother, who was also a master player, went all the way from Manchester to Aberdeen to attend a Scottish Ty., and both went out in the first round.
Some even claim, they swam back round the English Island...

But like all legends, this is only supposed to be true, yet it is just a story.
Both did not play at the Scottish Ty, when it was held in Aberdeen, and the distance he walked might be "slightly" exaggerated.
Later this legend was ascribed to different players, one of them being Bill Edwards, but maybe Lindus could tell the truth behind the story concerning his father...

Merry Christmas from Dortmund, Germany

Ingo Zachos

[liam stephens]

Hi Ingo,

I always thought it was Percy Crabbe, of London.
(though possibly not in Victorian days - lol)

[Guest]

Correct answer by Liam Stephens.
Percy Crabbe was about eighty years old when he played in the 1948 English Open and was a very young man when he walked from London to Scotland and back. I assumed therefore that he did so in Victorian days.

[Lindus Edwards]

You are right Ingo about that great swim of my late father. He was exhausted after it