Lionel Tapscott
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Lionel Eric 'Doodles' Tapscott (born 18 March 1894 in Kimberley, South Africa, died 7 July 1934 in Kenilworth
Kenilworth, Cape Town
- Geography :Kenilworth is bordered by Wynberg to the south and Claremont to the north. Kenilworth railway station is on the main line from Cape Town to Simon's Town...

, Cape Town
Cape Town
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...

) was a South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

n cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er who played in 2 Tests
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

 in 1923.

Outside of cricket, Tapscott excelled at tennis and represented South Africa at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Tennis at the 1912 Summer Olympics - Outdoor Men's Singles
-Section 1:-Section 2:There were two round of 128 matches in this portion of the bracket. Lionel Tapscott of South Africa defeated Jiří Kodl of Bohemia and Fritz Pipes of Austria defeated Otto Lindpainter of Germany to advance to the round of 64.-Section 3:-Section 4:-References:...

. He made it all the way to the Round of 16 before losing a five set match to Bohemian Ladislav Žemla-Rázný.

His brother, George
George Tapscott
George Lancelot 'Dusty' Tapscott was a South African cricketer who played in one Test in 1913. His brother, Lionel, also played Test cricket for South Africa....

, also played Test cricket for South Africa.
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