Cyril Walker
Personal information
Born	(1892-09-18)September 18, 1892 Manchester, England
Died	August 6, 1948(1948-08-06) (aged 55) Hackensack, New Jersey, U.S.
Weight	118 lb (54 kg; 8.4 st)
Nationality	England  United States
Career
Status	Professional
Professional wins	7
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	6
Other	1
Best results in Major Championships (Wins: 1)
Masters Tournament	61st: 1934
U.S. Open	Won: 1924
The Open Championship	T14: 1926
PGA Championship	T3: 1921

Cyril Walker (September 18, 1892 – August 6, 1948) was an English professional golfer born in Manchester who emigrated to the United States in 1914.

Walker won the 1924 U.S. Open at Oakland Hills Country Club, while playing out of Englewood Golf Club in New Jersey. He beat defending champion Bobby Jones by three strokes. This was his only top ten finish in seven appearances at the U.S. Open. He was a small man, weighing only 118 pounds.

Walker won six PGA events between 1917 and 1930.^[1] He also won the Indiana Open in 1916.

In 1928 he became the pro at the Saddle River Golf and Country Club in Paramus, New Jersey.

An alcohol addiction resulted in Walker's downward spiral that ended up with him working as a dishwasher and near destitute. He died of pleural pneumonia in a Hackensack, New Jersey jail cell where he had gone for shelter.^[2]

Professional wins[link]

PGA Tour wins (6)[link]

• 1917 (1) one win
• 1921 (1) Pennsylvania Open Championship
• 1922 (1) one win
• 1923 (1) one win
• 1924 (1) U.S. Open
• 1930 (1) Miami International Four-Ball (with Clarence Gamber)

Other wins[link]

• 1916 Indiana Open

Major championships[link]

Wins (1)[link]

Year	Championship	54 Holes	Winning Score	Margin	Runner-up
1924	U.S. Open	Tied for lead	+9 (74-74-74-75=297)	3 strokes	Bobby Jones

Results timeline[link]

NYF = Tournament not yet founded
NT = No tournament
DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
R64, R32, R16, QF, SF = Round in which player lost in PGA Championship match play
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10

References[link]

External links[link]

• Report on the 1924 U.S. Open on the tournament's official site

Cyril Meir Scott (27 September 1879 – 31 December 1970) was an English composer, writer, and poet.

Biography[link]

Scott was born in Oxton, England to a shipper and scholar of Greek and Hebrew, and Mary Scott (née Griffiths), an amateur pianist. He showed a talent for music from an early age and was sent to the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany to study piano in 1892 at age 12. He Studied with Iwan Knorr and belonged to the Frankfurt Group, a circle of composers who studied at the Hoch Conservatory in the late 1890s. His first symphony was performed (through the good offices of his friend Stefan George, the great German poet) when he was only twenty years old.

In 1902 he met the pianist Evelyn Suart, with whom he had a long artistic association. She championed his music, premiering many of his works, and introducing him to his publisher, Elkin, with whom he remained for the rest of his life. Evelyn Suart was also a Christian Scientist, and it was through her that Scott became interested in metaphysics.^[1][2] Scott dedicated his Scherzo, Op. 25 to Evelyn Suart. (Her daughter Diana Gould was a noted ballerina and the second wife of Yehudi Menuhin.)^[2][3]

Those who heard Scott play the piano commented on the extraordinary vitality of his playing, above all his always well judged rubato, and subtleties of tone and pedalling. These can be appreciated from the reissue on a Dutton CD (Collected Piano Music, vol. 1) of his performance (in the 1930s) of eight of his own pieces on piano rolls.

Scott married Rose L. Allatini in May 1921. They had two children: Vivien Mary Scott (born 1923) and Desmond Cyril Scott (born 1926). He separated from Rose following World War II. In 1943, he met Marjorie Hartston, a clairvoyante, who remained his companion until his death, and persuaded him to go on composing, despite the indifference of the musical world to his work. His neglect after 1930 was due to a very narrow view in the English musical establishment of what sort of music a modern composer ought to be writing. Undeterred, he continued to compose up until the last three weeks of his life, dying at the age of 91. By the time of his death he was remembered for only a few popular pieces (such as Lotus Land) that he had composed over sixty years before. His many books and pamphlets on occultism and alternative medecine always, however, found readers.

The first decade of the new millennium saw, however, a revival of interest in his music, stimulated by a flood of recordings, discussed below.

Music[link]

Scott was essentially a late romantic composer, whose style was at the same time strongly influenced by impressionism. His harmony was notably exotic. If in his early works it was perhaps over-sweet (Alban Berg dismissed his music as 'mushy'), it became steadily more varied and more refined in his later years. Indeed it is his late works (written between 1950 and his death) that are the most individual, with their ever-shifting harmonic colours and wayward inflections of phrase and mood, capturing perfectly the way the mind shifts, backwards and forwards, between reminiscence, regrets, and self-assertion.

Scott wrote around four hundred works (though the number is deceptive, since more than half of these were short songs or piano pieces). These include two mature symphonies, four operas, two piano concertos, concertos for violin, cello, oboe and harpsichord, and three double concertos (of which the scores are now lost), several overtures, four oratorios (Nativity Hymn (1913), Mystic Ode (1932), Ode to Great Men (1936), and Hymn of Unity (1947), as well as a mass of chamber music (four mature quartets, five violin sonatas, three piano trios, and many others). Between 1903 and 1920 Scott wrote copiously for the piano. Most of these pieces were harmonically adventurous for their time and easy to play; they circulated widely in many countries of the world, in contrast to his more ambitious works, none of which received more than a handful of performances.

Scott was called the "Father of modern British music" by Eugene Goossens, and was also admired by Debussy, Ravel, his close friend Percy Grainger, Richard Strauss and Stravinsky. His experiments in free rhythm, generated by expanding musical motifs, above all in his truly revolutionary First Piano Sonata of 1909, appear to have exerted an influence on Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'. He used to be known as 'the English Debussy', though this reflected little knowledge of Scott and little understanding of Debussy.

What are the best of Scott's works? Among the orchestral music, arguably finer than any of the symphonies are the First Piano Concerto (1913-4), Disaster at Sea (a tone poem on the sinking of the Titanic, composed in 1918-26, and published in a revised version with the title 'Neptune' in 1935), the Violin Concerto (1928), and 'Neapolitan Rhapsody' (published 1959). The shorter piano works suffer in the main from unimaginative form and texture, though the five 'Poems' (1912) are an important exception; more worthy of revival are the piano sonatas, especially the innovatory first (1909) and the intricate, wayward third (1956). The largest body of successful work is to be found in his chamber music, the Clarinet Quintet and Trio and the five violin sonatas being especially notable.

The years 2004-10 saw an extraordinary flood of recordings, including 4 CDs of his orchestral music (with the BBC Philharmonic under Martyn Brabbins), his complete piano music played by Leslie De'Ath on Dutton, and recordings of four of his violin sonatas by Clare Howick and Sophia Rahman. His Harpsichord Concerto received its premiere recording in 2011; the soloist was Michael Laus, who also conducted the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra for Cameo Classics. Live performances have been rarer, though the two mature symphonies (now numbered 3 and 4) received premieres in Manchester, the first in 2003 and the second in 2005.

Literature[link]

In addition to his work as a composer and performer, Scott wrote poetry and prose. He was fascinated by the occult and health foods, and described his beliefs as a blend of science, philosophy, and religion. In a whole series of books and pamphlets, he urged the sick, even those with cancer, to trust to diet and alternative medicine and avoid trained medics and surgery. There is still interest in his ideas in certain circles, both in England and elsewhere.

Prose[link]

• 1920 The Initiate: Some Impressions of a Great Soul (Anon.)
• 1920 The Adept of Galilee - A Story and an Argument (Anon.)
• 1924 Autobiography: My Years of Indiscretion
• 1927 The Initiate in the New World (Anon.)
• 1928 The Art of Making a Perfect Husband
• 1930 Childishness: A Study in Occult Conduct
• 1932 The Initiate in the Dark Cycle (Anon.)
• 1933 Vision of the Nazarene (Anon.)
• 1933 Music: Its Secret Influence Throughout the Ages
• 1935 Outline of Modern Occultism
• 1936 The Greater Awareness
• 1938 Doctors, Disease and Health
• 1939 Man is my Theme
• 1939 the Ghost of a Smile
• 1939 Victory over Cancer
• 1940 Health, Diet and Commonsense
• 1942 The Christian Paradox
• 1946 Crude Black Molasses
• 1946 Medicine, Rational and Irrational
• 1948 Cider Vinegar
• 1952 Die Tragoedie Stefan George
• 1953 Man the Unruly Child
• 1953 Simpler and Safer Remedies for Grievous Ills
• 1955 Sleeplessness: Its Prevention and Cure by Harmless Methods
• 1956 Constipation and Commonsense
• 1969 Autobiography: Bone of Contention

Poetry[link]

• 190? The Shadows of Silence and the Songs of Yesterday
• 1907 The Grave of Eros and the Book of Mournful Melodies
• 1909 Translation: The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire)
• 1910 Translation: Poems of Stefan George (Selections from his Works)
• 1910 The Voice of the Ancient
• 1912 The Vales of Unity
• 1915 The Celestial Aftermath: A Springtime of the Heart and Faraway Songs
• 1943 The Poems of a Musician

Bibliography[link]

Laurie J. Sampsel, Cyril Scott: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood, 2000)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Cyril Scott (Official website)
• Recording of Pastoral and Reel (Youtube.com)
• Sheet music by Scott

Cyril "Marseille Bad Boy" Abidi (born on February 25, 1976) is a French former super heavyweight kickboxer. His road to fame started in 2000 when he entered K-1 and created a huge upset with a first round knockout win over legendary Peter Aerts.^[1]

Biography and career[link]

Abidi grew up in the north quartiers of Marseille (Consolat), in a modest Moroccan family. When he was 6, his mother took him to judo classes to keep him off the streets. He practiced judo for four years until he was inspired by Bruce Lee, his childhood idol, and started taking karate lessons.^[2]

When he was 18, he discovered Thaiboxing and became French champion at the age of 20.^[3] A year later he entered K-1, fighting against Petar Majstorovic in Zurich, Switzerland, and winning by a unanimous decision. Later that year, he won two back to back fights in the first round against Dutch fighter Peter Aerts. At their third meeting at the K-1 World Grand Prix 2000 Finals in the Tokyo Dome, Japan, Aerts beat Abidi in a three round unanimous decision.^[4]

In his short foray into mixed martial arts, Abidi lost to Nigerian comedian Bobby Ologun in his first fight in MMA. Abidi was a last minute replacement for Mike Bernardo who was injured. The events surrounding the outcome raised suspicion of a fixed fight and Abidi seemed to lend credence to this in a post match interview.^[5]

"I didn’t have enough time to prepare for this fight, but I think I did do a good job for my first time. It was really good that my opponent is not so strong…..If he was a really strong fighter, I would have had had a hell of a time."

"Why I am smiling a lot? Even though I lost this fight, I don’t have any feelings that I really lost a realistic fight. Maybe this was as expected."

His fight against fellow Frenchman and rival Jérôme Le Banner at K-1 World Grand Prix 2005 in Paris, on May 27, 2005, is considered^{[by whom?]} to be one of the greatest battles in K-1 history. Abidi lost by a technical knockout.

Titles[link]

• 2003 K-1 World GP 3rd place
• 2003 K-1 World Grand Prix in Paris runner up
• 2000 K-1 World GP 3rd place
• 2000 K-1 World GP in Yokohama runner up
• 2000 Thai Boxing World champion
• 2000 French Heavyweight Amateur Boxing champion
• 1996 French Kickboxing champion

Kickboxing record[link]

25 Wins (17 (T)KOs, 8 Decisions), 16 losses (10 (T)KOs, 6 Decisions)
Date	Result	Opponent	Event	Method	Round	Time
03/04/2007	Loss	Mitsugu Noda	K-1 World GP 2007 in Yokohama	Decision	3	3:00
05/03/2006	Loss	Hiraku Hori	K-1 World Grand Prix 2006 in Auckland, New Zealand	TKO (Corner Stoppage)	2	3:00
10/15/2005	Win	Stephane Reveillon	TK2 World MAX 4ever Edition, Paris	KO (Punch)	1	0:11
05/27/2005	Loss	Jérôme Le Banner	K-1 World Grand Prix 2005 in Paris, France	TKO (Referee stoppage)	5	2:53
12/04/2004	Loss	Gary Goodridge	K-1 World Grand Prix 2004, Japan	KO (Punch)	1	3:00
09/25/2004	Loss	Musashi	K-1 World Grand Prix 2004 Final Elimination, Japan	Decision (Unanimous)	3	3:00
04/02/2004	Win	Hocine Boutrek	TK2 Kickboxing, Marseilles, France	Decision	5	2:00
03/27/2004	Win	Hiraku Hori	K-1 World Grand Prix 2004 in Saitama, Japan	TKO (Referee stoppage)	3	2:58
12/16/2003	Loss	Remy Bonjasky	K-1 World Grand Prix 2003, Japan	KO (Flying knee strike)	1	1:46
12/16/2003	Win	Francois Botha	K-1 World Grand Prix 2003, Japan	Decision	3	3:00
10/11/2003	Win	Francois Botha	K-1 World Grand Prix 2003 Final Elimination, Japan	Disqualification	1
07/13/2003	Loss	Ernesto Hoost	K-1 World Grand Prix 2003 in Fukuoka, Japan	Decision (Unanimous)	2	3:00
06/14/2003	Loss	Alexey Ignashov	K-1 World Grand Prix 2003 in Paris, France	TKO (Corner stoppage)	3	0:20
06/14/2003	Win	Chalid Arrab	K-1 World Grand Prix 2003 in Paris, France	KO (Punch)	2	1:32
06/14/2003	Win	Aziz Khattou	K-1 World Grand Prix 2003 in Paris, France	Decision (Unanimous)	3	3:00
05/17/2003	Win	Daniel Lentie	TK2 Kickboxing, Marseilles, France	KO	3
04/06/2003	Win	Shingo Koyasu	K-1 Beast 2003, Japan	Decision (Unanimous)	5	3:00
12/31/2002	Loss	Quinton Jackson	Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2002, Japan	Decision	3	3:00
09/22/2002	Loss	Bob Sapp	K-1 Andy Spirits Japan GP 2002 Final, Japan	TKO (Referee Stoppage)	1	1:17
07/14/2002	Loss	Quinton Jackson	K-1 World Grand Prix 2002 in Fukuoka, Japan	KO (Punch)	1	1:55
05/22/2002	Win	Nick Murray	K-1 World Grand Prix 2002 in Paris, France	KO	1	2:05
10/08/2001	Win	Tatsufumi Tomihira	K-1 World Grand Prix 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan	TKO (Referee stoppage)	4	2:30
07/20/2001	Loss	Andrew Thomson	K-1 World Grand Prix 2001 in Nagoya, Japan	TKO (Referee stoppage)	1	1:15
03/17/2001	Win	Great Kusatsu	K-1 Gladiators 2001, Japan	Decision (Split)	5	3:00
12/10/2000	Loss	Ray Sefo	K-1 World Grand Prix 2000, Japan	TKO (Referee stoppage)	1	1:45
12/10/2000	Loss	Peter Aerts	K-1 World Grand Prix 2000, Japan	Decision (Unanimous)	3	3:00
11/10/2000	Win	Andrei Zuravkov	La Nuit des Champions, Marseille, France
08/20/2000	Loss	Francisco Filho	K-1 World Grand Prix 2000 in Yokohama, Japan	TKO (Corner stoppage)	2	0:25
08/20/2000	Win	Ray Sefo	K-1 World Grand Prix 2000 in Yokohama, Japan	TKO (Corner stoppage)	2	3:00
08/20/2000	Win	Peter Aerts	K-1 World Grand Prix 2000 in Yokohama, Japan	TKO (Corner stoppage)	1	2:42
07/07/2000	Win	Peter Aerts	K-1 Spirits 2000, Japan	KO (Punch)	1	2:13
03/19/2000	Win	Nobu Hayashi	K-1 Burning 2000, Japan	TKO	2	1:52
11/20/1999	Win	Jean-Claude Leuyer	Kickboxing Gala, Marseilles, France	KO
07/18/1999	Loss	Stefan Leko	K-1 Dream '99 Semi Finals, Nagoya, Japan	Decision (Unanimous)	3	3:00
07/18/1999	Win	Kirkwood Walker	K-1 Dream '99 Quarter Finals, Nagoya, Japan	KO (Low kicks)	1	0:33
06/05/1999	Win	Petar Majstorovic	K-1 Fight Night '99, Zurich, Switzerland	Decision (Unanimous)	5	3:00
02/27/1999	Win	Nash Urladzic	Le Nuit des Champions, Marseilles, France	Decision	5	3:00
00/11/1998	Win	Gardois de Tholomese	Le Nuit des Champions, Marseilles, France	KO	4
00/09/1998	Win	Alexandre Chvarev	Le Nuit des Champions, Marseilles, France	KO	1

Mixed martial arts record[link]

Result	Record	Opponent	Method	Event	Date	Round	Time	Location	Notes
Loss	0-2	Bobby Ologun	Decision	K-1 Premium Dynamite!!, Japan	02004-12-31December 31, 2004	3	3:00
Loss	0-1	Don Frye	Submission (rear naked choke)	Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2001, Japan	02001-12-31December 31, 2001	2	0:33

See also[link]

• List of male kickboxers
• List of K-1 events
• List of K-1 champions
• List of kickboxing organizations

References[link]

External links[link]

• Professional MMA record for Cyril Abidi from Sherdog
• Cyril Abidi's website
• Profile at K-1

Kemba Walker

No. 1 – Charlotte Bobcats
Point guard
Personal information
Born	(1990-05-08) May 8, 1990 (age 22) The Bronx, New York
Nationality	American
High school	Rice (New York)
Listed height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Listed weight	184 lb (83 kg)
Career information
College	Connecticut (2008–2011)
NBA Draft	2011 / Round: 1 / Pick: 9th overall
Selected by the Charlotte Bobcats
Career history
2011–present	Charlotte Bobcats
Career highlights and awards
NCAA Champion (2011) NCAA Basketball Tournament MOP (2011) Bob Cousy Award (2011)
Stats at NBA.com

Medal record
Men’s basketball
Competitor for  United States
FIBA Americas U18 Championship
Silver	2008 Formosa	Team competition

Kemba Hudley Walker (born May 8, 1990)^[1] is an American professional basketball player for the Charlotte Bobcats. Walker grew up in The Bronx, New York and graduated from Rice High School in 2008. With the Huskies basketball team at the University of Connecticut, Walker was the 2nd leading college basketball scorer in the United States and helped his team win the 2011 NCAA tournament. In the 2011 NBA Draft, Walker was drafted ninth overall by the Bobcats.^[2]

Rice career[link]

In his junior year, Walker played against Simeon Career Academy and senior guard Derrick Rose in Madison Square Garden in a 53–51 win.^[3] During Walker's senior year he averaged 18.2 points per game and 5.3 assists per game,^[4] earning him a spot on the prestigious McDonald's All-American Team. Walker played for the New York Gauchos AAU basketball program with fellow Big East players Jordan Theodore, Darryl "Truck" Bryant, Devin Hill, and Danny Jennings. The team went on to finish #1 in the nation. Following high school he agreed to play for the University of Connecticut.

College career[link]

During his freshman year at UConn, Walker played in every game. He helped the Huskies achieve a number one seed in the 2009 NCAA Tournament. Despite starting in only two games he averaged 25.5 minutes per game, far more than any regular non-starter.^[5] He also helped the Huskies go to the 2009 Final Four with a 23 point effort in the Elite Eight vs Missouri. Walker appeared on one of the six regional covers Sports Illustrated. Twelve games into his junior campaign, Walker was the nation's leading scorer, averaging 26.7 points per game. In addition, he averaged five rebounds and 3.8 assists per game.

In the 2011 Big East Tournament (during his junior year), Walker hit the game winning shot as time expired to beat #3 overall Pittsburgh and advance UConn to the semi-finals. He led UConn to victory over University of Louisville in the Big East Championship game and was named MVP for the tournament. Walker scored 130 points in five games, a Big East Tournament record and the most points scored in any conference tournament in the past 15 seasons. UConn became the first school to win five games in five days to earn a conference championship.^[6]

On March 14, 2011, The United States Basketball Writers Association named Walker a first team All-American.^[7] He was picked to the Second Team All-America by Fox Sports.^[8] He was also a finalist for College Basketball Player of the Year honors due to his performance in the 2010-11 season. Although he finished second (to Jimmer Fredette), two journalists thought that Walker was the best player in college basketball that year.^[9][10] Walker was named the winner of the Bob Cousy Award for the top point guard in the nation.^[11] On April 4, 2011 Walker led the University of Connecticut with 16 points in winning the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, and was named the NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player.^[12] Walker was added to the Huskies of Honor upon the team's return from Houston at a pep rally to celebrate the National Title. He became the first men's basketball player to receive the honor since inaugural class was announced in December 2006.^[13]

College statistics[link]

Professional career[link]

Walker attempts a free throw in 2012.

Walker announced that he would leave UConn to enter the 2011 NBA Draft on April 12. Walker was selected 9th overall in the 2011 NBA Draft by the Charlotte Bobcats.^[14] Walker signed a Multi-Year shoe deal with Under Armour, the first rookie from the 2011 Draft Class to do so.^[15]

On December 11, 2011, he signed the rookie scale contract with the Bobcats,^[16] and with the injury of point guard D.J. Augustin, he became their starting point guard. On January 28, 2012, in a home game against the Washington Wizards he achieved his first triple-double with 20 points, 11 assists, and 10 rebounds, joining Boris Diaw and Stephen Jackson as the only Bobcats in team history to record one.^[17] Walker participated in the 2012 Rising Stars Challenge during All-Star Weekend.

NBA career statistics[link]

Regular season[link]

Personal[link]

Walker grew up in the Sack-Wern Houses in Soundview, Bronx, and is the youngest of three siblings.^[18][19] His mother is a Crucian, raised in Antigua of Antiguan Parentage, and his father is Antiguan. Walker is also a dancer. He performed three times at the Apollo Theater for the TV show Showtime at the Apollo.^[20]

On June 21, 2011, Kemba Walker released a mixtape in collaboration with DJ Skee and Skee Sports. The mixtape features songs inspired by and inspiring to Kemba.^[21]

Notes[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Kemba Walker

• Official site
• Kemba Walker at NBA.com
• UConn Huskies bio