Humorous Sports Cartoons

A collection of vintage cartoons themed around sports, featuring humorous illustrations of golfers and skaters, reflecting comedic insights into sports culture.

A sketch showing members of the Aldeburgh Golf Club, including its captain, V.H.C. Longstaffe. Date: 1934

Picture series Jockey Barometer, the jockey and his sponsor, last prize, digitally restored reproduction of a collectors picture from c. 1900

Cartoon - Olympic Trials. John Collins (1917-2007)

Cartoon depicting young men playing football. One of the players has been injured by another. Dated 20th century

Country Home: A Friendly Match, Tennis

Cartoon depicting an impression of the Fifth Test Match. Dated 20th century

An enthusiastic lady polo player. Date: 1911

The Boxing blade, Vol. 4, no. 28. text. Periodicals, Illustrations, Photographs. 1923-06-16. General Research Division. Boxing, Boxers (Sports)

Lance Corporal G. Wood, Royal Garrison Artillery (a pre-1930 corps of the British Army) - World Champion Jumper! Seen here clearing a horse and carriage, emblazoned with script detailing his feats. Date: circa 1909

Boy attracting a soccer shoe. A boy is sitting on the floor. He has taken out one of his normal shoes and instead wears a football shoe whose laces he strictly.

Color print around 1900 depicting a boarding school sports field in Baden, showing students, athletic activities, and surrounding school buildings.

Cartoon idea for saving a failed batsman the humiliation of walking to the pavilion under the gaze of spectators. Dated 19th century

Fernand Gonder (1883 - 1969), French pole vaulter. He won the gold medal at the 1906 Intercalated Games and finished 15th at the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was the French champion in 1904, 1905, 1913 and 1914, finishing second in 1912.

Sport...bellico 1914

1914 tourist art, poster for Mid Pacific carnival, man surfing C1522

Woman pitching a ball to a man with a bat in the game of club ball, 14th century (top), man holding a ball about to hit it to a catcher in the game of club ball, 14th century (middle), and man about to hit a ball to a catcher in the game of trap ball, 14th century (bottom). Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.

Auca dels Jocs de la Mainada. Juegos y entretenimientos infantiles del siglo XVIII. El joc de la pilota. En un espacio determinado los jugadores se lanzan una pelota golpeándola con una pala.

Women's Cross Country, Deineka, Alexander Alexandrovich (1899-1969)

From the magazine La Vie au Grand Air (Life in the Outdoors); Coloured photograph on cover page 8 September 1904 of men rowing on the river.

Make your health points--get your test now. Federal Art Project poster 1937. City of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium poster promoting testing for tuberculosis and showing two girls playing basketball, shooting at hoop 'good health.'

Pharmaceutical advertising Fosfo-Hepantro, medicine against anemia. Hurdle jumping athlete. 1950s.

The great national game. Last match of the season to be decided Nov. 11th 1884

Shuffleboard at St. Petersburg, Florida , Sports & recreation facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Advertisement for Ritter's road skates. Dated 19th century

1900s CLOSE-UP MAN ROWING IN SINGLE SCULL SHELL BOAT WITH DOUBLE SCULLS OARS SCULLING CHICAGO SUNDAY MAGAZINE JUNE 28 1904 - kh13516 NAW001 HARS ATHLETE DOUBLE UNITED STATES PERSONS SHELL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA MALES ATHLETIC EXPRESSIONS NORTH AMERICA NORTH AMERICAN ACTIVITY PHYSICAL STRENGTH SCULLING SHELLS IN NARROW OARS MADE CLOSE-UP COMPETITIVE DRAG FLEXIBILITY MUSCLES ILLINOIS ORIGINALLY RIGGERS ROWING BOAT SCULL SINGLE SCULL CAUCASIAN ETHNICITY DESIGNED IL OLD FASHIONED SCULLS

Advertisement for Smith's Glasgow Mixture, tobacco in three strengths, mild, medium and full. Depicting a scene on a golf course, with a golfer and his caddy. Date: September 1914

The Boxing blade, Vol. 4, no. 19. text. Periodicals, Illustrations, Photographs. 1923-04-14. General Research Division. Boxing, Boxers (Sports)

All American Girl, Football

Cartoon - The Pinch Hitter. John Collins (1917-2007)

RUSSIA - CIRCA 1992: A stamp printed in Russia showing olympic games, circa 1992

Long Drive, Golf

Canadian team, women's 4 x 100 metres relay, 1928. Creator: Unknown.

Trick No. 1 - 'How to master a man with two fingers' from 'How to Pose as a Strong Man', an article in Pearson's Magazine, March 1899 by Edward William Barton-Wright. Barton-Wright devised a hybrid martial art, after studying in Japan, that he called Bartitsu. The trick is that you continually throw your opponent off balance owing to the leverage obtained by the position in which he has to hold the chair. Date: 1899

Boy! Just look at the one that tried to get away! Wish you were here to see it! , Fish, Fishing & hunting gear, Fishing, Boats, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Color print by Hans Rudi Erdt from 1911 depicting winter sports at Saarow and Pieskow on Scharmützel Lake, showing skaters and snowy landscape.

New York City, illustration advertising the Central Park Skate Emporium, circa 1889.

Cricket club and sport championship posters retro, vector team players match. Cricket league bowler or batsman with bat and ball, game outfit, equipment and umpire hat shop or cricket fan club posters. Cricket club and sport championship posters retro

USSR-CIRCA 1980: A stamp printed in the USSR, dedicated XIII Winter Olympic Games, Lake Placid, hockey, circa 1980

Color poster from 1909 depicting the Bavarian Campagne Reiter Gesellschaft in Munich during the 15th competition in June, showing riders, horses, and competition elements.

The Boxing blade, Vol. 4, no. 50. text. Periodicals, Illustrations, Photographs. 1923-11-17. General Research Division. Boxing, Boxers (Sports)

Six reproductions of drawings of a football match in England, Anonymous, 1905 - 1906 photomechanical print These prints are part of an album. Amsterdam paper. cardboard collotype soccer, football (early names: soule, choule, cholle)

Three Players Fight for the Puck, Hockey

Billiard player--study for indoor athlete no. 1 , Billiards. George Bellows (1882-1925). Prints and Drawings

Polo, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes 1889 Issued by Goodwin & Company The "Games and Sports" series of trading cards (N165) was issued by Goodwin & Company in 1889 to promote Old Judge Cigarettes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns all 50 cards in the series.. Polo, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes 400672

'There was Blakey safe on second' Date: 1912

Cartoon - Ottawa Sport Season. John Collins (1917-2007)

Thornton, Sacramento Team, baseball card portrait

Posters, France, 20th century. Courses de Velocipedes sur le Velodrome Buffalo. Velocipede race at the Buffalo Velodrome.

The New Bicycle Game, Victorian Games

Curling, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes 1889 Issued by Goodwin & Company The "Games and Sports" series of trading cards (N165) was issued by Goodwin & Company in 1889 to promote Old Judge Cigarettes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns all 50 cards in the series.. Curling, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes 400646

Spencer, Seattle Team, baseball card portrait

Bicycling, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes 1889 Issued by Goodwin & Company The "Games and Sports" series of trading cards (N165) was issued by Goodwin & Company in 1889 to promote Old Judge Cigarettes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns all 50 cards in the series.. Bicycling, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes 400641

Shinn, Sacramento Team, baseball card portrait

You should join us for the water sports, I found the fountain of youth again at Galveston Beach, Texas. You should join us for the water sports, I found the fountain of youth again at Galveston Beach, Texas

Berry, San Francisco Team, baseball card portrait

Luggage Label showing Man Golfing.

Christian, Oakland Team, baseball card portrait

A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic and athletic demonstrations - usually mass-participation). Sokol was founded on the philosophy that a physically fit, mentally alert and culturally developed people can make a nation strong. The word sokol translates to falcon and is symbolic of the Sokol ideals: Courage, Strength, Endurance, Fraternalism, Love of democratic principles, and Pride in country. Miroslav Tyrs (1832 -1884

Jake Stahl, Boston Red Sox, baseball card portrait

Olson, Portland Team, baseball card portrait

See if you can find me in this crowd at Old Orchard Beach, Me. , Piers & wharves, Sports & recreation facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Nourse, Sacramento Team, baseball card portrait

Ligue Nationale Française contre le Peril Vénérién, France, ca. 1926. Death watches a thoroughbred race of deadly diseases. The statistics below compare the annual mortality rates of tuberculosis, syphilis and cancer

Colored hockey championship celebrated on canadian postage stamp

Crown Princess Cecilie playing tennis

AUSTRALIA - CIRCA 1996: a stamp printed in the Australia shows St. Kilda Saints, Centenary of Australian Football League, circa 1996

American Boy, February 1939, Skiing

AJMAN - 1971: shows Scout and flag of Italy, 13th World Boy Scout Jamboree in Japan AJMAN - CIRCA 1971: A stamp printed in Ajman shows Scout and flag of Italy, 13th World Boy Scout Jamboree in Japan, circa 1971 Copyright: xZoonar.com/OlgaxPopovax 6036073

Edward Sweeney/Russell Ford, New York Highlanders, baseball card portrait

Swiss Stamps To pay Olympic Costs - The four new Swiss Olympic stamps, which will be in use as from today. The amount of surtax on each is shown as plus to the original cost.The Swiss Government, which has guaranteed a sum of 350,000 Swiss francs to meet the cost of the ten days' Olympic winter Games at St. Moritz, have issued a series of four special Olympic stamps of 5, 10, 20 and 30 centimes, each with a surtax, the sales of which are expected to defray half of the guaranteed amount. Januray 15, 1948. (Photo by Fox).

Roller Skate - Poise & Charm, Roller Skating

PEOPLE BIGH OF THE INDIVIDUAL STRESSAL COMPETITION FROM THE SSV SSC Union Pistol Kramer, Paul

Postage stamp from Guinea depicting a gymnast, issued for the 1976 Summer Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada.

GRENADA - CIRCA 1977: A stamp printed in Grenada issued for the easter water parade shows water polo exhibition match, circa 1977.

Postage stamp from Hungary depicting a javelin thrower, issued for the 1976 Summer Olympic Games in Montreal.

Knockout Parade, Boxing

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