In Competition 2824 you were invited to submit double clerihews about a well-known sporting figure past or present.
The clerihew was invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley as a bored schoolboy. His son Nicolas subsequently came up with the double clerihew and trebles have been recorded. Other noted practitioners include Chesterton and Auden — and, of course, James Michie, who contributed many stellar examples to this magazine.
The rules governing the form are not iron-clad, as I see it. After all, Bentley himself bent them from time to time, as in this example.
The art of Biography Is different
from Geography. Geography is about maps,
But Biography is about chaps.
The winners below earn £15 for each entry printed.
Wayne Rooney
Could never be mistaken for George Clooney.
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