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1812 Literary Panorama May 864 There is great room for improvement in our management of this noble animal [sc. the elephant],..for..we are..greatly inferior to the showmen and games-men of enlightened and refined antiquity.

1897 V. Welby Grains of Sense 63 The bus conductor and the games-man..will still bestow endless colloquial or journalistic words and phrases upon us.

1918 R. Pertwee Our Wonderful Selves (1919) ii. iii. 74 Are you a gamesman or a swotter?

1950 Manch. Guardian 1 July 3/7 [The book] will remind many of what a brilliant all-round gamesman Yardley was before he devoted all his time to cricket.

1991 N.Y. Times Mag. 1 Dec. (Advt. section) 6 a/2 Some early golfers used church steeples as goals... They'd take turns striking a ball, with the gamesman getting closest to the church door being declared the winner.

2006 M. Ronan Symmetry & Monster xii. 156 Conway remains the world's top mathematical gamesman.

1947 S. Potter Gamesmanship ii. 21 Psychological tendency, if not temporal necessity, will cause him to drive faster, and—behold! now the gamesman can widen his field and bring in carmanship.

1951 Manch. Guardian 8 Nov. 6/2 They may ask whether it is not a hollow and perhaps futile gesture, a gamesman's move in the cold war, to suggest discussion on disarmament.

1961 Times 8 Mar. 17/7 C. W. Brasher, a member of Achilles, which has had more than its fair share of gamesmen, has admitted that he could bring a mile time of 4 mins. 15 sec. down by 10 sec. with a series of excuses..about track, spikes, and wind.

1995 Guardian 30 Sept. (Outlook section) 30/2 They played good football but also brought the gamesman's art to an English scene which had largely escaped it up to then.

2002 S. Hill Fixing Elections ii. 30 What we have are two minority parties,..looking for any gamesman's advantage to gain a leg up on the competition.