Lawrence Henry Pentland was a Canadian lacrosse player and lawyer who won an Olympic gold medal with the Winnipeg Shamrocks at the 1904 Summer Olympics. Born in Marquette, Manitoba, on 6 April 1879, he began as a soccer player before taking up lacrosse and joining the Winnipeg Victorias in 1902. The next year he moved to the Shamrock Lacrosse Club, which won the 1903 Manitoba Provincial Championships and then travelled to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, where it beat the St. Louis Amateur Athletic Association 8 to 2 for the Olympic gold. Away from sport he was an attorney; he left Winnipeg after his playing career but returned several months before his death there on 2 November 1923. He entered the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame with his teammates in 2004.
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eventually took up lacrosse and joined the Winnipeg Victorias in 1902
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next stop was the 1904 St. Louis World
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