Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year in the final of the U. S. Singles at Forest Hills, Perry met Jack Crawford who held the Australian, French and All-England titles and was expected to add the U. S. title. When Crawford lost that match and when Ellsworth Vines turned professional shortly afterward, Perry became indisputably the best amateur tennist in the world. Since then he has beaten Crawford five times. After defeating him in the Wimbledon final this year, he put the finishing touches on his record by beating both Sidney Wood and Frank Shields in the singles match of the Davis Cup challenge...
...best days. He and Ponsford stayed at bat for all of one day, rolled up a total of 451 runs, a record for a test match partnership. Australia's captain, William M. Woodfull, defended his wicket cleverly for 49 runs more. When the last Australian wicket fell, the total was 701 runs, just short of a test match record. After England was all out for 321, Australia piled up 327 more. England came out for her second innings needing 707 runs to tie. Tea was taken with three wickets down for 85 runs. An hour later the last...
...cricket joke lasts even longer than a test match. The fact that Englishmen make occasional quips about cricket, the leisurely routine in which the tests proceed, lead only stupid aliens to believe that the game is not serious. On the special car in which the Australian side traveled in England, a sign said: "Australian Cricket Team. Please Do Not Enter. Do Not Speak to the Players." A London correspondent sent to Melbourne to return with the team, came back without a single interview...
...summer long, while the tests crowded almost all other news out of London papers, the controversy about "bodyline" bowling raged more violently than ever. In Australia, last year, British Bowlers Voce and Larwood frightened and outraged Australian batters by bowling full- on at their bodies and even at their heads. Australia protested. This year Voce and Larwood were left off the English team. That England managed to make the fifth match necessary at all was due to an amazing performance by Bowler Verity in the second...
Britain's most eloquent and popular Nonconformist preacher is Dr. Frederick William Norwood, a broad-faced, shaggy-locked, Australian-born divine who has long ministered to people of all creeds at London's City Temple. Currently in the U. S. as an exchange preacher, Dr. Norwood spoke last month at Ocean Grove, N. J., an unworldly Methodist resort featuring oldtime camp meetings. Last week he was at Manhattan's Riverside Church. At no time in his tour has Dr. Norwood made so bold as to evaluate U. S. religion or speculate as to its future. But back...