Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delegates are divided into three groups representing Australia, Paraguay, and Siam. The Australian group is headed by W. S. Salant '33, chairman of the Council of Economics, and has as members R. L. Behrens '34, who will speak before the Assembly of the League on the subject of the Sino-Japanese dispute. O. H. Davis '34, who will speak on the Chace affair, G. R. Dennett '36, H. A. Fierst '36, and A. G. Malkan...
...Australian cricketers won a test match on British soil for the first time. Next day, the following epitaph appeared in the London Sporting Times: "In affectionate remembrance of English Cricket which died at the Oval on 29th of August, 1882. Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances. R. I. P. (N. B. The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia...
This gloomy conceit tickled Britishers so thoroughly that they have not yet tired of it. British and Australian cricket teams have this season been playing for the Ashes since Dec. 2. Last week the fourth test began at Brisbane. Australia was behind, two matches to one, but a more than respectable 340 in the first innings made the situation look more cheerful-until Hedley Verity of Yorkshire and Edward Paynter of Lancashire, with his neck wrapped in bandages to ward off a cold, pulled England out of the innings with 356. In Australia's second innings, Stanley McCabe made...
...batsman in the world, had been bowled for a duck on the first pitch in full view of 64,000 admirers. The third match, at Adelaide, gave rise to a deplorable controversy about the "body-line" bowling of Harold Larwood, who aimed his pitches so that they hit one Australian batsman on the chest and another on the head. Bowler Larwood was loudly barracked (jeered). The Australian Board of Cricket Control protested to the Marylebone Cricket Club of London that his methods were unsporting. The Maryle-bone-which was formed 200 years ago and in 1788 drafted the rules...
...Today the author recalls how pleasing Russia was to him with its carefree days when many a morning he saw the dawn break over the old Kremlin after a gay night in Moscow. His happy-go-lucky spirit was held in check for a time after he married an Australian girl. Rumors were soon heard, however, of his goings-on with a Russian Jewess. This tale reached his ambassador and Lockhart returned to England "for a rest...