Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duck (put out with no runs) in the second match, but the crack British bowler, Harold Larwood, had consistently shown a distressing disregard for the safety of opposing batsmen. In the third match he had struck and injured Australia's W. M. Woodfull and W. A. Oldfield. The Australian Board of Cricket Control had addressed a protesting cable to the Marylebone Cricket Club in London, governing body of the game. Said the reply...
...Marylebone Cricket Club deplore your cable: We deprecate your opinion that there has been unsportsmanlike play. . . . We hope the situation now is not so serious as your cable seemed to indicate. But if it is such as to jeopardize good relations between English and Australian cricketers and you consider it desirable to cancel the remainder of the program, we would consent . . . with great reluctance. . . ." While waiting for the B. C. C. to decide whether or not to resume the test matches (with England ahead, 2-to-1, in the three-out-of-five series) the British team engaged...
...Australia's newest and queerest tennis phenomenon, 16-year-old Vivian McGrath. The four U. S. players who went to Australia last October for a tour like the one which Tilden & Johnston made in 1920, knew about Jack Crawford and Harry Hopman, mainstays of last year's Australian Davis Cup team. But all they had heard about McGrath was that he is a boy wonder who hits his backhand shots with both hands. As soon as they started to play, they found out more. In last week's quarter-finals at Melbourne, Vivian McGrath played Henry Ellsworth...
...head of the list, much to his surprise. In 1912 he was sent to Moscow as British vice-consul. He liked and got on well with Russia, Russian and Russians, had a high old time in Moscow, saw many a dawn break over the Kremlin. When he married an Australian girl he turned over a new leaf-for a while. Then rumors of his goings-on with a Russian Jewess reached his Ambassador, who spoke to him sorrowfully, extracted a pledge of good behavior. Three weeks later, the pledge broken, Lockhart was sent to England "for a rest." When...
Born. To Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, Australian transatlantic & transpacific aviator; and Mary Powell Kingsford-Smith; a son; in Sydney, Australia...