Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the A.E.F. began arriving Down Under, sports-loving Australians immediately began seeking to match their athletes against soldiers from overseas. But there seemed to be almost no sport common to both countries. Australians play cricket in the summer and football in the winter -rugby or soccer in New South Wales and Queensland, Australian football in other states...
...Australian football is played 18 men to a side on an oval field whose measurements are 180 yards by 120. There are two sets of goalposts at each end of the field. If the ball is kicked between the tall center posts, six points are scored : between the adjoining posts one point. There is no crossbar. American ex-footballers say the game produces the finest and most accurate kicking they've ever seen: frequently players running full speed can drop-kick the ball between goalposts from 60 yards and more...
...first big-time contest between American and Australian baseballers was a game played at the Carlton Cricket Club in Melbourne last week as part of July 4th exhibition...
Winter Baseball. All-Star Americans drawn from three teams playing in the Melbourne league won the feature baseball game from All-Star Australians 4-to-1, due largely to the pitching proficiency of one Private Johnny Lund, a big tobacco-chewing Swede from Portland, Ore., who holds the dubious distinction of being the property of the Philadelphia Phillies. Lund allowed only three hits, struck out nine in the seven-inning game. Losing pitcher was Aircraftsman George Dickinson, who was just as good. He gave only three hits in the five innings that he pitched -two of them veriest scratches...
...those months General MacArthur, beglamored by Bataan, had reached Australia to take over a united command amid the plaudits of a hero-hungry people. Australian spirits rebounded from the Singapore slump to a crest of clamor for men & tools to launch a gigantic offensive northward against the Japanese. Not till the staggering news of the fall of Tobruk did Australians realize that their Pacific second front was receding into the future, and chat they had in their midst the strange spectacle of a four-star general, only top-ranking U.S. officer experienced in actual combat in World War II, stranded...