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...cricket matches which Britain won (TIME, Feb. 27), Britain's able Bowler Harold Larwood was met at Suez by British sports editors. They offered him ?1 per word for the inside story of what happened in the test matches. In the third match Larwood had hit two Australian batsmen, on the head and chest. The crowd bar racked (jeered) him. In the fourth, Australian batsmen began to dodge Larwood's pitches and after the fifth, an Australian mob surrounded his boat train. Fellow-passengers said he was "lucky to get away with his life." Last week Larwood...
...Ashes." There was most excitement "Down Under" about the cricket. Not only had famed Batsman Don Bradman been bowled for a 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...
Chicago, Illinois, September 29--On my way to Cambridge but the chance to see another of my favorite World Series exhibitions held me up here in Gangtown stop Odds here on Cubs to win tomorrow's game but I forecast that Allen's curves will sew knots around Chicago batsmen to tune of 6 to 4 stop Noise here so great that I cannot concentrate properly but predict Crimson will down Bisons 39-0 stop Send $50 sooner quicker...
...pitchers, but considerably weakened by recent injuries, faces an uncertain Harvard varsity here at 4 o'clock today, in the continuation of a 64 years baseball rivalry. Harvard is running into a hard stretch of its schedule, and is suffering from a disorganization brought about by the Holy Cross batsmen in an exciting scoring surge in the ninth inning of Saturday's fatal clash in Worcester...
Coach Fred Mitchell plans to start the same lineup which he used against Bates so successfully, with the exception, of course, of Taylor, whose place will be taken by Devens. Devens will be out for his fifth straight victory and should keep the Crusader batsmen in check. Dana did so well in Wednesday's contest that he has apparently clinched the third-base...