Word: bowler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Floretta D. McCutcheon of Pueblo, Colo., considered to be the world's best lady bowler: records of 250-8 for 11 games and 248-2 for 12 games, bettering her own best previous scores, and a perfect game (300), the 8th in her career; in the course of a single evening's exercise, at St. Paul, Minn. ¶ William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling, itinerant Georgia heavyweight pugilist: a 12-round bout against Dan McCorkindale of South Africa; by decision; before the biggest African prizefight crowd (15,000); at Johannesburg...
...Glasgow Art Gallery rejected a gift portrait of King George V, wearing a bowler hat and talking with an Aintree race course trainer, because it was not sufficiently "majestic looking...
...recklessly, got only four boundary hits for four runs each, three hits for two, and seven singles. He gave three "chances" (fly balls) before he was caught out for 45. The West Indian players batted first and put together a creditable 152 but they had no bowlers to match left-handed Leslie O'Brien Fleetwood-Smith of Australia. The Australians promptly ran up 153 for four wickets. They had five wickets to spare when the stumps were drawn after their 300th run. In the second match against another team of Manhattan West Indians, Batsman Bradman contrived to compile...
...were on the team that won the "Ashes" - symbol of world's championship - from England in 1930. Captain was Victor Y. Richardson, a first-class bat and Australia's greatest fielder. The team had a fine wicket-keep in Harry Carter, 54, oldest man on the team. Bowler Fleetwood-Smith dismissed the South Africans twice this season in Australia and will be a valuable googlie* bowler for the test matches next year...
...unpardonable to ride without a hat, particularly in the finest Row in the world . . . where strangers watching will get a totally improper impression of British horsemanship. . . . Nothing looks prettier in the world on a woman than a bowler hat with a riding costume...