Word: bowler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unless they can ring in a few home run hitters for the afternoon, the Crimson players don't expect too much. They are facing strong opposition, led by Disraeli, Abraham Sofaer, a spin bowler of recognized ability, who packs his cricket utensils with him when he travels with his company...
...skip, lean, 23-year-old Lachlan D. (for nothing) McArthur, created a sensation by his technique of swinging the bowl in a semicircle to warm up, following it anxiously down the green to encourage it by urgently waving his hands. Playing with his Uncles Duncan, Roger and James, young Bowler McArthur skipped Chicago Lawn successfully through the final against the Milwaukee Lawn Bowling Club...
...Bowler McArthur's skill was further rewarded when he and his curly-haired cousin Lachlan M. (also for nothing) beat M. R. Sleater & Robert Bowie of the Essex County Club (N. J.), 24-to-12, to win the doubles title. In the singles, Chicago Lawn completed its clean sweep of national championships when one-armed William Milmine almost bowled Detroit's J. S. Weir off the green in the final...
...bowler properly registered with the A. B. C. can bowl in the tournament by paying an entrance fee. If bowlers were allowed more than three games in each event the Congress would probably never adjourn. Since three games do not permit any more thorough demonstration of skill than nine holes of golf or half an hour of poker, a member of the small company of really top-class bowlers in the U. S. is not much more likely to win the individual championship than a member of the large class of able bowlers who can average 200 points a game...
Even more preposterous than the idea that cricket is nothing more than a national game is the idea that Batsman Bradman is merely the Babe Ruth of Australia. A discussion about how close to the batsman's body it is sporting for a fast bowler to pitch his ball strained British political relations with Australia in 1933. When King Edward abdicated last winter the consternation in Australia was no greater than that which would have prevailed last week had Braddles been "bowled for a duck egg" (put out with no runs). For Braddles to abdicate would simply be unthinkable...