Word: bowler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...runs in the second to make it necessary for Australia to bat again. England's best batter, W. H. Hammond, could make no more than 56 runs before he was caught out by Bradman. Next morning with two wickets left to fall, Australia's able slow bowler, L. O. B. Fleetwood-Smith, took them both before England could add to its overnight score of 165. Australia had then won the match, by an innings and a tidy 200 runs, retained The Ashes by a great recovery, three matches...
...aggravate his bowler'd "Bullers...
impassable behind his scutal bowler...
There was dignified, plump, white-haired Floretta D. McCutcheon, whose shrewd pressagent has built her up into the No. 1 female exhibition bowler. There was robust Marie Warmbier who, with an average of nearly 200 in three years of exhibition bowling, did poorly by sacrificing accuracy for speed in the Omaha tournament. There was freckled Mary Jane ("Little Marie") Huber, 15-year-old schoolgirl, a hopeless cripple until she was 10, who handled the ball like a grape fruit, outscored her coach, Marie Warmbier. Pretty, buxom Ella Burmeister, a grocery clerk, so excited one male spectator with her nine-game...
...usual, the two outstanding figures were the Congress' President Jeannette Knepprath and Secretary Emma Phaler. A spiritualist, married to a Milwaukee chiropractor, President Knepprath has been handling bowling affairs for 18 years, is still a poor bowler herself. So is Secretary Phaler whose pleasant efficiency ("She is the kind of woman you could run over and borrow a cup of sugar from") has made her the backbone of the organization. A certified public accountant, she sends out the prize money so soon after the tournament's end that the delegates gladly elected her for the fourth time. Despite...