Word: cricket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition to their regular match with Harvard and Yale. Princeton, McGill, and Williams are among the college teams that will be met, together with several club teams. Members of the English teams will also compete as individuals in the intercollegiate Championships, which will be held at the Merlon Cricket Club beginning June 22, and in the invitation Tournaments at Newport, Seabright, and Southampton...
...stage coach timetables, conjectured whether Keats stowed his portmanteau in the boot or had it sent by wagon; traced the influence upon his poetry of the Elgin Marbles, of an ash tree full of berries he saw somewhere, of a black eye he suffered in a game of cricket; computed how much claret he drank, examined a lock of his hair ("Such red, I think, I never saw before"), related how he received a kiss from a lady at a place called Bo Peep. In Appendix C, she prints 64 pages of "annotations and underscored pas sages in books owned...
Last week, Englishmen grumbled over their chops, muttered into their ale. What the devil business had the press taking a holiday when something important was happening? Out in Sydney, N. S. W., England and Australia had been playing off "The Ashes" (international cricket championship) for seven days*; and now, just when the final score was due, the newspapermen were chucking it all and going home to undo presents and bounce the baby. Outrageous...
...protractedness of cricket is due to the fact that the batsman is not obliged by rule either to make a run or be put out within any given number of bowls. His prime function is to prevent the ball from striking his wicket. Interminable defensive play ("stonewalling") is thus possible-as it would be in baseball if a batter were adroit enough to foul safely off an indefinite number of pitches...
...cricket team has eleven members, each one of whom bats twice in a full match. First class matches in England (except for the Gentlemen vs. Players, at Lords) are usually limited to three days' play...