Word: cricket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scratch a Californian and you find a tennis player. Last week more tennis laurels went West. The ubiquitous, indefatigable, highly skillful brothers Kinsey-Robert and Howard -convinced all comers at the Longwood Cricket Club (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) that the national doubles wreath ought to hang on the Golden Gate beside Helen Wills' national singles, doubles and Olympic foliage and the numerous, though more withered, prizes of Mary K. Browne, May Sutton Bundy, Maurice E. Mc-Laughlin, "Little Bill" Johnston and "Peck" Griffin...
...Longwood Cricket Club was also holding a women's invitation tournament and the galleries got their first glimpse of 16-year-old Helen Jacobs of California, heralded as a Wills-like prodigy. She reached the finals, stopping several good second-raters, but lost flat-footed to Miss Eleanor Goss. Experts said: "A fine showing for one so young and not accustomed to turf...
...Chestnut Hill, Mass., tennis court-keepers put by their weeding-knives, rollers, mowers and whitewash carts. Out of the Longwood Cricket Club house came many pairs of players in white shirts, white flannels, white shoes. Play began for the men's national doubles championships...
...luxury. Departure from the usual routine of entertainment, however, is usually forgiven in a busy land where the overworked candidates find it difficult to keep abreast of the current literature on "men and manners". In the South Pacific it is different. Oversight on the part of the South Australian Cricket Club in falling to provide afternoon tea for the visiting New South Wales players led to threats of withdrawal from the scheduled match...
...outraged conviction that the Australian Club doubted their English-ness. In a land many thousands of miles from Lombard Street the title of Englishman is worth claiming; if a dish of afternoon tea will prove it, by all means let it be served. Another such "fnux pas" by the cricket club manager candidate will no doubt be the occasion for-cutting...