Word: cricketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cricketers opened their 1952 season yesterday by defeating the Staten Island Cricket Club, 85 to 64, in a match at New York. The Crimson's Frank Davies made the highest score of the game with 39 runs, while teammate Jim Ongley was second with...
...Staten Islanders will be captained by Cecil Rhodes, a famous "spin bowler," and star of Lancashire country cricket...
...Crimson cricketers open their spring season in New York Sunday afternoon against the champion Staten Island Cricket Club. Ed Seaga will captain, and his team will include veteran batsman Frank Davies, and two Australian newcomers, Jim Ongley and Win Richards...
...basic idea of the game is for the batsmen to defend their wickets. They use special bats with a long, flat, four-inch wide blade. The wicket, a device peculiar to cricket, is a lineal descendant of the ancient cottage wicket gate. In present form it consists of three thin poles or "stumps" spaced exactly three inches apart, with two little wood cylinders, or "bails" mounted...
...mention of crickets is complete without a comment on its props. For instance, for the spectators there must always, be oak trees for shade, and deck chairs of a low enough pitch fro a mid-game slumber. For the game itself there must be a perfect oval field, sown with the lushest English turf; and for the players, there must be a bat, preferably a finely-sprung precision instrument autographed by some of the legendary greats of cricket. Also there must be compete game uniform, including immaculate white sneakers, white flannels, white shirt, and cap--each player wearing a distinctively...