Word: cricketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program during spring training for the Cincinnati Redlegs. ¶ Australia's talented batsmen had no trouble at all surpassing England's 510 runs in their second innings without losing a wicket, won their third of the best-of-five test matches to regain the Ashes, symbol of cricket supremacy between the two nations since 1882. Wailed London's Daily Mail: "The worst and most humiliating failure by an English overseas team for many a decade." ¶In Boston, Air Force Lieut. Bill Dellinger, 25-year-old University of Oregon graduate, took advantage of a fast pace, closed...
...hearkened back to Ring Lardner and 1920: "Next to being smitten on the brow with a bung starter, there is no more effective soporific than watching a pair of sailboats race for the America's Cup. It is a spectacle calculated to make the tea break in a cricket test seem wildly exciting...
...pitching stones and bricks. Inside, Ambassador Gilchrist, a 48-year-old Scot with a Vandyke beard, reacted in the approved pukka sahib tradition. He put on a bagpipe recording to drown out the shouts from the street, and remarked of the mob's marksmanship that "if they were cricket players, they would be better shots." He further daunted the unruly natives by walking his dog at the height of the uproar and coolly staring down the nearest mobsters. "Nothing to it," he remarked casually, returning to his window-shattered residence...
Chain-smoking Cypriot cigarettes, Foley puts in 80 hours a week at the Times office, drives his editorial staff (four Britons, six Foley-trained Cypriots) with querulous sarcasm. ("How many Cypriots," he is likely to cry, "care enough about the British cricket test matches to want to be told they've been rained off in one-inch type?") Foley will order replates by phone from his bed to keep up with the island's latest explosion, blithely ignoring groans from his Greek printing staff...
...Cricket. In Brisbane, Australia, Jewelry Dealer S. Lewis ran an ad offering to take sporting goods in partial payment for engagement rings...