Word: cricketer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...America cricket team has arranged a series of games to be played next summer with the best teams in England, including those of Oxford and Cambridge...
...last of these plays the exaggerated and labored characteristics stand out with especial clearness. Mr. Moulton compared their action to the batter in a cricket match. They stand up and exhibit their peculiarities till they are bowled out and disappear to make room for the next. Form and plot in these plays are sacrificed to the satire. They are not plays but dramatic satires. The Elizabethan age was suited to this literary form as it abounded in characters who courted conspicuousness...
...Mott Haven games next spring. This is the inevitable result of the New England rule, which has been causing so much trouble in all Harvard's recent athletic negotiations. The rule had to be broken again, as it was last year for the H. A. A. and the Cricket Club, and as Harvard offered to break it to allow foot ball games in New York in alternate years in case of a dual league with Yale; or it had to be enforced this year in every case. The committee chose to enforce it, thus cutting off all possibility of Harvard...
...take part in the Mott Haven games, and the result was the inscription of Harvard's name on the first shield of the cup. At Monday night's meeting, however, it was voted that the rule should not again be relaxed, and the person consequently is refused. The Cricket Club's petition for permission to play their regular Interco egiate game at Philadelphia was also refused...
...National Cricket League will be formed this spring, embracing the cities of Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Chicago...