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...team from M.I.T. yesterday claimed the "United States Cricket Championship" and welcomed challengers from anywhere, especially Harvard...
...Baker House cricket team at Tech, with little experience but sufficient spirit, noticed that no team has ever called itself the U.S. champion and is ready to take on all comers. Crimson captain John Frith was dubious yesterday about the whole business and was more concerned with the club's match today with Howard University, a team that also claims the national championship...
...Southern Rhodesia a Hindu may not buy liquor without a special permit. A Moslem attorney from Nyasaland, working on a case in the capital of Southern Rhodesia, suddenly found that he could not use the washroom or take the elevator. In Dar es Salaam an Asian may play cricket with Europeans, but he will not then be able to join them for a drink at the Gumkhana Club. In the Union of South Africa, Asians have long since been virtually eliminated from voting rolls, have been gradually squeezed out of the civil service, and, being lumped together with the "coloreds...
...cricket field has two wickets placed 22 yards apart in the center of the playing area. The wickets consist of three "stumps" stuck into the ground with two "bails," small wooden pieces, resting over the tops of the stumps. A wicket is "lost" when a batsman lets a ball thrown by the "bowler," go by him and hit one of the stumps, thus knocking off one or both bails...
...Cricket ceased to be an official sport at the University in 1902. Since then, the sport has continued in a Club status. This year it lost its subsidy from the Harvard Athletic Association. The group has about 30 members at present, and practices every afternoon at 3:30 p.m. behind Watson Rink...