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...desire to interfere with those who intend to pursue a legitimate career in physical education, sport administration, press, radio, etc." Just when aspiring pros became illegitimate, Brundage did not say. ¶ Spinning the ball with a vicious kick off the pock-marked turf of Manchester's Old Trafford cricket pitch, England's Jim Laker had Australian batsmen making the long walk to the wicket as if it were a short walk to the gallows. In the deciding match of the Test series, he skittled out the Aussies (taking nine wickets in the first innings...
...Returning to grass after a disappointing Derformance in the National Clay Courts championship in Chicago, New York's Althea Gibson got back in form, beat Margaret Osborne du Pont 6-1, 6-4 at the Vlerion Cricket Club to win the women's Pennsylvania and Eastern States tennis championship, most important U.S. title of her career...
...Ziegfeld-era staircase number, with a showgirl, rigged out like an entire orange grove, having a ghastly time on the stairs. There is fun in Steady, Edna, which rags a British jungle film, while an upper-class British domestic skit has a husband shouting, "To hell with cricket," and his wife replying coldly, "Any one who would say that would strike the Queen...
Blind Spot. How do reporters strike back? In Manhattan, one enterprising newsman carries a child's metal "cricket" toy; it fits snugly into a pocket and emits loud rhythmic pops that drive sound technicians to desperation. In Chicago, a veteran journalist sprinkles his news conference questions with profanity ("Damn it, Senator, what the hell are we gonna do about the farm surplus?"). Another complies willingly when asked to pose for a reporter-at-work shot, then scrawls large obscenities into his notebook under the camera. In Los Angeles, ingenious still photographers-who are on the reporters' side-have...
...After roughing up a Pakistani umpire and bringing down the wrath of gentlemen sportsmen from London to Karachi, traveling cricketers from the Marylebone Cricket Club came home to England for an unprecedented scolding. For the first time in the history of the game a Marylebone captain drew a public reprimand for the conduct of his team...