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...cricket team left at 5 a.m. this morning for Staten Island, New York, where it will engage the newly-formed Princeton Cricket Club in the afternoon. After a round of parties Saturday, the Crimson wicketmen will play the Staten Island Cricket Club on Sunday...
...Harvard and M. I. T. cricket teams brought a breath of tradition and a cauldron of tea to the otherwise undistinguished field behind the baseball diamond on Saturday when they opened their season with a draw. Harvard scored 74 runs for 6 wickets declared...
From the human interest point of view the American public will be interested to hear that, although a cricket ball is just as hard as a baseball, cricket players field barehanded. Only the wicket-keeper (catcher) has a pair of gloves. Those who think that bowling cannot be very fast because it bounces off the ground should note that the batsmen wear pads on their legs and have special half-gloves for their hands. Bowlers can generate terrific speeds with their curious stiff armed bowling (they are not allowed to throw). A fast bowler takes...
...since no substitutes are allowed, all but the very best of these bowlers must be able to bat pretty well too, or the team will be all bowlers and no good batsmen. The neat balance between strong bowling and strong batting is another of the rich subtleties in cricket...
...fact that is probably the most important difference between cricket and baseball: the former is subtle, the latter is straightforward. It is easier for an untutored spectator to appreciate what is going on in a first class baseball game than in a first class cricket game. The situation, however, changes when you get down to small club cricket, one-afternoon matches such as this afternoon's between Harvard and MIT. Action in these games is much faster, men get out more quickly, and a crowd can follow it much better when there are not so many fine points to appreciate...