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...Harvard Cricket Team opens its second season in its post-war revival of the sport in Cambridge with a match against M. I. T. this afternoon...
...game of cricket, philosophically considered, is a standing panegyric on the English character; none but an orderly and sensible race of people would so amuse themselves." So wrote the good Reverend James Pycroft in 1851; but the American reader may be pardoned, a snort of derision at the phrase "orderly and sensible." Compared to a simple two-and-a-half hour baseball game, a typical three-day cricket match, hedged about with centuries of tradition, does seem far from sensible. The Englishman can only insist that the game is really perfectly rational (if you ignore...
...origins of the game certainly belie its claim to rationality. Cricket probably began sometime around the thirteenth century, but no one is sure, give or take a century or two. Tracing the origins of the game is a popular indoor sport in some circles, and there are books which will attempt to overwhelm you with a battery of Old English words and historical anecdotes of dubious authenticity. But all that is really known in that the game is unspeakably old and unspeakably traditional...
...organizational meeting tonight will launch the Cricket Club on its second season since the war. The meeting will take place in the Eliot House Common Room at 8:15 p.m., and is open to all men in the University...
Present members of the group have already lined up a schedule of five matches, with M.I.T., Princeton, Staten Island Cricket Club, Haverford, and Yale. Last season, the club, revived for the first time since the late twenties, played three matches. Princeton and Yale are starting cricket teams for the first time...