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...Cricket matches...
...Seabright Lawn Tennis and Cricket* Club, the oldest tennis club in the U.S. (founded 1877), has always prided itself on doing things right. Because the best turf came from England, the founding fathers imported Seabright's first sod from across the Atlantic. Over the years, they also imported the best amateurs in the world to play in their invitation tournaments at Rumson, along the North Jersey shore. Since 1903, when Beals C. Wright won Seabright's Achelis Cup, the annual tournament has been a midsummer tradition on the Eastern tennis circuit, a pleasant prelude to the national championships...
...Seabright's original objects: "The practice of Lawn Tennis, of Cricket, and of Baseball, by the members of the Club, and the encouragement of the practice among others in the the State of New Jersey." Seabright soon left the encouragement of of baseball and cricket to others...
...Britons, whose athletes had been losing to foreigners all summer in golf, cricket, tennis, boxing and soccer (TIME, July 17), Englishman Hicks's title was some consolation. But no one got very excited about it: only 100 diehard croquet fans had turned out to watch...
When all the twitterment is over, the patient reader will find that he has been sold the hoary old tourist round of cathedrals and castles, the Tower of London, and all. The only new thing McKenney has to offer is a minority opinion on cricket-a wonderful game, it seems, after...