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Britons' stiff upper lips have had practice in getting stiffer as they watched their national championships go to foreigners in such made-in-England sports as cricket, boxing, golf and tennis (see below). Heretofore, they have consoled themselves with the knowledge that at least their soccer players were still top hole. But even the soccer picture was turning black...
Magic & Mandolins. Country boys stared at the sleazy magic of television; city Scouts complained to 34 aid stations of bumps, sprains and poison ivy. To Louisiana Scouts, the British served tea. Other Southerners saw a kilted Scot amiably explaining cricket to a khaki-clad young Negro. Austrians made music with mandolins; bagpipes whined shrilly from a pup tent...
...many a Briton dickered with an old school tie, a high point of the year is the June day when he and his kind flock to Lords cricket grounds to watch the Eton-Harrow match. But last week another Eton-Harrow match was causing comment in London. In the oak-paneled rooms of Eton's drawing schools, 40 framed samples of schoolboy handwriting were competing for first honors in the ancient art of calligraphy...
...Cricket Club concluded its three-match season with a victory over M. I. T. at Smith Field Saturday. Harvard had 75 in the first innings; Tech had 39 in the first and 3 for 28 in the second...
...this first cricket season at Harvard in 44 years, the team won from the India Cricket Club of New York and bowed to a West Indian team from the Massachusetts State Cricket League before Saturday's match...