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When the A.E.F. began arriving Down Under, sports-loving Australians immediately began seeking to match their athletes against soldiers from overseas. But there seemed to be almost no sport common to both countries. Australians play cricket in the summer and football in the winter -rugby or soccer in New South Wales and Queensland, Australian football in other states...
...almost the only chance for competition between Americans and Australians lay in baseball, which has been played in Australia since the Great White Fleet's visit in 1908. Baseball is played in winter in Australia usually by cricket players who desire to keep in form for next summer...
This victory brings Everts to the semi-finals of the tournament being held at the Longwood Cricket Club. His next match will be against Paul Gibbard Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Gibbard, who has been state champion in past years, was also a star skater and hockey player at Dartmouth...
Until the Wehrmacht attacked Russia "war wasn't so bad. It was not a struggle of life & death. It was becoming the national sport, like cricket in England and baseball in America. Hitler was the All-American coach...
...WALT: Do you suppose where the Cricket says, when he trucks back into the clock house, "AND ALWAYS LET YOUR CONSCIENCE BE YOUR GUIDE?" the last time, he has his fingers crossed...