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...almost exactly the same instant on the sleek turf courts of the Sea Bright Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club in New Jersey, two different linesmen, on two different courts, cried "Out!" Both balls were hit on match points. One was struck by Don McNeill, national champion, ranked No. 1 by virtue of his victory in the singles on Forest Hills grass courts last year; the other by Frank Parker, national clay court champion, who has won eight of the nine hard-court tournaments he has played in this year...
This summer's Mormon cricket threat is history's worst. The idea of aerial baiting, first offensive against the Mormon cricket, is to prevent the insects from leaving the mountain fastnesses where they breed. Total extermination of the crickets is not planned, nor is it possible. "We are not interested in what they do back in the mountains," said a bombing officer last week. "So far as we are concerned, the crickets can eat the top off of Pikes Peak if they want...
...able to tell my daughters that I have seen you and talked to you today, and they will be very thrilled. They are always asking me questions about how you are getting on." The British began to follow air-raid box scores as they used to follow soccer and cricket news. They considered the return of the German Air Force to the west as a triumph for the R.A.F., though it meant trouble. They stopped worrying about being invaded, resting on the hope that after the Russian battle Adolf Hitler could not give his troops rest, move them, regroup them...
Thirty-nine neutral Y secretaries are visiting prison camps in ten countries, find the churches in all of them more cooperative than last time. Most highly organized are the French and British officers' camps in Nazi Germany, with facilities for cricket and football, theatricals, and educational courses as varied as the curriculum of "any small college...
...Scampering Sarah Palfrey Fabyan Cooke, 28, fifth ranking woman tennist in the U.S.: the Middle States tennis championship; trouncing top-ranking Helen Jacobs in the final, 6-3, 6-2; at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, Philadelphia...