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...black Derby hat. In uniform he is splendid. In his first public appearance at the China Station he held a full-dress parade at Hong Kong race track seated on a handsome brown horse, clanking unnautical golden spurs. He used to be a great athlete-an all-Navy cricket and rugby player, a squash-courts intimate of Edward of Windsor, an enthusiastic pursuer of the fox's brush-and still keeps himself trim by touching the floor 100 times every morning. He looks so spruce that he is often taken for a brother of his elder...
...Crystal Palace. A Victorian monster of iron and glass, surrounded by gardens full of melancholy statuary, the Palace had been since 1854 London's high-toned version of Coney Island. Thousands of contemporary Londoners had their first childhood outings there, listening to holy choirs, brass bands, evangelists; watching cricket, soccer, motorbike races; running through the gardens, boating on the pond. In World War I the grounds and building incongruously became H.M.S. Crystal Palace-i.e. a "training ship" for naval reservists...
...performed in the U.S. Year ago the string version of the Seven Words was given its U.S. debut, by the Primrose Quartet. On sale last week was the first recording of it (Victor: 17 sides; $9), a fine one by the same outfit, whose boss is crisp, Scottish-born, cricket-playing William Primrose, world's best viola player...
...next national champion will be either Betz or Bundy," predicted U. S. tennis experts last fall, when Alice Marble turned professional. Last week, at Boston's Longwood Cricket Club, the finalists in the national indoor tennis championship turned out to be: 21-year-old Pauline Betz and 24-year-old Dorothy May Sutton Bundy...
...Osbert testify that he played cricket against the Yorkshire eleven when he was seven years...