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Usually the annual cricket match between Eton and Harrow, Britain's two most exclusive "public" schools where many a future Empire builder gets his early training, is a well-mannered, ultra-polite social function. There old grads, most of them carrying umbrellas, wearing cutaways and top hats and accompanied by their wives dressed in ankle-length garden-party frocks, are brought together by the force of the old school tie. U. S. spectators, used to rowdy football games, are always amazed at the polite applause, rather than raucous cheering, that greets the players; at the number of high-collared...
Last week Eton and Harrow played again at the exclusive Lord's Cricket Ground near London. Harrow, for the first time since 1908, won. It was too much for Harrovians, young and old, and they rushed on to the field to carry off the winning team on their shoulders. Some how a few Etonians got in the way, and be fore the enthusiasm had died down many an Eton topper had been smashed in and many an Harrovian umbrella busted. It was a very unseemly, frightfully un-British brawl...
...best of the situation. Unable to go to the British Country Club, outside the Concession, they frequented the Tientsin Club within the area. Whereas formerly only men were admitted there, women were now welcomed for the duration of "hostilities." Britons still dressed for dinner, and they played what cricket and polo they could...
...Swope, who plays very solemn croquet with Broadway celebrities at his Long Island home, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Drama Critic Alexander Woollcott and the four Marx Brothers. Most of these play according to the Wimbledon Championship rules* and all of them take the game as seriously as Britons their cricket. One of the best croquet experts in the U. S. is Averell Harriman, board chairman of Union Pacific...
Other lawn games: deck tennis, lawn darts (with a cork target set on a wooden backstop), clock golf, rope quoits, paddle tennis, lawn cricket (a juvenile version of the British game), lawn hi-li (played on a court similar to badminton with wicker baskets instead of racquets and a narrow cord instead of a net), penguin skittles (a complicated version of ninepins with wooden penguins to knock down...